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LIST OF EXHIBITIONS
SOLO & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2024
Therolinguistics Reading Group (with Aliisa Talja & Sumugan Sivanesan), Saari Residence, Finland
2023
Rites of Passage (with Collective Disaster), 4th Britzenale, Berlin
Photosynth Social Club: Summer Beat Camp & Sound Bathhouse (with Sumugan Sivanesan), Pixelache Festival, Cable Factory/Kitchen Lab Tarvo, Helsinki
2022
The T. Rudzinskaite Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society HQ & Lichen Love Poetry Workshop, Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna (Canada)
2020
2088 Lichen Fest Revival (with Sumugan Sivanesan), Lichen Fest, online/Mustarinda, Kainuu (Finland)
2019
The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge: An Incomplete Inventory of Extinctions in the People’s Republic of China, Black Sesame Space, Institute for Provocation, Beijing
2018
2086 T. Rudzinskaite Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society Annual Field Trip & Picnic (collaboration with Sumugan Sivanesan), 8th Interformat Symposium: On Rites and Terrabytes, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida (Lithuania)
Teleport to Nida. Rites & Terrabytes (with Sumugan Sivanesan & Zilvinas Landzbergas), Glass Pavilion / Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017
In Solidarity: Living, Making, Together (with Marjetica Potrč & Design for the Living World, part of Mexibilities cultural program) Muca ROMA, Mexico City
2016
(no)action(no)space (collaboration with Laura Bernhardt, Christoph Knoth, Michl Schmidt, Demian Bern, Haseeb Ahmed & friends), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)
Miracle Mountain (with Collective Disaster), Les Hortillonages d’Amiens, Amiens (France)
2015
Plan Bienen: Statements of Profit and Loss (with Sumugan Sivanesan), Art Laboratory Berlin, Berlin
2014
Plan Bienen (with Sumugan Sivanesan), ZK/U – Centre for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin
2013
Futurecraft Institute Akrai, Museo del Viaggiatori, Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily
Tilting at Windmills (with Jennifer Hamilton), The Windmill / Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Sydney
Making Time, Performance Space / Eveleigh Markets, Sydney
2012
Making Time, ANTI contemporary live art festival, Kuopio (Finland)
A leaf from the book of cities (with Karl Khoe; National Institute for Experimental Art / City of Sydney Public Art Program), Taylor Square, Sydney
2010
Making Time (with Karl Khoe; part of p4Pilot), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
Colony Collapse (with Karl Khoe), Firstdraft, Sydney
Make-do Garden City, (with Karl Khoe) 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2008
Notes on the Art and Manner of (Dis)arranging One’s Books (with Karl Khoe, commissioned by Performance Space as part of LiveWorks), Carriageworks, Sydney
The Hanging Gardens & Other Tales (with Karl Khoe & Diego Bonetto; part of Underbelly Public Arts Lab + Festival), Carriageworks, Sydney
En Plein Air (with Karl Khoe; part of Next Wave), Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
2007
Open Office for an Editorial Committee (with Karl Khoe, commissioned by National Young Writers’ Festival; part of This is Not Art 2007), Civic Park, Newcastle
They talk of ‘disphorrea’ (with Karl Khoe; part of Shifting Ground festival), Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Alice Springs
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Art Macao Biennale, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
The Things We Made Next, Melbourne Design Week, NGV/various locations, Melbourne
2020
sea_youhere #20 Virtual Vitrine, SEA Foundation, Tilburg (Netherlands)
Fields (curated by Zhu Wenbo), online exhibition/compilation for LEAP 20/20, Shanghai
2019
Cookbook’19 (with Valentina Karga), La Panacée-MoCo, Montpellier (France)
2018
Stacks of Paper, Riot of Colour: The Politics of Taste, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
Event Horizon (with Dennis de Bel and Ulrika Gomm) Institute for Provocation, Beijing
Entanglements, Embodiments, Positions (with Valentina Karga), Treignac Projet, Treignac (France)
Teleport to Nida. Rites And Terrabytes (with Sumugan Sivanesan), Glass Pavilion / Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius
2016
Animaladies, Interlude Gallery, Sydney
2014
NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) exhibition, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney
Permacultural Principles and Collaborative Design Interventions, UTS DAB Lab Research Gallery, Sydney
2013
Savamala – A Place for Making, KM8 / Goethe-Institut, Belgrade
Baadlands: An Atlas of Experimental Cartography, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
If you were to live here… 5th Auckland Triennial (curator Hou Hanru), Fresh, Auckland
Mapping Memory, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, COFA Galleries, Sydney
Willoughby Sculpture Prize 2013, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
2012
Spaced: Art Out of Place, IASKA / Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth
Bellowing Echoes, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2011
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Try This at Home (with Chay-Ya Clancy), Object Gallery, Sydney
Primavera 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
my own private neon oasis, Museum of Brisbane @ Sunnybank (offsite), Brisbane
John Fries Memorial Prize 2011, Blackfriars Off Broadway, Sydney
Sister City Biennial: Urbanition, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco/Carriageworks, Sydney
The Right to the City, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2010
Experiments on Plant Hybridization, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
In the Balance: Art for a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
p4 (pilot), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2009
Underground to Aboveground – Part 2, NG Art Gallery, Sydney
Breathing Space, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney
The Freedman Foundation Awards Exhibition 2009, COFASpace, Sydney
2008
Art Day is Today (Gang Festival), Bill + George, Sydney
2007
Art in the Park: Cross-pollinations, Maundrell Park, Sydney
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2024
Saari Residence Groups Residency (Kone Foundation), Finland
Creative Australia Arts Projects Grant
ÖRES Island Residency, Finland
2023
Create NSW Artist Support Quick Response Grant
2022
Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre Artist-in-Residence, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna (Canada)
2021
Create NSW Artist Support Quick Response Grant
2020
Bioart Society Ars Bioarctica International Residency Program, Kilpisjärvi, Finland (postponed to 2024)
Create NSW Artist Support Grant
2019
Saari Residence Individual Residency (Kone Foundation), Finland
NAVA NSW Artists’ Grant
Create NSW Artist Support Grant
2018
Australia Council International Residencies – Visual Arts, Institute for Provocation, Beijing
2017
Australia Council International Residencies – Visual Arts, HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki
2016
Arts NSW Artist Support Grant
2015
NAVA NSW Artists’ Grant
Power Institute Studio Residency – Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Art Gallery of New South Wales – Studios in Paris Scholarship, Denise Hickey Studio
ZK/U Centre for Art and Urbanistics – International residency program, Berlin
NAVA Australian Artists’ Grant
2014
Australia Council for the Arts – Skills & Arts Development General
NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) – Finalist
Performance Space: ‘Time_Place_Space: Nomad’ – Selected participant (Regional NSW)
Live Art Camp, Arts House, Melbourne
ZK/U Centre for Art and Urbanistics – International residency program, Berlin
2013
Australia Council for the Arts – Skills & Arts Development General
NAVA NSW Artists’ Grant
Akrai residency fellow, Sicily
Australia Council JUMP Mentorship with Marjetica Potrč
NAVA Australian Artists’ Grant
2012
Australia Council – Hopscotch Touring Live Art Initiative
Arts NSW Quick Response Grant
‘Artist Wants A Life’ interdisciplinary arts lab – Selected participant
2011
Frieze Writer’s Prize – Highly Commended
Australia Council New Work Grant – Emerging – Visual Arts
2011 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship – Finalist
John Fries Memorial Prize 2011 – Finalist
4A Emerging Critics Workshop and Curatorium – Selected participant
2010
Firstdraft Studio Residency for Emerging Artists
2009
Australia Council New Work Grant – Emerging – Visual Arts
Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists
Frieze Writer’s Prize – Highly Commended
‘Eat Your Words’ Emerging Writers’ Workshop – Selected participant
FraserStudio Residency Program, Sydney
Artist in Residence, The Lock-up, Newcastle
Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust
2008
NAVA Marketing Grant for NSW Artists
Arts NSW Visual Arts and Crafts Project Grant
Foundation / Sidney Myer Fund Small Project Grant
2007
Next Wave Kickstart