BEN RAK
  • PROJECTS
    • PASSED FAILURES
    • AURA : REPETITION, REPRODUCTION, AND THE MARK OF THE ARTIST
    • PICTURES OF SCRATCHES
    • OUT OF QUARANTINE
    • HOOT DASH VIEWS
    • PERCEIVE-CONCEIVE
    • GLINT
    • PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
    • SOCIALLY STRUCTURED MOVEMENT
    • CONSUMED
    • NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
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Curriculum Vitae

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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
  • Sessional lecturer, Faculty of Art & Design, University of New South Wales (2010-present)

  • 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-present)

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Passing Gestures, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Sydney, Australia (Upcoming)
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

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 2
nd 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

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

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
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  • PROJECTS
    • PASSED FAILURES
    • AURA : REPETITION, REPRODUCTION, AND THE MARK OF THE ARTIST
    • PICTURES OF SCRATCHES
    • OUT OF QUARANTINE
    • HOOT DASH VIEWS
    • PERCEIVE-CONCEIVE
    • GLINT
    • PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
    • SOCIALLY STRUCTURED MOVEMENT
    • CONSUMED
    • NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
    • ESSAYS & REVIEWS
  • INFO
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Contact