Adam Geczy is both an artist and critic/historian and is Senior Lecturer in Sculpture, Performance and Installation at the Sydney College of Arts, at the University of Sydney. His art practice has been dominated by multimedia installation and video and also encompasses photomedia and traditional drawing.

 

Geczy regularly exhibits nationally and internationally, his upcoming exhibitions include: Remember to Forget the Congo, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium and Decapitare at the Györ Museum of Art in Hungary and the Kunsthalle in Vienna. 

Significant exhibitions over the years have included 1989, Harmoniá Müvészeti Közpout, Györ, Hungary, (2009); Buried Alive, a series of installations at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (2007); The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay (with Mike Parr), Art Gallery of NSW and Monash Faculty Gallery, Melbourne (2004); From a Remote, Lonely Place (with Peter Sculthorpe), Adelaide Biennial (2004), and Body at the Art Gallery of NSW (1997).

As a theorist and critic Geczy is the writer of some 200 articles and catalogue essays. His most recent book, Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions was published through Berg, Oxford in 2008. He is currently working on a book on Orientalism and Fashion.

Geczy has been awarded numerous prizes, grants, fellowships and residencies, the latter including in Germany, France, Finland, Portugal and Norway. 

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Adam Geczy’s CV