ABOUT
Gary Heery is one of Australia’s pre-eminent fine art photographers.
Born in Sydney, Heery moved to the US in 1974, where he co-founded India America, a magazine chronicling Native American society and culture in Oklahoma. Two years later he moved to Los Angeles where focused on portrait photography, shooting album covers for Madonna, Paul Simon, Roy Orbison, Frank Zappa, Ray Charles, B.B. King and Joe Cocker + portraits of icons in film, art and music for magazines including Life, Esquire, Rolling Stone and Interview.
Returning to Sydney in 1987, Heery worked in advertising and fashion. He was a three-time finalist in the Citi Bank Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, a finalist in the National Gallery Portrait Prize and had works selected for the American Photographer Annual and Archibald prizes.
Combining his love of portraiture with an ever-present fascination with the natural world, Heery’s work has evolved to focus on flora and fauna. His exhibitions and books include Zoo (1996), Grandiflora (2000), Horses (2009), Winged (2011), Undergrowth (2012) and Gary Heery: Selected Works (2014), Bird (2015) and Birdscape (2021).
EXHIBITIONS + WORK
Exhibitions
2021 BIRDSCAPE. Olsen Gallery. Sydney.
2019 X PORTRAITS. Olsen Gallery .Sydney.
2017 ARCHIVES. Black Eye Gallery. Sydney.
2015 BIRD. Special Group. Sydney.
2014 GARY HEERY: Selected Works (1976-2013). Spitting Image. Sydney.
2012 UNDERGROWTH. Shapiro Gallery. Sydney.
2011 WINGED. Shapiro Gallery. Sydney.
2009 HORSES Shapiro Gallery. Sydney.
1996 ZOO. State Library of NSW. Sydney.
1993 NUDES. Pod Theatre Gallery. Sydney
1991 BIG SHOTS. Australian Centre of Photography. Sydney.
Books
2019 X PORTRAITS
2015 BIRD
2014 GARY HEERY: 1976-2013
2007 GRANDIFLORA ARRANGEMENTS. Published by Lantern.
2005 TWINS. Published by Viking.
1999 GRANDIFLORA. Published by Viking.
1996 ZOO. Published by Knoff.
Awards
Citi Bank Portrait Prize, Art Gallery NSW
National Portrait Prize
Paris Photo Prize
American Photographer
AGDA pinnacle
Published works in
Rolling Stone
Interview
Harpers Bazaar
Oyster
Vogue
Instyle
Esquire
LIFE
Playboy
Phaidon books
Graphis Art Annual
American Photographer
Lens Culture
The Unseasonal
Indian America
Documentary
Heery’s World. Feature film directed by Liz Jones.2015. Prime Video.
Keynote Speaker
Aperture Australia 2018
Bank of America 2019
FUJIFILM Australia 2021
Ambassador
Sony Australia
FUJIFILM Australia
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
