JUSTENE WILLIAMS

September 14 - October 8, 2011

 

OPENING EVENT:

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 6-8PM

 

Courtesy of Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

EDUCATION

2004-2006 Master of Visual Arts by Research, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

2005 Akademie der Bildende Kunst, Vienna

1992 Post Graduate Diploma, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

1989-1991 Bachelor Arts (Visual Arts), University of Western Sydney, Nepean

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2011 Hot Air Hillbilly Weekend Workshop IMA Surfers Paradise

2011 Berlin Burghetrs Microwave Monet Pulp Action Aeroplane Humping Machine Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane Queensland

2011 Hot Air Hillbilly Weekend Workshop, Artspace Sydney

2011 4 Rock Droppers and a Cubist Phone Sarah Cottier Gallery, Paddington

2010 Berlin Burghers Microwave Monet, Penrith Regional Gallery, Emu Plains

2011 Aeroplane Humping Machine, Peloton, Sydney

2009 Femmzoil, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Paddington

2009 Blue, Green, Red Foto, La Centrale Powerhouse Gallery, Quebec Canada

2008 BIGHEAD GARBAGEFACE GUARDS GHOST DERR SONATA Level 2, The Art Gallery of New South Wales Australia

2007 My Bridge, Mori Gallery, Sydney

2005 Blue foto, Green foto, Red foto, Mori Gallery, Sydney & Kunstlerhaus Passage, Vienna 

2005 Scapehood, Crissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney

2002 Williams & Walter, Penrith Regional Gallery

2002 Translucent Picture Sculpture, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

2002 Liquid Trix, 1st Floor Gallery, Melbourne

2001 Tracey’s Bar, BAD Projects, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2000 Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

1999 Bunny Boy, 1st Floor Gallery, Melbourne & Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

1999 Truck Series, CBD Gallery, Sydney

1997 CRASH, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

1999 Vacuum, CBD Gallery, Sydney

1996 It’s a Tropical Loveland, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1996 Can’t Live Without Plastic, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 New Acquisitions in Context, Penrith Regional Gallery, Emu Plains

2011 Art # 2 Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham Regional Gallery, Victoria

2011 NEW 11, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne 

2011 Afterglow: Photography and Performance Art, Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne

2011 Alter beast, Penrith Regional Gallery, Emu Plains

2010 Before & After Science: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia

2010 By George: Art & About Curtin Place Sydney

2010 Artist Residency Program Exhibition, Cockatoo Island, Sydney

2010 Time AND Space Hazelhurst Regional Gallery,

2010 Happiness Cosmic Battle for our Hearts, Balmain

2009 WINDOWS, Mobius, Boston, MA USA

2009 Showing Off, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW

2009 No Identifiable Culture, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2008 Antipodes- Video Screenings, AREA 405 Gallery, Baltimore, USA

2008 Contaminate 3- Live Art Festival, Midway Studios, Boston, USA

2008 Performance Registraties #2, Sub-Urban Video Lounge, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2007 Photography Today- Perfect for Any Occasion, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 

2007 Girl Parade, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Australia, Australia

2007  Recent Graduates from Sydney College of the Arts, Novia Scotia College of Art & Design Gallery Halifax, Canada

2006 +Plus Factors, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2006 INPORT Video Art Performance Festival, Tallin Estonia

2006 Yours, Mine & Ours: 50 Years of ABC Television, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2006 Screen Evolution: Syn City, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington

2006 THEM, Canberra Centre for Contemporary Art, Canberra

2005 Don’t Look Now, Scott Donovan Projects, Sydney

2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia

2004 Thrills Spills & Social Ills, Powerhouse Museum and national travelling show

2004 Shangri-La Collective, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

2003 Boofheads and Scrubbers Revenge, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney 

2003 Shangri-La Collective, Artspace, Sydney

2002 Blur, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

2001 Sunburn, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

2001 Sydney! Vienna! Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

2001 Perfect Strangers, Canberra Centre for Contemporary Art, Canberra

2000 Perfect Strangers, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

1999 Australian Perspecta 99: Agency, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1998 Primadonna, Gallery 4A, Sydney

1998 Moet Chandon Touring Art Prize - NGA Canberra, NGV Melbourne, AGNSW Sydney

1997 Australian Perspecta: Fibro - A devotion to suburb, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney

1996 Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1996 Imprecision Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide

1996 Techno, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, Campbelltown City Gallery, Campbelltown

1995 Magnetic Island, Mori Gallery, Sydney

1994 Photosynthesis, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1994 Fresh Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1994 Bad Toys, A.C.C.A., Melbourne

1993 Shirthead, Mori Annexe, Sydney

1993 Rad Scunge, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne

1993 Butron, Cullen, Rowe, Schwensen, Williams, Re Gallery, Adelaide

1992 Art Hotline Launch, The Bond Store, Sydney

1992 Light Sensitive, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

 

RESIDENCIES & SCHOLARSHIPS

2011 Maddocks Art Prize,

2011 SiteLab Residency Minto Mall Campbelltown Arts Centre

2010 Fauvette LaureiroTravelling Scholarship Sydney College the Arts Sydney University

2010 Cockatoo Island Residency, Sydney

2003 Josephine Ulrick Photography National Photography Prize           

2002 Australia Council for the Arts, Residency Tokyo Studio, Japan

2002 Lewers Bequest, Penrith Regional Gallery Residency, Penrith

2002 New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Western Sydney Artists Fellowship

2001 Stichting BAD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

COLLECTIONS

The National Gallery of Australia

The Art Gallery of New South Wales

Deloitte

Monash Gallery of Art

Australia University of Western Sydney

Art Bank, Sydney

Campbelltown Arts Centre

Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery

Private Collections national and international

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Justin Paton,’ Justene Williams’Frieze#140,pge213,Frieze#139AnthonyByrt Frontier Spirits citation pge107,Pamela Hansford, ‘Voodoo Child’, NEW11 exhibition catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2011; Anne Loxley, ‘A Yeti for the Times’, Berlin Burghers Microwave Monet exhibition catalogue, Penrith Regional Gallery, 2010; Tracy Clement, ‘Rebel Moves’, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February –5 March 2009; Tanya Peterson, ‘Review’, Art & Australia, vol 46, no 4, 2009; Natasha Bullock, ‘New Work’, Art World, no 5, 2008; Tracy Clement, ‘Dumspter Diva, Art Collector, Issue 46 October- December 2008’