Gary Carsley is an artist, writer and curator. His work in the 1980s was primarily in painting but Carsley also experimented with video, performance and publishing. Since the 1990s he has expanded his work into digital media and installation using digital monoprints in combination with ready made objects such as kit furniture to create trompe l'oeil effects.
Carsley's work as a curator has included significant contributions to new media in museum and gallery contexts. In 2002 Carsley curated Cerebellum for The Performance Space, Sydney including the work of Charles Atlas, Monika Tichacek and The Kingpins. The 2003 exhibition Parthenogenesis at Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, included international artists including the work of Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman alongside that of Australians including Luke Roberts, The Kingpins and Julie Rrap. Like Cerebellum, the exhibition explored mediated identity. The 2004 exhibition Take A Bowery at the Museum of Contemporary Art was a major historical survey of the work of Leigh Bowery, Australian-born performance/video artist.
| 2010 | - fiction_non_fiction, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York |
| 2009 | - Bark Art, Breenspace, Sydney, Australia |
| 2008 | - You are Here - Central Park Draguerreotypes D.70-76, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York |
| 2007 | - Scenic Root, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| 2006 | - Looking at Works of Art in the Light of Other Works of Art, Artspace, Sydney |
| 2005 | - Making the third cup of tea from one tea bag, Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Koln - Chemical Blonde, TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam - Skirting the Issue, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney |
| 2004 | - Ich kann den Wald vor lauter Hols nicht sehen, Ruhrlandmuseum Essen |
| 2003 | - Draguerreotypes, ArtKitchen Gallery, Amsterdam - EnTropical, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 2002 | - Draagbaar Belvedere, M.A.F., Amsterdam - Trompe L’oeil, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney - Society4Beautification, Bedrijfsresturant van de Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam |
| 2001 | - UnReal Estate Germany, Horst Schuler Gallery, Dusseldorf. - A Photocopy Zip2Gether Triumphal Arch, Museum of Sydney - Building The Ideal Homo,, Performance Space, Sydney - Inverted Belvedere, Artspace Offsite project, Taylor Square Sydney |
| 2000 | - UnReal Estate, ArtKitchen Gallery, Amsterdam and The Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland |
| 1999 | - Casuarina Hunting Lodge, Artspace, Sydney (With Rafael von Uslar and Grahame Rowe) |
| 1997 | - The Memorial Project, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney (With Peter Todd) |
| 1996 | - Villa Manus, The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery - Ah Men, Artspace Witzenhausen, Amsterdam |
| 1995 | - The Persistence of Memory, Stelling Projects, Leiden |
| 2009 | - Sunny Side Up, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York |
| 2008 | - re-mix, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York |
| - Lines in the Sand, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia - Intrude – Art & Life 366, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China |
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| 2007 | - Perfect for every occasion – Photography Now, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne |
| 2006 | - Ten(d)ancy, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney |
| 2005 | - Surfaces Paradise, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - Countenance, WurttembergischerKunstverein Stuttgart |
| 2004 | - Migrating Identity, Arti et Amitaci, Amsterdam - Was ist deutsch?, Ich geriet vor dieser Frage in immer groessere Verwirrung, Praxis, Bayreuth |
| 2003 | - Hung Drawn and Quartered, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney - Homostrata, Artspace, Adelaide |
| 2001 | - Box, Wren Gallery, Sydney - Wallpaper, Powerhouse Gallery, Brisbane - Kunstrai, Amsterdam |
| 2000 | - Blondies and Brownies, TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 1999 | - Kunstrai, Amsterdam |
| 1998 | - Edifying Sappho and Socrates, TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam, and The Darlinghurst Community Health Centre, Sydney - Traffic of Night In Paradise, Vleeshuis Amerika, Amsterdam - Cool II, Boterhal te Hoorn |
| 1997 | - Art In Chains, Chains, Koln - Cool Art, Art Kitchen, Amsterdam |
| 1995 | - Un-Frieden, sabotage von wirklichkeiten, Kunstverein Hamburg |
