Stuart Ringholt (b. 1971; Perth, WA, Australia)

Stuart Ringholt has a reputation as “the artist who gives naked tours of his exhibitions,” but these performances are not staged to be publicity stunts. It’s not about shocking the viewer or about institutional critic or even about producing institutionalized spectatorship. Ringholt’s artistic acts, bevoke therapy not theory–á la love not war–all of it sincerely packaged with a healthy dose of desire.

Ringholt’s work takes many forms including performance, video, drawing, collage, sculpture and collaborative workshops.

Ringholt’s recent solo exhibitions include In Hunderds Of Species, Caves Melbourne (2024) Conceptual Art Improved my Embarrassing Life Cache Melbourne (2024), Landscapes Haydens Melbourne (2022), Line Work 99% Melbourne (2022), Landscapes and Factories Station Melbourne (2021), Recent Collage AAAB Melbourne (2021), Stuart Ringholt AGWA Perth (2020), Theatre Stills Neon Parc Melbourne (2018), Works On Paper Neon Parc Melbourne (2017), Stuart Ringholt: Nudes, Signs, and a Contract Osmos Gallery New York (2015) and Kraft Institute Of Modern Art Brisbane and Monash University Museum of Art Melbourne (2014). Recent group shows include; Aichi Triennale, Nagoya Japan (2019), When the other meets the other other? Cultural Center Belgrade (2017), Proposals to Surrender Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai (2016), The Talking Cure Oakville Galleries Canada (2013), dOCUMENTA 13 Germany (2012), Singapore Biennale (2011) and Sydney Biennale (2008). He is the author of Hashish Psychosis: What it's Like to be Mentally Ill and Recover (2006) and A Problem Smile: Workshops, Tours and Discos (2018). He received a PhD (Philosophy) in 2016 from Monash University.

Ringholt lives and works in Melbourne.

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Selected Exhibitions

Stuart Ringholt: nudes, signs, and a contract

OSMOS Address, New York, NY

November 3, 2015 – January 10, 2016

Stuart Ringholt: Signpost, 2007- 2015

First Street Green Park

November 3, 2015 - May 3, 2016