Rex Butler

Rex Butler teaches Art History in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University.

By Rex Butler, 14 Jun 2025

Aftershocks: Nolan and the Holocaust, Melbourne Holocaust Museum 20 May – 29 Jun 2025

By Rex Butler, Paris Lettau, 20 Feb 2025

Khaled Sabsabi, Thank You Very Much (2006)

By Rex Butler, 1 Feb 2025

NGV Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Victoria | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

By Rex Butler, 28 Dec 2024

Aspects of Abstraction: Charles Nodrum Collection, Town Hall Gallery 20 Nov – 18 Jan 2025

By Rex Butler, 24 Aug 2024

Dale Frank: Nobody’s Sweetie , MIFF 8 Aug – 25 Aug 2024

By Art Writing and Criticism Students, Amy May Stuart, Rex Butler, 4 May 2024

Rivane Neuenschwander and Cao Guimarães: Signs of Life, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery 19 Apr – 18 May 2024

By Rex Butler, 30 Mar 2024

Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian (2019), National Gallery of Victoria | NGV International 3 Dec – 7 Apr 2024

By Rex Butler, 14 Oct 2023

Michael Cook’s Invasion , National Gallery of Victoria | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2023

By Rex Butler, 12 Aug 2023

Spring1883 Art Fair, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art 10 Aug – 12 Aug 2023

By Rex Butler, Paris Lettau, 4 Jun 2023

The Anti-Art of War, Australian War Memorial

By Art Writing and Criticism Students, Mel Deerson, Rex Butler, 23 May 2023

Mithu Sen, mOTHERTONGUE, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) 22 Apr – 18 Jun 2023

By Rex Butler, 3 Mar 2023

Spray Painting The Pioneer, National Gallery of Victoria | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2023

By Rex Butler, 22 Oct 2022

WORD MADE FLESH, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) 23 Sep – 20 Nov 2022

By Rex Butler, 25 Jun 2022

Who are You: Australian Portraiture, National Gallery of Victoria | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia 23 Jun – 1 Aug 2022

By Rex Butler, 2 Apr 2022

Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise, Heide Museum of Modern Art 19 Feb – 13 Jun 2022 Narjis Mirza: Hayakal al Noor, Bodies of Light, Islamic Museum of Australia 24 Mar – 9 Jul 2022

By Rex Butler, 30 Oct 2021

Homologies of HOPE, West End Art Space 1 Nov – 20 Nov 2021 Michelle Zuccolo: The Encounter, Bayside Gallery 9 Nov – 20 Nov 2021 Alive Inside, Neon Parc 5 Oct – 30 Oct 2021

By Rex Butler, A.D.S. Donaldson, 5 Jun 2021

She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism 2 Apr – 22 Aug 2021

By Rex Butler, 27 Feb 2021

Amrita Hepi, Monumental, Gertrude Contemporary 6 Feb – 28 Mar 2021

By Rex Butler, 7 Nov 2020

A Case of the Old and New Recent Tendencies in Women’s Painting, Melbourne (I) + (II), Guzzler

By Rex Butler, 22 Aug 2020

Colin McCahon: Letters and Numbers & Event Horizon Symposium 14 Nov – 20 Jul 2020

By Rex Butler, 23 May 2020

Jane Sutherland, Obstruction, Box Hill, 1887, Art Gallery of Ballarat

By Rex Butler, 28 Mar 2020

Callum Morton, Monument #32: Helter Shelter 16 Jan – 5 Apr 2020

By Rex Butler, 2 Nov 2019

Collecting Comme 31 Oct – 26 Jul 2020

By Rex Butler, 21 Jun 2019

Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art 8 Mar – 28 Jul 2019

By Rex Butler, 4 May 2019

Tracey Moffatt: Body Remembers 23 Mar – 11 Oct 2019

By Rex Butler, 9 Feb 2019

Christian Marclay: The Clock 23 Jan – 10 Mar 2019

By Rex Butler, 1 Dec 2018

Mira Gojak and Takehito Koganezawa: The Garden of Forking Paths, Buxton Contemporary 7 Nov – 17 Feb 2019

By Rex Butler, 15 Sep 2018

Tom Roberts: Shearing the Rams 18 Feb – 18 Feb 2020

By Rex Butler, 7 Jul 2018

Colony: Australia 1770–1861 15 Mar – 15 Jul 2018 Colony: Frontier Wars 15 Mar – 30 Sep 2018

By Rex Butler, 26 May 2018

The Field Revisited 27 Apr – 26 Aug 2018

By Rex Butler, 10 Feb 2018

Richard Bell: Dredging up the Past, Gertrude Contemporary 2 Feb – 10 Mar 2018

By Rex Butler, 27 Oct 2017

Gareth Sansom: Transformer 14 Sep – 27 Jan 2018

By Rex Butler, 5 Aug 2017

Brave New World: Australia 1930s 14 Jul – 15 Oct 2017 Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art 20 Apr – 8 Oct 2017

By Rex Butler, 24 Jun 2017

I can see Russia from here, TCB art inc. 7 Jun – 24 Jun 2017

By Rex Butler, 8 Apr 2017

Louise Hearman 18 Feb – 14 May 2017

By Rex Butler, 7 Jan 2017

Suzanne Archer: Moving Forwards, Looking Back: A Survey 1969–2016, Nicholas Thompson Gallery 1 Jan – 1 Feb 2017