Australian Galleries

Australian Galleries to Discover at Aotearoa Art Fair 2026

Aotearoa Art Fair 2026 welcomes an exceptional lineup of galleries, and our biggest ever cohort of galleries from across Australia! From major contemporary galleries to emerging spaces, these exhibitors present artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation and works on paper.

Here are the Australian galleries to explore at this year’s Fair.

Alcaston Gallery (Melbourne)

Artists: Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Tania Major, Sean Hill

At Aotearoa Art Fair 2026, Alcaston Gallery is proud to present two exceptional First Nations artists from Far North Queensland, Australia. The incomparable Mirdidingkingathi Jurwarnda Sally Gabori (c.1924-2015) hasbeen firmly established as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. In ecstatic colour and gesture, she recalled from her mind’s eye her ancestral home of Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria and in doing so reshaped the landscape of First Nations art worldwide. Tania Major is an early career Kokoberra artist receiving significant attention for her luminous depictions of her Kowanyama Country on the Cape York Peninsula. In dialogue, Gabori and Major represent two generations of powerful female First Nations artists from the Queensland tropics. Also presented at the Alcaston Gallery booth is early career artist Sean Hill, whose vibrant, glitch like forms, rendered across multiple mediums, draw upon his Samoan culture.

REDBASE Art (Sydney)

Artists: Stephan Kaluza, Shen Shaomin, Cheolyu Kim, Roger Mortimer, Chen Gelin, Jin Sha

REDBASE Art will showcase significant works by six international artists that are enhanced by a closer look into their detailed techniques and the delicate origins of their materials. German artist Stephan Kaluz a paints mesmerising, hyper-real oil paintings of the environment. Chinese-Australian artist Shen Shaomin creates an installation of life-like mechanical carps that illustrate the consequences of human desire and artificiality. Through hand drawings seemingly made from mechanical lines, Korean artist Cheolyu Kim’s precise and delicate formations of dreamscapes explore his haunted upbringing near the DMZ boarder in Korea. New Zealand artist Roger Mortimer creates my theological categories. Meanwhile, Chinese artist Chen Gelin explores light through three-dimensional fibre works, drawing inspiration from Guangxi’s strong textile traditions to imagine new, future-facing forms. Finally, Chinese artist Jin Sha innovates Gongbi painting with elements of Western art to merge classical precision with contemporary critique

Brenda Colahan Fine Art (Sydney)

Artists: Gabby Malpas, Chris Wise

Brenda Colahan Fine Art’s “Kaiwaaao” (advocate) presents the distinct practices of two artists probing critical issues within contemporary society. Gabby Malpas and Chris Wise will each produce unique series for Aotearoa Art Fair, addressing concerns specific to Aotearoa culture and environment, whilst extending their core oeuvre which speaks directly to us all about what it is to be vulnerable and to be human. A powerhouse of diversity, Kaiwawao spontaneously intersects for each viewer.

CBD Gallery (Sydney)

Artists: Martin Claydon, Junko Hagiwara, Tracey Jones, Brooke Marchel, Boris Toucas, Lin Tian Qi, Julie Nicholson

CBD Gallery presents a works-on-paper exhibition exploring drawing, painting and sculptural approaches to paper, highlighting the tactile and expressive possibilities of the medium.

CHALK HORSE (Sydney)

Artists: Michelle Adams, Oliver Watts, Kauri Hawkins

CHALK HORSE presents three significant artists whose works bind place to identity and culture. Michelle Adams, from the Yinjaa-Barni Art collective, collaborates with community members and Elders to create deeply personal and preservational works. Honouring the collective memory of community, Adams untangles the ongoing impacts of colonialism through renderings of her country’s landforms. Oliver Watts’ gestural, mosaic-like paintings reanimate narratives from literature, art history, and visual culture. Using the Australian landscape as the site of these reenactments, Watts’ complex paintings are permeated with the heat of the sun, the crunch of the forest and the evocative crash of sea spray. Kauri Hawkins, a Māori artist, works across sculpture, video, performance, and everyday objects to interrogate colonial narratives and the cultural significance of objects, reflecting on contemporary New Zealand society through a Māori lens. Together, these works invite viewers into a moment of reflection on the significance of land on memory, reimagination, and cultural exploration.

Curatorial+Co. (Sydney)

Artists: Theresa Hunt, Simon Cardwell, Aleisa Miksad

Curatorial+Co. presents a thoughtfully curated presentation at Aotearoa Art Fair 2026, bringing together three Australian-based artists: photographer Simon Cardwell, painter Theresa Hunt, and ceramicist Aleisa Miksad. Across distinct mediums, the artists explore the boundary between the material and metaphysical, articulating the seen and unseen as intertwined conditions of being. Cardwell’s dramatic photographic compositions transform flowers and landscapes into surreal meditations on emotion, stillness, and transcendence, blending photographic tradition with painterly sensibility and mythic reference. Hunt’s atmospheric oil paintings dissolve horizons through layered light and shadow, evoking vastness, memory, and an emotional connection to the natural world. Miksad’s sculptural porcelain works draw on ancient myth and ceramic traditions, reimagining classical forms as powerful metaphors for strength, vulnerability, and female agency. Together, the artists form a dialogue of transformation, myth, and meaning. Curatorial+Co.’s booth unfolds as an immersive space through shifting landscapes, temporalities, and mythologies.

Fine Arts, Sydney

Artist: Yona Lee

Fine Arts, Sydney presents a solo exhibition by Yona Lee, whose sculptural installations reshape space using industrial materials and precise structures, creating environments that reward slow looking.

Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert (Sydney)

Artists: Marion Borgelt, Lisa Reihana

Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert will present two solo presentations by major female forces in the arts, Marion Borgelt and Lisa Reihana. Recognised as one of Australia’s most significant and enduring contemporary artists, Borgelt is renowned for her innovative and multidisciplinary practice, exploring cosmology, optics, time, and nature across scale, form, and medium. Borgelt is delighted to exhibit for the first time in New Zealand, presenting new works from her prominent Lunar, Liquid Light, and Strobe Series. Lisa Reihana has earned an outstanding international reputation as an artist, producer and cultural interlocutor; exploring the complexities of contemporary photographic and cinema languages, how identityand history are represented, and their intersection with place and community. Reihana is thrilled to share new images from Māramatanga and Nomads of the Sea. The last remaining images from Reihana’s iconic film, in Pursuit of Venus [infected], will be presented alongside the film at the fair.

MARS (Melbourne)

Artists: Telly Tuita, Kenny Pittock, Tony Lloyd, Miranda Hine, The Huxleys

MARS brings together artists working across painting, ceramics and photography, exploring identity, landscape, humour and contemporary life.

Martin Browne Contemporary (Sydney)

Artists: Michael McHugh, Adrienne Gaha, Alexander McKenzie, Ildiko Kovacs, Bronte Leighton-Dore, Laura Williams, teamLab

Martin Browne Contemporary presents a broad cross-section of contemporary painting, sculpture and digital work, spanning landscape, abstraction and immersive installation.

Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin

Artist: Scott Perkins

Michael Reid presents a solo exhibition by photographer Scott Perkins, whose atmospheric landscapes are presented as luminous lightboxes, combining photography, sculpture and design.

N. Smith Gallery (Sydney)

Artists: Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Holly Anderson

N. Smith Gallery presents a curated exhibition exploring light, landscape and history through the work of three contemporary painters.

Nanda\Hobbs (Sydney)

Artists: James Drinkwater, Brett McMahon, Jun Chen, Floria Tosca, Marie Mansfield, Christopher Horder, Lottie Consalvo, Anton Forde, Braddon Snape, James Rogers

Nanda\Hobbs presents a large curated exhibition bringing together painters, sculptors and glass artists from across Australia and New Zealand, exploring gesture, material and process.

Nasha Gallery (Sydney)

Artist: Mark Maurangi Carrol

Nasha Gallery presents a solo booth by Mark Maurangi Carrol, whose paintings explore diaspora, memory and identity through layered techniques informed by textile traditions.

PARKER Contemporary (Brisbane)

Artists: Daniel Clifford, Alethea Richter, Melissa J Harvey, Tim Mosely, Claudia Husband

PARKER Contemporary presents a works-on-paper exhibition highlighting printmaking, and papermaking, with a focus on material engagement and process.

Aotearoa Art Fair 2026 takes place from 30 April – 3 May at the Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland. First Release tickets are on sale now – buy online.