CV

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Solo Exhibitions

2018-19 taste on opening, Yousuf Art Gallery, Kochi, India
2016 paradise is exactly like where we are right now… (20161204, -27.484338, 153.007804), Cut Thumb ARI, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2016 where are we going to be when now comes? (20160415, -27.453761, 153.008311), Oral ARI, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2013 One & Other, Inhouse ARI, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2012 Self Becoming Other, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2011 You Bring Light In… (211011 Red), Accidentally Annie Street Space ARI, Meanjin (Brisbane)

Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances & Events

2025 Femine(ist) Sacred Cabaret, Sacred Hearts Festival, Northern Rivers
2024 Sacred Union: Ritual of Life Death & Mad Love, Melt Open Festival, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2024 Sacred Union: Ritual of Life Death & Mad Love, Sacred Hearts Winter Festival, Northern Rivers
2024 Sacred Union: Ritual of Life Death & Mad Love, Earth Frequency Festival, Willowbank
2024 Sacred Union: Ritual of Life Death & Mad Love, Vultures Nest, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2024 Moon Day Theatre of Mad Love, House Conspiracy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2023 Lunar Campout of Surrealitea: Dreamworlds, Northern Rivers
2023 Bureau of Surrealist Research, House Conspiracy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2022 Surrealist Workshop & Poetry Project, Earth Frequency Festival, Ivory Rock
2022 Exquisite Frequency, House Conspiracy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2020 Raigad Activista, Rashtriya Mill, Mumbai, India
2020 Raigad Activista, Sane Guruji Rashtriya Smarak, Wadghar, India
2019 42: Life, the Universe, and Everything, House Conspiracy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2017 We’re Doomed: Monologues of Failure (Performance), Boxcopy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2016 Gimme Gimme More!, Cut Thumb Laundry, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2014 Virion, multi-site network of public screens, Australia & UK
2014 pars pro toto, The Block, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2013 2High Festival, Powerhouse, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2013 Road Trip, The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, Newcastle
2013 Out of House, Metro Arts, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2012 Therefore, The Block, QUT, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2012 Fission, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2012 BARI Festival Opening, Inhouse ARI, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2012 Chimera, The Block, QUT, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2012 THE CAGE IN US, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2011 Sarah Ramone, H-block Gallery, QUT, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2011 Inspiral, Metro Arts, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2011 Exist-ence, Powerhouse, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2011 Oculus, Juggers Art Space Inc, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2011 Alter, Metro Arts, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2011 Post Datum, H-block Gallery, QUT, Meanjin (Brisbane)

As Curator/Creative Director

2024 Everywhere there is bread and oil. We can salt the water. Solo exhibition by Florence Rosalie (Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Canada), House Conspiracy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2019 Glossopteris: Black Beyond Coal, House Conspiracy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2019 Club Conspiracy (Wangan & Jagalingou, Stop Adani fundraiser), Hotel West End
2019 taste on opening: Australia-India Residency Exchange Program, Meanjin (Brisbane) & Kerala 

Awards & Residencies

2020 Sideways (After 43 Minutes) Residency, Side Gallery, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2019 Activista Artist Residency, SMARAK, Wadghar, India
2019 Creative Director in Residence, House Conspiracy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2019 Curator Residency, Palette People, Uluppuni, India
2018 Artist Residency, House Conspiracy, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2017 Artist Residency, Palette People, Uluppuni, India
2012 NAVA Ignition Prize for achievement in professional practice
2012 Dean’s List for Academic Excellence
2011 Exist Artist Residency, Metro Arts, Meanjin (Brisbane)

Publications

2019 may the doorways be repeated, text work, neither/nor: issue 1
2019 A ‘taste’ of Art by Anasuya Menon, The Hindu
2018 taste on opening… addresses capitalist globalisation by Jose Joy, Indian Express
2018 taste on opening (book 1), artist book (edition of 33)
2017 Art catering to all the senses by Elizabeth Thomas, Deccan Chronicle
2017 just give me a little space, collaboration with Annie Boman, artist book (edition of nine), available at Boxcopy art gallery, Brisbane.
2016 The Sweet Sickness, text work, Small Packages Volume 12
2016 walking and thinking of you, artist book (edition of nine), available at Boxcopy art gallery, Brisbane.
2013 The Conception Of Abstraction In Audio/Visual Installation by Tara Heffernan, Inhouse ARI
2013 One & Other by Andi Halfpapp, Das Platforms
2012 Assemblages, Das 500 (Das Platforms)

Education

2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Honours (First Class), QUT, Meanjin (Brisbane)
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, QUT, Meanjin (Brisbane)

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