Exhibitions
2022
Selected as finalist for KAAF (Korea-Australia Art Foundation) Art Prize-Korean Cultural Centre. Group Exhibition – Treasures from the Permanent Collection and Stockroom – Waiheke Art Gallery, New Zealand Group Exhibition – Summer Sojourn – Art Atrium Finalist in Portia Geach Memorial Award for Portraiture – S.H. Ervin Gallery
2021
Solo exhibition – Walking the Plank Without a Shadow – Art Atrium Group Exhibition – A Conspicuous Object/The Maitland Hospital at MRAG – curated by Joe Eisenberg, Janis Wilton and Cheryl Farrell Selected as finalist for Portia Geach Memorial Award for portraiture Group Exhibition – Movers and Shapers II Women/Land/Sculpture – Broadhurst Gallery Hazelhurst Arts Centre
2020
Selected for Fisher’s Ghost Art Award – Campbelltown Arts Centre Selected for the Salon des Refuses Exhibition – S.H. Ervin GalleryAwarded Highly Commended as a finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Art Award – S.H. Ervin Gallery Selected as a finalist for the Glover Prize for landscape – Evansdale Tasmania Sedition Festival – City of Sydney – curated by Lesa-Belle Furhagen
2019
8th Beijing International Art Biennale China Everyday Madonna – Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre – curated by Jenny Cheeseman Art Central Hong Kong – exhibiting with Art Atrium NG Art Creative Residency exhibition – Eygalieres France
2018
Inhabited Architecture – Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney Selected as a finalist KAAF (Korean-Australia Art Foundation. Art Prize Selected as finalist for Portia Geach Memorial Award for portraiture Contemporary Gallipoli – Katoomba City Art Gallery/Cultural Centre Selected for the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award – Campbelltown City Art Gallery Chromophilia – collecting objects from the WAG collection. Wollongong Art Gallery Guide Dogs Art Installation – Sydney Chinese New Year Festival
2017
Pinned to the Wall – Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Moving House – Maitland Regional Art Gallery Hunting Season – NG Art Creative Residency Studio Exhibition – Eygalieres Provence France
2016
Pinned to the Wall – SPOT81 Sydney Objects and Obsession – The Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat
2015
Moving House (with Peter O’Doherty) – NERAM , Rockhampton Art Gallery, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2014
Moving House (with Peter O’Doherty) – Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Gosford Regional Gallery, Cowra Regional Art Gallery
2012
Nature of Time – NG Art Gallery, Sydney
Time Pieces – Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2011
It’s a Man’s World – NG Art Gallery, Sydney
2010
The Perfect Woman – NG Art Gallery, Sydney
2009
900 Eyes – Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
2008
900 Eyes / Domestic Lives – Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum
2005
Barry Stern Galleries – Sydney
2005
Span Galleries – Melbourne
2004
Gadfly Gallery – Perth
Barry Stern Galleries – Sydney
2003
Barry Stern Galleries – Sydney
Doggett Street Studios – Brisbane
2002
Barry Stern Galleries – Sydney
Doggett Street Studios – Brisbane
Jackman Gallery – Melbourne
Bowen Galleries – Wellington, New Zealand
2001
Barry Stern Galleries – Sydney
Jackman Gallery – Melbourne
Doggett Street Studios – Brisbane
2000
Mary Place Gallery – Sydney
Jackman Gallery – Melbourne
1999
Atrium Gallery – ABC Building, Sydney
Jackman Gallery – Melbourne
Mary Place Gallery – Sydney
Mary Place Gallery – Sydney
Atrium Gallery – ABC Building, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Still – National Still Life Award – Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2016
Paint My Place – Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Guilty Pleasures – Old Rum Store, Chippendale Contemporary Gallipoli – Grafton Regional Art Gallery
Wait, Weep & Be Worthy: Women, the Home Front & War – Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
2015
Suburban Dreams – Glasshouse Regional Gallery Port Macquarie
Just Paper – Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Your Friend the Enemy – SH Ervin Gallery Sydney, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Contemporary Gallipoli – Macquarie University Art Gallery, Cowra Regional Art Gallery
A Salute – Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2014
Kitchenalia – Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Assemblage Works From The Collection – Wollongong Art Gallery
In Two-Art – Grafton Regional Gallery, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
Oz to Waiheke – Waiheke Community Art Gallery Artist in Residence Programme
Artists Books – Bowen Galleries, Wellington NZ
Stations of the Cross – Northmead Creative and Performing Arts High School
2013
In Two-Art – Wollongong Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Diarama – Wollongong Art Gallery
In Two-Art – Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2012
In Two Art – Orange Regional Gallery
In Two Art – SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Animal Show – King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2011
Distant Bridges – Amnesty International, NG Art Gallery, Sydney
Stations of the Cross – St Ives Uniting Church
2010
In Two Art – Maitland Regional Art Gallery
2009
ReImag(in)ing SomaSex – Maquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize , Sydney
Artist in Residence – Taronga Zoo, Sydney
A Bar Called Home – NG Art Gallery, Sydney
2006
Cadrys Art Prize – Sydney
Joshua Holland Leukemia Fund Art Auction, Sydney
Conservatorium of Music Art Auction, Sydney
2005
Cadrys Art Prize, Sydney
2004
Dublin Art Fair, Ireland
Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
Norvill Art Prize, Sydney
2003
Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
Sceggs Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney
2001
ANCA Gallery, Canberra
2000
Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
1998
Sceggs Redlands Westpac Art Prize
Publications
2018
Art Asia Magazine – review – Inhabited Architecture at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney
2016
Catalogue – Pinned to the Wall – SPOT81 Sydney, essay by Anna Johnson.
2015
Your Friend the Enemy – an Artist Profile Publication (a Special Edition, edited by John McDonald)
Catalogue – Your Friend the Enemy – S.H.Ervin Gallery Sydney, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Catalogue – Contemporary Gallipoli – Macquarie University Art Gallery
Catalogue – Just Paper – Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Catalogue – A Salute – Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Catalogue – Suburban Dreams – Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin Saturday May 30 – Focus On Art (Moving House)
2014
Catalogue – Moving House
Catalogue – Kitchenalia – Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Catalogue – Diorama – Wollongong Art Gallery
2012
Catalogue – Nature of Time
Collectomania, Collecting Contemporary Art by Claudia Chan Shaw
Lynne Dwyer The Spectrum (Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald) Sept 8-9
Artist Profile Magazine – It’s a Man’s World
2011
Andrew Frost – It’s a Man’s World, Sydney Morning Herald, June 3
Artist Profile Magazine, Process – Susan O’Doherty, Issue 15, May
Andrew Frost, Metro Art, Sydney Morning Herald, June 23
Leesa Smith, Gender War Shown in Art, The Southern Courier, May 24
Elizabeth Fortescue, Man – That’s So True, Daily Telegraph, May 30
The Spectrum Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, June 4-5
Ashleigh Wilson, Artist’s Capture the Pain in Asylum Plight, SMH, Jan 18
2010
Raylene Bliss, Plastic Not So Fantastic, Concrete Playground, March 28
Lisa Christopher, Open Gallery, SMH, April 10-11
Steve Dow, A Toy Story With a Twist, The Big Picture, The Sun Herald, March 28
Hannah Gadsby Goes Domestic, Artscape ABC1, July
Annemarie Lopez, The Perfect Woman, The Sydney Magazine, SMH, Issue 84, April
2009
Sam Rigney, All Eyes On Maitland Gallery New Work, Maitland Mercury, Oct 23
Marina Saint Martin, 900 Eyes, Paradise Magazine, Gold Coast Bulletin, June 26
Kristie Lau, Waiting, a Still Life, Arts, Sun Herald, June 26
Steve Meacham, One For The Birds (Taronga Zoo Artist in Residence), SMH, May 20
Aparha Khopkar, A Bar To Call Home, Visual Arts, SMH, April 9
2008
Elizabeth Butel & Joanna Capon, Domestic Lives ( The Art of Susan O’Doherty )
Elizabeth Butel, 900 Eyes ( exhibition catalogue )
Rod Bennett, The Changing Faces Of Art, The Manly Daily, Dec 12
Katrina Lobley, A Sea Of Faces, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 29
2006
Stephen Lacey, Peter and Susan O’Doherty, Arts, Sydney Morning Herald, March 9
2005
Elizabeth Fortescue, Show Of Harmony, The Daily Telegraph, Sept 23
2004
Cover Artwork and page 46, Glorious Gloom, Australian Art Revue, Issue 05, July – Oct
2002
Diana Simmonds, Ideas For Artists To Canvas, Sunday Telegraph, June 9
Tom Cardy, Wedded To Their Art, Evening Post , Wellington New Zealand, April 18
1999
Catherine Lambert, Mind Over New Matter, Arts Section, Sun Herald, Aug 1
1998
Julia Richardson, At Ease, Our House Magazine, April
1997
Jennifer Reed, Artful Design, Tempo, Sun Herald, Nov 2
Peter Cochrane, Metro Arts, Sydney Morning Herald, July 12
Bronwyn Mailing, Portrait Of The Artist, Country Looks Magazine, April
Michael Smith, Art For Art’s Sake, Drum Media, April 18 m
Collections
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Cowra Regional Art Gallery
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre (Max Watters Collection)
Smorgon’s Collection
Town Hall Collection, City of Sydney
Wollongong Art Gallery