d harding to Show Work in New York and Sydney in a Two-Part Exhibition
Dia Art Foundation, a New York arts organisation known for its large, long-term projects, will co-present a two-part exhibition of work by Indigenous Australian artist d harding. ArtNews reported the plans on 3 November 2026.
The show is split between two cities. Dia Chelsea, the foundation's space at 537 West 22nd Street in New York, opens in February 2027. The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney follows in March. Both parts run until August 2027.
The Sydney presentation is harding's first museum survey, a show that gathers work across a career to give a fuller picture of it. The survey is organised around four themes: inheritance, visitation, embodiment and continuity. It includes an expanded wall composition titled Know them in correct judgement (2026), made in collaboration with extended family members.
For the Dia part, harding looked at two very different landscapes. The first was Dia's Land art works in the American West, large outdoor pieces made in open country. Among them are Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels. The second was rock-art galleries on harding's ancestral Country, the term many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people use for their traditional lands, in Central Queensland.
The new Dia commission is a series of transfer paintings. In this technique, an image or material is pressed or moved from one surface onto another. harding used canvases inherited from the artist Gordon Bennett, treated them with earthen materials and transferred the results onto 60 panels. According to ArtNews, the panels evoke places with a strong sense of place.
harding is not new to Dia. The foundation hosted a talk titled D Harding on Robert Smithson at Dia Chelsea on 13 September 2023. harding's earlier solo shows include Current Iterations at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane in 2019.
For visitors, the plan means two chances to see the work this season. New Yorkers can see the Dia commission from February. Sydney audiences can see the survey from March, and the two shows overlap until August.
