GARY SMITH CV

 

EDUCATION

05

Master of Philosophy, Visual Arts, Australian National University

83

Graduate Diploma, Fine Arts, RMIT

82

Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, RMIT

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

15

industrial poetry: industrial pop, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

13

Vox Nautica, Installation with Denise Higgins, ANCA, Canberra

12

Littoral, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

Babel, Art at St. Francis, Melbourne

 

Industrial Desire, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong

11

Grand Designs, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

10

Industrial Desire, M16 Gallery, Canberra

 

Refined, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

09

Lightslicks, Level 17, Victoria University, Melbourne

 

Lightslicks, Depot II, Danks Street, Sydney

06

Beyond Ground, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka

04

Fixation, Foyer Gallery, School of Art, ANU

03

Filling in the Blanks, ANCA Gallery, Canberra

92

Distorted Images, Don’t Panic Artworks, Beechworth

91

Essential Pears, Don’t Panic Artworks, Beechworth

 

A prelude to Myth and Identity, Buckland Gallery, Beechworth

90

Recent Paintings, Café Figaro, Melbourne

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

15

The Barbed Maze, Canberra Contemporary Art Space

14

Common Ground, ANCA

13

Atmospheres and Nocturnes, Tuggeranong Art Centre @ Lanyon

 

ANCA Now, ANCA, Canberra

12

The Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, (Finalist), Geelong

 

The Archibald Prize 2012, AGNSW, (Finalist), Sydney

 

Suburbia, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee

11

The Weekend Australian Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne

 

Democracy, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra

 

Close to the edge, Australian National Capital Artists Gallery, Canberra

10

This Way Up, SofA Gallery ANU

 

Tidal, City of Devonport Art Award

 

Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi

 

John Fries Memorial Prize, Viscopy, Sydney

 

The Cossack Art Prize, Shire of Roebourne, WA

 

The Weekend Australian Art, Melbourne

 

Partly Cloudy, SofA Foyer Gallery, Canberra

09

Mythical Creatures of the Hawkesbury, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Winsor.

 

The Affordable Art Fair, Sydney

 

Tickled Pink, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, Adelaide (Finalist)

 

Radar, M16 Artspace, Canberra

 

M16 Drawing Prize, (Finalist)

 

Mute Relics & Bedevilled Creatures, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne

 

Conversation, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

Albany Art Prize, (Finalist)

08

Unconfirmed, M16 Artspace, Canberra

 

Light forms, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne

 

Meta, Australian National Capital Artists Gallery, Canberra

06

Picture this, Alumni 2000-2006, CSA Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Melbourne

05

Present Tense, School of Art Gallery, Australian National University

03

Salt/Water, Tumut Installation

 

H20 03 Ceremonial Vessels for the Drinking of Water, CSA Foyer Gallery

91

Myth and Identity, Orange Regional Art Gallery

90

Beechworth Impressions Exhibition, Beechworth Shire Hall

 

Albury Art Prize, Albury Regional Art Gallery

 

Gallery Artists, Syme-Dodson Gallery, Sydney

89

Summer Salon, Roar 2 Studio

85

4 Painters, Roar Studio

 

St Kilda Prize, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

84

Roar Studio Christmas Show, Melbourne

 

Roar Studio Auction Show, Melbourne

83

Postgraduate Exhibition, RMIT Gallery

 

Opus 3 Film and Performance Piece, Film, Video and Performance Festival Glasshouse Theatre, Melbourne

 

AWARDS

14

Canberra Critics Circle Award, for Vox Nautica, with Denise Higgins

12

Finalist, The Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery

 

Finalist, The Archibald Prize, AGNSW

11

Ongoing, ANU Inkjet Research Facility, Visiting Fellow

10

The Capital Artists Patrons Organization (CAPO) Sage Legal Services Award

 

City of Devonport Art Award


Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi

 

Finalist, The John Fries Memorial Prize, Sydney

 

Highly Commended Finalist, The Cossack Art Prize, Shire of Roebourne WA, 2010

09

Finalist, The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, Adelaide, July

 

Finalist, M16 Drawing Prize

 

Finalist, The Albany Art Prize

08

ArtsAct project funding

07

The Capital Artists Patrons Organization (CAPO) Emerging Artist Art Store Prize

 

Finalist, Poimena Art Award

04

Post Graduate Materials Grant, ANU

 

PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS

‘Freedom Finds a Focus’, Michael Ruffles, Canberra Times 2 pg 8, 8th April 2010

‘Mute Relics & Bedevilled Creatures, constructing an antipodean curio cabinet’. Sharon West, Edwina Bartlem & Brian McKinnon. Counihan Gallery in Brunswick

‘Meta’, Deborah Clark, ANCA, June 2008

Challenges to Perform Cross-Culturally, Sept 2004, A Centre for Cross-cultural Research Visiting Scholars Program

‘Present Tense’, School of Art Gallery, Feb-Mar 2005

Review, Opus 3, Cantrills Filmnotes No 41,42, June 1983 p. 69

Review, ‘4 Painters’, Roar Studio, Ronald Miller, May 1985, the Herald

‘Myth and Identity’, Orange Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition, 1991-3

Review, ‘Filling the Blanks’, Sonia Barren, June 2003, The Canberra Times

 

COLLECTIONS

Grand Hyatt Melbourne

Macquarie Group Collection

Victorian Education Department

Private Collections