Kenny Pittock is a Melbourne based artist who works with ceramics, painting and drawing, and uses humour and sentimentality to playfully respond to contemporary Australian culture.
Kenny received an Honours Fine Arts Degree in painting from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, since then he has had solo exhibitions in Italy and Singapore, as well as consistently exhibited his work all over Australia with galleries including Bendigo Art Gallery, NGV, ACCA in Melbourne, PICA in Perth, Artspace in Sydney and MONA in Tasmania. In 2017 Pittock was the recipient of Redlands Emerging Artist Award.
Pittock’s work is represented in many collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank, the City of Melbourne Town Hall Collection, the University of Queensland Gallery Collection, the Deakin University Collection and the Monash University Museum Of Art Collection.
Solo Exhibitions
– Poems and Portraits. Melbourne Art Fair, MARS Gallery, 2025
– The Little Things Are The Big Things, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2024
– Can You Peel The Love Tonight, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria, 2024
– Hold Your Horses, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 2023
– Twenty-four Shopping Lists Written On Post-It Notes Found Whilst Working at a Supermarket, Olsen Annexe, Sydney, 2022
– On Plane Air, {Suite} Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand, 2022
– The World’s Gone Pear Shaped, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2022
– The Frankston Line, Frankston Arts Centre, Victoria, 2022
– Trying To Leaf Things Better Than We Found Them, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2020
– Planes, Trains and Bubble’O Bills, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW, 2020
– An Open Book, Readings, Melbourne, 2019
– Every Kind Of Shape, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, 2019
– Connector Pens Connecting, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2019
– 52 Shopping Lists Written By People Who Need Milk, Bunjil Place, Victoria, 2018
– She smiled, Curated by Khai Hori, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore, 2017
– A Series of Self Poor Traits, Galerie Pompom, Sydney, 2016
Select Group Exhibitions
– Radical Joy, Sydney Contemporary, MARS Gallery, 2026
– From MARS to Aotearoa, MARS Gallery, Aotearoa Art Fair, New Zealand, 2026
– Bayside Painting Prize, Bayside Gallery, Victoria, 2026
– Presentation with MARS Gallery at Aotearoa Art Fair, Auckland, 2026
– Wynne Prize touring exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, 2025 - 2026
– Incognito Art Show, Carriageworks, Sydney, 2026
– Melbourne Art Fair, MARS Gallery, 2026
– Wynne Prize touring exhibition, Ngununggula, NSW, 2025 - 2026
– Synchron City, Curated by Cassie May, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, 2025
– Summer Curated, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 2025
– MARS Xmas online exhibition, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2025
– Wynne Prize touring exhibition, Glasshouse Port Macquarie, NSW, 2025
– Presentation with MARS Gallery at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, 2025
– Wynne Prize touring exhibition, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW, 2025
– 52 Actions, Qantas Founders Museum, Queensland, 2025
– Wynne Prize. Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW, 2025
– Incognito Art Show, The Garden Gallery, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, 2025
– Bayside Painting Prize, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne, 2025
– 52 Actions, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania, 2025
– Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Monsalvat, Victoria, 2025
– Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW, 2025
– Dirty Dozen, City Gallery, Melbourne, 2025
– Quarantine Art Fair, Portsea, Victoria, 2025
– Yucky Yum Yum, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland, 2024
– Summer Group Exhibition, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 2024
– Christmas Online Exhibition, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2024
– 52 Actions, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2024
– Permutations: 18 x 4, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne. Curated by Isobel Baker, Georgina Loughnan and Mia Palmer-Verevis, 2024
– Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin Gallery, Victoria, 2024
– Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria, 2024
– Word Up: Art and Text, Curated by Margaret Hancock and Dr. Leo Robba, Margaret Whitlam Galleries, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, 2024
– Dusk of Nations, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2024
– MARS Pops to Brisbane, Miss Midgley’s, Brisbane, 2024
– Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
– Incognito Art Show, Sydney, 2024
– Bayside Painting Prize, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne, 2024
–52 Actions, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin, 2024
– Darebin Art Prize 2024, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2024