On show until January 17, Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection is a free exhibition featuring 51 works by 30 of the most exciting contemporary artists from the United States, with many works made in the last three years.

This represents for the first time in 47 years a major exhibition of contemporary American art in Australia.

Drawn from the private collection of Sydney-based Lisa and Danny Goldberg, the exhibition is a vibrant selection of recent American art by some of America's hottest names based predominantly in New York and Los Angeles.

It offers an insight into the next generation of artists from the US including Tavares Strachan, Haim Steinbach, Richard Aldrich, Sterling Ruby, Davina Semo, Elad Lassry, Cory Arcangel, Jeff Elrod, Seth Price and Walead Beshty.

Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st century from the Goldberg Collection introduces a new generation of important American artists to Australian audiences, with works spanning installation, drawing, photography and sculpture.

The Goldbergs, from whose wider collection of more than 200 works this exhibition has been sourced, said: "We're excited to be sharing part of our collection of contemporary North American art which has been collated over the past five years.

"Stars + Stripes offers a rare opportunity to experience the work of international artists not usually accessible to Australian audiences."

Curator of the exhibition Richard Perram OAM, director of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, said: "The exhibition captures a fascinating snapshot of recent contemporary art from North America and provides a unique opportunity to experience works by artists not easily accessible to Australian audiences."

The exhibition follows in the footsteps of the landmark exhibition toured to Australia by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1967.

That exhibition, titled Two Decades of American Painting, introduced Australian audiences to the work of a new generation of American artists including Andy Warhol (aged 39), Jasper Johns (aged 37) and Robert Rauschenberg (aged 42).

The exhibition was first presented at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2014 and will tour to a total of eight regional Australian centres including Grafton, Cowra, Taree, Dubbo, Wagga Wagga, Latrobe Valley and Ipswich.

Stars + Stripes is a Bathurst Regional Art Gallery exhibition presented in conjunction with Lisa and Danny Goldberg and toured by Museums and Galleries of NSW.

The exhibition is presented free of charge at the Manning Regional Art Gallery from October 30 until January 17, with the official opening on Thursday November 5 at 5.30pm.

Admission to the exhibition is free, however there is a $10 entry fee for the official opening.

For more information, please visit: http://netsaustralia.org.au/whats-on/stars-stripes/

It features the work of Richard Aldrich, Cory Arcangel, Walead Beshty, Sebastian Black, Mike Bouchet, Joe Bradley, Matt Connors, Ara Dymond, Jeff Elrod, Sam Falls, Richard Jackson, Xylor Jane, Elad Lassry, Israel Lund, Dylan Lynch, Brendan Lynch, Dash Manley, Adam McEwen, Yoshiaki Mochizuki, Seth Price, Julia Rommel, Sterling Ruby, Ben Schumacher, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Davina Semo, Josh Smith, Haim Steinbach, Tavares Strachan, Ned Vena and Michael Williams.