SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Infinex V, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2016
Infinex IV: Chromix Lumina and Modular, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014
Sydney Ball: Infinex III, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2013
The Stain Paintings 1971-1980, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Sydney Ball, Sydney Contemporary 13, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney
2012
Sydney Ball: Infinex II, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2011
Sydney Ball: Infinex Series and Structures 4, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2010
Sydney Ball: Structures 3 and the New York Stain Paintings, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2009
Sydney Ball: Structures 2 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007, The Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Australia
2008
Sydney Ball: In Light of Colour 1965-2008, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2007
Structures 2: Abstract Architecture, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2006
The Stain Paintings 1973-79, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2005
Structures 1, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2004
That Witch Colours Space, BMG ART, Adelaide
2003
Modular Paintings 1968-69 & Canto Prints 2003 Edition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Solander Gallery, Canberra
2001
Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Robert Lindsay Gallery,, Melbourne; Micheal Carr Gallery, Sydney
2000
Sydney Ball: Vermeer’s Mirror, Solander Gallery, Canberra
1999
Sydney Ball: Defining Journeys, Anima Gallery Adelaide
1998
Sydney Ball: Enigma and Variations, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Sydney Ball: Images from Along the Way ( A Tribute to Alexandra David-Neel and Her Journeys to Lhasa), Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994
Sydney Ball: Vermeer’s Mirror, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1993
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1990
Sydney Ball: REcent Works on Paper, Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1989
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1988
Bicentennial Festival, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1987
Macquarie Galleries Sydney
Sydney Ball: Recent works, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Survey Paintings 1985-85, Wollongong City Art Gallery
1986
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Sydney Ball: Recent Works, Solander Gallery, Canberra
1985
The Oceanic Chronicles, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Sydney Ball, Galleries Dusseldorf, Perth
Sydney Ball, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1984
Bonython - Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide
Sydney Ball, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Solander Gallery, Canberra
1983
Sydney Ball: Recent Works, Chrisitne Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Sydney Ball: New Works, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1982
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Sydney Ball: Painting and Prints Solander Gallery Canberra
1981
Paintings and Works on Paper, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Prints and drawings, Tyne Gallery, Adelaide
1980
Solander Gallery, Canberra
Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
1978
Sydney Ball: Painting, Drawings and Prints, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
1977
Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
1976
Sydney Ball: New Paintings, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Sydney Ball: Recent Paintings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Survey Exhibition, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane Solander Gallery, Canberra
1975
Solander Gallery, Canberra
Greenville Galleries, Adelaide
Sydney Ball Survey 1965- 1975, Newcastle City Art Gallery
1974
Sydney Ball, Boynton Gallery, Melbourne
Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1973
Boynton Gallery, Sydney
1971
Sydney Ball, Boynton Gallery, Adelaide
1969
John Gild Gallery, Perth
Sydney Ball, Boynton Gallery, Sydney and Adelaide
1968
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1967
New Paintings, Boynton Gallery, Adelaide
New Serigraphs and Sculptures, Strines Gallery, Melbourne
1966
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
Sydney Ball, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1965
Museum of Modern Art Australia, Melbourne
1964
Westerly Gallery, New York, US
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney
Art Basel Hong Kong, Sullivan+Strumpf, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
Annual Summer Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Taipei Dangdai, Sullivan+Strumpf, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2018
The Field Revisited, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Superposition: Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Modern Currents, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, Australia
2017
Group Exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, Australia
Superposition of Three Types, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2016
Shut up and Paint NGV Collection, NGV International, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Arrival, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore
Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Group Exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2015
Birth of the Cool, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
Ten Year Anniversary Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Do It [at Samstag], Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2014
Abstract, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
The Less There Is To See The More Important It Is To Look, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
SSFA14, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2012-13
20th and 21st Century Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Hard Edge and Colour Field Paintings and Sculpture, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Sixties Explosion, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
Abstraction 10, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Recent Past, Australian Painting of the 70s and 80s, University of Western Australia, Perth
SSFA11, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2010
SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Group Exhibition 57, SNO Gallery, Sydney
Gallery 9, SNO Gallery, Sydney
Abstraction 9, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Placed and Spaced, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Abstraction – Form + Content: Cowarra Art Space, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2009
SSFA09, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Abstraction 8, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Reductive, Australian Commercial Galleries Association Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne
Tackling ‘THE FIELD’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
After ‘THE FIELD’, Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney
Gendered Abstraction, Sydney Ball and Lesley Dumbrell, George Petelin Gallery Sydney;; CAPS Gallery, Brisbane
2008
This Way Up: Abstract Works from the La Trobe University Collection, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
2007
2007: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
Often Spotted Rarely Seen: Celebrating 40 years of Collecting, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
Australian Abstraction 1965-1985 from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2006
Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sdney
New to the Modern: Heide 25 Years On, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Big Paintings, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Perth
Eastaway, Butroni, Ball, S.N.O Gallery, Sydney
2005
Panatteri, Andrewes, EAstaway Ball, S.N.O Gallery, Sydney
Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
6 Years of Abstraction, Tarrawarra Museum f Art Melbourne
2004
Fresh Fields: The Charles Nodrum Collection, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2003
Ten, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Abstraction 3, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2003: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
This Was the Future: Australian Sculpture of the 50s - Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Fieldwork: Australian Art - 1968 - 2003, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art 34, Basel, Switzerland; Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Australian Masters, Solander Gallery, Canberra
2002
Paperwork 2, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2001
Australian Art: The ‘60s till Now, Kaliman
1999
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Three Generations, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Collage, Curated by Professor Jenny Zimmer, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
Artifice: The Heide II Decades, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1998
Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, the University of Queensland, Brisbane
Sydney Ball, Dale Hickey, David Rankin, Andrew Christofides and David Serisier, Robert, Steele Gallery, Adelaide
1997
I Had a Dream, Australian Art in the '60s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Swingtime-East Coast Works from the 1960s-70s, The University of Western Australia, Perth
1992
Sydney Ball & Hoon Kwak, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1991
Tribute to Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1990
Circa 69 AD, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide
1989
3rd International Contemporary Art Exposition, Los Angeles, California, USA
1988
Contemporary Australian Art, Houston International Festival, Houston, Texas, USA
International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois USA
1987
Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Second International Art Exposition, Los Angeles, California, USA
1986
International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Paradoxical Abstraction-New Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1986 Backlash: the Australian Drawing Revival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1985
Australian Art in our Time, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee, Nashville, USA 1984 The Australians, CDS Gallery, New York, USA
1984
The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Selections from the Chartwell Collection, Hamilton Art Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand
The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize 1983, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Australian Perspecta II, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Wrong Place: Five Sydney Painters, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Twelve Australian Painters, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1982
Visions in Disbelief: 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Seventies: Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1981
Visions After Light: Art in South Australia 1836-1981, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The Joseph Brown Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1978
Artists from Australia, Powell Street Gallery at Cunningham-Ward Gallery, New York, USA
1976
Australian Colourists '77, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
1975
Ten Australians, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1974
Expo '74, Spokane, Washington, USA
First Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House Gallery, Sydney
Ten Australians, International Tour: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris;; Institut fur Aslandabeziehungen, Stuttgart;; Galleria Internazionale, Milan;; L'Accademia dell' Arte e Disegno, Florence;; Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Ca'pesaro, Venice
1973
Trustees Invitation Prize, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1972
Australian Paintings of the Past 20 Years, London, United Kingdom;; Sydney
1968
The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges, Melbourne (winner)
1967
Contemporary Australian Painting, Los Angeles;; San Francisco, California USA
The Mertz Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Corio Prize Invitation Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Contemporary Australian Painting, New Delhi, India
Benalla Invitation Prize, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
Directions, Arts Council of Australia, Canberra
1966
Contemporary Australian Drawing, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Sydney
T.E Wardle Invitation Exhibition, Perth.
1965
The Mirror-Waratah Invitation Prize Exhibition, Sydney
The New Edge, Westerly Gallery, New York, USA
1964
Drawing 64, Green Gallery, New York, USA
The New York Scene, Travelling Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
American Drawing Now, Westerly Gallery, New York, USA
PRINTMAKING EXHIBITIONS
1989
Sydney Ball: A Jubilant Light: A Survey of Prints 1964-1988, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong;; Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange;; Garrick Hill Museum, Adelaide
1988
Tenth British International Print Biennale Exhibition, Bradford, United Kingdom
Bicentennial Collection: A Portfolio of Australian Artists, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Prints and Australia-Pre-settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery, Canberra,
Woodcut 1905-1989, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney and Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney
1982
Recent Australian Screen Prints, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1981
Recent Serigraphs, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1978
Australian Printmaking, Stockholm, Sweden
Screen Prints, Printmakers Gallery, Brisbane
Patron Print Commission, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
1977
National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Alice Springs Art Awards: Print Exhibition, Alice Springs
1975
Twentieth Century Graphics-A Selection from the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1974
Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1972
Printmaking in Australia 1912-1972, Newcastle Art Gallery, Sydney
1968
6th International Biennial Exhibition of Graphic Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan;; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1966
Australian Print Council Survey, National Australian tour