Contemporary Art Society (Australia)

It held its first exhibition in June 1939 at the National Gallery of Victoria, displaying works of artists from all over Australia.

[5] In 1954, as a protest against the Archibald Prize, which it regarded as being biased, boring and of a low standard, the Contemporary Art Society initiated its own awards, with Michael Kmit the first nominated winner.

[14] From August 2016 CACSA started talks to merge with the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF)[15] after two rounds of severe funding cuts to the Australia Council in the federal government budgets of 2014/15 and 2015/16.

Gertrude Langer was a founding executive member, and Its inaugural public meeting to establish the society was on 14 September 1961 at St Mary's Church hall at Kangaroo Point.

[16] The Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Tasmania Branch,[17] was founded in 1963, with Barclay Erskine president and Rosamund McCulloch secretary.

[17] The Contemporary Art Society (WA Branch) was founded in 1966, with Guy Grey-Smith as inaugural president.