by Tom Gurney
Tom Gurney BSc (Hons) is an art history expert with over 20 years experience
Published on July 14, 2026 / Updated on July 16, 2026
Email: tomgurney1@gmail.com / Phone: +447429011000
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Current and upcoming exhibitions
These exhibitions are placed high on the page because they are the clearest reason to plan a visit around this museum now.
About Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, AU, is a useful starting point for sydney museum anchor for Australian art, Asian art, drawing, contemporary biennials and harbour-linked landscape routes, beginning with Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, Avatar, Dobell, Rememory and the annual Archibald/Wynne/Sulman prizes. The 6 attached exhibitions help the page work both as a collection guide and as a practical route into what is on now.
For a first visit, build the route around Australian art, Australian Impressionism, Sydney Harbour, Australian landscape painting, war art, conservation themes, Gadigal Country context, collection-led visitor planning, contemporary Australian portraiture, Australian landscape prize culture, annual prize exhibitions, Sidney Nolan, Australian modernism, Ned Kelly imagery, Central Australia, South Asian art, Southeast Asian art, Hindu art, Vishnu, devotional storytelling, contemporary drawing, expanded drawing practice, Biennale of Sydney, Rememory, migration, exile, belonging, First Nations stories and diasporic communities. Artists especially worth slowing down for include Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin, Australian Impressionist painters represented in the collection, contemporary Australian and New Zealand artists selected for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes, Desmond Lazaro, Gitanjali Das, Kalam Patua, Sumakshi Singh, Stephen Benwell, Emily Ferretti, Rosemary Lee, Mary MacDougall, Louise Weaver, Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu, Hoor Al Qasimi and artists and collectives in the Biennale of Sydney. Current and upcoming exhibitions can then help decide what deserves priority on the day.
Plan around current exhibitions
Current and upcoming exhibitions are one of the clearest reasons to visit or revisit the museum now. A visitor may arrive here from the museum name, from an artist search, or from the exhibitions table; either way, the page should make the live programme easy to understand before sending readers to official venue details.
Sources and further reading
Use these official museum pages, object records and exhibition sources to check details and keep exploring.
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
Core venue source - Streeton
Dedicated exhibition archive source - Archibald Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2026
Dedicated exhibition source - Enter the Archibald Prize 2026
Prize rules source - Archibald Prize 2026 tour
Tour source - Nolan Origins
Dedicated exhibition source - Avatar: Forms of Vishnu
Dedicated exhibition source - Avatar: Forms of Vishnu exhibition book
Publication source
How to use this guide
Before travelling, check Art Gallery of New South Wales directly for opening hours, temporary closures, access arrangements and ticketing. This page avoids precise pricing by design, because prices and discounts change more often than the art-historical content. The stable value is route planning: what to see, why it matters, and which related pages are worth opening next.
