Jan Senbergs

Jan Senbergs is an Australian artist of Lithuanian origin.

Jan was born in 1939 and was forced to flee a war-torn Lithuania with his family at a young age, and having resided temporarily in Germany, came to finally settle in Melbourne, Australia in 1950.

During the 1950’s Jan took up an apprenticeship in Silk-Screen printing, and has had a passion for art ever since, with an impressive repertoire of drawings and paintings.

Amongst his finest artworks it’s Jan’s “birds-eye” portrayals of urban landscapes which resonate with most Australians. An example of such is the depiction of Sydney above, painted in 2004, which has been present and numerous exhibitions across Australia, and also Brazil.

Today, Jan Senbergs is represented by Niagara Galleries at 245 Punt Road, Richmond, Melbourne, and more information may be found on the official Jan Senbergs website.

Solo Exhibitions

2009
Capriccios, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2008
Jan Senbergs: From Screenprinter to Painter, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2007
Angahook – Otway, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2006
Jan Senbergs Drawing, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria and touring in 2007

2005
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

2004
Long Arm Drawing, Albury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Jan Senbergs, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne

2003
Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

2002
Jan Senbergs, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne
Long Arm Drawing, Monash Univeristy Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Melbourne

2001
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales
Maritime Museum, Sydney
Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Four Decades, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2000
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
New England Regional Gallery, Armidale, New South Wales

1999
Armidale 42 Exhibition – Ian Potter Museum Melbourne University, Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria

1996
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne

1995
Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

1994
Jan Senbergs: Imagined Sites – Imagined Reality, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

1992
Powell Street Gallery, Sydney
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

1991
Australian Galleries, Sydney

1988
Voyage Six, Antarctica, Powell Street Gallery

1986
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1984
Mining Landscapes – Mt Lyell, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, &
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
RMIT Gallery, Selected Works- toured regional centres and the
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1983
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Copperopolis – Mt. Lyell

1981
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, Port Liardet Paintings
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Port Liardet Paintings

1979
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, Port Pastels

1976
Albert Hall, Canberra
University Gallery, Melbourne, Jan Senbergs – Paintings.
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney

1975
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria, Jan Senbergs 1965-75
Crossley Gallery, Melbourne – Screen prints

1974
Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil

1973
University of Western Australia

1972
Gallery A, Melbourne

1969
Rudy Komon Gallery, Melbourne

1966
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
Georges Gallery, Melbourne

1964
Georges Gallery, Melbourne

1962
Argus Gallery, Melbourne

1960
Richman Galleries, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2011
Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, British
Museum, London
Blue Chip XIII: The Collectorsʼ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2010
Impressions, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
About Place, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Drawings 1, Drawing Out Festival of Drawing 2010, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
On this Island: One Mountain Eleven Answers, N G Art Gallery, Sydney
On This Island, Meeting and Parting, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, New South Wales

2009
Blue Chip XI: The Collectorsʼ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2007
Fondamenti Nove, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

2006
Blue Chip VIII, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Heart v Mind, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria
Australian Drawing Part 1, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

2005
Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2003
William Buckley Rediscovered, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Abstraction III, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2002
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

2001
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, NGA and touring Australia
Earth Fire Water: Elements of the Landscape, Metro 5, Melbourne

1999
Clemenger Art Award Finalistsʼ Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne

1998
Decalogue – Ten Years of Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Sth Korea

1997
Swingtime – 1960s and 1970s, University of Western Australia, Perth

1996
Australian National University Art Collection, touring exhibition
Four Visions of Antarctica, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales
Expressive Figuration, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1995
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

1990
The City and Beyond, touring QLD, NSW & Victoria

1989
The Australian Legal Group – Contemporary Print Collection Exhibition, Australian
Embassy, Washington DC

1987
Painters and Sculptors of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and Museum of Modern
Art, Saitama, Japan

1986
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Backlash Drawing Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Field of Figuration Australian Art 1960-86, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1985
The Dam, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1984
Freemantle Drawing Prize, Freemantle Arts Centre, Western Australia

1983
L.J.Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Recent Australian Painting 1970-83, Art Gallery of South Australia

1980
Contemporary Australian Printmakers 1, PCA, touring USA, Canada & UK

1979
Images – Aspects of Image Painting in the 1960s, VCA, Melbourne

1978
Contemporary Australian Drawing, AGWA, QAG & AGNSW
Tribute to George Baldessin, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1972
Australian Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
George Couch Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

1968
Bradford Print Biennale, City Art Gallery, Bradford, UK
Australian Art Today, Albert Hall, Canberra and touring
Ten Printmakers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Prints, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand

1966
6th International Graphics Exhibition, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
International Biennale of Graphic Art, Cracow, Poland
International Print Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
Helene Rubinstein Travelling Scholarship, Art Gallery of South Australia
Inaugural Exhibition, Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Prints Today, Smithonian Institute, Washington DC
The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting, Art Gallery of South
Australia
The Mertz Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966

1965
Survey: Leonard Crawford, Leonard French, George Johnson, Roger Kemp, Jan
Senbergs, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Young Australian Painters, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan

1964
Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne

1963
Georges Invitation Prize Art Prize, Melbourne
Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney

1961
Italian Government Travelling Scholarship Exhibition
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Awards and Prizes

1963 – Morwell Art Prize, Victoria
1964 – Commendation Prize, Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne
1966 – Helena Rubenstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Adelaide
1968 – University of Tasmania Print Prize, Hobart
1969 – Newcastle City Art Prize, New South Wales
1969 – Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne
1970 – Launceston Art Purchase, Queen Victoria Art Museum and Art Gallery, Tas
1975-6 – Creative Arts Fellowship, Australian National University, Canberra
1976 – Sir William Angliss Art Prize, Melbourne
1982 – Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne
1983 – L.J.Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, QAG, Brisbane
1984 – Fremantle Drawing Prize, Western Australia
1986 – Honorary Award, Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa, RMIT, Melbourne
1991 – Kedumba Drawing Prize, Leura, New South Wales
1994 – William Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Commissions

1991-93 – The First Bush Block, Governor Phillip Tower, Sydney; First Government House
1989 – Birth of a University, Bond University, Queensland
1987 – Bicentenary Series of Paintings, ANZ Bank (commissioned by TMAG)
1985-86 – The 10th Anniversary Commission and Touring Exhibition of Paintings, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
1979 – Tapestry, National Bank of Australia (woven at VTW)
1978-80 – Relief Mural, The Lobby, High Court of Australia Canberra

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, USA
Federal Court, Melbourne
High Court of Australia, Canberra
Law Council of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery, Washington DC, USA
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Various regional, university, college, corporate and private collections in Australia and USA.