KATE SHAW
EDUCATION
1997 Diploma of Museum Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne
1994 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts Honors (Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Shadowlands, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco
2019 Continuum, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW
2018 Continuum, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2017 Solastalgia, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 Radiant Orb, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco
2015 Lucid Dreaming, Art15, London
2015 Blue Marble, Turner Galleries, Perth
2014 Eternal Surge, PointB, New York
2014 Stardust in our Veins, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne
2014 ART 14, Fehily Contemporary, London
2014 Uncanny Valleys, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2014 Luminous Worlds, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
2013 Fjallkonan, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne
2013 Auckland Art Fair, Fehily Contemporary, Auckland
2013 Diamond Dust, Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane
2013 Nightingale, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2011 Wilderness of Mirrors, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2011 KIAF, Sullivan and Strumpf, COEX, Soeul
2011 Liquefaction, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Irrational Geographic, Sullivan and Strumpf, Sydney
2010 Phosphorescent, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Room 1, Flux Factory, New York
2010 Spilling Twilight, Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane and 212 Projects, New York
2009 Meridian, Sullivan and Strumpf, Fine Art, Sydney
2009 Underground Sun, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Visitant, 24hrART Contemporary Artspace, Darwin
2008 Drifter, Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane
2008 Redux, Sullivan and Strumpf, Sydney
2007 Mirror Matter, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Hell and Highwater, Sullivan and Strumpf, Sydney
2006 Pattern Recognition, Luxe Gallery, New York
2006 InFlux, Alluvial Gallery, Bendigo
2006 Lands End, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Earthly Delights, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Process Colour, Conical Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Lightlife, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1998 DJ Betty Ford, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Just the Block, collaboration with Natasha Johns-Messenger,
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Forever Now, Rockhampton Art Gallery,Queensland
2021 On Earth UQ Art Museum, Queensland
Now That We're Here: 10 years of Contemporary Painting, Rockhampton Art Gallery,Queensland
2020 Future Dreams, Future Dreams House, London
Collectivus, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Mirror Mirror Macquarie University Gallery, NSW
An Ecotopian Lexicon curated by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Yale University
2019 Under the Subway, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Surreal Sublime, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
2018 Moving Around, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton
New artists, Cube Gallery, London
2017 Paradise Lost The Portico Library Museum, Manchester, UK
2016 Black Mist Burnt Country, touring SH Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Swan Hill Regional Gallery,Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville,
The Glasshouse Gallery, Port Macquarie, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Penrith Regional Gallery, Flinders University Art Museum City Gallery, Adelaide, Burrinja Gallery, Upwey
Sirens, Gertrude Glasshouse Lane, Fitzroy
Imagined Worlds, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn
Art Market San Francisco
2015 Art from Australia, Gail Art Museum, Soeul, South Korea
Synthetica Wangaratta Art Gallery,Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery,Counihan Gallery,Latrobe Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery (curated by Claire Anne Watson
18 x 8, PointB, New York
Art Taipei, Taipei
Disassemble/Reassemble, Caboolture Regional Gallery, Queensland
2014 Art is…Horsham Arts Festival, Horsham Regional Gallery
Sublime Point, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery,
(Curated by Carrie Kibbler and Grahame Kime)
Pattern Glen Eira Gallery (curated by Diane Soumilas)
Conquest of Space, COFA Gallery, Sydney
(curated by Andrew Frost)
In Your Dreams, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
(curated by Edwina Bartllem [catalogue])
Vertigo, touring with Asialink:
Galeri Soemardja, Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei, Taiwan
POSCO Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
(curated by Claire-Anna Watson [catalogue])
2013 New Horizons, Gippsland Gallery, Victoria
(curated by Simon Gregg [catalogue])
2013 Spatial Dialogues: Keitai Mizu, Shibuya,Tokyo
(curated by Larissa Hjorth)
2013 Sim Sal a Bim, SIM, Reyjavik, Iceland
2013 Dreamtime, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco
2013 To Deny Our Nothingness, Brooklyn Gallery, New York
(curated by Carolina Puente)
2012 Everywhere but Here Blindside, Melbourne
2012 Flowers for You, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York
Inspiring Artists: Recipients of NAVA Grants Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW
(curated by Cheryl Farrell [catalogue])
2012 Mangae, Korean Women’s Art Association, Parliament House, Sydney
2012 Space Oddity, S Cube Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2011 Seeing to a Distance, Level 17 Artspace, Melbourne
(curated by Amanda Morgan)
2011 New Psychedelia University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
(curated by Sebastian Moody, [catalogue])
2011 Together in Harmony for 50 Years, KWASS, Korea Foundation Culture Centre, Seoul
2011 Arboreal, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney
(curators, Rhonda Davis and Andrew Simpson [catalogue])
2011 Inhabit Fiesta, City of Brisbane Laneway Festival, Brisbane
2010 Missing Link Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn
(curated by Martha Kirszenbaum)
2010 Lost in Painting, Diane Tanzer gallery, Melbourne
(curated by Olivia Polini)
2010 I found it, I broke it, I stole it, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York (curated by Nathalia Mount)
2010 Lumen Stanton Island Atlantic Salt Factory, New York
(curated by Ginger Schulick)
2010 The Possibility of a Painting, Chelsea Hotel, New York
(curated by Tara de la Gaza)
2009 NADA, Miami, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, Miami
Auckland Art Fair, Nellie Castan Gallery, Auckland
Spectrum, ACGA Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne
Salon de Refuse, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Create, Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2008 CIGE, Beijing Art Fair, Luxe Gallery, Beijing
Singular, Luxe Gallery, New York Galleries building, New York
(curated by Stephan Stoyanov)
2007 U Turn, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles
(curated by Larissa Hjorth and Kate Shaw [catalogue])
2007 Places, Luxe Gallery, New York Galleries building, New York
(curated by Stephan Stoyanov)
2006 FIAC, Luxe Gallery, Grand Palais and Louvre, Paris
2006 Create, Sustainable Living Festival, BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
2005 Paper Chase, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
(curated by Olivia Polini)
Selekta, Westspace, Melbourne [catalogue]
2004 Simply Drawn, Luxe Gallery, New York Galleries building, New York (curated by Stephan Stoyanov)
Flora Nova, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Home Loan, Delfin Display Homes ‘Warehouse Conversions’, Caroline Springs, curated by Kate Shaw and Larissa Hjorth
1998 Postal Presence, Stripp Gallery, Next Wave Festival
(curated by Ester Pierini and Larissa Hjorth)
1997 Just Looking, City of Yarra and Gertrude Contemporary public art project (curated by Charlotte Day [catalogue])
COLLECTIONS
Parliament House Canberra Collection
Freshfields London
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Bearbrass Collection
Macquarie University Collection
Tattersalls Club Collection
Rockhampton Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Macquarie Group Collection
Museum of Brisbane
Rockampton Regional Gallery
Royal Sydney Golf Club
Royal Automobile Club of Victoria
University of Queensland Museum
Westpac Collection
Macquarie University Collection
John Curtin Gallery
City of Melville
Murdoch University
University of Western Australia
City of Fremantle
City of Wanneroo
Bearbrass Collection
Private Collections Australia, New Zealand, US, UK , Switzerland and Korea​
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
2020 Paddington Art Prize
2019 Glover Prize, Finalist
Len Fox Prize, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Finalist
McGivern Prize, Maroondah, Finalist
2018 Tattersalls Club Prize, Winner
Hadley Art Prize, Finalist
2017 Arthur Guy Painting Prize, Tattersalls Prize Finalist
2015 Nomination, Prudential Eye Award
Wynne Prize, AGNSW
Albany Art Prize
Tattersalls Prize
2014 Scegg Redlands Prize, Finalist,
Wynne Prize, AGNSW
2014 Australia Council for the Arts
2013 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Finalist
2013 Dame Joan Sutherland Fund
2012 Artists Wanted 2011 Year in Review (Painting), New York, Winner
2012 Substation Art Prize, Finalist
2012 John Leslie Memorial Prize,Gippsland Regional Gallery, Finalist
2012 John Fries Memorial Prize, Gaffa Gallery Highly Commended
2012 Gold Prize, Finalist, Rockhampton Regional Gallery
2012 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Finalist
2011 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Finalist
2010 Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Award, Finalist
2010 Arts Victoria International Fund, Cultural Exchange
2010 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Finalist
2009 Salon de Refuse, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney, Finalist
2009 Tattersalls Art Prize, Finalist
2008 Fleurieu Art Prize, Fleurieu Biennale, Finalist
2008 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Finalist
2008 Fisher Ghost Art Award, Finalist
2007 ABN AMRO Emerging Art Award, Finalist
2007 Arts Victoria International Fund
2006 ABN AMRO Emerging Art Award, Finalist
2006 Arts Victoria, International Fund
2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Finalist
2005 Darebin Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Finalist
2004 Metro 5 Art Prize, Finalist
2003 Australia Council for the Arts, Development Fund
1998 Besen Family Foundation
1998 Arts Victoria
1998 Australian Film Commission
RESIDENCIES
2015 Art Angels, Perth
2014 Point B Worklodge, New York
2013 SIM, Reyjavik, Iceland
2013 Point B Worklodge, New York
2012 Point B Worklodge, New York
2010 Residency Unlimited and Flux Factory, New York
2008 24 HrArt Contemporary Art Space, Darwin
2008 Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
COMMISSIONS
2011 - 2018 Private commissions, painting, Australia and USA
2017 Inessence, Australian Native Range of essential oils, Australia
2015 Video ‘They Say’ Kilter
GNU snowboards, USA
InEssence, Australia
Amuseli, Spain
2014 Large scale murals for Macquarie Centre, Sydney with Urban Art Projects
2013 Scarf designs, Front Row Society, Berlin
2011 Large scale projections on the William Jolly Bridge, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane,
2010 Mural for Spencer Lane, Urban Art Projects, Brisbane
2009 Painting, Macquarie Bank, Sydney
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PUBLICATIONS
An Ecotopian Lexicon Ed. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson, University of Minnesota Press, 2019
Screen Ecologies: Art Media and the Environment in the Asia Pacific Region by Larissa Hjorth, 2016 MIT Press
Superlux, Smart Light Art, Design & Architecture for Cities and Buildings by Davina Jackson, Lucas Dietrich, Editorial Director, Thames and Hudson, 2015
Vertigo, catalogue essay by Claire Anna Watson, Asialink/Blindside Touring exhibition 2014
Synthetica, catalogue essay by Claire Anna Watson, 2014
Spectrum Index Book, Barcelona, 2013
Beaumont, Julian; Fenner, Felicity; McDonald; The Macquarie Group Collection: The Land and Its Psyche, University of NSW, Sydney, 2013
Stover, William: Fjallkonan Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne October 2013
Moody, Sebastian; Colless, Edward; Pennings, Mark: New Pschedelia UQ Art Museum, Brisbane 2011
Farrell, Cheryl; Inspiring Artists, Maitland Regional Gallery, 2012
Davis, Rhonda; Simpson, Andrew: Arboreal, Macquarie University Art Gallery, 2011
Wrann, Kirsten: Redux, Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney 2008
Crawford, Ashley; Hjorth, Larissa; Shaw, Kate; U Turn, Arena Printing, Melbourne 2007
Ed, Day Charlotte, A Short Ride in A Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985-2005, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 190, 221, 222
Barlow, Geraldine: Earthly Delights, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, 2005
Hjorth, Larissa; Shaw, Kate; Colless, Edward: Home Loan, Arena Printing, Melbourne, 2003
SELECTED BIBIOGRAPHY
2020 Review, The New Yorker Hsu, Hua 'The Search for New Words to Make Us Care about the Climate Crisis', Feb 2020
Review, Art Review Asia, Chia Adeline 'An Ecotopian Lexicon'
2018 Cover, Create Zine, Autumn issue
2017 Cover, Artlink, Jorgensen,Darren ‘The New Capitilast Realism’ Issue36
2016 August/September, Fresh Paint Magazine, USA and UK
Cover, YEN Magazine, Sebel, Anne, issue 81, p81 ‘Imagined Lands’
2013 Jackson, Davina: “Geo(il)logical Visions: Kate Shaw’s Astral Landscapes” http://davinajackson.com/geoillogical-visions-kate-shaws-astral-landscapes/
2013 Dee, Lee: “Guest Artist: Kate Shaw” YEN Mag, 30 October
http://www.yenmag.net/beauty-fashion/fashion/guest-artist-kate shaw/
2013 Davey, Pip: “Asleep or Awake” Art Collector supplement Auckland
Art Fair
2013 Brown, Phil: “Beauty in a Toxic Beast” Brisbane Times, 25 May
2013 Fitzgerald, Michael: “The Rainbow Connection” Harpers Bazaar April 2,
p. 184
2013 Werkmeister, Sarah: “Kate Shaw: Diamond Dust”, Four Thousand, May
http://thethousands.com.au/brisbane/look/kate-shaw-diamond-dust
2013 Verfhond 2013 A thousand Living Painters, May 2013 http://a1000livingpainters.wordpress.com/category/australia-new-zealand-17/
2013 R Deepa: “Surrealistic Landscape Painting of Kate Shaw”, Amazing Tech Zone, December, 2012 http://amazingtechzone.com/art/surrealistic-landscape-paintings-kate-shaw-australia/
2012 Breaux, Adrienne “Featured Artist: Kate Shaw” 2 Modern Blog, 15 August, 2012 http://blog.2modern.com/2011/08/featured-artist-kate-shaw.html
2012 Moody, Sebastian: “Psychedelia Now” Art and Australia, Vol 49, No 4, Winter 2012
2012 Crawford, Ashley: “Back to the Land” Financial Review, 3 March 2012
2012 Morse, Abby “Kate Shaw’s Beautiful Acidic Landscapes” Beautiful Decay, November 6, 2012 http://beautifuldecay.com/2012/11/06/kate-shaws-beautiful-acidic-landscapes/
2012 Cover, Art Collector supplement, Hong Kong Art Fair
2012 Haley, Steve: (cover) “Amping Up the Magic Hour”, Artlink: Contemporary Art of Australia and the Asia Pacific, Vol 31 No 4, 2011 p 36
2012 Rule, Dan: review, Around the Galleries, The Age, 17 August 2011
2011 Tepasse, Julia “Colourful Shining Landscapes by Kate Shaw” Lost at E Minor, 5 August, 2011 http://www.lostateminor.com/2011/08/05/colourful-shining-landscapes-by-kate-shaw/
2011 Stubbins, Sinead “Kate Shaw’s Ice-Cream Landscapes’ LifeLounge 22July 2011 http://www.lifelounge.com.au/art-and-design/news/kate-shaw%27s-ice_cream-landscapes.aspx
2011 “Kate Shaw” I Need a Guide, 3 August, 2011
http://ineedaguide.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/kate-shaw
2011 “Kate Shaw” We Occupy, 26 July, 2011
http://www.weoccupy.co.uk/blog/2011/07/26/kate-shaw/
2011 Moshakis, Alex: “Kate Shaw”, It’s Nice That, 26 July 2011
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/kate-shaw
2011 Burton, Helen: “The Evolution of Work, Kate Shaw: Liquidity”, Insight Magazine, Issue 4, 2011, p 29
2010 “Kate Shaw” Boooom, 18 November 2010
http://www.booooooom.com/2010/11/18/artist-painter-kate-shaw/
2010 Mitchell, Fleur: “Shaw Thing”, The Blackmail, December 2010 http://www.theblackmail.com.au/issue/2010/12/shaw-thing/
Phillips, Isobel: “Rock Life” The Art Life, November 2010 http://theartlife.com.au/2010/rock-time/
2010 Greco, Nell: “Irrational Geographic” The Two thousands, November 2010 http://thethousands.com.au/sydney/look/irrational-geographic-kate-shaw/
2009 Robinson, Debbie: ‘Kate Shaw – Underground Sun: Nellie Castan Gallery’ Arts Hub, 13 August 2009 http://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/review/visual-arts/kate-shaw-underground-sun-nellie-castan-gallery-178790
2009 Crawford, Ashley: ‘Under $5,000 – Kate Shaw’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 49 July – September 2009, p 186 - 187
2009 “Landscape of the Wynne” Artscape, ABCTV, March 2009
2009 Adams, Kate: “Kate Shaw” Artist Profile, Issue 6, 2009, p 24-25
2008 “10 Recommended Shows for August and September: Kate Shaw”, Drifter, Art World Issue 4, August September 2008
2008 Gibson, Prue: “Double Vision”, Vogue Australia, April 2008, p 120-121.
2007 Clement, Tracey: “Kate Shaw: Hell and High Water preview” Australian Art Collector, Issue 40, April-June 2007, p 276
2006 Crawford, Ashley: ’Lands End: review’, The Sunday Age, 23 July 2006 http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts-reviews/kate-shaw-lands-end/2006/07/24/1153593245914.html
2005 Backhouse, Megan: ’Delightful Show’, The Age, A2, 12 February 2005
2005 King, Natalie: Visual Arts Report, ABC Radio 774 review ‘Earthly Delights’ 13 February 2005
2005 Bantick, Chris: “Undulations of Vegas” The Age 19 February 2005
2005 Crawford, Ashley: “Earthly Delights”, review, The Sunday Age, 6 February 2005
2004 Interview with Vincent O’Donnell, ‘Simply Drawn’, Arts Alive, Radio National, 11 July 2004