Charles Green

Charles Green is Professor of Contemporary Art in the Faculty of Arts' School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD in Art History from the same university in 1998. Renowned for his expertise in contemporary international and Australian art, biennials and exhibition histories, as well as artist collaborations, Green bridges scholarship and practice as an artist. Since 1989, he has collaborated with Lyndell Brown, with their works acquired by most major Australian art museum collections. Notably, they were appointed Australia’s Official War Artists for Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007.

Throughout his career, Green has held significant positions, including Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History, Cinema, Classical Studies and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne from 2001 to 2004, and Adjunct Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria from 2001 to 2006. In the latter role, he directed large curatorial teams that organized pivotal exhibitions, such as the museum-wide Fieldwork installation of modern and contemporary Australian art at NGVA Federation Square in 2001, funded by an ARC Large Grant. He advanced to Professor in 2011. Green has secured multiple Australian Research Council grants, including a 2022 Linkage Project and Discovery Project DP110100644 with Anthony Gardner. His influential publications encompass books like Biennials, Triennials and Documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art (2016, co-authored with Anthony Gardner), The Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Conceptualism to Postmodernism (2001), and Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94 (1995). He has also authored numerous articles, including ‘That dastardly plot’: garden as weapon of war and peace (2021), Revisioning Australia’s War Art: Four Painters as Citizens of the ‘Global South’ (2018), and South as Method? Biennials Past and Present (2015), contributing substantially to discourses on global exhibitions, war art, and collaborative practices in the field of contemporary art.

Professional Email: c.green@unimelb.edu.au