JUSTINE KHAMARA



Curriculum Vitae

Education:

2003  Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours
1999  RMIT TAFE, Associate Diploma of Visual Arts

Solo Exhibitions:
2010  Erysichthon’s Ball  Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2009  Seeded (mum and dad)- selected works  Anna Pappas Gallery,
        Melbourne
2007  How Excellently We Did-diddilly-do-do Do It  Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2005  Legion  tcb Art Inc, Melbourne
2004  Bugaboo  tcb Art Inc, Melboune
2003  little Her and little Eye  with Pauline Lavoipierre, Westspace, Melbourne
Eye Spy...    Linden Gallery, St Kilda Centre for Contemporay Art, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions:
2010  The Edge of the Universe
Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria
Illusion Illusion
McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Melbourne
Present Tense: An imagined grammar of potraiture in the digital age 
National Portait Gallery, Camberra
ART 1 Regional Tour  Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria
2009  NEW 09  ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne)
Works with paper  Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2008  Tidal  Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
        Bella Art Draw  Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2007  Primavera 07  Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006  Hung Out to Dry  Ocular Lab, Melbourne
        Life is Getting Longer  VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2005  Figures of Question  Ord Minett Foyer Gallery, Optus Centre. Melbourne
Six Orbits Around the Blue Moon  Ramp Gallery, Massey University Hamilton,
New Zealand
2004  Life is Very Long  Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Exploration Five   Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2003  Hatched 3  Healthway National Graduate Show,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2002  Graduate Exhibition  Victorian College of the Arts
First  Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne
2001  Fall-Out  VCA Gallery, Melbourne
Line-Up  Mansour Galleries, Melbourne
White Wash  69 Smith Street, Melbourne

Projects
2004            Hole in the Bucket  Next Wave Festival at Clubs, Melbourne
2001            Pedagogical Vehicle Project  Melbourne

Grants and Prizes
2010            New Work Creation and Development Grant Australia Council
2008            New Work Creation and Development Grant   Australia Council
2004            Postcard Prize  Linden Gallery Annual Postcard Exhibition
2002            Maude Glover Fleay Award  Victorian College of the Arts Graduate award
2001            Postcard Prize  Linden Gallery Annual Postcard Exhibition
  Prize for work on a Botanical Theme Linden Gallery Annual Postcard               Exhibition

Collections
McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park
Private Collections
RMIT Union Arts

Writing
2008            Artlink vol 28 no 3 (review)Kate Rohde Flourish
     Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
2007            Artlink vol 27 no 2  (review)
  Eyes Lies and Illusions
     ACMI Fedration Square, Melbourne           
2006            Un. magazine issue 7  (review)
  Martin Sastre Hola Australia! The Iberoamerican Triology 
  RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2005            Un. magazine issue 6  (review)
     A reconstructed world
  Linden Gallery, St Kida Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne               ToyUtopia  (catalogue essay)
  Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2004            Naturalselection.org .nz issue 2 (essay)

Selected Bibliography
2011            Doppelganger: Images of the Human Being
  Editors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, F. Schulze,  Gestalten Books, 2011
2010            Look! Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980
  Dr Anne Marsh, ProMacmillan, 2010
2009            Photofile, Dec 09-March10
  Kristen Rann  i do, i undo, i redo
  Un Magazine 3.1 June 2009
  Guest artist
  New 09 (catalogue essay)
  Zara Stanhope  Monstrous Love
  The Age April 8 2009
  Robert Nelson  Macabre curiosity haunts exhibition
  The Australian
  Edward Colless  Breaching the sensory threshold
  Artworld Issue 9 June/July 2009
  Fiona Gruber  Review
2007            Artlink vol 27 no 4
  Stephanie Britton  (feature) The Obsessive Compulsive Worker-   Artist Primvera 07- Exhibition Catalogue
  Christine Morrow Justine Khamara
  The Program- Feature Review
  Rebecca Fazzalari How Excellently We Did-diddly-do-do Do It
2006            Artlink vol 26, no 4
  Simon Gregg  Life is Getting Longer
  The Age  June 11, 2006
  Ashley Crawford  Life is Getting Longer
  Life is Getting Longer Exhibition Catalogue
  Andrew Goodman (catalogue essay)
  Naturalselection.org .nz issue 5
  Lisa Benson  Is it possible to think straight while orbiting
2005            Volumeeverything
  Clubs publication no 5 (commemmorating Gertrude’s 20th Birthday)
  Un. magazine issue 5
  Lily Hibberd Mess’n With the Medium
  The Age June 3, 2005
  Robert Nelson  Head Turning Photography
  Artlink vol 25, no 1
  Cliff Burt  Life is very Long
2004            accaonline.org.au issue 8
  Jasmina Cininas  Life is Very Long
  Life is Very Long Exhibition Catalogue
  Andrew Goodman (cataogue essay)
2003            Artlink vol 23, no 1
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  Hatched 2003
  Healthway National Graduate Show Catalogue