Born 1975 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

1999
BVA (Painting), First Class Honors, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

1996
Advanced Diploma Fine Arts, Medowbank TAFE

Solo Exhibitions

2008
All I want is peace in the Middle East a blow job and a free T-shirt, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2007
Blood on the Streets, Uplands, Melbourne
Blood on the Streets, Artspace, Sydney
The Bleeding Hearts Club, Newcsatle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle

2006
The Bleeding Hearts Club, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Exchanging Culture for Flesh, Level 2 Contemporary Project Space, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney

2005
The Buko Police, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila2004
Destination Disaster, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2003
Outside History, The Studio, Sydney Opera House

2002
Outside History, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

2001
Radio Death Camp, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

2000
Me Against My Brother, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

1996
Zero, 151 Gallery, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Australian, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Under my skin, Asialink Visual Arts Program, Anteneo Art Gallery, Manila; Nanyang Academy
of Fine Arts Singapore and Vietnam Fine Arts Museum Hanoi
Hijacked, exhibition and book launch, artsource, Fremantle

2007
Bloodlines: Art and the Horse, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW
The Independence Project, Galerie Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, a collaborative project between
Galerie Petronas, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and the Australian High
Commission, Malaysia
Regarding Fear and Hope, Monsah University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Art and About Open Gallery banner project, Sydney
Inekatipunan, Mag:net, Katipunan, Manila
Eye to I, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Group Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
Kaliman Gallery stand 11, Auckland Art Fair, Auckland
New Acqusitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Regarding Fear and Hope, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
God Captured Like Fossilized Dung (new art from the third world), Inflight, Hobart
No System Can Give the Masses the Proper Social Graces, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
If You See Something Say Something, Gallery 4A, Sydney

2006
Primavera 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Strange Cargo, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
Flaming youth, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, Biennial, curated by Victoria Lynn, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
Fantastic Voyage, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2005
Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Hardwired, Firstdraft Gallery, curated by Robert Wellington
Freedman Foundation, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
The Centenary of Wild Beasts, MOP Projects, Sydney

2004
Out of the Blue, MOP Projects, Sydney
Rude Shock, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney
Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Group show, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
JJ Allen Breaks the Window, Inflight, Hobart

2003
Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Beetles, GBK Gallery
Balance of Power, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Not all heroes and legends, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
The Fucken Weird Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
Anita and Beyond, Penrith Regional Gallery, curated by Lisa Havilah, Sydney

2002
Octopus 3, Gertrude contemporary art spaces, curated by Charlotte Day, Melbourne
OBJECTion, Sarah Cottier, curated by Tim Silver and Russell Storer, Sydney

2001
OBJECTion, The Physics Room, curated by Tim Silver and Russell Storer, New Zealand
Black to Basics, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Black to Basics, Rubyayre, Sydney
Bootcamp, Block, Sydney

2000
Australian Painters at the Millennium, Imperial Slacks, Sydney
Skulls and Solicitors, Gallery 4A, Sydney

1999
Ouintex, Smith and Stonley, Brisbane
Dazzle, 1st Floor, curated by Russell Storer and Andrew Mcqualter, Melbourne
Hack, Grey Matter Contemporary Art, Sydney
Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Al Eisen Inventor, Herringbone, Sydney

1998
The Symbol, First Draft, Sydney
Fibro, Australian Perspecta, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Vietnam Voices, Casula Powerhouse Arts Center, Sydney

1996
Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship exhibition, COFA Gallery, Sydney

Selected Bibliography

2006
Giant Robot, Thriller Mandatory Maila, Manuel Ocampo, Issue 42, August, p 16-18
Art & Australia, Contemporary Focus: Vox Pop to Urban Diary, Rachel Kent, Vol. 43, No.4, Winter, p. 574-181  
Australian Art Collector, 50 Most Collectable Artists, Andrew Frost, Issue 35, January - March, p 103
Exchanging Culture for Flesh, Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects, cataloge #1.06, essay by Fergus Armstrong
Winers are Grinners, Hijacked #9, cataloge, 60 pages, essay by Hannah Mathews
Art Monthly Australia, March 2006 number 187, Art Notes NSW, p 44

2005
The Buko Police, cataloge, 76 colour pages, publised in conjuntion with The Buko Police,
Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila
SMH, Hooded spectre of Abu Ghraib has his revenge, Rachel Raberts, April 21, p 8

2004
Art in America, Report from Sydney, Commercial Venues, Lilly Wei, December, p 63
Destination Disaster, Gertrude Contempoary Art Spaces, cataloge, 8 pages, essay by Paul Curran

2003
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, David Griggs, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
Art Monthly, Anita and Beyond, Jeremy Eccles, June, No. 160, p 6, 7
Anita and Beyond catalogue, essay Lisa Havilah, curator
HQ, Difficult Art, Lee Tram, March, p 16, 17
Financial Review, Anita Cobby, John McDonald, March, p 63, 65

2002
Octopus 3 catalogue, essay Charlotte Day, curator
SMH Metro, The Mod Squad, Lenny Ann Low, October, p 1, 4

2001
Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, David Griggs – Shaun Gladwell,
Kit Messham-Muir, issue 46, p 49, 50
Australian Art Collector, Uncovering Australia’s art stars, Alexie Glass, April-June p 71, 72
Artlink, Art and Childhood, Play things-some contemporary artists and there objects,
Russell Storer, vol. 21. No 2, p 37, 41

2000
Postwest, Questions of curatorship: Connoisseurs or Cultists, Russell Storer, issue 16, p 30, 31
Art and Text, Hack, Blair French, issue 69, May-July, p 90
SMH, An idea in need of flesh, Bruce James, April 19, p 18

1998
Monument Architecture and Design, issue 29, p 34
SMH, Toto I’ve a feeling we’re not on canvas anymore, Bruce James, August 4, p 13

1997
SMH, Too much sex on TV I don’t here the TV complaining, Bruce James, May 23, p 15

Residencies

2008
Australia Council Barcelona Studio Residency, Spain

2007
Art Gallery of New South Wales Cite Studio, Paris
Artspace Studio Residency, Sydney

2005
Ateneo University Manila, Asialink Residency Programe
Artspace Studios, Sydney

2004
Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney

2003
Mae Sot, Thai/Burma border

Grants/Awards

2007
Primavera Grant, MCA, Sydney

2004
international Program, NSW Ministry for the Arts

2003
Freedman Foundation Traveling Art Scholarship for emerging artists

2001
Winner of the Willoughby City Art Prize, Painting

1997
Sir William Dobell Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts

Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Newcastle Regional Gallery
Powerhouse Museum
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
Tamworth Regional Gallery