Hany Armanious is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings.

Life and work

Hany Armanious was born in Ismalia, Egypt and migrated to Australia with his family at the age of 6. He completed his schooling in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts)degree from the City Art Institute, Sydney.

His work has been exhibited in the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is an art museum for contemporary art, located in St. Louis, in the U.S. state of Missouri.- External links :*...

, Missouri; UCLA Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum

The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, or the Hammer Museum as it is more commonly known, is an art museum in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California...

, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Monash University

Monash University

Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

 Museum of Art, Melbourne; Busan Biennale, Korea; Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery of New South Wales

The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...

, Sydney; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

The Australian Centre For Contemporary Art is a contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The gallery is located on Sturt Street in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, in the inner suburb of Southbank....

, Melbourne; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is a contemporary art museum at New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. The gallery receives core funding from the New Plymouth District Council....

, New Plymouth, NZ;Artspace Sydney

Artspace Sydney

The Artspace Sydney Visual Arts Centre is a leading international residency-based contemporary art centre, housed in the historic Gunnery Building in Woolloomooloo, fronting Sydney Harbour in Sydney, Australia...

; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Armanious' work is included in the collections of Dakis Joannou Foundation, Athens; National Gallery of Victoria

National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...

, Melbourne; Monash University

Monash University

Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

 Gallery, Melbourne; Newcastle Regional Gallery; Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery of New South Wales

The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...

, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Australia

The National Gallery of Australia is the national art gallery of Australia, holding more than 120,000 works of art. It was established in 1967 by the Australian government as a national public art gallery.- Establishment :...

, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia is an Australian museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art, both from across Australia and around the world...

; Auckland Art Gallery

Auckland Art Gallery

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand and has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand...

, New Zealand; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland; as well as numerous private collections in Europe, USA and Australia. He is represented by Foxy Production

Foxy Production

Foxy Production is a New York art gallery founded by Michael Gillespe and John Thomson.Foxy Production inaugurated its gallery program in January 2003 after completing a series of curated exchange projects between London and New York. The gallery opened in Brooklyn and then moved to Manhattan in...

in New York, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery in Naples, Roslyn Oxley 9 in Australia, and Michael Lett Gallery in New Zealand.

Further reading

• Hany Armanious at Foxy Production
• Hany Armanious at Roslyn Oxley9
• Hany Armanious at Michael Lett Gallery
• Hany Armanious at http://www.raucciesantamaria.com/rs/mods.php?name=Artists&op=menu1&id=28

Selected bibliography

Armstrong, Fergus and Amanda Rowell. "Selflok", Hany Armanious, 21 August - 28 October 2001, UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001.

Coates, Rebecca. "Hany Armanious", Uncanny Nature, Australia Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2006.

Desmond, Michael. “Hany Armanious”, Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 3, September - November 2003: 35.

Dougal Phillips, Review of `Adventures in Form and Space, Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project 2006,' Art and Australia, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2006, p. 280.

Jasper, Adam. "Hany Armanious-Pragmatic metaphysics, painstaking copies and infinite pedestals." Frieze, Issue 114, April 2008: 154-155.

Jasper, Adam. "Unreality Bites", Art World, Issue 8, April–May 2009: pp 74–80

Jenks, Debra. "Muckrakers and Mudslingers on 27th St." Chelsea Now, 26 - 1 October 2007: 23.

Leonard, Robert. "Catalogue of Errors." Morphic Resonance- Hany Armanious. City Gallery, Wellington and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2007: 20-30.

Markou, Jason. "The Sorcerer's Crocs", Morphic Resonance- Hany Armanious. City Gallery, Wellington and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2007

Markou, Jason. "Hany Armanious", Adventures With Form in Space, Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006, p. 72-82

Palmer, Daniel, `Looking Back: Retrospectives,' Frieze, Issue 104, December - January 2007, p. 132

Smith, Roberta. "Hany Armanious", The New York Times, 23 November 2007: E40.