KEN + JULIA YONETANI CV

 

EDUCATION (KEN YONETANI)

Current

PhD candidate Fine Art, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

03-05

Master of Arts (Visual Arts), School of Art, Australian National University

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Bachelor of Economics, Chiba University of Commerce, Chiba, Japan

 

EDUCATION (JULIA YONETANI)

03

PhD, History, Australian National University

99

Master of Arts, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo,

94

Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney, 1994

 

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

13

Blake Prize, COFA Gallery (Finalists)

 

Hazelhurst Art Award (Finalists)

12

Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (Finalists)

11

Sulman Prize (Finalists)

 

Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (Finalists)

10

ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology), SYNAPSE residency (co-recipient)

 

New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts

09

NAVA Marketing Grant (co-recipients)

08

New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts

05

NAVA Marketing Grant

04

Arts ACT Quick Response Grant, ANU School of Art Material Award

03

Japan Foundation Grant

 

The Pat Corrigan Artist’s Grant

02

Japan Foundation Grant

00

ANU PhD Scholarship

 

SELECTED ARTIST RESIDENCIES

13

ZK/U Berlin, Germany

12

Inter-Arts Residency, Navegar Foundation, Portugal

11

Kone Foundation Artist Residency, Finland

10

Art/science residency funded by the Australian Network for the Arts and Sciences (ANAT) in Mildura, Victoria

05

Gunnery Studio Residency, Sydney

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

14

The Last Supper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney

13

Open Studio Exhibition, ZK/U Berlin

 

Senkaku (sen o kaku), Artereal Gallery Project Space, Sydney

12

Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

What the Birds Knew, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

11

Sense of Taste, GV Art, London, U.K.

 

Still Life: The food bowl at Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

Ultrabuddha- that is why I want to be saved, Project Space, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

10

Ultrabuddha- that is why I want to be saved, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

 

GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER! (If you want it.), art performance (bed-in), Federation Square, Melbourne

09

GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER! (If you want it.), art performance, Opera House, Sydney

 

Sweet Barrier Reef in Venice, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

 

Sweet Barrier Reef for the 21st Century – Play Strauss’s waltz grandly, La Trobe University Museum of Art

05

Sweet Barrier Reef curated by Nicholas Tsoutas, Artspace, Sydney

 

fumie-butterfly mandala, West Space, Melbourne

 

Sugar Project-Underwater, Phatspace, Sydney

03

fumie-tiles at CSIRO Discovery, Canberra

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

13

If The World Changed, Singapore Biennale, Singapore

 

Sydney Contemporary 13, Installation Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney

 

But Mostly Air, ANU School Art Gallery, Canberra

 

19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

 

Not Book, Biet Ha’ir Urban Culture Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Foundations Edge: Artists and Technology, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum

 

Art & Science, GV Art Gallery

12

Keeping up Appearances, NKV, Germany

 

Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

11

2112 Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

Your Move: Australian Artists Play Chess, touring exhibitions at University of Queensland Art Museum, McClelland Gallery and Samstag Art Museum

 

Arboreal, Macquarie University, Sydney

 

That’s not how you make porridge, Goulburn Regional Gallery, New South Wales

 

The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, 2011 Sydney

 

Palimpsest #8, Mildura, Victoria

 

Art  & Science, GV Art, London

 

Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

 

Precious, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

 

Underfoot Overhead, Object Gallery, Sydney

10

genart_sys, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney

 

Your Move: Australian Artists Play Chess, Bendigo Art Gallery

 

Ultrabuddha- that is why I want to be saved, Gallery 25, Mildura, Victori

 

Once Removed (the show from the 2009 Venice Biennale), Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

09

Satellite APT 6 (6th Asia Pacific Triennial), Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

 

The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalists exhibition 2009, Sydney

 

58th Blake Prize Finalists Exhibition, The National Art School Gallery, Sydney

 

Once Removed, The official representation of Australia in The 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice

08

Heat: Art and Climate Change at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

08

2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Handle with Care, Art Gallery of South Australia

 

COLLECTIONS

Artist Pension Trust, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Macquarie Bank Art Collections, Art Bank, The Balnaves Foundation, The Australian National University School of Art, Private collections

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

14

“Australian radioactive art in Singapore”, ABC Radio National, February 7

13

“I had an art (panic) attack” by Clara Chow, The Straits Times

12

“Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Inspires Glowing Artwork”, ABC News, Oct 2

 

“ANSTO gives uranium chandeliers the green light”, Daily Telegraph, Oct 4

 

“What the Birds Knew”, ABC Radio National Books and Arts Daily, Oct 2

 

“Two for One” The Australian Newspaper, Aug 18

 

“Radioactive art tackles fall-out for Japan” by Andrew Taylor, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 August 2012

 

“Uranium glass chandeliers mark anniversary of Japan’s nuclear disaster” by Grace Duggan, The GLASS Quarterly Hot sheet, 30 March 2012

 

“Ken + Julia Yonetani’s uranium chandeliers” by Mat Smith, PHAIDON, 8 March 2012

 

“Radioactive chandeliers commemorate Japanese nuclear disaster” by Elizabeth Fortescue, The Art Newspaper, 6 March 2012

 

“Salt of the Earth” by Joseph Brennan, Australian Art Review, 21 January 2012

11

“Sal y azúcar como materiales para una reflexión artística sobre la degradación ambiental” by Anxel Grove, 20 Minutos, 13 November 2011

 

“Salt of the Earth” by Madeleine Hinchy, Vogue Living, Nov/Dec 2011

 

“Synapse: Ken and Julia Yonetani’s Salt Sculptures” STVDIO Channel Art Break Feature produced by Damian McDermott, broadcast Nov 2011

 

“Aussie artists’ sweet treat has a bitter aftertaste” by Peter Wilson, The Australian, 25 October 2011

 

“A Sumptuous Feast Recreated in Salt” by Catherine de Lange, Culture Lab, 10 October

 

“The Crucible” by Philip Ball, Chemistry World, October 2011

 

“Sugar and Salt works on Show at Marylebone” by Janine Rusiah, Westminister Chronicle, 14 October 2011

 

“Salt of the Earth: Ken and Julia Yonetani” Aesthetica Magazine Blog, 28 June, 2011

 

“Artists make point with salt sculptures” ABC National News, 6 June, 2011

 

“Venice Biennale Kicks off this weekend” ABC Radio Breakfast, 2 June 2011

 

“Salt as Still Life” Radio New Zealand National, 10 June 2011

 

“Canvas” by Celia Mortlock, FBI Radio, 12 June 2011

 

“Salt sculptures lay consequences of salinity on the table” by Steve Meacham, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 2011

 

“Chrystal clear intent” by Elizabeth Fortescue, Daily Telegraph 23 May 2011

 

“Ken and Julia Yonetani/Janet Tavener”, review by Megan Fizell, Arlink, vol 31 no 2,

 

“Sculptures made from salt at Rozelle’s Artereal Gallery” by Lauren Murada, Inner West Courier, 12 June 2011

10

‘Ken Yonetani’s Ultrabuddha exhibition displays a strange beauty’ by Suzanna Clarke, The Courier Mail, 16 July

 

‘Always idol’ by Phil Brown, Brisbane News, 14 July 2010

 

‘Bedtime warmth’ by Kylie Northover, 22 February 2010, The Age

 

‘GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER! (If you want it.) by Lou Pardi, Beat Magazine, 17 February 2010

09

VOGUE (Italian), L’UONO/ ART 53rd Venice Biennale Special Issue, the article by James Fisher No. 401

 

‘Ken Yonetani’ written by Katherine Harrington, SCULPTURE + the enemies, issue 1

 

‘Worlds collide at Venice Biennale’ Suzanna Clarke July 18, 2009, The Courier Mail

 

‘Deft in Venice written by Gabriella Coslovich, The Age, June 8 2009

 

‘Ken Yonetani’ written by Nicholas Tsoutas, Broad Sheet for the Venice Bienniale 2009 special issue

 

‘Sweet success’ written by Colin Martin, Craft Australia

08

Monk practices sweet enchantment, Artery, No. 8/ Spring 2008

 

‘Sunday Arts” ABC TV, Heat: Art and Climate change, ABC1, 5:30pm 12 October 2008

 

“Sunday Arts” ABC TV, featured story of Ken Yonetani, ABC1, 5pm 16 March 2008/ July 7 2009

07

“The nature of art” written by Felicity Fenner, Art and Australia Autumn issue

05

“Sweet revenge” written by Julia Yonetani, Artlink Vol 25 No 4

 

“Art competition attracts the cream…and sugar” written by Jenny Rogers, The Gold Coast Weekend Bulletin, December 3-4

 

Art & Science, GV Art, London