With literally hundreds of successful exhibitions to date, Anthony Lister is a serious and professional artist. His work focuses on social issues like: freedom, morality and power in a rich and unique tapestry of ambiguity. His exhibitions have been presented in Museums such as; The Nation Gallery of Australia, Institute of Modern Art, Berlin’s Urban Nation Museum and a number of Academic Institutions worldwide. Anthony Lister is a graduate of the Queensland College of Art and student of New Zealand born, New York based painter Max Gimblett. He pioneered the Street Art movement in Australia before moving to New York early in his career. Anthony Lister has given numerous talks at Universities and seminars, speaking on the fundamentals regarding social concerns and the theoretical definitions behind his ‘Contemporary Mythology’ artworks. Anthony continues to keep busy, painting in his studios around the world.
Exhibitions
2022
4BYSIX, London
Play Contemporary Art Fair
KIAF Art Fair
Badtime Stories, Sydney (solo)
2021
4BYSIX, London
KIAF Art Fair, KOR (solo)
Welcome to Lister’s World, Galerie Brugier Rigail Seoul & Paris (solo)
Birds I Meet Back Home, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami (solo)
2020
Rude Words, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
Fine Line, Stolen Space, London
Thousands Amazing the Great, Wollongong Regional Art Gallery (solo)
Head Hunter, Melbourne (solo)
2019
SCOPE Miami, Mirus Gallery & Mortal Machine, Miami
ART Miami, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
Culture is Over, Independent show, Sydney (solo)
Modern Masters, Mirus Gallery, Denver (solo)
Woke Up on Fire, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami (solo)
2018
Beyond The Streets, curated by Roger Gastman, LA
Aqua Art Miami, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
The Art of Fact, Allouche Gallery, New York (solo)
Holy Mountain, The Wig Out Special, Urban Spree, Berlin (solo)
The Flower Show, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane (solo)
2017
Urban Nation Museum Grand Opening, Berlin
Signs of the Time, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
Erotica, Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne
Jane Griffith Gallery, Val D’Isere
Avante Art, Directors Unit, London
Time & Place, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
Homeless Among the Gum Trees, Nanda Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney (solo)
Have You Seen the Listers?, Brisbane (solo)
2016
Still Here, A Decade Of Lazarides, Lazarides Gallery, London
Run Away Ouiji, Blackarts Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Meanwhile In Australia, Spacejunk Art Centre (solo)
2015
Art Basel, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Basel
Miami Context Art Fair, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
Works on Paper, China Heights Gallery, Sydney
Black Door Limousine, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami (solo)
Mad Props Street Cred, New Image Art, Los Angeles (solo)
2014
Moreor Less, Benaki Museum, National Gallery, Athens
Birds, Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, New York City
Miami Context Art Fair, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
Summer Pill, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
Power Tripping, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York (solo)
Hurt People - Hurt People, Lazarides Gallery, London (solo)
2013
SCOPE Art Fair, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
10 years of Wooster Collective, Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Confluence, Fifty24SF Gallery, San Francisco
Never Odd Or Even, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami (solo)
The Beautiful Misery, Olsen Gallery, Sydney (solo)
2012
Au Courant, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
SCOPE Art Fair, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
Unslung Heroes, Lazarides Gallery, London & Newcastle (solo)
Girls, New Image Art, Los Angeles (solo)
Things We Shouldn’t Talk About, Milan (solo)
2011
Outpost, Sydney
Young and Free, San Francisco
The Underbelly Show, Miami
Scott Redford presents Reinhardtt, QAGOMA, Brisbane
Martha Cooper: Remix, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles
Bogan Paradise, Gallery A.S., Sydney (solo)
Street Faces, Metro Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Rainbow Tears, Pictures On Walls, London (solo)
2010
Hello Kitty, Miami Basel, Miami
Space Invaders, National Gallery Australia, Canberra
Disorder Disorder, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
Logan Hicks, Anthony Lister & Michael Kalish, Opera Gallery, New York, USA
Pop Up, Miami Basel, Miami (solo)
Memories Not Included, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney (solo)
How to Catch a Time Traveller, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York (solo)
The Beauty Of Failure, Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto (solo)
You Call That a Back Rub, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, AUS (solo)
2009
20 Street Artists, Opera Gallery, New York
15 Years of New Image Art, Los Angeles, USA
The Pain of Feeling, K Gallery, Milan (solo)
Magic Tricks, Fifty24 Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
No Win Sitch, Porky’s Strip Club, Kings Cross, Sydney (solo)
2008
Poster Renaissance, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
This Won’t Change Anything, Metro 5, Melbourne (solo)
WK/Lister, Elms Lester, London (solo)
Quit Your Sobbing and Call Me in the Afternoon, New Image Art, LA (solo)
God has a plan to Kill Me, KGallery, Milan (solo)
Spider Stance, Elms Lester, London (solo)
2007
Replace Please with Now & Thank You with Good, Lab101, Los Angeles
Scope Art Fair, London
Super is as Super Does, Metro5 Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Cracker got Snapped by the Pops, Fifty24 Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
Mythology for Beginners, Harrison Galleries, Sydney (solo)
Rest on Nails, Lyonswier Ortt, New York, USA (solo)
2006
11 Spring Street, Wooster Collective, New York
Terror?, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
Saturday Morning Prime Time, Spectrum Gallery, London (solo)
Supermarket, Metro5 Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Backdoor Confessional, Harrison Galleries, Sydney (solo)
Between Crackdowns, Art Gallery Schuberts, Gold Coast (solo)
Observations of Manliness, Criterion Gallery, Hobart (solo)
2005
Studio 14, Rome (solo)
Smells Like White-Out, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Twice on Sundays, Fox Galleries, Brisbane (solo)
Wrapped Meat Lyric, Lyonsweir Gallery, New York City (solo)
My Daughter’s Panic Attack, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney (solo)
2004
Rats Alliance, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
CRYSTALIS, New York
Subtitled, Fox Galleries, Brisbane (solo)
The Finer Points of Monkeyism, Art Galleries Schubert, Gold Coast (solo)
2003
White Lies Beneath, Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne
1980 - Atlantic Conference, New York
Places & Things, Fox Galleries, Brisbane (solo)
2002
Dis/place/meant, Fox Galleries, Brisbane
Issues & Aesthetics, Project Gallery, QCA, Brisbane (solo)
2001
Play it forward, Graduate Exhibition, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
Urbanised Influence, Fox Galleries, Brisbane (solo)
2000
Young Bux, Campbell Mahoney, Brisbane
Public Collections
National Gallery Australia, Canberra, AUS
Grill’d, Chapel Street, Melbourne, AUS
SCOPE Miami, Miami, USA
Newtown Central, Sydney, AUS
RiNo on Walnut St, Denver, USA
ICON Magazine, Sydney, AUS
Westfield, Coomera, AUS
Urban Spree, Berlin, DUE
Have You Seen the Listers?, Brisbane, AUS
Vogue April, Bondi Beach, Sydney AUS
Hotel Steyne, Manly, Sydney AUS
G-Star Raw, Sydney AUS
Lister x Volcom, Barcelona, ES
Lister x Volcom, Mexico City, MX
Lister x Volcom, Austin, USA
Live Walls, Parramatta Council, Sydney, AUS
Lister Live x AGNSW Young Members Society, Sydney, AUS
Lister Live, Melbourne, AUS
Autolux’s Pussy’s Dead Album Cover
Brisbane Grammar
TVS Partnerships, Brisbane, AUS
Sydney Children’s Hospital, AUS
JJJ/ABC Radio, Sydney, AUS
Literature
2020
Top 20 Interiors, Vogue Living, AUS
2019
‘Have You Seen The Listers?’ Movie - Netflix WORLDWIDE
2018
Beyond The Streets Publication, Ginko Press, Roger Gastman, US
2018
‘Have you seen the Listers?’ Documentary film, Eddie Martin, AUS
2017
Collaboration with Nick Cave, Stories for Ways and Means, Waxploitation, USA
2016
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, Yale University Press, USA
2016
Street Art International, Explore Art Publishing
2016
Surface, Gingko Press
2016
11 Spring St., Wooster Edition
2015
Public Spaces: Public People, Griffith Law Journal, AUS
2015
Street Art Australia, Explore Australia Publishing
2014
Anthony Lister - Adventure Painter by Roger Gastman, Ginko Press, USA
2013
Sketchbook, Fitzroy, AUS
2013
Graffiti, Abrams Publishing
2012
We Own The Night, Rizzoli
2011
Blek Le Rat, Art Publishing Ltd
2010
Beyond The Street - The 100 Leading figures in Urban Art, Gestalten, USA
2010
Trespass - A History of Uncommissioned Art, Taschen, New York City, USA
2010
Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. Rizzoli Books, New York City
2010
USA Anthony Lister, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne AUS
2010
Street Art New York, Preston Publishing, USA
2010
Space Invaders, National Gallery of Australia, AUS
2009
Tales of White Trash Prophecy, Upper Playground, California, USA
2008
God has a plan to Kill Me, KGallery, Milan, IT
2007
Uncommissioned Art, Melbourne University, Melbourne, AUS
2007
Alarmi3, Vanilla edizioni, IT
Press
2010 Australian Art Collector, 50 Most Collectable Artists Issue
2009 ARTFORUM, September, Page 196
2009 Australian Vogue, August, Page 82
2009 Sydney Morning Herald, Arts Diary, July16, Page 13
2009 Monster Children Magazine, Issue 23, Page 17
2009 Sunday Telegraph Magazine, July 12, Page 10
2008 Modern Painters, April
2008 Show Paper, Brooklyn
2008 KMAG, London, May
2008 Paper Magazine, New York
2008 Vapors, Issue 47, LA
2008 VICE Magazine, Vol 6 Issue 3
2008 Australian VOGUE, May
2008 Modart Issue 14, Pages 54 to 57
2007 Juxtapoz Magazine Issue 81, Pages 92 to 101
2007 Pimp Magazine, Issue 13, Page 46
2007 Monster Children, Issue 16
2007 King Brown, Issue 3
2007 Anthem Magazine, LA
2007 Art & Australia, Volume 45, Spring
2007 Overspray Magazine, Issue 5
2007 Fecal Facecom
2007 Wooden Toy Magazine
2006 Art in America, December, Issue 11, Page 34
2006 The New York Times, Art Section, December 14, Page 1
2006 Overspray Magazine,Issue 5
2006 weAREtheIMAGEmakerscom,Issue 7
2006 Lino Magazine, Issue 15, Page 100
2006 Black + White Magazine, Issue 86, Page 009
2006 Frankie Magazine, Issue 13, Page 16
2006 Riot Magazine, Issue 5, The Push – Page 18
2006 Sydney City Weekly – art review, July 6
2006 The Sydney Morning Herald, editorial, July 6
2006 The Drum Media, Issue 814, Welcome to the Underworld, Page 57
2006 Australian Art Collector, Issue 37, Page 23
2006 Arkitip Magazine, Issue 032, Page 37
2006 Wooster Collective, Wooster Comix, Issue 01
2005 Brisbane Magazine, Issue 03,Anthony Lister
2005 Frankie Magazine, Issue 08, Bright new stars- Page 68
2005 Belle Magazine, Generation next Oct-Nov
2005 State of the Arts, Online review, Mona Lister, 30 May
2005 Oyster Magazine, Issue 57, The Cut News, Anthony Lister
2005 Monster Children, Issue 10, Listerart
2005 Lino Magazine, Issue 10, The limitless Anthony Lister
2005 Madman Entertainment, RASH DVD
2005 Empty Magazine Issue 05, Kidnapping Suburbia
2005 Ente Gallery, online excerpts from published book, Twice on Sundays
2005 Noise, online profile Anthony Lister
2005 Nothing Magazine issue 03, Online profile
2005 Herald Sun Newspaper, Review, December
2005 Beat Online Magazine, Review, December
2004 Antipoda, Online Interview
2004 Lucky Magazine, Anthony Lister
2003 Australian Skate Boarding magazine, Anthony Lister, July-August
2003 Courier Mail, article by Digby Hildreth, 23 June
2003 Wooster Collective, online interview, 19 June
2002 Retort Magazine, online review, 6 November
2002 Large Magazine, Art Soul, August
2002 Antiques and Art, Exhibitions at Fox Galleries, July, Nov
2002 Southern News, Taking art from streets inside, March 28
2002 City News, Bringing street into the Gallery March 21
2002 Tsunami Magazine, Listern up, March
2002 Frequency Magazine, Mixed Signals
“You appear to piss great art in your sleep”
BANKSY“Anthony Lister ; that’s hot”
PARIS HILTON“On point”
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