Curriculum Vitae
Education
2011 – 2013 MFA, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
2008 – 2009 Printmaking Honours (1st class), College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
2006 – 2008 BFA printmaking, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
Professional Experience
2020 Don't be Fooled by the Faces I Wear, PhotoAccess Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2020 Passing Gestures, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019 Passed Failures, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2016 Pictures Of Scratches, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, Australia
2015 Hoot-Dash Views, Gallery Smith Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Double Coding,Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 Performance Anxiety,Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011 Socially Structured Movement, Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010 Consumed, Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Origins, Glass House Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2022 Wayout, Kandos NSW
2022 Contemplating Grace, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
2021 UnEditioned, Manhattan Graphics Center, NY, USA
2021 To The Edges, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2021 Conversations & Collaborations, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2020 In the Shade II, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2020 Solidarity in Solitude 2020, Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney*
2020 Sydney Printmakers 2020, May Space, Sydney, Australia
2019 Let All the Birds Fly, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, Australia
2019 Replay, Northern Beaches Creative Space, Sydney, Australia
2019 Borderless, Megalo Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2019 12@61, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019 Graphics, Airspace Projects, Sydney, Australia
2019 Foursight, Northern Beaches Creative Space, Sydney, Australia
2018 Screen2018: Body, UMASS, Amherst, USA
2018 Taiwan Art Together, Yilan Cultural Affairs Bureau, Yilan, Taiwan
2018 Sydney Printmakers, Artiste Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017 Aura: Repetition, Reproduction, and the Mark of the Artist,
Manly Art gallery & Museum, Sydney, Australia
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Galler, Wagga Wagga, Australia
ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia (2018)
2017 International Printmedia Festival, Artspace Mullae, Seoul, South Korea
2016 International Printmaking Alliance Exhibition, Touring China
Taimiao Art Gallery, Beijing
Nanjing Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing
Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin
Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijazhuang
Shenzhen Guanlan Original Printmaking Museum, Guanlan
2016 8th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro, Portugal
2016 Passage, Alive Jincheon Printmaking Museum, Jincheon, South Korea
2016 4 Corners, Warringah Creative Space, Sydney, Australia
2016 Sydney Printmakers Celebrating 55 years, The Art Vault, Mildura, Australia
2016 50 Years of Print, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, Australia
2016 Sydney Printmaker’s 55th, Artsite Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 A Start With No End, Touring China
The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts, Nanjing
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan
2015 Out of Quarantine, Manly Museum & Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 Fun & Games, Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 Expectation of Privacy, Renke Art Centre, Hangzhou, China
2015 Changing Worlds, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2015 Sydney Contemporary Fair, Cicada Press Stall, Sydney, Australia
2015 2nd Global Print 2015, Douro Museum, Portugal
2015 Core, Waiheke Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015 Collection focus: Modern Australia , Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
2015 Alternatives, 10x10 Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Seoul-Sydney : Contemporary Korean And Australian Prints,
Chugye University for the Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney, Australia (2014)
2015 Interchange : Contemporary Printmaking from Australia and Thailand
Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, Australia
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
ANU school of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Silipakorn University PSG Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2014)
2015 Bestiary, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2015 Cutback : Surfing Through Art, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
2015 Bridges of Expansion, Gaffa Gallery , Sydney, Australia
2014 Semblance of Order (Touring)
Aicon Gallery , New York, USA
Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Parramatta Artist Studio, Sydney, Australia (2013)
2014 Workshop’d, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, Australia
2014 Antipodes, NorthArt Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2014 Sydney-Lahore: Prints from the Collections of Cicada Press and Saeed
Akhtar Studio , Saeed Akhtar Studio, Lahore, Pakistan
2014 Fantasy Asia
Indus Valley School of Design Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Cofaspace, Sydney, Australia
2014 New & Old Territories, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2014 GLINT, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, Australia
2014 Everyday Celebrity, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
2014 Bridges of Expansion, San Francisco State University, San Francisco USA
2014 Corporeal
Switchback Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat, Australia
Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Australia (2013)
2014 Editions II, Tacit Contemporary Art , Melbourne, Australia
2013 Contemporary Prints 2013, Kent House Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 Conform/Confront, Hong Kong Graphic Arts Fiesta, Hong Kong
2013 Drawing Now, Ivan Daugherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 Familiar/Unfamiliar
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia
Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Australia
S.P.A.C.E Gallery, Launceston, Australia (2012)
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia (2012)
C3 contemporary art space (2011)
2013 The Drive Home
Robert Blackburn Printshop, New York, USA
The Drive Home, Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco, USA
2012 330 Exhibition, Gallery Smith, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Beginning with Printmaking – Integrative practice and crossing borders,
’11th Nationwide Academies of Fine Arts Printmaking Biennial,
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
2012 Billboard Art Project, Atlanta, USA
2012 (Un)Seen Sculptures, Sydney, Australia
2012 Mind & Reality
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Roxaboxen Gallery, Chicago, USA (2011)
2011 Messages From The South
Art Museum of National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
2011 PCA Print Commission, Megalo Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2011 Pacific Rim Meets Istanbul, FASS Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. In conjunction with the Istanbul Biennale
2011 International Art On Paper Exhibition, Chiang Mai University Art Centre, Chiang Mai , Thailand
2010 Pacific Rim Print Exhibition, SOFA gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
2010 Addiction
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Alfred School of Art, New York, USA (2009)
2009 Hip Pop, United Galleries @ Saatchi&Saatchi, Sydney, Australia
2009 30x40, United Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2009 Halfway House, COFAspace Sydney, australia
2009 Footprints, Sydney Museum Of Contemporary Art / Blank Space, Sydney, Australia
2008 Hip Pop, United Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2008 Itchy Feet, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008 1200K Fowlers Gap, COFA space, Sydney, Australia
2008 Dislocation, Kudos Gallery Sydney, Australia
2008 Urban – Gallery Red, Sydney, Australia
2008 Untitled – At The Vanishing Point Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008 Dirty Hands– Breathing Colours Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 Artbeat – Melton, Australia
2007 Dislocation - Kudos Gallery Sydney, Australia
2007 Living Sydney - Crossbay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Projects Curated by Ben Rak
Fair Play
Manly Art Gallery & Museum (2022)
Aura : Repetition, Reproduction and the Mark of the Artist
Manly Art Gallery & Museum (2017) Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia (2017)
ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia (2018)
Fantasy Asia
AD Space, Sydney, Australia (2015)
IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2014)
Mirror, Mirror
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2013)
Mind & Reality
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2013)
Roxaboxen Gallery, Chicago, USA (2011)
Addiction
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2010)
Alfred School of Art, New York , USA(2009)
Prizes, Grants, Awards and Residencies
2021 UNSW HDR Research Output Award
2020 Northern Beaches Council Arts and Creativity Grant
2020 Northern Beaches Council Creative Community Support Grant
2020 Bar-Tur Photo Award
2019 ARC @ UNSW Art & Design Grant
2019 Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (Phd)
2016 Warringah Creative Space Artist in Residence
2015 Highly Commended Waverly Art Prize - Printmaking
2014 Highly Commended Blacktown Art Prize - Sculpture
2014 GLINT (Glass+Print) Residency, Megalo Studios and Canberra Glassworks, Canberra
2014 Chiangmai Art on Paper Residency , Thailand
2014 Australia-Thailand Institute Artist in Residence Grant
2013 Parramatta – Pakistan – Cicada Press Artist in Residence, Sydney
2012 UNSW Research Travel Grant
2010 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship (MFA)
2009 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, UNSW COFA
2009 Winner National Tertiary Art Prize – people’s choice award
2008 Winner Blacktown Art Prize – Works on Paper
2008 Winner Cofa Annual 2008 - Art Scene award
2008 Highly Commended Expose Your World
2007 Winner Newtown NCA art prize – Photography
Public Collections :
Alfred University School of Art, New York USA
Artbank, Australia
Arts Law Centre Of Australia, NSW Australia
Brooklyn Art Library, New York USA
Camberwell Grammar, Australia
Canson Australia
Charles Sturt University Art Collection, Australia
Chiangmai Art on Paper Studios, Thailand
City of Kingston, Australia
City of Maroondah, Australia
Geelong Regional Gallery, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Pakistan
The Joan Flasch Artist Books Library, SAIC, Chicago USA
Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Australia
New Scientist Magazine, Australia
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada
Penleigh & Essondon School, Australia
Print Council of Australia Archive, Australia
San Francisco State University, USA
SGCI Print Collection, Zuckerman Museum Of Art, Georgia, USA
State Library of Victoria, Australia
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
University of Virginia, USA
UNSW College of Fine Art, Australia
Warnambool Art Gallery, Australia
2011 – 2013 MFA, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
2008 – 2009 Printmaking Honours (1st class), College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
2006 – 2008 BFA printmaking, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney
Professional Experience
- Curator, Manly Art Gallery & Museum (2022-present)
- Sessional lecturer, Faculty of Art & Design, University of New South Wales (2010-2022)
- Associate Lecturer, Printmedia & Drawing, School of Art, Australian National University (2015-2017).
- Co-founder and Director, Throwdown Press (2012-present).
- Sessional lecturer, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2012-2013)
- Editioning printmaker, Cicada Press (2006-2018)
2020 Don't be Fooled by the Faces I Wear, PhotoAccess Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2020 Passing Gestures, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019 Passed Failures, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2016 Pictures Of Scratches, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, Australia
2015 Hoot-Dash Views, Gallery Smith Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Double Coding,Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 Performance Anxiety,Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011 Socially Structured Movement, Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010 Consumed, Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Origins, Glass House Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2022 Wayout, Kandos NSW
2022 Contemplating Grace, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
2021 UnEditioned, Manhattan Graphics Center, NY, USA
2021 To The Edges, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2021 Conversations & Collaborations, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2020 In the Shade II, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2020 Solidarity in Solitude 2020, Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney*
2020 Sydney Printmakers 2020, May Space, Sydney, Australia
2019 Let All the Birds Fly, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, Australia
2019 Replay, Northern Beaches Creative Space, Sydney, Australia
2019 Borderless, Megalo Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2019 12@61, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019 Graphics, Airspace Projects, Sydney, Australia
2019 Foursight, Northern Beaches Creative Space, Sydney, Australia
2018 Screen2018: Body, UMASS, Amherst, USA
2018 Taiwan Art Together, Yilan Cultural Affairs Bureau, Yilan, Taiwan
2018 Sydney Printmakers, Artiste Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017 Aura: Repetition, Reproduction, and the Mark of the Artist,
Manly Art gallery & Museum, Sydney, Australia
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Galler, Wagga Wagga, Australia
ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia (2018)
2017 International Printmedia Festival, Artspace Mullae, Seoul, South Korea
2016 International Printmaking Alliance Exhibition, Touring China
Taimiao Art Gallery, Beijing
Nanjing Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing
Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin
Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijazhuang
Shenzhen Guanlan Original Printmaking Museum, Guanlan
2016 8th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro, Portugal
2016 Passage, Alive Jincheon Printmaking Museum, Jincheon, South Korea
2016 4 Corners, Warringah Creative Space, Sydney, Australia
2016 Sydney Printmakers Celebrating 55 years, The Art Vault, Mildura, Australia
2016 50 Years of Print, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, Australia
2016 Sydney Printmaker’s 55th, Artsite Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 A Start With No End, Touring China
The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts, Nanjing
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan
2015 Out of Quarantine, Manly Museum & Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 Fun & Games, Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 Expectation of Privacy, Renke Art Centre, Hangzhou, China
2015 Changing Worlds, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2015 Sydney Contemporary Fair, Cicada Press Stall, Sydney, Australia
2015 2nd Global Print 2015, Douro Museum, Portugal
2015 Core, Waiheke Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015 Collection focus: Modern Australia , Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
2015 Alternatives, 10x10 Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Seoul-Sydney : Contemporary Korean And Australian Prints,
Chugye University for the Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney, Australia (2014)
2015 Interchange : Contemporary Printmaking from Australia and Thailand
Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, Australia
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
ANU school of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Silipakorn University PSG Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2014)
2015 Bestiary, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2015 Cutback : Surfing Through Art, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
2015 Bridges of Expansion, Gaffa Gallery , Sydney, Australia
2014 Semblance of Order (Touring)
Aicon Gallery , New York, USA
Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Parramatta Artist Studio, Sydney, Australia (2013)
2014 Workshop’d, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, Australia
2014 Antipodes, NorthArt Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2014 Sydney-Lahore: Prints from the Collections of Cicada Press and Saeed
Akhtar Studio , Saeed Akhtar Studio, Lahore, Pakistan
2014 Fantasy Asia
Indus Valley School of Design Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Cofaspace, Sydney, Australia
2014 New & Old Territories, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2014 GLINT, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, Australia
2014 Everyday Celebrity, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
2014 Bridges of Expansion, San Francisco State University, San Francisco USA
2014 Corporeal
Switchback Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat, Australia
Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Australia (2013)
2014 Editions II, Tacit Contemporary Art , Melbourne, Australia
2013 Contemporary Prints 2013, Kent House Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 Conform/Confront, Hong Kong Graphic Arts Fiesta, Hong Kong
2013 Drawing Now, Ivan Daugherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 Familiar/Unfamiliar
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia
Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Australia
S.P.A.C.E Gallery, Launceston, Australia (2012)
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia (2012)
C3 contemporary art space (2011)
2013 The Drive Home
Robert Blackburn Printshop, New York, USA
The Drive Home, Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco, USA
2012 330 Exhibition, Gallery Smith, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Beginning with Printmaking – Integrative practice and crossing borders,
’11th Nationwide Academies of Fine Arts Printmaking Biennial,
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
2012 Billboard Art Project, Atlanta, USA
2012 (Un)Seen Sculptures, Sydney, Australia
2012 Mind & Reality
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Roxaboxen Gallery, Chicago, USA (2011)
2011 Messages From The South
Art Museum of National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
2011 PCA Print Commission, Megalo Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2011 Pacific Rim Meets Istanbul, FASS Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. In conjunction with the Istanbul Biennale
2011 International Art On Paper Exhibition, Chiang Mai University Art Centre, Chiang Mai , Thailand
2010 Pacific Rim Print Exhibition, SOFA gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
2010 Addiction
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Alfred School of Art, New York, USA (2009)
2009 Hip Pop, United Galleries @ Saatchi&Saatchi, Sydney, Australia
2009 30x40, United Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2009 Halfway House, COFAspace Sydney, australia
2009 Footprints, Sydney Museum Of Contemporary Art / Blank Space, Sydney, Australia
2008 Hip Pop, United Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2008 Itchy Feet, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008 1200K Fowlers Gap, COFA space, Sydney, Australia
2008 Dislocation, Kudos Gallery Sydney, Australia
2008 Urban – Gallery Red, Sydney, Australia
2008 Untitled – At The Vanishing Point Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008 Dirty Hands– Breathing Colours Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 Artbeat – Melton, Australia
2007 Dislocation - Kudos Gallery Sydney, Australia
2007 Living Sydney - Crossbay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Projects Curated by Ben Rak
Fair Play
Manly Art Gallery & Museum (2022)
Aura : Repetition, Reproduction and the Mark of the Artist
Manly Art Gallery & Museum (2017) Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia (2017)
ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia (2018)
Fantasy Asia
AD Space, Sydney, Australia (2015)
IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2014)
Mirror, Mirror
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2013)
Mind & Reality
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2013)
Roxaboxen Gallery, Chicago, USA (2011)
Addiction
CofaSpace Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2010)
Alfred School of Art, New York , USA(2009)
Prizes, Grants, Awards and Residencies
2021 UNSW HDR Research Output Award
2020 Northern Beaches Council Arts and Creativity Grant
2020 Northern Beaches Council Creative Community Support Grant
2020 Bar-Tur Photo Award
2019 ARC @ UNSW Art & Design Grant
2019 Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (Phd)
2016 Warringah Creative Space Artist in Residence
2015 Highly Commended Waverly Art Prize - Printmaking
2014 Highly Commended Blacktown Art Prize - Sculpture
2014 GLINT (Glass+Print) Residency, Megalo Studios and Canberra Glassworks, Canberra
2014 Chiangmai Art on Paper Residency , Thailand
2014 Australia-Thailand Institute Artist in Residence Grant
2013 Parramatta – Pakistan – Cicada Press Artist in Residence, Sydney
2012 UNSW Research Travel Grant
2010 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship (MFA)
2009 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, UNSW COFA
2009 Winner National Tertiary Art Prize – people’s choice award
2008 Winner Blacktown Art Prize – Works on Paper
2008 Winner Cofa Annual 2008 - Art Scene award
2008 Highly Commended Expose Your World
2007 Winner Newtown NCA art prize – Photography
Public Collections :
Alfred University School of Art, New York USA
Artbank, Australia
Arts Law Centre Of Australia, NSW Australia
Brooklyn Art Library, New York USA
Camberwell Grammar, Australia
Canson Australia
Charles Sturt University Art Collection, Australia
Chiangmai Art on Paper Studios, Thailand
City of Kingston, Australia
City of Maroondah, Australia
Geelong Regional Gallery, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Pakistan
The Joan Flasch Artist Books Library, SAIC, Chicago USA
Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Australia
New Scientist Magazine, Australia
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada
Penleigh & Essondon School, Australia
Print Council of Australia Archive, Australia
San Francisco State University, USA
SGCI Print Collection, Zuckerman Museum Of Art, Georgia, USA
State Library of Victoria, Australia
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
University of Virginia, USA
UNSW College of Fine Art, Australia
Warnambool Art Gallery, Australia