Lee Salomone

Adelaide

Lee Salomone graduated from the South Australian School of Art in 1991. He works in a range of media – including installation, photography, sculpture and works on paper. His work addresses both the contemporary world around him and his cultural heritage, with Italian peasant traditions having provided a life-long source of inspiration for his practice.

Fundamentally a story-teller, Lee Salomone makes use of the ‘existing’: by combining physical objects with lived experiences and observations, he creates narrative, history and memory, both national and personal. Salomone describes his sculptures as ‘contemporary artefacts’. We can’t think of a more apt term!

Lee Salomone has presented more than 25 solo shows and been curated to more than 60 group exhibitions in his career both here and in Berlin. Exhibitions of note include Palimpsest (1999–01, 2009), at Mildura Arts Centre, Breeding Ground (2008) at Jam Factory, Adelaide, and CACSA Contemporary 2010: THE NEW NEW (2010) at Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide.

He lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.

AVAILABLE WORKS

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Lee Salomone
lives Adelaide

Qualifications
1991 Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
1988 Associate Diploma in Art, North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide
1986 Certificate in Art, North Adelaide School of Art

Solo exhibitions
2025 land, soil, story, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2024 Fragments; a widening vision, ACE Gallery, Adelaide
2023 rendering chance, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 when observations become form, Praxis Artspace, Adelaide
2021 stillness, project6.88, Adelaide, Australia
2021 when observations become form, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2016 bronze age, Gallerysmith Project Space
2016 witness, The Light Gallery, Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide
2014 the beauty of small moments, Gallerysmith Project Space
2013 reflektionen, Atelier Terra, Berlin, Germany
2013 hirsute collection Feltspace, Adelaide
2012 other voices, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2010 der letzte wild lebende, Fisch Galerie Kurt im Hirsch, Berlin, Germany
2009 interconnected, Gallery 25, Mildura
2008 new work, old concerns, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
2008 speicherplatz, Galerie December, Berlin, Germany
2008 letting go, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
2007 after image, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2005 silent installations, Galerie Kurt im Hirsch, Berlin, Germany
2004 planetary and personal, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2004 transference, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003 between beauty and theory, Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Between beauty and theory, Gallery 4A, Sydney
2001 human nature, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2001 footnotes from a periphery, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt. Gambier
2000 between beauty and theory, Watch this Space, Alice Springs
1999 footnotes from a periphery, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1999 Evidence, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide
1997 Untitled, 6 x 3 metre billboard, Adelaide
1994 As seen on TV, Looking at the Billboard, Adelaide
1993 Intermittent, [RE] Gallery, Adelaide
1993 open inspection critical city, Adelaide
1992 missing in action, Post West, Adelaide

Group exhibitions
2023 XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 Finalist, Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize, Gallery M, Adelaide, Australia
2022 Nature and Consciousness, The Main Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2021 Finalist, 21 Tatiara Art Prize, Walkway Gallery, Bordertown, South Australia
2021 I See You / You See Me, Gallery 1855, Tea Tree Gully, Adelaide, South Australia
2021 Finalist, 150 Connections to Unley Art Prize, Hughes Gallery, Fullarton, Adelaide
2021 Remade, Gallery 1855, Tea Tree Gully, Adelaide, South Australia
2021 Finalist, Heysen Prize for Landscape, Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, South Australia
2020 Love in the Time of Covid-19, online exhibition, www.solidarity.gagprojects.com
2019 Finalist, 10th Prospect Portrait Prize, Newmarch Gallery, Prospect, Adelaide, Australia
2019 Small Works 2019, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2017 Finalist, 2017 Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla South Australia
2017 Plant Cure, Central Booking, Haber Space, New York, USA
2017 Side by Side II, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
2017 Tree Stories, Section #1 Gallery, Thebarton, Adelaide
2017 artroom5, Adelaide, Australia
2017 Hand Over, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, South Australia
2016 Breezeway House Warming Art Exhibition, Aldinga Arts EcoVillage, Aldinga, SA
2016 Finalist, The Heysen Prize for Landscape 2016, Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, SA
2015 Finalist, Whyalla Art Prize 2015, Whyalla South Australia
2015 CACSA Contemporary, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
2015 Winter Solstice, Gallerysmith, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2015 32nd Sculpture Survey 2015, Gomboc Gallery, Western Australia
2015 Provenance, Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
2015 Pocket Art, Gallery 1885, Tea Tree Gully, South Australia
2014 Of Obscured Significance, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, South Australia
2013 Galerie Gondwana, Berlin, Germany
2013 Revealed2: CollectorSpace, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum Of Art, Adelaide
2013 Crystal Palace, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
2012 Finalist, 37th Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Australia
2012 The Watershed Art Prize, John Harvey Gallery, Salisbury, Adelaide
2012 CACSA@70, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2012 Finalist, 2012 ForestrySA Wood Sculpture Competition, Riddoch Art Gallery
2012 Finalist, Limestone Coast Art Prize, Keith Institute, South Australia
2011 Finalist, Prospect Portrait Prize 2011, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
2011 Generations, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
2011 Selection, Section #1 Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2011 Materials and Histories, artroom5 Adelaide
2011 Home Stories, Adelaide Central Gallery
2010 The New New, multi-site project by Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2010 Home is Where The Heart is, Migration Museum, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
2009 Finalist, Prospect Portrait Prize 2009, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
2009 Murray Darling Palimpsest #7, Mildura, Victoria, Australia
2008 Art Forum Kulanshi 2008, Art Centre Kulanshi, Astana, Kazakhstan
2008 Breeding Ground, Jam Factory, Adelaide
2007 Drei Traeumer, Galerie Kurt im Hirsch, Berlin
2006 In Other Words, ArtSpace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
2005 Finalist, The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
2003 Finalist, The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
2003 Sydney Fong Gallery, Geraldton, West Australia
2003 Watch This Space, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2002 Installations Stills, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Terra Primus, Red Room Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Caveat, Top Floor Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Palimpsest #4, Red Cliffs, Victoria, Australia
2000 Installations Stills, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
2000 Country, Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, South Australia
2000 Palimpsest #3, Mildura, Victoria, Australia
1999 Landing2, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
1999 Palimpsest #2, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, Victoria
1998 Masque, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide
1998 Beware of the Dog North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide
1996 Finalist, Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia
1996 The Human Form As Art, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
1996 Polar Madlove, North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide
1996 Fringe Gallery, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide
1995 Materials, North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide
1994 Great Manifestations, Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide Fringe Festival


Awards, Grants, Residencies
2024 Porter Street Commission, ACE Gallery
2021 Project Grant, Arts SA 2014 Project Grant, Arts SA
2016 Project Grant, Arts SA 2014 Project Grant, Arts SA
2011 Eran Svigos Award For Best Visual Art
2011 Adelaide Fringe
2008 Artist Grant, Arts SA
2005 Project Assistance Artist Grant, Arts South Australia
2002 Selected for inaugural Kultour from South Australia, Australia Council & Nexus
2001 Residency, Media Resource Centre, Adelaide
1996 Dept for the Arts and Cultural Development, South Australia
1995 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts
1994 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts
1994 Dept for the Arts and Cultural Development, South Australia
1993 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts

Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, National Museum of Australia, Unley Museum Collection, Adelaide, AAC Archivio Arte Contemporanea, Numero Civico Cultural Association, Rovereto, Italy, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria, Migration Museum, A Division of the History Trust of South Australia, Private collections throughout Australia and Germany