Artist’s Statement
Patricia Piccinini is one of Australia’s most distinguished artists. She has exhibited nationally and internationally for over two decades.
In 2003 Piccinini represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. A major solo exhibition, Patricia Piccinini: Relativity, was recently held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (May – August 2010) and in 2011 a retrospective of Piccinini’s work is planned for the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Other solo exhibitions include: Hug: Recent Work by Patricia Piccinini at the Des Moines Art Centre, Iowa and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, and In Another Life, at the City Gallery, Wellington in 2005.
Piccinini has been included in numerous group exhibitions and international biennales such as The Biennale of Sydney (2002) The Liverpool Biennale (2002), Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2007) and Transformation, MOT, Tokyo, (2010). Piccinini’s work is held in all Australian state galleries as well as important private collections nationally and internationally.
Patricia Piccinini has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1999.Biography
Biography
1965 Born Freetown, Sierra Leone
1972 Arrived in Australia
1985-88 Bachelor of Arts (Economic History), Australian National University
1989-91 Bachelor of Arts (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts
1994-96 Coordinator, The Basement Project Gallery
2016 Doctor of Visual and Performing Arts (honoris causa), University of Melbourne
2017-19 Enterprise Professor, Victorian College of the Arts, University of MelbourneInfluences
I am interested in relationships: the relationship between the artificial and the natural, between humans and the environment. The relationships between beings, within families and between strangers. And the relationship between the audience and the artwork.
My work is never about one thing alone, it is always about a family or an ecosystem. Even when a creature is alone there is a relationship with the viewer.
Over the years, I have built up a sort of alternative world that exists just beyond the real world we live in. It is strange but familiar at the same time. It exists as moments, objects and images the overlap with the real world in gallery space. For this exhibition I wanted to bring this entire world to life.
This is a world where things mix and intermingle, where nothing stays in it's place. It is a world where animal, plant, machine and human unite and commingle. We have to ask ourselves, if it is so hard to figure out where one thing starts and another ends, can we really continue to believe in the barriers that separate us.
In a world where the cultural and the natural - the technological and organic - are ever more intermingled, this wilderness is my symbolic representation of a place where technology has become so natural that it takes on a life of it's own.
Connection
Obviously there are many kinds of relationships: impersonal relationships, business relationships, intimate relationships, conceptual relationships, difficult relationships, supportive relationships. My work spans a lot of these. Relationships are coloured by the emotional qualities that you bring to them. A relationship based on jealously or anxiety will have a very different flavour from one built on curiosity or care. I am especially interested in relationships built around empathy.
Empathy
Connection and empathy are at the heart of my practice, and at the heart of this exhibition. Many of the works are beings of one sort or another; creatures. The word creature comes from middle english and means literally ‘something created’. My creatures are just that, imaginary beings that are almost possible. They are not always traditionally beautiful, but they always have a beauty and an honesty within them. They are more vulnerable than threatening. People sometimes find their strangeness off-putting at first, but they usually learn to see past this. The creatures literally appeal to the audience’s empathy, they entreat the viewer to look beyond their strangeness and see the connections.
Unnamed emotions
Research has shown that emotions are learned. They are cultural as well as personal. There are some emotions that we don't have name for, or that only exist in other languages. I am particularly interested in a feeling that we don't seem to have a word for in English. I would describe it as the realisation of a feeling of warmth towards something that you were previously disturbed by. It is a sort of anti-xenophobia, and it is interesting to me that we have a word for xenophobia but not for this. 'Xenophilia' is something different, it is a love of this exotic. This is more about realising that the 'xeno' is not actually so strange.
If I want the viewers to get anything from my work it is this experience of a journey from disturbance to warmth.
Diversity
It is no coincidence that the majority of my sculptures have the same hair and eye colour as I do. Skin colour and features are deeply meaningful and political and I am very uncomfortable with the implications of speaking for the experience of someone different from me. There are many wonderful artists of colour and I feel that it is not my place to attempt to represent them, their bodies or experiences. Also, in a practice that often mixes human and animal features I have to be very wary of the history of racist representations that use such tropes, as well as 'blackface'. I feel ok mixing my own features with those of animals, but I do not presume that I can do that with somebody else's features. It is sad for me is this leads to a reduced diversity in the work, because I honestly hope to reach out to everybody, but some sort of fake or token inclusivity is worse I think. I would love to include more divestitures in my work but it needs to be genuinely understood, and I would need an invitation.
Storytelling
I am interested in telling stories about the world we live in. That is one of the reasons I'm interested in science. Because science is the dominant language used to explain the world to us. In the past it was religion or myth, but now it is science that explains how the world works and also becomes the expression for how we want the world to be, or how we fear it might end up. At the very edge of science we end up talking about how the world might be, and that is wonderful place for an artist to explore.
Surrealism
In terms of art history, I am drawn to Surrealism and nineteen century social realism. For me, both of these movements are attempts to represent social reality at a time of dramatic change. The surrealists engaged with the cutting edge technologies of photography and psychoanalysis in a way that wen't beyond reproducing the objective appearance of reality and tried to get to its subjective core. It love the humour, emotion and strangeness in the work.
Wonder
For me art is about taking you somewhere new or showing you the world you know but in way you might not have imagined. Certainly I want the viewer to think, but I don't think they can think without feeling. I am interested in creating an experience that has a number of levels, where wonder and amazement lead to thought and insight.Awards
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 A Miracle Constantly Repeating, Flinders St Station Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia
The Awakening, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, Australia
Every Heart Sings (Skywhales, touring), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra/Australia wide, Australia
Patricia Piccinini: Kindred, Cromwell Place, London, England
ALPHA60, Hugs, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia
Patricia Piccinini, Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Instruments of Life, Kai Art Center, Tallinn , Estonia
Curious Affection on tour, NorthSite, Bulmba-ja Arts Centre, Cairns, Australia
2020 Between the Shadow and the Soul, Helsinki Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
The Gardeners Eye, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Curious Affection on tour, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, Australia
Omfamna Framtiden, Boras Museum of Art, Boras, Sweden
Chromatic Balance, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Life Clings Closest, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia
En Kaerlig Verden, Arken Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Curious Affection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2018 Curious Imaginings, Vancouver Biennale at the Patricia Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester: Through Love, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia
The Field (Project), Sydney Contemporary Artfair, Sydney, Australia
Patricia Piccinini, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Conscienceness, Kibla Portal, Kibla, Slovenia
2017 The Struggle and the Dawn, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
No fear unmingled with hope, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
ComSciencia, CCBB Rio De Janiero, Rio De Janiero, Brazil
2016 ComSciencia, CCBB Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Alone With The Gods, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide , Australia
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
ComSciencia, CCBB Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
Patricia Piccinini: Bodyscape, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan
Piccinini at Hosfelt, Artinternational, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 ComSciencia, CCBB Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Another Life, University of Quebec Art Museum, Montreal, Canada
Relativity, Galway International Arts Festival Gallery, Galway, Ireland
The Shadows Calling, Dark Mofo / Mercury Building, Hobart, Australia
And colour is their flesh, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Like Us, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
2014 The Touch of Another, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Australia
Skywhale, Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay, Australia
Structures of Support, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2013 I have spread my dreams under your feet, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Kaunas Biennial Unitext, NGO Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania
Skywhale, Canberra Centenary, Dark Mofo, Canberra, Hobart, , Australia
Those who dream by night, Haunch of Venison , London, UK
2012 There are no strangers, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
The Welcome Guest, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC, USA
Hold Me Close To Your Heart, Arter Space For Art, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Once Apon a Time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
The Welcome Guest, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC, USA
The Fitzroy Series, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Relativity, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2010 Not as We Know It, Haunch of Venison , New York, USA
Beyond Our Kin, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Patricia Piccinini, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu and Seoul, Korea
Evolution, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2009 Unforced Intimacies, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne , Australia
Recent Work, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy
The Place Where It Actually Happens, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
2008 Piccinini, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Australia
The Wellspring, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Related Individuals, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
(tiernas) Criaturas/(tender) Creatures, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2007 Hug: Recent Works by Patricia Piccinini, Frye Museum, Des Moines Art Center, Seattle, Des Moines, USA
Double Love Knot, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, Australia
Recent Work, Roger Williams Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
In Another Life, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2006 Recent Drawings, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Life Cycle, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Nature's Little Helpers, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Unbreaking Eggs, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sculpture, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
2004 We are Family, Australian Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2003 We are Family, toured to Hara Museum, Bendigo Art Gallery, Tokyo, Bendigo, Japan, Australia
Precautionary Tales, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne , Australia
Precautionary Tales, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Love Me Love My Lump, Monash Centre and Dryphoto Gallery, Prato, Italy
Call of the Wild, toured to John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
Call of the Wild, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2002 Retrospectology, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Sandman, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Autoerotic, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Breathing Room, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Superevolution, Centro de Artes Visuales, Lima, Peru
One Night Love, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Swell, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2000 Desert Riders, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Protein Lattice, Republic Tower billboard, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Truck Babies, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Plasticology, NTT InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Sheen, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia
1998 Car Nuggets, Arts Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Psycho, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1997 Natural Beauty, The Basement Project, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Your Time Starts Now..., Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Your Time Starts Now..., Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Love Me Love My Lump, The Basement Project, Melbourne, Australia
1995 TerrUrbanism, toured to The Australia Centre, Manila, Philippines
TerrUrbanism, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
1994 T.M.G.P., The Basement Project, Melbourne, Australia
Indivisibles, The Basement Project, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 The McClelland Collection: 50 Years, McClelland Gallery, Langwarren, Australia
Future U, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Connecting the World through Sculpture, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Reshaped Reality, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
2020 Supernatural, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Moving Energies 10 Years ME, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Hyper Realism Sculpture, Parc de la Boverie, Li�ge, Belgium
2019 Australia. Antipodean Stories, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Future and the Arts, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Encounters: Honoring the Animal in Ourselves, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Licht Luft Scheisse, Botanical Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Coming World, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
The XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature, Palazzo dell Arte, Milan, Italy
Apocalyptic Horse, Heide III: Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery, Bulleen, Australia
Enter, Housemuseum Galleries, Kew, Australia
Projects, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, USA
Perfection, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Gifts of Tony Podesta, Katzen Art Center, Washinton DC, USA
Reshaped Reality, Chiang Kai-sheck Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
Auto-didactic: The Juxtapoz School, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Obsession: Devil in the Detail, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Mornington, Australia
2018 The Public Body, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Australia
Perfection, The Science Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
This Wild Song, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia
Mirror Mirror, Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ, USA
The Exodus of Ordinary, Vivian Gallery, Warkworth, New Zealand
Frankensteins Birthday Party, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Let's Play, Bunjil Art Gallery, Narre Warren, Australia
Hyper Real, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2017 All the Better to See you with, Fairy Tales Transformed, Ian Potter Gallery, Universty of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Pulsanti, Abdulmecid Mansion / Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
At 50, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Gys! Er den levende?, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Momentum 9 Bienale 'Alienation', PunktO Galleri 15, Moss, Norway
Revival, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
Beyond Belief: the Sublime in Contemporary Art, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia
Mad Love, Arndt Art Agency, Berlin, Germany
The Universe and Art, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
On the Origin of Art, MONA (Musuem of Old and New Art), Hobart, Australia
2016 New Romance Art and the posthuman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Soft Core, Casual Powerhouse Arts Centre, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Cowra Regional Gallery, Shoalhaven Arts Centre, Shepparton Art museum, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Sydney, Lake Macquarie, Hawkesbury, Bathurst, Cowra, Nowra, Shepparton, Ararat, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Speed, Murray Art Museum, Albury, Australia
The New Romance, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Cornucopia, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia
Weird and Wonderful, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Australian Exotica, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Super Natural, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
Materia Prima, LABoral Centro De Arte, Gijon, Spain
2015 The Post-Photographic Condition, Le Mois De La Photo a Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Demonstrable, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Beautiful Beast, The New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
Queensize Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Dark Heart, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide, Australia
Menagerie, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2014 In the Flesh: Experiencing the New Real, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
PULSE: Reflections on the body, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Gathering II, Wangeratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Australia
In the Flesh: Experiencing the new real, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Remain in Light: Photography from the MCA collection touring exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ipswich Reg Gallery, Western Plains Culture Centre, Maitland Reg Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Artspace Mackay, Hawkesbury Reg gallery, Sydney, Ipswich, Dubbo, Maitland, Bendigo, Mackay,Windsor, Australia
Swell, Screen Space, Melbourne , Australia
Melbourne Now, NGV, Melbourne, Australia
Post-humanist Desire: Sexuality and Digitality in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Nature of the Beast, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
How to tell the future from the past, Haunch of Venison , New York, USA
The Future's Not What It Used To Be, Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, Newlyn, England
The Wandering: Moving Images from the MCA Collection, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Australia
Project Genesis, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Call of the Wild, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Vrrooom, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Australia
Under My Skin: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Rockhampton Regional Gallery, Rockhampton, Australia
Seven Sisters, Karen Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts,Glenbow Art Museum, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Nashville, Tennesse, Calgary, Manitoba, USA, Canada
The Observer, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
2012 Louise Bourgeois, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Blue: Matter, Mood, and Melancholy, 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, USA
Confounding: Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Nature vs Nurture, FaMa Gallery, Verona, Italy
Animal/Human, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Concepts of Life in Contemporary Sculpture, Georg Kolb Museum, Berlin, Germany
Cycle in Cinema, University of NSW, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
The Freeze, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Controversy: the power of art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Chromogenic, 2012, Media House Gallery, The Age building, Melbourne, Australia
Inspiring Art> recipients of the Pat Corrigan Artists Grant, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, Australia
2112: Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Power of Making, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2011 Boundaries Obscured, Haunch of Venison , New York, USA
Our Origins, Museum of Contemporary Photographty at Columbia, Chicago, USA
Tokyo Art meeting: Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo, Japan
Not As We Know It, Haunch of Venison , New York, USA
The Earth is Blue like an Orange, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Medicine and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2010 2nd Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Wonderland: through the Looking Glass, KadE Kunsthal, Amersfoot, The Netherlands
Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2009 Niet Normaal: Difference on Display,, Beurs Van Berlage,, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Colliding Worlds, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia
Contemporary Australia: Optimisim, GOMA Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Neo-Goth: Back In Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
The Stranger, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
Gallery Artists, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC, USA
2008 Figuring Landscapes, ArtSway, and then travelling UK and Australia until 2010, Hampshire, UK
Life (Death Thereafter), Silvershot, Melbourne, Australia
The Land of Retinal Delights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, USA
Bloodline: The Evolution of Form, McClain Gallery, Houston, USA
New Millenium, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, Australia
FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne, Australia
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Switcher Sex: Video Works from the Teutloff Collection, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
Diagnose [Kunst]: Contemporary art reflecting medicine, Museum im Kulturspeicher , Wurzberg, Germany
Diagnose [Kunst]: Contemporary art reflecting medicine, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany
2007 Down Under: The Hague sculpture 07, Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Artist Makes Video: Art Rage Survey 1994-1998, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
Redefined, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC, USA
Uneasy Nature, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, USA
Long Live Sculpture, The Open Air Museum for Sculpture Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Prism, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Black & Blue, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
High Tide, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
High Tide, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
New to the modern: Heide's Collection 25 years on, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Strange Cargo, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, travelling exhibition until March 2008, Newcastle, Australia
Supercharged, Institute of Modern Art, travelling exhibition until June 2008, Brisbane , Australia
2006:Contemporary Commonwealth, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne , Australia
Epic, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, Australia
Home Goal: Diversity in Contemporary Art from the Collection of Dr. Dick Quan, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia
Becoming Animal, MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA
Detox, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
I thought I knew but I was wrong, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
2005 Almost, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Living Apart Together, Odapark Venray, Venray, The Netherlands
Extra-Aesthetic: 25 Views of the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Rheinschau Art Cologne Projects, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Andererseits: die phantastik, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
We Are the World, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Brides of Frankenstein, San Jose Museum of Art, San Hose, USA
2004 Auto Fetish: The Mechanics of Desire, Newcastle Region Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
Bloom: Mutation, Toxicity and the Sublime, Govette Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
I thought I knew but I was Wrong, Jamjuree Art Gallery, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand
Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Repercussions, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide , Australia
The Plot Thickens, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria
Written with Darkness: Selected photographs from the Corrigan Collection, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Face Up, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Havana, Cuba
Second Sight, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
see, here, now, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Liverpool Biennale: International 2002, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
(The world may be) fantastic: 2002 Biennale of Sydney, Object Gallery, Sydney , Australia
Tech / No / Zone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Melodrama: Lo Excesivo en la Imaginaci�n Posmoderna, Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contempor�neo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2002 Modified Terrain, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane , Australia
conVerge; where art and science meet, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Heterosis: Digital Art from Australia, Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
For Real, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, United States
2nd Berlin biennale, Postfuhramt (Old Postal Services Building), Berlin, Germany
hybridforms: Australian new media art, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Melbourne Festival, The Australia Projects, Melbourne Zoo and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Seeing through Landscape, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney , Australia
2001 Desire, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju City Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Song of the Earth, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Passing Time: The M�et & Chandon Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Terra Mirabilis: Wonderful Land, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales
2000 Zeitge�ssische Fotokunst Aus Australien, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Zeitge�ssische Fotokunst Aus Australien, Museum Schol� Hardenberg, Velbert, Germany
Zeitge�ssische Fotokunst Aus Australien, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany
Zeitge�ssische Fotokunst Aus Australien, Kulturzentrum der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Flow, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Bonheurs des Antipodes, Mus�e de Picardie, Amiens, France
Make/Believe, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Sporting Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Plastic Life, Level 2, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Akihabara TV 2, Akihabara electrical stores, Tokyo, Japan
Signs of Life: Melbourne International Biennial, Telstra Exchange Building, Melbourne , Australia
A Window Inside Outside, Gwangju City Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Probe, Australian Embassy, Beijing, China
The Liquid Medium:Video Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1999 ARTificial Life, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Akihabara TV, Akihabara electrical stores, Tokyo, Japan
The Persistence of Pop, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Signature Works, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Art Life 21, Spiral TV, Spiral/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Byte Me, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Tolarno Galleries at the Moores Building, Perth Festival, Perth, Australia
Up the Road: Contemporary Artists out of the VCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Hype: Fashion, Art and Advertising, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Natural Selection (Australian Perspecta 1997), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1998 Art=Advertising, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Lawyers, Guns and Money, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
Second Tokyo International Photo Biennale, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Fotofeis, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Nothing Natural, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia
Nothing Natural, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morewll, Australia
Wild Kingdom, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Techne, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth , Australia
Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Science Fiction/Social Fiction, Galerie Der Stadt Schwaz im Palais Enzenberg, Austria, Australia
Perception & Perspective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Nothing Natural, The Basement Project, Melbourne, Australia
1996 M�et & Chandon Touring Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
M�et & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
M�et & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
M�et & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Cyber Cultures, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
Alternative Realities tour, Pacific Cultural Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
Alternative Realities tour, Tamsui Centre of Arre, Tamsui, Taiwan
Alternative Realities tour, Mountain Art Gallary, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Alternative Realities tour, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath Gallery, Bangalore, India
Alternative Realities tour, Government Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh, India
Alternative Realities, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Alternative Realities tour, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Alternative Realities tour, Zhu Qizhan Gallery, Shanghai, China
Alternative Realities tour, Wang Fun Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1995 Alternative Realities tour, Gallery Artbeam, Seoul, Korea
Technothelylogia: Technology for and by Women, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Since the Accident, The Basement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Our Parents' Children, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
A Gathering of Shades, Temple Studio, Melbourne, Australia
Fleshly Worn, ASA Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
Ada's Spawn, New Media Network, Melbourne, Australia
Plastiche (Curator), The Basement Project, Melbourne, Australia
Critical Mass, Arts Victoria Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
City Screens, Melbourne International Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Deliquescence, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Deliquescence, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia
Deliquescence, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Selected Awards
2014 New Media Fellowship, Australia Council
2006 Arts Development grant, Arts Victoria
2002 Tokyo Residency, Australia Council
2000 Project Grant, Australia Council
1999 International Cultural Exchange Program, Arts Victoria
1998 Project Grant, Arts Victoria
1997 Christopher James Blyth Memorial Award, Victorian College of the Arts
Theodore Urbach Award, Victorian College of the Arts
1996 Theodore Urbach Award, Victorian College of the ArtsExhibitions
Selected Public Collections:
Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA
Pheonix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Newcatle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
Artbank, AustraliaWebsite
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