Kevin McKay
EDUCATION
2012 Masters of Fine Arts, Painting, National Art School, Sydney.
2009 BFA Honours, Class 1 in Painting, National Art School, Sydney.
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, National Art School, Sydney.
2004 Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts, Southern Sydney Art School, Kogarah.
2003 Diploma of Fine Arts, Southern Sydney Art School, Kogarah.
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/PUBLIC ACQUISITIONS
2022 State Library of NSW acquired two works for their collection.
2019 Broken Hill Art Exchange residency, Old Grand Hotel, Broken Hill.
2018 Bayside Art Award, Bayside Council, Mascot.
2017 People’s Choice Award, Greenway Art Prize.
Highly Commended, Oil Painting Prize, Waverley Art Prize.
Highly Commended, Mayor’s Prize, Waverley Art Prize.
2016 Highly Commended, Greenway Art Prize.
People’s Choice Award, Waverley Art Prize.
2015 Allan Gamble Memorial Prize, Mosman Art Gallery.
Waverley Artist Studios Residency, Waverley Council.
Australian Plein Air Landscape Quarterly Prize, Plein Air Painters of Australia.
2014 Highly Commended, Landscape Painting, Waverley Art Prize.
2013 Oil Painting Prize, Waverley Art Prize.
2012 Highly Commended, Open Prize, Waverley Art Prize.
Emerging Artist Prize, Kogarah Art Prize.
2011 Artist in Residence, Sydney Grammar School.
Inaugural William Fletcher Travelling Fellowship and Rome Residency winner.
2010 Highly Commended, Open Prize, Waverley Art Prize.
2009 Sydney City of Villages Art Prize.
Highly Commended, Glebe Art Prize.
2007 National Art School Outstanding Academic Achievement Award.
William Fletcher Foundation Grant.
Fairfield Art Prize.
NAS Drawing Week Prize.
NAS & St Vincent’s Painting Collection Prize.
Chroma Paints Award, NAS.
2006 The AIHW Art Prize.
Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship, AGNSW.
"Best in Show”, Annual Dog Show, A-SPACE on Cleveland.
2005 Highly Commended, Waverley Art Prize.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Millers Point Streetscapes, 8 - 29 June, Flinders Street Gallery, Flinders St, Surry Hills.
City and Sea, 21 - 27 Feb, M2 Gallery, Elizabeth St, Surry Hills, Sydney.
2023 Eastern Suburbs Studies, 10 Oct -10 Nov, Woollahra Bookshop, Spicer St, Woollahra.
2022 Harbour City, 26 Nov - 17 Dec, Flinders Street Gallery, Flinders St, Surry Hills. Sydney.
2021 Towers & Steeples: Vaucluse Paintings, 1-30 Nov, May Space Online.
2020 From this Broken Hill, 18 Sept - 14 Nov, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW.
Eastern Suburbs Streetscapes 2020, 29 Jan - 16 Feb, May Space, George St, Waterloo.
2019 Woollahra Streetscapes 2019, 7 July - 4 Aug, Woollahra Bookshop, Spicer St, Woollahra.
2018 There & Back Again, 10 Oct - 2 Dec, Moran Gallery, Sylvania Rd, Sylvania.
Overpass, 26 Sept - 20 Oct, May Space, George St, Waterloo.
Woollahra Streetscapes 2018, 1 - 31 July, Woollahra Bookshop, Spicer St, Woollahra.
2017 Tutor Profile: Kevin McKay, 14 - 31 August, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre Gallery, Roseville.
Pavilion: South Cronulla Studies, 13 June - 8 July, May Space, George St, Waterloo.
2016 Salty Streets: New Paintings, 30 November - 10 December, Sheffer Gallery, Darlington.
So Bondi, 9 July - 4 August, Brenda May Gallery, Danks St, Waterloo.
2015 Mostly Bondi: New Paintings, 4 - 14 November, Sheffer Gallery, Darlington.
Glory Days: South Sydney Studies, 17 March - 11 April, Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo.
2014 You Are Here: Paintings of Kogarah, 15 July - 3 Aug, Kogarah Library & Cultural Centre.
2013 New Work 2013, 13 - 23 November, Sheffer Gallery, Darlington.
2012 In Passing, 10 – 20 October, Sheffer Gallery, Darlington.
2011 All Roads Lead to Rome, 19 -24 August, Sydney Grammar School, Darlinghurst.
Enframed (MFA Final Presentation), 22 -24 March, National Art School.
2010 The Interchange, 12 – 22 June, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 (Two-man) City and Sea, M2 Gallery, 4/450 Elizabeth St Surry Hills, Sydney.
2023 (Finalist) KAAF Art Prize, Korean Cultural Centre, 255 Elizabeth St, Sydney.
(Finalist) Georges River Art Prize, Hurstville Museum & Gallery, NSW.
(Finalist) FLOW Contemporary Watercolour Prize, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW.
(Finalist) Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Art Centre, Gymea NSW.
Fifty Skies, 21 June - 22 July, Annandale Galleries, NSW.
2022 CAPTIVATE: The National Art School and Darlighurst Gaol, NAS Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW.
Painting Where We Live (Plein Air Painters of Waverley), Waverley Library,NSW.
(Finalist) Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands VIC.
(Finalist) Into the Light - Whitewall Art Prize, Whitewall Gallery, Berrima, NSW.
2021 (Semi-Finalist) Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney.
(Finalist) Paddington Art Prize, NSW.
(Finalist) Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Art Centre, Gymea NSW.
(Finalist) KAAF Art Prize 2021, Korea-Australia Arts Foundation, Sydney.
Salon des Refusés, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD.
2020 Hazelhurst 20 Years, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea NSW.
The Home, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea NSW.
Suburbia, Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery, Nowra NSW.
(Finalist) Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Croydon NSW.
2019 The Kedumba Drawing Award, Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba NSW.
(Finalist) (Finalist) Georges River Art Prize, Hurstville Museum & Gallery, NSW.
(Finalist) Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea NSW.
(Finalist) Northern Beaches Art Prize, Creative Space, North Curl Curl, NSW
Liquorice All Sorts, Waverley Studio Artists, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, NSW.
(Finalist) Bayside Art Award, George Hanna Museum Gallery, Mascot NSW.
2018 (Finalist) 9x5 Landscape Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Plein Air Art Prize, Parliament House, NSW.
(Finalist) Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW.
(Finalist) Northbridge Art Prize, Gallery 307, Northbridge NSW.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW.
(Finalist) Bayside Art Award, George Hanna Museum Gallery, NSW.
Stations of the Cross Exhibition, Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture, and
Northmead Creative & Performing Arts High School.
On-Site, May Space, George St, Waterloo, NSW.
2017 (Finalist) 9x5 Landscape Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) KAAF Art Prize, Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney NSW.
(Finalist) Georges River Art Prize, Hurstville Museum & Gallery.
(Finalist) Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Cambelltown Art Centre, NSW.
(Finalist) Greenway Art Prize, Art Est. Gallery & Art School, Leichhardt, NSW.
(Finalist) Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW.
(Finalist) Chippendale World Art Residency - online exhibition, http://chippendalecreative.com
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, NSW.
2016 (Finalist) 9x5 Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Greenway Art Prize, Art Est. Art School, Liechhardt, NSW.
Kaleidoscope: Tutors of WWAS, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, NSW.
The Battle for Berrima Show, E2 Events, Berrima, NSW.
Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW.
William Fletcher Foundation’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Artarmon Galleries, NSW.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Kogarah Art Prize, Kogarah Cultural Centre, NSW.
(Finalist) Hunters Hill Art Prize, Hunters Hill Town Hall, NSW.
2015 Bondi - More than a Beach, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, NSW
Street Stories, Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, Ashfield, NSW.
(Double finalist) Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Kogarah Art Prize, Kogarah Cultural Centre, NSW.
Opening exhibition, Berrima Art Space Gallery, Berrima NSW.
(Finalist) Plein Air Art Prize, Parliament House, NSW.
(Finalist) Hunters Hill Art Prize, Hunters Hill Town Hall, NSW.
Art and the Land: Australian landscape artists, Kogarah Cultural Centre, NSW.
2014 (Finalist) Paddington Art Prize, NCJWA hall, Woollahra, NSW.
(Finalist) Plein Air Art Prize, Parliament House, NSW.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Kogarah Art Prize, Kogarah Cultural Centre, NSW.
Stations of the Cross, Northmead Creative & Performing Arts High School, Northmead.
2013 (Finalist) Mount Eyre Art Prize, Rex Livingston Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Kogarah Art Prize, Kogarah Cultural Centre, NSW.
2012 Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery’s Summer Exhibition, Trinity Grammar School, Ashfield, NSW.
(Finalist) Artbeat’12, Mariah College Art Prize, Waverley, NSW.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Kogarah Art Prize, Kogarah Cultural Centre, NSW.
2011 National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition 2011, National Art School Gallery, NSW.
The Outpost Project, Cockatoo Island, NSW.
Fountains and Drains, British School at Rome, Italy.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
2010 May’s: The May Lane Street Art Project, Bathurst Regional Gallery and touring.
Blake Prize Directors Cut, www.blakeprize.com.
(Finalist) Paddington Art Prize, Menzies Art Brands Gallery, Kensington.
(Double finalist) Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament, Sydney.
Stations of the Cross, St Ives Uniting Church.
2009 Toyota Community Spirit II (two-person), Toyota Corporation, Caringbah.
(Finalist) Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
(Finalist) Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea.
(Finalist) Sydney City of Villages Art Prize, Pine Street Arts Centre, Chippendale.
Dog Days Too, A-SPACE on Cleveland, Surry Hills.
2008 Honours Show 08, National Art School Gallery.
Landscape, Flinders Street Gallery, Darlinghurst.
(Finalist) Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
2007 National Art School Degree Show, National Art School Gallery.
Weird/Wacky/Wonderful, A-SPACE on Cleveland.
2006 (Finalist) Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery (and touring Blake).
(Finalist) MCQ International Art Prize, Art House Hotel.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
4th Annual Dog Show, A-SPACE on Cleveland, Surry Hills.
2005 (Finalist) Fisher’s Ghost, Cambelltown Arts Centre.
(Finalist) Art on the Rocks, Sydney.
(Finalist) MCQ International Art Prize, Chiefly Plaza/MCA.
(Finalist) Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW.
Southern Exposure, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.
REPRESENTED
Art Spectrum, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Kogarah Municipal Council, St Vincents Public Hospital, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Sydney Institute of TAFE, State Library of NSW, Tooheys Brewery, Waverley Library, Elliot Eyes Collection, Sydney, and Private collections
PUBLISHED/REPRODUCED
Kevin McKay Art Calendar 2018, 2019,2021, 2022, 2023
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, Eva Kolimar, (10/10/2021) “Top artistic portraits are a cut above” p 16
The Beast Magazine (May 2021) Hutton, James. “Local Artist: Kevin McKay from Waverley Woollahra Art School”, Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, front cover, and p 32
The Blake Book. Crumlin, Rosemary. Macmillan, Victoria, 2011. p 177.
The Australian Religious Diary 2012, David Lovell Publishing, Melbourne.
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (28/10/2020) Merryn Porter, “Works depict art deco era” p 19
Barrier Truth (26/09/2020) Northey, Annette. “Sydney artist returns to the light” p 18
Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (21/03/2020) “The Stations of the Cross has contemporary relevance”
Vogue Living Australia (July/August 2016) Hering, Freta. "Art & Design” p 121
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (18/08/2015) Galinovic, Maria. "McKay wins art award” p 14
The Australian (9/07/2015) Wilson, Ashleigh. “Critical Omission to Archibalds”
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (17/07/2014) Gainsford, Jim. “Daily commute inspires art” p 5
The Inner City Weekender (8/11/2013) Naimet, Basil. “Commuter finds artistic inspiration in the mundane trip home from work” p 3
artandtheland.com (11/08/2013) “Studio conversation with Kevin McKay” http://artandtheland.com/2013/08/11/kevin-mckay/
The inner City Weekender (5/10/2012) “Recorded in Art: Artist captures our region’s treasured history” p 5
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (23/09/2011) “Scholarship to Rome”
Fine Arts 2010-2011: The British School at Rome. The British Academy, London. p 30-31, 55-56.
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (10/6/2010), Galinovic, Maria. "Finding beauty in the ordinary of everyday," p 59.
Plein Air Painting Prize Catalogue, 3/05/2010, NSW Parliament.
[http://www.pleinair.com.au/previousyears-2010.html]
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (25/3/2010), Galinovic, Maria. "Artists resurrect Easter meaning", p69.
Stations of the Cross Catalogue, 26/03/2010, St Ives Uniting Church
Hazelhurst Exhibition Calendar
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (28/7/2010), Galinovic, Maria. "Terraces Observation wins art prize", p28. [http://www.theleader.com.au/news/local/news/entertainment/terraces-observation-wins-art-prize/1583798.aspx?src=rss]
Sydney Media, City of Sydney (17/7/2009). "Winning observations of our City of Villages", [http://www.sydneymedia.com.au/html/3937-winning-observations-of-our-city-of-villages.asp]
JCDecaux, public art poster displayed at numerous sites throughout CBD from 17/07/09 – 10/08/2009
PROFESSIONAL
Tutor (Painting) Waverley Woolahara Art School
Two weekly classes - Painting Fundamentals and Open Studio, 2010 – present.
Tutor (Painting, Drawing & Mixed Media) Ku-ring-gai Art Centre
Two weekly classes – Drawing and Mixed Media, Painting Ideas and Techniques, 2017 – 2019.
Periodic holiday and weekend workshops.
Tutor (Drawing & Painting) Sutherland and St George Community College
Two weekly classes – Drawing Fundamentals, and Painting Fundamentals, 2010 – present.
Tutor (Painting) Art Studio, Sutherland (private)
Weekly classes – Open Studio, Painting Under the Influence 2014 – present.
Tutor (Drawing & Painting) National Art School Short Courses
Periodic Term Short Courses and Summer Schools, 2014 - present.
Summer School - Perspectives in Painting, 14-15 January 2019.
High School Workshop - Oil painting, 2-3 July 2018
Dobell Drawing School 2017 (Urban Landscape)
Urban Landscape Drawing, Semester 2 Short Course 2012
Guest Tutor, (Painting) Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
Periodic Masterclassses, 2013 - present.
Guest Speaker and demo (Painting) Ku-ring-gai Art Society 3 July 2018.
Feature artist floor talk, Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 1 July 2018.
Guest Speaker and demo (Painting) Lane Cove Art Society 26 September 2017.
Judge, Randwick Art Society Annual exhibition, May 5, 2017.
Guest Tutor, Waverley Council, Plein Air Painting Workshop, Tamarama 17 January 2016.
Tutor, Mad about Morandi Oil Painting Workshop, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 & 24 March 2013.
Guest Speaker, “Wild at HeART”, St George School of Fine Art, 27 November 2012.
Feature artist, Saturday Sketch, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island, Saturday 14 July 2012.
Feature artist floor talk, The May Lane Street Art Project, Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT, Saturday 7 July 2012.
Judge and Guest Speaker, Lifestyle Manor Annual Art Show, December 2011.
Tutor (Life Drawing), City East Community College, 2009 – 2010.
Guest Tutor (Drawing and Painting), Sydney Grammar School
Tonal Painting, 25 July, 1, 8 Aug, 2011, Principles of Perspective ,8, 15, 22 March, 2009, and lessons during term as artist in residence July - Aug, 2011.
Guest Tutor (mixed media) – Killara High School, CAPAfest, 7 June – 9 July, 2009.
Judge and Guest Speaker, Killara High School, Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, 28 August, 2009.
Technical Assistant (Drawing, Sculpture & Painting) National Art School, 2008 – 2011
Casual/temp position assisting the BFA, Summer & Winter schools, Dobell Drawing, and HSC Intensive programs.
