Neon Parc acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung as the Traditional Owners and sovereign custodians of the Country on which we operate. We pay our deepest respects to their Elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Born 1966 Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia. Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Diena Georgetti has been a defining force in Australian contemporary art since the 1980s, revered for her radical approach to conceptual painting. Her works are more than mere compositions—they are intricate, intellectual collages that resurrect and recontextualize obscure artistic fragments from history. By meticulously collecting, manipulating, and arranging these disparate elements, she creates striking and unexpected juxtapositions that challenge conventional artistic narratives. Her choice of framing, equally rooted in historical styles, further reinforces her bold reimagining of aesthetic traditions. Through this process, Georgetti offers a profound meditation on the interconnectedness of artistic thought across time. Her work is not just an homage to past movements but a reinvigoration of the present, underscoring art’s enduring power as a transformative and essential force.
Diena Georgetti, 'Archive Standard / grotesk', 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm.
(Forthcoming) ‘Circular Quay Foyer Wall Commission 2025’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2024
‘TALISMANIC’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2022
‘CAMPAIGN’, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2021
‘Civil Dawn’, The Commercial, Sydney
2019
‘Conscious institution - Diena Georgetti and Eugene Carchesio’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
‘RADIO is RADIO’, The Commercial, Sydney
2018
‘The Commercial’, (two-person exhibition with Oscar Perry), Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
‘Diena Georgetti & Imogen Taylor - Stolen Leopard’, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2017
‘FUTURclassic’, The Commercial, Sydney
‘FUTURISTradition’, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2016
‘ART as COMPANION’, The Commercial, Sydney
2014
‘Foyer’, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2013
‘Folk Modern’, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
‘ACT HUNGER’, (with Mary Teague), The Young, Wellington, New Zealand
2011
‘Jaguar is Jaguar’, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
‘Brutalist Geometry Set 1 & 2’, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2010
‘Composa’, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
‘The Enthusiast’, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2009
‘Community of the People Woven Wall Hangings’, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2008
‘The Humanity of Abstract Painting: A survey exhibition 1988-2008’, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne / Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
‘A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985-1995’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
‘Framed’, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria
2024
‘Lime and limpid green, a second scene (Part Two)’, 1301SW, Sydney
2023
‘The National: New Australian Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2022
‘Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show’, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki,
Auckland, New Zealand
2021
‘Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now – Part Two’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2020
‘NEXT’, The Commercial, Sydney
‘The Humanity’, The Commercial, Sydney
2019
‘New Women’, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
‘A New Order’, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
2018
‘The shape of things to come’, Michael Buxton Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2017
‘The Commercial – Group Show (E06)’, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
‘Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
‘Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 90s’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize’, National Art School (NAS) Gallery, Sydney [winner established artist category]
‘Harvest’, (with Patrick Hartigan and Robert Pulie), The Commercial, Sydney
2016
‘Painting. More Painting’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
‘New Geometries’, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2015
‘Super Studio’, The Young, Wellington, New Zealand
‘Casual Conversation’, Minerva, Sydney
‘Man’, Tristan Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
‘The Kaleidoscopic Turn’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Collections
Artbank, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Blackstone Group Collection, New York
Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
City of Stonnington Art Collection, Melbourne
Fredensborg, Norway
Geelong Gallery, Geelong
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane
Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Michael & Janet Buxton Collection, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Redlands Art Collection, Sydney
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Wesfarmers Collection, Perth
(close)Diena Georgetti, 'The Collector/Trinity', 2025. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 120.5 x 170 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'The Collector/Foyer', 2025. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 96 x 101 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'The Confessional Report', 2024. UV print on hand polished aluminium, custom frame, 47 x 46 x 3 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'The Self Ceremony', 2024. UV print on hand polished aluminium, custom frame, 47 x 46 x 3 cm.Diena Georgetti, ‘The Mother and the Mothering’, 2024. UV print on hand polished aluminium, custom frame, Unique, 47 x 46 x 3 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'Bad Gateway', 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 61.5 x 61 x 4 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'State Opera', 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 61.5 x 61 x 4 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'Brick Gothic', 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 61.5 x 61 x 4 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'Plein Air', 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 61.5 x 61 x 4 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'Please help my killer, Matisse', 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas with artists frame, 59.5 x 83.5 x 6 cm.Diena Georgetti, 'Vox Pop', 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 61.5 x 61 x 4 cm.Diena Georgetti, ‘All I need, is not to / peasant faith’, 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas with Blackwood frame, 103.5 x 200.5 x 5 cm.Diena Georgetti, ‘Surveillance states’, 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas with artists frame, 64 x 75.5 x 6 cm.Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘TALISMANIC’, 2024. Neon Parc, Brunswick.Diena Georgetti, ‘Archive Standard / discotheque’, 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 61.5 x 61 x 2.5 cm.Diena Georgetti, ‘Bonsai Province’, 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas with artists frame, 59.5 x 83.5 x 6 cm.Diena Georgetti, ‘ARTS+CRAFTS>tambour’, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 157.5 x 112 x 5 cm.Diena Georgetti, ‘ARTS+CRAFTS>earth quilt’, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 88 x 71 x 5 cm.Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘Community of the People’, 2023. Exhibited in The National 4: Australian Art Now, 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. (Image Credit: Jenni Carter).Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘Community of the People’, 2023. Exhibited in The National 4: Australian Art Now, 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. (Image Credit: Jenni Carter).Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘Community of the People’, 2023. Exhibited in The National 4: Australian Art Now, 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. (Image Credit: Jenni Carter).Diena Georgetti, ‘Superstudio’, 2015 – 2017. Acrylic on canvas, mounted, framed, 334.5 x 302 x 6.5 cm. Exhibited in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists: 1900 to Now, 2021 at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. (Image Credit: National Gallery of Australia).Diena Georgetti, ‘TARANTULA’, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 143.5 x 112 x 3.5 cm.Diena Georgetti, ‘TALISKA’, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 106.5 x 81 x 3.2 cm.Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘The Humanity of Abstract Painting: 1999 – 2008’, 2008. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘The Humanity of Abstract Painting: 1999 – 2008’, 2008. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘The Humanity of Abstract Painting: 1999 – 2008’, 2008. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘The Humanity of Abstract Painting: 1999 – 2008’, 2008. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘The Humanity of Abstract Painting: 1999 – 2008’, 2008. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.Installation view, Diena Georgetti, ‘The Humanity of Abstract Painting: 1999 – 2008’, 2008. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.Diena Georgetti, ‘Enlightenment CAMPAIGN’, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 113.5 x 96 x 4 cm.Diena Georgetti, ‘ARMADA’, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 137 x 163 x 3.5 cm.Installation view: Diena Georgetti, ‘Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art’, 2017. Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. (Photo: Christian Capurro).Installation view: Diena Georgetti, ‘Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art’, 2017. Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. (Photo: Christian Capurro).Diena Georgetti, ‘HISTORY’, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 101 x 71.5 cm. (Image Credit: Sofia Freeman).Diena Georgetti, ‘Gravity’, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame 74 x 55 x 6.5 cm. (Image Credit: Sofia Freeman).Diena Georgetti, ‘Reformation CAMPAIGN’, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 103.0 x 211.25 x 3.25 cm. (Image Credit: The Commercial).
