Jan Murphy Gallery
Michael Cook
Australia
Michael Cook is a Brisbane-based contemporary photographic artist of Bidjara heritage.
Over the last decade, Cook has produced works that interrogate the legacy of colonisation and invite the viewer to experience the other side of the coin, roles in reversal and histories re-written.
The importance of Cook’s work has been acknowledged with a number of prizes and awards, most recently he won the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2022) and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography People’s Choice Award (2022).
Cook has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally in the last decade. His work is held in major Australian collections including National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and in significant International collections, including the British Museum, London; Fondation Opale, Switzerland and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.