Education

 

2014              MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, California, USA

2004             Bachelor of Fine Arts - Honours (Visual Arts) First Class Honours, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2003             Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) with Distinction, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Flowah Powah, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2021 Cool Story Bro, AF Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2017            Mutha of a mutha of a mutha of a mutha, Abode Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2016            BLOWBACK, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, AUS  

2015            AIRHEADS, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2013            Womp Womp Womp Womp, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA, USA

OM NOM NOM NOM, Boxcopy, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Forget I Said Anything, RAID Projects studio space, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2012            Teetering at the Edge of Rock Bottom, InFlight ARI, Hobart, TAS, AUS

2011             Multiple Visions, Grantpirrie window space, Redfern, Sydney, NSW, AUS

2010            Just In Case, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Crossing Over, Firstdraft, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, AUS

2009            We will wait and see, Metro Arts Galleries, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

What we Left Behind, Gilligan Grant Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

Remains, Accidentally Annie At Space, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2008            Inside Out, Raw Space Galleries, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2007            They Suffocate at Night, Brunswick St Gallery, VIC, AUS

Snow Drift, Ivory St Window, Craft Qld, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Kneady, Off the Kerb, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

The Moose Lovers, West Space, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

2006            Supple, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

 

Selected Group exhibitions

2024 Paradise Gloss, Brisbane City Council Outdoor Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2021 Clove Hitch, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, TAS, Australia

All my friends are returning to Brisbane, Outer Space ARI, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2019 Holding Space, Big Pictures Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

New Woman, The Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 

Soft Schindler, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, USA 

Burn All Bridges, Alta Art Space, Malmlö, Sweeden

2018   Sweet Cheeks, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Word, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia

How They Ran, Over The Influence, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2017 Self Reliance, Now Space, Los Angeles, CA, USA          

                     The Dick Pic Show, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA

                     ANGSTZEITEN, Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles, CA, USA

                     Let’s Talk About Text, Artbank, Sydney, NSW, Australia

                     Close Enough, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, QLD, Australia

2016            Domestic Observations, JACE Space, Los Angeles, CA, USA

                     This Wicked Tongue, Charlie James Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, USA

                     Unfolding/Folding, KINGS, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

                     Spring 1883, Karen Woodbury Gallery, The Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

                     2017, Art Centre, Pasadena, CA, USA

                     Is this thing on?, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne, VIC AUS

2015             The Arroyo Secco Garden Golf Classic, Lincoln Heights, CA, USA

                     Spring 1883 Sydney, Karen Woodbury Gallery, The Establishment Hotel, Sydney, AUS

                     Perform Chinatown, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, USA

                     Quaternary, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

LadyGirlyFemale, Hammock Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2014            The Subtropic Complex, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AUS

 Ex nihilo, ESXLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Curating Feminism, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, NSW, AUS

Moves, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2013            BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art, Margaret Lawerence Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

Rinse and Repeat, The Hangar, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2012            Addition 3, Addition ARI, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

I Was There, PLATFORM, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Future Fibre, Whitebox Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Gold Coast, QLD, AUS

2011             The Feeling Will Pass, Firstdraft, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, AUS

Object Relations, LEVEL, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Straight and Narrow, The Lock Up, Newcastle, NSW, AUS

2010              Hands On: Craft in Contemporary Art, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW, AUS

 Try A Little Kindness, Level ARI, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

 Pixel Stitch, Accidentally Annie Street Space, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

 Level, Level ARI, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

 Awkward, the Wandering Room, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2009            The Painted Lady, The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

De-cadence, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD, AUS

Brisbane Festival, Sample Space, Nara, Japan

Hungry like the Wolf, 19 Karen Contemporary Art Space, Mermaid Beach, QLD, AUS

2008            Together Forever, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Tales from the Cold Ghost II, 19 Karen Contemporary Art Space, Mermaid Beach, QLD, AUS

We Make Good Pets, Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Refashioning the Fashion, Object Gallery, Sydney, NSW, AUS

2007            Topsy, Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

The Last Vestige, Junk-boat on the Saigon River, Saigon, Vietnam

Drips and Thickets, Blindside, Melbourne, VIC

2006            Out of the Internet (and into the night), State Library of Queensland Info Zone, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

La Femme Domestique, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Poly, Metro Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Soft Serve, Metro Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

The Anti Mascot Project, Platform, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

2005            Toy Takeova, China Heights Gallery, Sydney, NSW, AUS

The Future is Wonderfully Fucked, The Whitehouse, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2004            Transformers: More than meets the eye, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Killa Chinchilla, Belvedere Apartments, West End, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Fresh Cut, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2003            Fancy, Palace Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Public Art Projects

2019 Floodlines, Queens Wharf, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

 

Residencies

 

2024 Artist-in-Residence, BANFF Visual Arts thematic program: Get LIT! Language, Image, Text, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB, Canada

2017            Artist-in-Residence, BANFF BAiR Late Spring, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB, Canada

2013            Artist in Residence, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA

2011            Artist in Residence, The Lock Up, Newcastle, NSW

2008           Artist in Residence, Art Students League of New York Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill, NY, USA

2006           Artist in residence, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, Canada

2005           Artist in Residence, Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

 

Grants and Fellowships

 

2013            Freedman Foundation Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists

2012            Australia Council Emerging Artist New Work Grant

Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship

 

Awards and prizes

 

2009            Splendid selected artist, Splendor in the Grass

Queensland Art Gallery Melville Haysom Scholarship

2006            Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (Pictures Category)

2004            Queensland Art Gallery Hobday and Hingston Bursary

2003            QUT Graduate Prize

 

Performances

 

2015            Alice Lang Originals Promotional Lounge, Perform Chinatown, Los Angeles, USA

 

Collaborative Projects

 

2012            Food For Thought, Next Wave Festival, Footscray Community Centre, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

2011             Unworkable Action, collaboration with Rachael Haynes as “Nervous Systems”, Level Ari, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Metaverse Makeovers, collaboration with Thea Bauman, Brooke Amity Stamp and Ben Ferns, Fur Hair Salon, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

2006            Purikura Infestation, collaboration with Van Sowerwine Area 58, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

 

Curatorial

 

2011            Split, Level ARI, Brisbane QLD, AUS

2010            I’m Okay, You’re Okay, Level ARI, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Invitational, co-curated with Rachael Haynes ad Courtney Coombs, Level ARI, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Level, co-curated with Rachael Haynes ad Courtney Coombs, Level ARI, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2010           Co-founder and co-director of LEVEL Artist Run Initiative, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

2006            Soft Serve, Metro Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

 

Publications

 

2011            Strength in Numbers, Independent Press, issue 3, pg 41-42

2010            I’m Okay, You’re Okay, catalogue essay for “I’m Okay, You’re Okay”

 

Collections

Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia