COMA

COMA COMA is a contemporary art gallery and advisory located in Sydney, Australia. COMA aims to bring a dynamic and engaging focus to contemporary international art.

In addition to an attentive curatorial approach it is characterised by a comprehensive understanding of artists exhibited and represented. The gallery was designed to not only exhibit and promote emerging and established artists but to simultaneously concentrate on the conceptual aspects of their practice relating to these exhibitions, and foster an educational environment for the viewer. Through

this formula COMA aspires to create a culture of quality for both the public and the exhibiting artists.

04/09/2026

MA Art Prize winner Renée Estée walks us through her new body of work being shown at Sydney Contemporary 2026.

Discover the works in person at Booth C05, on view through 6 September.

Working with ordinary house paint transformed into dust, Oliver Wagner draws on the histories and conventions of paintin...
04/09/2026

Working with ordinary house paint transformed into dust, Oliver Wagner draws on the histories and conventions of painting to create works that shift between permanence and ephemerality.

Sydney Contemporary continues through 6 September, you can find the gallery at booth C05.

Oliver Wagner, Reconstructed Painting 90, 2026, house paint dust on linen, 183 x 152.5 cm, 72 x 60 in. Oliver Wagner, Reconstructed Painting 89, 2026, house paint dust on linen, 183 x 152.5 cm, 72 x 60 in.

Justin Williams’ paintings move between past and present, tracing ideas of migration, belonging and domestic myth. Rende...
04/09/2026

Justin Williams’ paintings move between past and present, tracing ideas of migration, belonging and domestic myth. Rendered through layered oils and delicate washes, figures and landscapes emerge with a hazy, luminous quality.

See Williams’ work up close at Sydney Contemporary, at Booth C05, on view now through 6 September.

Justin Williams, Distantly close tower. Card reading from Major Arcana, 2023, oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas, 190 x 154.5 cm, 74 3/4 x 60 7/8 in. Justin Williams, Why be the harp when you can be the music, 2024, oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas, 183.5 x 166 cm, 72 1/4 x 65 3/8 in.

03/09/2026

The 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary is now open. Visit COMA at Booth C05 to view a selection of works by Oliver Wagner, Kansas Smeaton, Eleanor Louise Butt, Nick Modrzewski, Renée Estée, Puuni Brown Nungarrayi, Grace Wright and Justin Williams.

Opening tomorrow is the 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary, where the gallery will be presenting new and recent works b...
02/09/2026

Opening tomorrow is the 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary, where the gallery will be presenting new and recent works by leading artists from across the gallery’s expanding programme.

Artist included are, Steven Bellosguardo, Eleanor Louise Butt, Renée Estée, Anna May Kirk, Puuni Brown Nungurrayi, Nick Modrzewski, Kansas Smeaton, Oliver Wagner, Justin Williams and Grace Wright.

You can find the gallery at Booth C05, 3-6 September, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW 2015, Carriageworks.

Installation view, COMA, Sydney Contemporary, 2026. Photos: Jessica Maurer.

Australian artist Renée Estée will debut a new body of paintings at the 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary. On view 3 -...
31/08/2026

Australian artist Renée Estée will debut a new body of paintings at the 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary. On view 3 - 6 September, at booth CO5.

Estée’s new work explore cycles of departure, transformation, longing and connection. Moving between moments of hesitation and possibility, the works consider transformation as both an ending and a beginning, and the ways care, protection and a desire for connection are carried through periods of change.

Renée Estée, Shoreline Nest (I’ll swim, I’ll swim, I’ll swim to you), 2026, oil, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 183 x 173 cm, 72 x 68 1/8 in. Renée Estée, Metamorphosis (before we leap we hold our breath), 2026, oil and charcoal on canvas, 183 x 173 cm, 72 x 68 1/8 in.

In Sydney this week for Sydney Contemporary? Check out Justin Williams’ solo exhibition, titled ‘Pentimento’, on view th...
31/08/2026

In Sydney this week for Sydney Contemporary? Check out Justin Williams’ solo exhibition, titled ‘Pentimento’, on view through Tuesday to Saturday at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Installation view, Justin Williams, Pentimento, 2026, COMA, Sydney. Photos: Jessica Maurer.

We are delighted to unveil a new work by Kansas Smeaton, at the 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary, on view 3 - 6 Septe...
31/08/2026

We are delighted to unveil a new work by Kansas Smeaton, at the 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary, on view 3 - 6 September, at booth CO5.

In Velvet Morning, Kansas Smeaton brings together intertwined hands, ripe raspberries and folds of soft pink fabric in a closely cropped composition. Rendered with heightened detail, the work draws attention to touch, texture and the intimacy of holding, as fruit gathers between two open palms.

Kansas Smeaton, Velvet Morning, 2026, oil on canvas, 35 x 28.5 cm, 13 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.

We are looking forward to presenting two new sculptures by Australian artist Anna May Kirk, at Sydney Contemporary 2026,...
30/08/2026

We are looking forward to presenting two new sculptures by Australian artist Anna May Kirk, at Sydney Contemporary 2026, on view 3- 6 September. The gallery can be found at booth CO5.

Taking the form of organically textured bronze seeds, these sculptures were developed in dialogue with scientists at the National Seed Bank and their living collection. From their surfaces emerge germinating forms in glass, bringing together two materials shaped by processes of transformation.

Suspended between dormancy and growth, archive and organism, Seed Deposit (I) & (II) consider preservation as an active process, positioning seeds as living technologies that hold the possibility of futures yet to emerge.

Anna May Kirk, Seed Deposit (I), 2026, bronze, patina, borosilicate glass, resin, 25 x 17 x 20 cm. Anna May Kirk, Seed Deposit (II), 2026, bronze, patina, borosilicate glass, resin, 25 x 15 x 12 cm. Photos: Dean Qiulin Li.

We are excited to debut a new work by New York-based artist Nick Modzrewski, titled ‘The Cu***ld Carpenter Under the Bed...
30/08/2026

We are excited to debut a new work by New York-based artist Nick Modzrewski, titled ‘The Cu***ld Carpenter Under the Bed of his Wife and her Lover’, at the upcoming 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary, on view 3-6 September.

“The painting is loosely based on a 16th century watercolour from the Kallis wa Dimna manuscript in the Met collection. It’s a collection of ancient animal fables and morality stories, with jackals, lions and courtiers playing the roles of kings and ministers. And then there’s this story about the cu***ld carpenter. He’s down the bottom right hand side of the painting, borrowed from the original, and then he reappears as a kind of statue figure holding a Ryobi drill.”

You can find the gallery at booth CO5, 3 - 6 September, at Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh, 2015.

Nick Modrzewski, The Cu***ld Carpenter Under the Bed of his Wife and her Lover, 2026, acrylic and charcoal on linen, 178 x 157.5 cm, 70 1/8 x 62 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Marrickville, NSW
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Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
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