{{short description|Australian artist (born 1962)|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox artist | image = ArmaniousH.jpg | caption = Hany Armanious in his Sydney studio, 2013 | birth_date = 1962 | birth_place = Ismailia, Egypt | education = Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) degree, City Art Institute, Sydney. | known_for = Installations, sculpture and painting }}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2011}} '''Hany Armanious''' (born 1962) is an Egyptian born, Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ozarts.com.au/artists/hany_armanious |title=Armanious, Hany - OzArts |access-date=26 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913172753/http://www.ozarts.com.au/artists/hany_armanious |archive-date=13 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings.
==Life and work== Hany Armanious was born in Ismailia, Egypt and migrated to Australia with his family at the age of 6.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Armanious |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/9570/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> He completed his schooling in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) degree from the City Art Institute, Sydney<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Armanious |url=https://www.unsw.edu.au/alumni-profiles/hany-armanious |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> and a doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Armanious |first=Hany |title=From Nothing – Mimetic Seeing and Making |url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/1452/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref>) Since 2019 he has been Head of Sculpture at the National Art School in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Armanious Appointed to Head of Sculpture |url=https://nas.edu.au/hany-armanious-appointed-head-of-sculpture/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> In the early nineties Armanious considered a ‘key figure’ in a number of artists who critics noted as being influenced by the grunge movement.<ref>{{Cite book |title=MCA collection handbook |date=2016 |publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art Australia |isbn=978-1-921034-84-8 |editor-last=Bullock |editor-first=Natasha |location=The Rocks, Sydney, Australia |editor-last2=Museum of Contemporary Art}}</ref>
Although born in Egypt and conscious of its cultural ties, Armanious’s work does not specifically reference that culture.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fahd |first=Cherine |date=2019 |title=Contemporary Australian Artists from the Middle Eastern Diaspora |journal=Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies |volume=6 |issue=1}}</ref> He has been described as an artist who can 're-describe objects' using ‘poor materials’.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 June 2011 |title=SBS STVDIO documentary: Hany Armanious – The Golden Thread |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wim3nVfy0KQ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> As his practice has developed Armanious has achieved this goal through making moulds of ordinary objects and replicating them as parts of completed works. As Armanious has himself said, ‘…my interest in casting partly grew from a technique in my painting that utilized contact prints. Casting is like three-dimensional printmaking.“<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Krischer |first=Olivier Plundering |date=May 2011 |title=The Uncanny Valley: Hany Armanious |journal=ArtAsiaPacific |issue=73 |pages=120–129}}</ref> Casting has now become central; to Armanious’s work and a ‘key strategy’ that allows him to bring almost any object that catches his eye into the studio and via casting to the exhibition space ‘refiguring elements and processes both literally and metaphorically’.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Markou |first=Jason |title=Turns in Arabba: Hany Armanious |date=2005 |publisher=Michael Lett Publishing}}</ref> In constructing and assembling his cast sculptures Armanious infuses and even ‘exploits’ the humorous potential brought to play on his work through the human need to find meaning within complicated and even abstract forms - the isomorphic condition that prompts us to find images and meaning in inkblots, clouds and other abstract combinations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Butler |first=Rex |date=2000 |title=Hany Armanious: The Gift of Sight |journal=Art & Text |issue=68 |pages=66–70}}</ref> The success of this idea can be seen in Australian art critic Rex Butler's descriptions of three plastic shopping bags Armanious presented as the work ''Ladybug (Pornament)'' in 1993. Butler looks at the work and questions whether they resemble a green skirt and white blazer, inverted pantyhose, or perhaps ‘a man crucified head down and arms wide like St. Peter’.<ref>{{Cite book |last=MacAloon |first=William |title=Home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection |date=1999 |publisher=Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki [u.a.] |others=Exhibition Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Chartwell Collection |isbn=978-1-86953-427-1 |location=Auckland |pages=102}}</ref>
== Exhibitions == Armanious has shown with a number of dealer galleries and currently exhibits with Michael Lett in Auckland, [https://www.finearts.sydney/ Fine Arts, Sydney] and [https://southardreid.co.uk/ Southard Reid] in London. He has also shown with Foxy Production in New York, [https://sarahcottiergallery.com/ Sarah Cottier Gallery] and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples and the [http://www.galerieallen.com/ Galerie Allen] in Paris.
Selected exhibitions in public art institutions:
* ''The Readymade Boomerang; Certain Relations in 20th-century Art'' (group) 8th Biennale of Sydney. 1990 Artistic Director René Block focussed on Duchamp and the power of the readymade on 20th century art.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Biennale of Sydney |url=https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/biennale/8th-biennale-of-sydney-1990/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> * ''Perspecta'' (group) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. 1991 Curated by Victoria Lynn. * ''The Boundary Rider'' 9th Biennale of Sydney (group). 1992 Artistic Director: Anthony Bond.<ref name=":0" /> * ''Wit’s end'' Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. 1993 (group) Curated by Kay Campbell.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wits End |url=https://www.mca.com.au/exhibitions/wits-end/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> * ''Aperto ’93'' at the ''45th Venice Biennale'' 1993 (group). Directed by Achille Bonito Oliva. * ''Plastic Fantastic'' (group) Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 1993 * ''Aussemblage'' (group) Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aussemblage: Everyday Objects Transformed |url=https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/artgallery/assets/media/1994-26-aussemblage-everyday-objects-transformed.pdf |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 1994 * ''Johannesburg Biennale'' (group) South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Johannesburg Biennale |url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/1st-johannesburg-biennale |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 1995 * ''Möet and Chandon Touring Art'' (group) Prize National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 1998 Touring all state galleries. Armanious was the 1998 Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://rmitgallery.com/exhibitions/moet-chandon-touring-exhibition/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> Armanious was also included in the 2000 edition of the Möet et Chandon Fellows Exhibition at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. * ''Hammer Projects: Hany Armanious'' Hammer Museum Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hammer Projects: Hany Armanious |url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2001/hammer-projects-hany-armanious |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 2001 * ''Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002'' (group) National Gallery of Victoria, 2002 Federation Square, Melbourne.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions: Fieldwork |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/fieldwork/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> * ''Bloom mutation, toxicity and the'' sublime. (group) Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bloom, Toxicity and the Sublime |url=https://govettbrewster.com/media/ww2nnpph/2003-2004_dec-feb_bloom_mutation_toxicity_and_the_sublime.pdf |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 2003 * ''National Sculpture Prize'' 2005 (group) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions 2005: National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition |url=https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/2005-national-sculpture-prize-and-exhibition/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 2005 * ''Hany Armanious: Artists Project'' Auckland Art Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Armanious: Artist Project |url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/exhibition/hany-armanious-artist-s-project |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 2005 * ''Before the Body-Matter'' (group) Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. 2006 * ''Uncanny Nature'' Australia Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne. 2006 Curated by Rebecca Coates.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Before the Body Matter: Works from the Monash University Collection with Selected Loans |url=https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/previous/2006/before-the-body-matter-works-from-the-monash-university-collection-with-selected-loans |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> * Busan Biennale (group) Korea.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Busan Biennale |url=http://www.busanbiennale.org/BBOCen/index.php?pCode=2006_01 |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 2006 * ''Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Armanious |first=Hany |title=Morphic resonance: Hany Armanious |last2=Galbraith |first2=Heather |last3=Leonard |first3=Robert |date=2007 |publisher=Institute of Modern Art ; City Gallery Wellington |others=Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Qld.), City Gallery Wellington |isbn=978-1-875792-60-3 |location=Fortitude Valley, Qld. : Wellington}}</ref> City Gallery, Wellington<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance |url=https://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/hany-armanious-morphic-resonance/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 2007. The exhibition title comes from biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s theory around the ‘unseen interconnectedness of things’.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance |url=https://www.ima.org.au/exhibitions/hany-armanious-morphic-resonance-2/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> * ''Hany Armanious'' Contemporary Art Museum ST Louis, United States of America.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Armanious |url=https://camstl.org/exhibitions/hany-armanious/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 2008 * ''Ceramica'' (group) Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 2008 * ''Before and After Science'' Adelaide Biennale. 2010 (group) Curated by Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adelaide Biennale: Australian art and After Science |url=https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/2010-adelaide-biennial-australian-art-and-after-science/ |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> * ''The Golden Thread (2011)'' at The fifty- fourth Venice Biennale. 2011 Armanious was the Australian representative at the 54th Biennale his work examining, ‘the relationship between the readymade and figurative sculptural traditions’.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread |url=https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/previous/2012/hany-armanious-the-golden-thread |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> * ''Mutatis Mutandis'' (group) Secession, Vienna.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mutatis Mutandis |url=https://secession.at/ausstellung_mutatis_mutandis_en |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 2012 * ''Hany Armanious’s Fountain'' Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. 2013 Armanious’s installation was the Inaugural Museum of Contemporary Art Sculpture the first in a series of commissions on the MCA’s new Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace. The sculpture was based on an anatomical model of the inner ear.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=August 2013 |title=Fons et Origo, or, Trompe l’Oreille Fountain: Hany Armanious |journal=Art Monthly Australasia |issue=262 |pages=27–29}}</ref> * ''Future Eaters'' (group) MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), Melbourne.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Future Eaters |url=https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/previous/2017/future-eaters |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref> 2017 * ''Hany Amanious Stone Soup'' Henry Moore Foundation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goodpasture |first=Eliza |date=15 July 2024 |title=A load of rubbish … or a whole new reality? Hany Armanious on his ‘redemptive’ replicas show |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jul/15/a-load-of-rubbish-or-a-whole-new-reality-hany-armanious-on-his-redemptive-replicas-show |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> 2024 * ''Hany Amanious Stone Soup'' Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hany Amanious Stone Soup |url=https://buxtoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/hany-armanious-stone-soup/ |access-date=23 November 2025 |website=Buxston Contemporary}}</ref> 2025
=== Note === For a full list of Hany Armanious exhibitions go [https://art-collection.uow.edu.au/persons/30/hany-armanious here]
== Collections ==
* [https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=armanious-hany Art Gallery of New South Wales] * [https://chartwell.org.nz/seeing/collection/unrealistic/ Chartwell Collection] * [https://collection.heide.com.au/persons/1176/hany-armanious Heide] * [https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/results?keyword=armanious&includeParts National Gallery of Australia] * [https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artist-commissions/loti-smorgon-sculpture-terrace/hany-armanious-fountain-2012/ MCA] * Queensland Art Gallery * [https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/?s=Armanious&type=collection National Gallery of Victoria] * [https://www.monash.edu/muma/collection/browse-collection Monash University Gallery] * Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego * [https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/search/artworks?section=collection&artist=armanious Auckland City Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki] * [https://collection.dunedin.art.museum/objects?query=Armanious Dunedin Public Art Gallery]
== Awards == 1998 Moët et Chandon fellowship
2004 Artist in residence, Elam School of Fine Arts International Arts Residency Programme, Auckland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elam International Artist in Residence programme |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/creative/about-the-faculty/elam/about-elam/elam-international-artist-in-residence-programme.html |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * Armstrong, Fergus and Amanda Rowell. "Selflok", Hany Armanious, 21 August – 28 October 2001, UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001. * Coates, Rebecca. "Hany Armanious", Uncanny Nature, Australia Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2006. * [http://www.cacsa.org.au/publications/broadsheet/BS_v32no3/32_3.html/ Desmond, Michael. "Hany Armanious", Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 3, September – November 2003: 35.] * Dougal Phillips, Review of 'Adventures in Form and Space, Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project 2006,' Art and Australia, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2006, p. 280. * [http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/hany_armanious/ Jasper, Adam. "Hany Armanious-Pragmatic metaphysics, painstaking copies and infinite pedestals." Frieze, Issue 114, April 2008: 154–155.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118192924/http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/hany_armanious |date=18 November 2009 }} * Jasper, Adam. "Unreality Bites", Art World, Issue 8, April–May 2009: pp 74–80 * [http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2007/10/26/chelseanow_archives/20071026-archive1.txt/ Jenks, Debra. "Muckrakers and Mudslingers on 27th St." Chelsea Now, 26 – 1 October 2007: 23.] * Leonard, Robert. "Catalogue of Errors." Morphic Resonance- Hany Armanious. City Gallery, Wellington and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2007: 20–30. * Markou, Jason. "The Sorcerer's Crocs", Morphic Resonance- Hany Armanious. City Gallery, Wellington and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2007 * Markou, Jason. "Hany Armanious", Adventures With Form in Space, Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006, pp. 72–82 * Palmer, Daniel, 'Looking Back: Retrospectives,' Frieze, Issue 104, December – January 2007, p. 132 * [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/arts/design/23gall.html?pagewanted=print/ Smith, Roberta. "Hany Armanious", The New York Times, 23 November 2007: E40.]
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