Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney

12/10/2026

We are thrilled to announce a new upcoming exhibition at the Chau Chak Wing Museum 👏

‘Victor Ehikhamenor: Undoing the City, Making Home’ explores resistance, resilience and cultural identity amid displacement and gentrification. Through exhibitions and community partnerships, it highlights shared stories of survival, memory and creative resistance across continents.

A partnership between the Chau Chak Wing Museum and Blacktown Arts, the project centres on acclaimed Nigerian-American artist Victor Ehikhamenor, whose practice examines colonialism, globalisation, spirituality, and cultural identity.

Opens 15 October 2026. Find out more: https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats-on/exhibitions/undoing-the-city.html

28/09/2026

We invite you to join the Seidler Sessions

Seidler Sessions are a series of public conversations presented in dialogue with the exhibition Migrating Modernism: The Architecture of Harry Seidler. Bringing together architects, artists, academics and cultural thinkers, these special events explore Seidler’s enduring legacy, the evolution of modern architecture, and the relationship between art and the built environment.

Coming up next:
Thursday 1 October, 5.30pm
Sisters in conversation: Penelope Seidler AO & The Hon. Elizabeth Evatt AC in conversation

Saturday 31 October, 2pm
Art in Architecture: Sue Saxon, Bel Youssofzay and Jennifer Turpin in conversation

To register for these and other conversations in the series:

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08/09/2026

✨ Last Thursday we celebrated the opening of Tracey Moffatt Sorted – a look at her Archive at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.

This is the first collection of its kind donated to an Australian museum, offering a glimpse into the heart and mind of Tracey Moffatt, through an archive spanning decades.

📍 Power Gallery, Level 1, Chau Chak Wing Museum

28/08/2026

NOW OPEN: Tracey Moffatt Sorted – a look at her Archive

The first collection and archive of its kind donated to an Australian museum, step inside the creative world of one of Australia's most internationally recognised artists.

Drawing from an archive that spans decades, this exhibition offers a rare and intimate glimpse into Tracey Moffatt's imagination, artistic process and career, revealing the ideas, influences and stories behind her work.

Full details: https://go.sydney.edu.au/nxDW1p

27/08/2026

NOW OPEN: Fibre Optics

Fibre Optics celebrates the beauty, ingenuity and technical mastery of First Nations women’s fibre works in all their forms.

Honouring the depth of women’s knowledge woven into the works, and the histories, cultural traditions and labour-intensive processes that produced them, Fibre Optics highlights the rich visual language of fibre and its material transformation through texture, scale and form.

Bringing together weaving, bark, textile and paper works from three distinct regions, the exhibition showcases artworks from the Chau Chak Wing Museum collection, brought together for the first time.

Full details: https://go.sydney.edu.au/CiMKHp

26/08/2026

The doors are open. ✨ Last week, we celebrated the opening of two extraordinary exhibitions.

🌏 Terraforming: Works from the Gene & Brian Sherman Collection
🏙️ Migrating Modernism: The architecture of Harry Seidler

Free entry, open now. Link in bio for visit details.

24/08/2026

NOW OPEN: Terraforming: Works from the Gene & Brian Sherman Collection

Presenting the work of six pioneering artists, this new exhibition explores a transformative moment in contemporary Chinese art.

Emerging as artists during a period characterised by reform and innovation, the work of Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Zhang Huan, Shen Shaomin, Yang Fudong and Yang Zhichao radically reshaped China's creative landscape, making space for new ideas, forms and voices.

Full details: https://go.sydney.edu.au/ftGNyq

17/08/2026

We’re so excited to announce a brand new exhibition at the Chau Chak Wing Museum!

‘Tracey Moffatt Sorted – a look at her archive’ is the first collection and archive of its kind donated to an Australian museum. Produced in collaboration with Tracey Moffatt, this exhibition profiles a small part of an archive and artworks that span decades, providing insight into the heart and mind of this imaginative and prolific artist.

Opens 22 August 2026, full details: https://go.sydney.edu.au/nxDW1p

27/07/2026

✨ We’re so excited to announce another upcoming exhibition at the Chau Chak Wing Museum!

‘Fibre Optics: First Nations women in fibre’ celebrates the ingenuity, technical mastery and enduring depth of women’s knowledge woven into fibre works in all their forms.

Pictured here are harvested and processed materials and fibre works by Milingimbi Art and Culture Centre artists, taken by Exhibition Curator Marika Duczynski (Gamilaraay/Mandandanji) on a recent trip to research the collections and talk with Yolŋu weavers about the technical processes involved in the making of these vibrant pieces.

The artworks selected to be featured in ‘Fibre Optics’ will span three distinct regions: Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait), Queensland, and Boggabilla, New South Wales, brought together for the first time.

Opens 8 August 2026, full details: https://go.sydney.edu.au/YP2alC

24/07/2026

"An icon of the Australian architectural community, Penelope Seidler chats to Vogue Living about her husband, the late Harry Seidler, whose work is celebrated in a new Sydney exhibition."

Read the below interview with Penelope Seidler before visiting the Chau Chak Wing Museum for 'Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler'.