COMA

COMA COMA is a contemporary art gallery and advisory located in Sydney, Australia. COMA aims to bring a dynamic and engaging focus to contemporary international art.

In addition to an attentive curatorial approach it is characterised by a comprehensive understanding of artists exhibited and represented. The gallery was designed to not only exhibit and promote emerging and established artists but to simultaneously concentrate on the conceptual aspects of their practice relating to these exhibitions, and foster an educational environment for the viewer. Through

this formula COMA aspires to create a culture of quality for both the public and the exhibiting artists.

21/08/2026

Take a look inside Oliver Wagner’s studio as he experiments in the lead up to Sydney Contemporary.

Working between control and chance, Wagner transforms ordinary house paint into dust, throwing and cascading the material across the surface. While seemingly simple, the process is labour intensive and speculative, allowing accident and intention to continually inform one another.

Captured here testing material, gesture and possibility, these experiments form part of Wagner’s process as he works towards new works for COMA’s presentation at Sydney Contemporary.

Oliver’s new work can be found at Sydney Contemporary, booth CO5, on view 3 - 6 September, at Carriageworks.

South Korean-born artist Young-jun Tak is currently included in the group exhibition SONGEUN × Unboxing Project: Generat...
20/08/2026

South Korean-born artist Young-jun Tak is currently included in the group exhibition SONGEUN × Unboxing Project: Generative Forms at SONGEUN, Seoul, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the SongEun Art Award.

For the exhibition, Tak presents a new sculptural installation Their Glimpse into Our Business (2026) alongside Pulsating (2026), drawing from an encounter with a gay cruising site along the northern coast of Denmark. Moving between landscape, desire and acts of looking, the work considers the quiet tension between searching for another and being seen.

SONGEUN × Unboxing Project: Generative Forms is on view through 23 October, 2026.

Young-jun Tak, Their Glimpse into Our Business, 2026, wood, paint, steel, polypropylene cord, sawdust, variable dimensions (height ca. 230 cm, diameter ca. 70 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photos: Elmar Vestner.

Congratulations to Shan Turner-Carroll and Eleanor Louise Butt, whose works ‘I Love You’ and ‘Orange Veiled Abstraction’...
20/08/2026

Congratulations to Shan Turner-Carroll and Eleanor Louise Butt, whose works ‘I Love You’ and ‘Orange Veiled Abstraction’ have been selected as finalists in the 2026 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award.

Now in its 64th year, the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is one of Australia’s long-running annual art awards, bringing together artists from across the country and awarding more than $60,000 in prize money across its categories. The $50,000 acquisitive Open Award will see the winning work enter the Campbelltown City Council Art Collection.

The finalist exhibition will be presented at Campbelltown Arts Centre from 26 September to 4 December 2026, with the award winners announced on 30 October.

Shan Turner-Carroll
Eleanor Louise Butt

Shan Turner-Carroll, I Love You, 2026, digital inkjet print on archival paper, 130 x 87 cm, 51 x 34 in. Shan Turner-Carroll, in his studio, Wonnarua Country, Lovedale, Australia, (2026). Photo by Dominic Bleijie. Eleanor Louise Butt, Orange Veiled Abstraction, 2024, oil on cotton, 167.5 x 152.5 cm, 66 x 60 in. Headshot, Eleanor Louise Butt, 2025, Melbourne, Australia. Image Courtesy of the Artist and COMA.

COMA is pleased to announce our participation in this year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary. As the gallery approaches i...
19/08/2026

COMA is pleased to announce our participation in this year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary. As the gallery approaches its tenth year, our presentation reflects a decade-long commitment to championing leading voices across contemporary Australian and international art.

Bringing together new and recent works by artists from across the gallery’s expanding programme, the presentation explores distinct approaches to painting, materiality and sculptural practice.

Exhibiting artists include; Steven Bellosguardo, Eleanor Louise Butt, Renée Estée, Anna May Kirk, Nick Modrzewski, Puuni Brown Nungarrayi, Kansas Smeaton, Oliver Wagner, Justin Williams and Grace Wright.

You can find us at booth C05 from 3 - 6 September, 2026 at Carriage Works, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh NSW 2015.

Eleanor Louise butt, (detail), Untitled (unfolding radiance), 2026, oil on cotton, 86.4 x 96.5 cm, 34 x 38 in. Courtesy of the artist and COMA.

COMA is pleased to announce the representation of New Zealand artist Grace Wright (b. 1992, Tauranga, Aotearoa New Zeala...
13/08/2026

COMA is pleased to announce the representation of New Zealand artist Grace Wright (b. 1992, Tauranga, Aotearoa New Zealand), who lives and works between Auckland and Paris.

Wright will debut new works at Sydney Contemporary 2026 and will have a solo presentation with COMA in 2027.

Wright’s paintings are atmospheric and dynamic, drawing inspiration from the drama of 17th century religious painting and the tempestuous rhythm of the natural world. Baroque elements such as strong diagonal forces and chiaroscuro lighting evoke a sense of bodies amid an active landscape. Her early background in dance and music shaped her approach to art making.

Informed by rhythmic movement, with no pre-planning, her gestures stretch and convulse on the canvas, working together to create an atmosphere that hints at the representational in an entirely abstract language. Renaissance colour palettes collide with hues that feel almost digital, like a fantasy video game landscape.

Her process of building a painting is much like that of a music composer where melodies and instruments combine to generate an emotive atmosphere. That understanding of musical structure, of tension, release, and gravity, translates directly into how she builds a painting.

Grace Wright

Grace Wright, studio portrait, 2026. Image: Anna Wright. Grace Wright, Trésors, 2026, acrylic on linen, 70 7/8 x 59 in, 180 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist and COMA. Grace Wright, Fortunes Foretold in The Mind of One’s Own, 2026, acrylic on linen, 70 7/8 x 59 in, 180 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist and COMA. Installation view, Grace Wright, Grand Illusions, 2025, Gowlangsford Onehunga. Image: Sam Harnett. Courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford.

12/08/2026

Final days to see the current group exhibition, No Shadow Under A Second Sun at COMA. Associate Director Chloe Morrissey walks us through the exhibition, on view through 15 August, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

This is the final week to view No Shadow Under A Second Sun, our current group exhibition featuring all international ar...
11/08/2026

This is the final week to view No Shadow Under A Second Sun, our current group exhibition featuring all international artists. On view through to 15 August, 2026.

No Shadow Under A Second Sun explores a world in transition, where declining trust in institutions, economic uncertainty, and environmental instability have given rise to new ways of imagining the future. As emerging systems of technology, ritual, image-making, and power begin to reshape society, the exhibition considers how new values, beliefs, and forms of authority are created. Occupying the space between collapse and renewal, it reflects on a future that is still being written.

On view at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Installation view, No Shadow Under A Second Sun, 2026, COMA, Sydney. Photo: Jessica Maurer. Harminder Judge, (detail), Untitled (cupping), 2026, plaster, polymer, pigment, scrim, oil, 203 x 198 x 4 cm, 79 7/8 x 78 x 1 5/8 in. Anna Lauree, (detail), One Thing Always Leads to Another (Open Lids and Empty Boxes), 2026, oil, acrylic, charcoal and canvas, 200 x 90 cm, 78 3/4 x 35 3/8 in. Emma cc Cook, (detail), Nell Fenwick , 2025, oil, acrylic, upholstery, walnut artist frame, 74.9 x 49.5 x 3.8 cm, 29 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. KV Duong, (detail) Untitled (Enigma), no. 2, 2025, acrylic on latex (resin-fibreglass backing), painted wooden stretcher, 198 x 100 cm.

COMA is proud to present a solo exhibition by Australian artist Justin Williams (b. 1984), titled Pentimento, on view fr...
11/08/2026

COMA is proud to present a solo exhibition by Australian artist Justin Williams (b. 1984), titled Pentimento, on view from 28 August through 3 October, 2026, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Marking the artist’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery, the exhibition takes its title from the art historical term ‘pentimento’, which describes the trace of an earlier image or brushstroke that remains visible beneath the surface of a painting. For Williams, the term reflects both the way he works and the way he thinks about identity. Nothing is ever entirely erased. Each mark, decision and experience leaves something behind.

Williams paints figures drawn from history, family, and personal mythology, using his own body as sole reference, so each work carries a trace of him without being a self-portrait. This idea extends into his wheel-thrown ceramics, made alongside the paintings and bearing the physical imprint of a practice rebuilt after injury. Appearing both within the paintings and as standalone objects, the vessels ground the exhibition in the domestic and tactile. Together, the works consider identity not as a single portrait, but as an accumulation of many selves.

Justin Lee Williams

Justin Williams, (detail), 2026, oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas, 121.9 cm x 91.4 cm, 48 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and COMA.

Included in our current group exhibition No Shadow Under A Second Sun are ceramic works by Japanese artist Yuji Ueda.Bas...
05/08/2026

Included in our current group exhibition No Shadow Under A Second Sun are ceramic works by Japanese artist Yuji Ueda.

Based in Shigaraki, one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns, Ueda’s practice is shaped by the region’s rich ceramic history and the distinctive qualities of its native clay. Working with an experimental approach, he pushes beyond the conventions of vessel-making, creating sculptural forms that embrace cracking, layering and irregular surfaces to reveal the raw expressive potential of the material.

Through an intuitive process that often incorporates everyday industrial materials and tools, Ueda’s works explore the relationship between tradition and innovation, allowing the unique character of Shigaraki clay to determine each final form.

No Shadow Under A Second Sun is on view through 15 August, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Installation view, No Shadow Under A Second Sun, 2026, COMA, Sydney. (Detail) Yuji Ueda, Untitled, 2026, ceramic, 53 x 57 x 58 cm, 20 7/8 x 22 1/2 x 22 7/8 in. (Detailed) Yuji Ueda, Untitled, 2026, ceramic, 47 x 52 x 55 cm, 18 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (Detailed) Yuji Ueda, Untitled , 2026, ceramic, 27 x 27 x 27 cm, 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.

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