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Art Gallery of New South Wales

The venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Avatar: Forms of Vishnu

Art Gallery of New South Wales · Sydney, Australia · 20 Jun to 5 Oct 2026

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This exhibition has closed

It closed on 5 October 2026. The page stays because an exhibition history is evidence: where a work was shown, and when, is part of its provenance and this archive cites it.

On now at Art Gallery of New South Wales: Billy Bain: By the River, And Still I Rise.

Visiting Art Gallery of New South Wales

Australia's first major exhibition on Vishnu, with nearly 200 sculptures, paintings, textiles and photographs spanning fifteen centuries of South and Southeast Asian art, alongside new commissions by nine contemporary artists.

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