1970 Born Melbourne,
Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
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Education
1988-92
Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Professional
Experience
2001 - current
Lecturer, Photography Department, VCA, Melbourne
2000 - current
Education Outreach Presenter, ACCA Outreach Schools Program
1994 - 2002
Founding Director, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space Inc, Melbourne
1999
Co-editor Good Thinking, Words and Pictures on Contemporary Melbourne
Art,
1st Floor, Melbourne
1995
Co-editor A4/95, 1st Floor, MelbourneSelected
Solo
Exhibitions
2008
Think of yourself as plural, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
One in five, Sutton Gallery project space & concurrently exhibited at Obüs store, Flinders Lane,
Melbourne
2007
Nothing Like This, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Nothing Like This, Kings ARI, Melbourne
Summer Blend, Le Case D’Arte Vetrina, Milan
2006 Worlds Apart, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Self Defence, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2004
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Without You, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2003
Commune, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Photographs, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2002
Weekender, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2001
Weekender, 1st Floor Melbourne
2000
Custom Made, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1st Floor, Melbourne
1997/8
Society Lite, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
1997
Luke, Testrip, Auckland
1st Floor, Melbourne
1995
Building 40 Project, Melbourne
1994
1st Floor, Melbourne
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2008
To Make a Work of Timeless Art: Primavera Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney
digital portraiture: Face to Face, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
The Dating Show, IMA @ TBC, Brisbane
My Doubtful Mind, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Circle of Friends, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2007
Twinset, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch
iDAP (Digital Art Projects) QUT, Queensland, Australia; Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing;
National Tour Japan (2008)
Intimacy, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
The Leisure Class, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
Video Lounge – War, peace and ecstasy, curated be Cecilia Alemani, Artissima 14 The
International Fair of Contmeporary Art, Turin
Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2006
Crowds / Conversatons / Confessions, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: 21 Century Modern, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Home Goal: Diversity in Contemporary Art from the Collection of Dr Dick Quan, Bathurst
Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
Fantastic Voyage, Kaliman Gallery Sydney
Drawn from the collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2005
Remote Control, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Press pause: Recent Australian Video Installations Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane
Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects / Store 5 / 1st Floor, Monash University
Museum of Art, Melbourne
Gallery Artists, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2004/5 Anne Landa Art Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
I thought I knew but I was wrong, an Asialink & ACMI touring exhibition
2004
2004: Australian Culture Now, ACMI, Melbourne
Swoon, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Living Together is Easy, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide
2003
Living together is easy, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
Face Up, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for the present, Berlin
New 03, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2002
Gertrude Studios 2002, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Melbourne Piece By Piece, Room, Rotterdam
BitterSweet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Love Stories, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Art on paper 02, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Happiness, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Screen Life, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
Connections, Contemporary Artists from Australia, House of Croatian Artists,
Zagreb
2001
Artful Park, Centennial Park, Sydney
Happiness, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
hybrid <life> forms, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Chicken, Video Art form Australia, Bangkok Experimental Film Festival,
Bangkok
2000
Heart On Your Sleeve, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Outer limits, Video lounge, Animation Fest. Millennium Film Workshop,
New York
Rent, Overgaden, Copenhagen and A CCA, Melbourne
Mayonnaise, 1st Floor, Melbourne
1999/2000
Pixelvision, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1999
The Persistence of Pop, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
The 1999 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Touring Australia
1998
Steven Birrel and David Rosetzky, Transmission gallery, Glasgow
Habitat, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Hype: Fashion Art and Advertising, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
Adelaide
1997
ambient (male) identity, Contemporary Art Centre of south Australia, Adelaide
Objects and ideas: Revisiting Minimalism, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney
Juice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1996
Lifestyle, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Flower Show, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1995
Monash University Gallery Art Prize, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Blow Up, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
David Rosetzky, Jacinta Schreuder, Lyndal Walker, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Collaborations
2003
Resevoir of Giving 1 & 2 collaboration with choreographer Lucy Guerin
for Plasticene Park live dance performance at ACMI, Melbourne as part
of 2003 Melbourne International Arts Festival
Residencies
1997
Artist in residence, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
1998/9 Artist in residence, Glasgow School of Art Masters Program, part
of morning star evening star, Melbourne–Scotland Cultural Exchange
Grants
2007
Arts Victoria Development, Creation Grant
2006
Australia Council for the Arts Visual Arts Crafts, New Work Grant
2005
Inaurgural Anne Landa Art Award for Moving Image and New Media Art, Art Gallery of New
South Wales
2003
Arts Victoria, Arts and Professional Development -Presentation
2002
Arts Victoria, Arts Development, Travel Grant
1999
Australia Council New Media Arts Fund, New Work
City of Yarra, Arts Grant
Arts Victoria, Arts Development, New Work
Besen Family Foundation, Arts Grant Curatorial Projects
2000
Mayonnaise, (co-curator), 1st Floor, Melbourne
1999
Take My Wife…, (co-curator), 1st Floor, Melbourne
1998
World Fair, (co-curator), 1st Floor, Melbourne
1996
Lost in Music, 1st Floor, Melbourne
1994
1st Floor Group Exhibition 1 & 2, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Selected
Bibliography
2008 Stephens, A, An ever-shifting sense of self, The Age, A2, December 20, pp12-13
David Roetzky in Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art & Australia
publication, pp 280-284
Annear, J, Blank Face, Art & Australia, vol. 46, no.2, pp280-285
Millner, J, Video Logic, exhibition catalogue, Australian Video Art since the 1980s, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney
Jinman, R., Cate’s laid back approach to a digital portrait, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 22 p3
Stephens, A., Too close for comfort, The Age, A2 October 11, pp16-17
2007 Cook, R, Lifestyle Sublime, Art Papers, Nov/Dec Issue, p 28 – 35
Cook,R, The end of the hoilday, catalogue, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Webb, P, Rosetzky’s consuming passion enacted with grace, review, The Age, June 20
Colsovich, G, The Tyranny of distance for Australian Art, The Age, July 7, p3
Cook, R, David Rosetzky, Raised by Wolves, catalogue, Art Gallery of Western Australia,
Perth, p64-5
Dwyer, C, 50 most collectible artists – David Rosetzky, Australian Art Collector, Issue 39,
Jan/March, p184-5
2006 Glass, A, David Rosetzky, 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art,
catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, p 62
Micahel, L, (Ed), 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, catalogue, Art
Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, p 13-14
Sullivan, E, Modernism is Back! 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art,
Art Monthly, Issue 190, June
Zenko, D, Taking technology over to the dark side, Vue Weekly, Alberta, Canada, 9 March
Perram, R, Home Goal: Diversity in Contemporary Artfrom the Collection of Dr Dick Quan,
catalogue, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2005 Dwyer, T; Huppatz, D.J. & Tutton, S, Camping and Tramping: 1st Floor Artists & Writers Space
1994-2002, Pitch Your Own Tent, catalogue, Monash University of Art, Melbourne, p74-104
Delaney, M., Pitch Your Own Tent – Art Projects / Store 5 / 1st Floor, catalogue, Monash
University of Art, Melbourne
Millner,J, Anne Landa Award , review, Contemporary Visual Culture Arts 7 Culture Broadsheet,
Vol. 34, No. 1, March-May 2005
Brennan, B, Video Hits, profile, Vogue Living, Australia, May/June
Palmer, D, (Ed), Relations, Photogenic: essays, photography, CCP 2002-2004, Centre for
Contemporary Photography and Eikon press, p 40-1
Zagala, M, Drawn from the collection, catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2005, p16-17
Tutton, S, ‘David Rosetzky & the Art of Self Defence’ catalogue essay, Contemporary Art
Centre South Australia
Rhodes, K, Remote Control catalogue essay and interview National Gallery of Victoria
Marsh, A, ‘Piercing the subject: 21st c anxiety in the works of David Rosetzky’ Eyeline, issue
no. 57
2004 Backhouse, M, ‘Drawn-out control quest’ The Age, December 11
Frost, A, ‘Trouble in Paradise’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 28, April-June
Strachan, L,‘Taking a slow burn to phony lifestyles’, The Age Review p7, 13/3/2004
Engberg, J, ‘ The last days of Disco’ 2004 Adelaide Biennial exh cat, Art Gallery of South
Australia
2003 Engberg, J, ‘Loop-back, New Australian Art in Berlin, Artlink, vol 23, no. 3
Engberg, J, New 03 catalogue essay, ACCA, Melbourne
Tunnicliffe, W, ‘Untouchable’, New 03 catalogue essay, ACCA, Melbourne
2002 Cook, R, ‘Happiness’, Broadsheet, vol 31, no.4
Geczy, A, ‘Crypto-realism’, Art Monthly Australia, June Storer, R, ‘Look At Me', Photofile, issue
#65, May
Genocchio, B, ‘Twitchy escapist impulses’ The Weekend Australian, 4 May
Tunnicliffe, W, BitterSweet catalogue essay, AGNSW, Sydney
Stipancic, B, ‘Connections, Contemporary Artists from Australia’, catalogue essay, House of
Croatian Artists, Zagreb,
Delany, M & Koop, S, ‘Screen Life’, catalogue essay, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofia, Madrid
2001 Loxley, A, ‘A stroll in the park ..’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5, December
Stanhope, Z, ’Photogenic’, Weekender catalogue essay, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Day, C, ‘Happiness’, catalogue essay, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
2000 Turner, R, & Xu, M, ‘Ten Takes’, Australian Style, Issue 50, pp68-77
Hjorth, L, ‘Custom Made’, review, artlink, 20#3, pp93-94
Rossiter, N, ‘Custom made confessions at CCP’, Realtime, No. 38, August
Tutton, S, & Palmer, D, ‘Custom Made’ catalogue essay, CCP, Melbourne
Palmer, D, ‘Mayonnaise’, review, Frieze, No. 53, June/July/August
Nelson, R, ‘Signs jostle in a posh forum’, The Age, June 14
Day, C, ‘Absorbing Summer Blend’, Like, Art Magazine, No. 12
Day, C, ‘Interview with Peter Hill’, Photophile, No 59, April
Travis, L, ‘Signs of the Times, Art, Music and Fashion’, Good Thinking, 1st Floor
Huppatz, D. J, ‘Lifestyle Portraits’, Good Thinking, 1st Floor
1999 Brown, S, ‘Give me something to believe in’, cat. essay, 1999 Moet & Chandon Exhibition
O’Connell, S, ‘Buttercup’ catalogue essay, Adelaide Biennial of Art, Art Gallery of S.A
1998 Chapman, C, ‘The Real Deal’, Art and Australia, vol, 35, No. 3, March
McKenzie, R, ’Being and Time; The New Existentialism’, Beaux Arts, No 168, May
Porter, G, D. J, Society Lite, catalogue essay, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Tunnicliffe, W, ‘Juice’, catalogue essay, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1997 Tutton, S, ‘The Real Thing’, Like, Art Magazine, No. 2
Gibson, J, ‘Primavera ‘96’, review, Art + Text, Issue 56
1996 Cramer, S, ‘Primavera’96’, catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1995 King, N, ‘Blow Up’, catalogue essay, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Selected
Presentations
2005
Artsits talks for RMIT talking studio program
Floor talk, Pitch Your Own Tent, Monash University Museum of Art
2004
Artists floor talk, Living together is Easy, Art Tower Mito, Mito
2003
Australian Culture Boom (forum), Art Forum Berlin
2000-2002
Artist’s talks as part of ACCA Outreach Schools Program, Melbourne
2002
Interview with Andrew McKenzie, Public Hangings visual arts television
program, channel 31, Melbourne
2001
Floor talk, Happiness, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
2000
Artist’s talk, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
Beyond the Biennial, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne
Radio interview, Sitelines arts program, 3RRR, Melbourne
1999
Floor talk, (artist’s response), Melbourne Biennial, Telstra Building,
Melbourne
1998
Artist’s talk, Masters of Fine Art Program, Glasgow School of Art,
Glasgow
Floor talk, Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Artist’s talk, Otago School of Art, Dunedin
Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Victoria
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Queensland Art Gallery
Monash University Museum of Art
The Michael Buxton Contemporary Australian Art Collection, Melbourne