exhibitions
1969-76 Strawberry Hill Gallery, Sydney
1972 Galerie Manuel, Berne, Switzerland
1977 David Sumner Gallery, Adelaide
1978 Studio Zero, Gold Coast, Queensland
Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
1980 ‘Coastal’ Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
1981 Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
1982 Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle NSW
1983 Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
1984 Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
1985 Mosman Gallery, Sydney
1986 Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
Greenhill Gallery, Perth
The New Outback: Australian Art Today’,
Design Centre, Los Angeles, USA
1987 Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Art Expo, Chicago, USA
Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
1988 IMG Artists Space, New York City, USA
Munson Gallery, Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
1990 Art Fair, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
1991 Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Prince Cohen Gallery, Sydney
Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
1993 ‘Points of View’ Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
1994 ‘Australian Contemporary Artist’, The Rotunda, Hong Kong
1995 ‘Trans’, Bridge Street Gallery, Sydney
Wagner Gallery, Sydney
1996 ‘Contemporary Australian Art’, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney
1997 ‘Three Continents’, Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney
Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
1998 ‘Australian Contemporary Art’, Liu-Hai-Su Art Museum,
Central Shanghai, China
‘Recent Works’, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘Recent Works’, Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
‘Mask’, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
1999 ‘Towards 2000 – Contemporary Australian Art’, The Rotunda,
Hong Kong
‘Borderlines’, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
2000 ‘Life and Landscape’, Book Launch and Exhibition, Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney and Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘We Are Australian’, Touring Exhibition: Volvo Gallery, Sydney; Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide; Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, ACT; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale NSW; Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
2001 ‘Extinction Denied’, Volvo Gallery, Sydney
‘Celebrating the Year of Friendship Between Australia and Korea, Korea Foundation, Cultural Centre in Seoul Korea
2002 ‘We Are Australian’, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
‘We Are Australian’, Touring Exhibition: State Library Queensland; Geelong Art Gallery; Regional Venue, Morwell, Victoria
‘Nexus’, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
‘Australian Realist Painters’, Wagner Gallery, The Rotunda, Hong Kong
‘At One Stage’, Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney
2003 ‘We Are Australian’, The Immigration Museum, Melbourne
2004 ‘Circumference’, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘Land and Sea’, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Precious Platters’, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
2005 ‘Altered Courses’, Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
‘Radius’, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Five Angles’, Gallows Gallery, Perth
2006 ‘Along the Lines’. Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘Across the Stage’, Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
‘Art of Music’, Group Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Group Exhibition, Imagination Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2007 ‘Far Afield’, Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Group Exhibition with Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney
2008 ‘Open Spaces and Other Places’, Survey Exhibition – Celebrating 40 years of Painting, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
‘Mediterraneo”, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Group Exhibition Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘Global Roaming’, Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Continental Drift’, Axia Modern Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘At a Distance’, Masterpiece Gallery, Hobart Australia
1st International Painting Symposium, National Museum, Damascus, Syria, Al Boustan Ministry of Culture
2012 ‘A Wider Circle’, David Hall Gallery, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
‘The Spiritual Song’, Book Launch, The Revised Bhagavad Gita
‘Painting Symposium Biennale’, Kurs Selskap Galleri, Bekkjarvik, Norway
‘A Wider Circle’, Galleri Melange, Luxembourg (Travelling Exhibition)
‘Biennale of Painting’, Norway (Australian Representative)
‘Time Contour’, Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth
‘Italian Paintings and Drawings’, Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Drawing: A Fundamental Liberation II’, Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney
2013 ‘Drawing: A Fundamental Liberation III’, Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Drawing: A Fundamental Liberation III’, Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth
2014 ‘Parallel Peninsulas’, Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney
2016 ‘Euralia’, Gallery One, Southport, Qld
Moss Foundation Ministry of Art Melbourne (Swaziland Water Project) Africa
2017 ‘Different Visions’, Paramita Art Museum, Komono Mie Ken, Japan
2018 ‘Paz e Amor’, Portugal International Travelling Exhibition, Galeri Flores Do Capo, Colares, Portugal
Composed & recorded musical album “Songs for Torii” with AND THEN band at Atlantico Blue Studios, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 ‘Bay of Fires’, Solo Exhibition Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
‘Contour’, Exhibition of marble sculpture, Gallery One, Southport, Qld
2020 Released Song Internationally “Choices Made” from ‘Songs for Torii’
50 Years – Gosford Art Prize. 1970-2020
‘Ken Johnson - Open Spaces / Other Phases 2000-2020’ Book Launch (Enstrom Publishing International)
‘Ken Johnson - Anecdotes & Allegories 2000-2020’ Book Launch (Enstrom Publishing International)