| |  | 1939 | Born, San Biaggio di Callalta, Italy | | 1949 | Emigrated to Australia | | 1958-61 | Diploma Fine Arts (painting), RMIT | | 1962 | Studies in printmaking, Chelsea Art School, London | | 1963 | Further studies, Brera Academy, Milan | | 1964 | Part-time lecturer, RMIT | | 1965-66 | Full-time lecturer, RMIT | | 1965-66 | Alcorso-Sekers Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture (went to Japan) | | 1967 | Winner: Maitland Print Prize | | 1970 | Winner: Second International Biennale for Drawing, Yugoslavia | | | Winner: Geelong Print Prize | | | Shared winner: Shepparton Print Prize (with Jan Senbergs) | | 1971 | Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture | | 1973 | Ballarat Gallery Prize | | | La Trobe Valley Ronald Award | | 1975 | Represented Australia at Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (with Imants Tillers) | | 1976 | Worked at Atelier Lacouriere et Freault etching workshop, Paris; Completed MM of Rue St Denis drawings in Paris | | 1977 | Returned to Australia | | 1978 | Lecturer, RMIT; Died in car accident, aged 39 |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2010 | "Paintings, Sculptures and Etchings", Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘Paintings, sculpture and etchings', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | 2009 | ‘George Baldessin’, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
| | 2006 | 'Portraits and Performers', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2004 | ‘George Baldessin – Prints of Darkness’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 2003 | ‘George Baldessin 1939-1978’, La Trobe Regional Gallery
| | 2001 | ‘George Baldessin – drawings, sculpture, etchings’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne and Sydney
| | 2000 | ‘George Baldessin – Occasional Images from a City Chamber 1975, Australian Collection Focus’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
| | 1998 | ‘George Baldessin Estate Prints 1963 – 1978’, Brisbane
| | 1997 | ‘George Baldessin Estate Prints 1963 – 1978’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
| | 1992 | ‘George Baldessin Prints and Drawings’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Etchings Prints 1963 – 1978’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1991 | ‘Drawings and selected sculpture’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Exhibition of drawings’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘An exhibition of drawings’, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1987 | ‘Selected prints and bronzes’, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1983 | ‘George Baldessin Retrospective’, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
| | ‘Etchings’, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘George Baldessin: Sculpture and etchings – a memorial exhibition’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1978 | ‘Personages, remnants and discards’, Bonython Gallery, Adelaide
| | 1977 | ‘M M of Rue St Denis’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
| | ‘Etchings’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
| | ‘M M of Rue St Denis’ (drawings), Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1974 | ‘Etchings’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘George Baldessin: Complete etchings’, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
| | ‘Etchings’, Festival of Perth, Desborough Galleries, Perth
| | 1972 | (Etchings), Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Sculpture 1971-72’ Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1971 | ‘Drawings and sculpture’, Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
| | 1970 | ‘Etchings’, Gallery One Eleven, Brisbane
| | ‘(Etchings), Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Sculpture’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1967 | ‘Exhibition of prints by George Baldessin’, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
| | 1965 | ‘Drawings, sculpture and etchings’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1964 | ‘Sculpture, etchings and drawings’, Argus Gallery, Melbourne |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2010 | 'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2009 | 'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2007 | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘European sensibilities: Baldessin and his circle’, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine
| | 2006 | 'Fine Australian Prints and Drawings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2005 | ‘A selection of works on paper’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 2003 | ‘Pen to Pixel: 200 years of Australian Prints & Drawings’, NGV Australia, Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne
| | ‘Sculpture at RMIT during the Jomantas years’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘This was the future…Australian sculpture of the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s + today’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
| | 1997 | ‘I had a dream: Australian art in the 1960’s’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1996 | ‘Occasional screens with seating arrangement, Grahame Sturgeon Memorial Trust’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
| | 1995 | ‘Rites for an Anxious Spring, selected acquisitions 1981-1995’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
| | 1978 | ‘A tribute to George Baldessin’, Realities, Melbourne
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Drawing’, Perth Survey of Drawing, Festival of Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia and touring
| | 1975 | ‘Australian Graphics 1974’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (organised VAB touring South America 1975)
| | ‘3 Printmaker: Maddock, Shomaly, Baldessin’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘XIII Biennale de Sao Paulo’, Brazil
| | 1974 | ‘Tamarind: Homage to lithography’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘International Biennale of Prints’, Tokyo
| | 1973 | ‘Print Council of Australia Print Prize’, National Gallery of Victoria
| | ‘Ballarat Gallery Prize’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
| | ‘First Biennale of Sydney’, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
| | 1971 | ‘1971 Victorian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition’, Geelong Art Gallery
| | ‘Multiples’, Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture’, National Gallery of Victoria
| | 1970 | ‘Ten printmakers’, National Gallery of Victoria
| | ‘Shepparton Print Prize Exhibition’, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Geelong Print Prize Exhibition’, Geelong Art Gallery
| | ‘Second International Biennale for Drawing’, Yugoslavia
| | 1969 | ‘International Print Biennale’, Cracow, Poland
| | ‘International Print Biennale’, Bradford, UK
| | 1968 | ‘International Print Biennale’, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
| | 1967 | ‘11th Annual Maitland Art Prize Exhibition’, Maitland Art Gallery
| | ‘Georges Invitation Art Prize’, Georges Art Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1966 | ‘Australian Prints Today’, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
| | ‘Alcors-Sekers Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1965 | ‘Recent Australian Sculpture’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1964 | ‘Australian Print Survey 1963-64’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Mildura Sculpture Triennial’, Mildura Art Gallery, Victoria |
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