JOHN R. NEESON

johnrneeson@gmail.com


 QUALIFICATIONS.

2002                      

PhD Monash University

1997- 96          
Post Experience Programme, Royal College of Art, London

1995                      
M.A. Monash University.

 

VENUE SPECIFIC PROJECTS

2021

Fitzroy Gardens Mirror: Fitzroy Gardens, City of Melbourne.

 

2019    

I-Park Mirror I-Park: Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale. Cnt. USA. September 2 – 22
Venta Alta Mirror. Malaga. Spain. July 2019
Berlin Studio Window. Venue Referential Installation. Institut für des alles Mögliche, Berlin.
A Garden in Berlin. June 2019
Rocca Maggiore Mirror. Assisi. Residency. May 2019

2018

Convent Mirror
Abbotsford Convent Open Spaces Festival
November 17 & 18
Police Point Mirror. Portsea
Residency.Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. May - June 

 2017

THE READYMADE STILL LIFE / BERLIN
Das Institut für Alles  Mögliche. November 13 - 18
Melbourne Readymade Still Life.
#1. April 19 - May 3 2017
#2. July 24 - August 7 & NITEART July 27, 2017

2016

Shelf Life, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
Foyer Mirror, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
Johnstone Park Mirror, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Victoria.
BUS Mirror, BUS PROJECTS, Melbourne
Glasshouse Wall, Glasshouse Road 3066, Victoria

2015     

The River Bend Projects @ Laughing Waters, Residency
The Urban Bodegon.  blackartprojects, Collingwood
Berlin Project.  Institut für des alles Mögliche, Berlin, Residency.

2014              

Brooklyn Project.  PointB, Brooklyn, Residency.
Number 9. blackartprojects, Melbourne.

2013                      

Venue Specific 2013. blackartprojects@ Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne.

2012              
Substation Light. The Substation, Melbourne

2011                      
Plato’s Cave.  Techno Park Studios, Melbourne.
West Wing Light &  Shelf Life.   WestSpace / The West Wing. Melbourne

2010          
Southern Light. Level 17 Art Space. Victoria University. Melbourne Residency

2009          
Fugitive Light' & 'Northern Light.  AC Institute,  New York  www.artcurrents.org/  

2008                       
Greene Street Stairs. New York.
Available Light. TarraWarra Museum of Art,   www.twma.com.au   Residency

2007                                  
Mirror 108 - 110.  Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.
Second VCA Mirror.  VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery,  Melbourne.   
Paris Mirror. Cité Internationale des Arts,  Paris.

2006                       
Trocadero Mirror.  Trocadero. Melbourne.

2005                       
Blind Window. Maroondah Gallery.

2004                       
White Painted Spaces Painted White.  Conical, Melbourne.

2003                       
Conical   Mirror.  Conical. Melbourne.   www.conical.org.au 
VCA Mirror.  Projects One. VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne.

2002                       
Bridge of Sighs.  Good Vibrations. Museun of  Modern Art, Heide.

2001                       
Self Portrait. Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne.

2000                       
West Space -  Drawing. WestSpace, Melbourne.
Illusion & Reality.  Hering Island. Residency

1999                       

Stereo Graphics . Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne.
Sublime Absence - Drawing. Smith + Stoneley, Brisbane.         
Exposure - Drawing . Linden. St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne.
Drawing 101. 101 Annexe, Melbourne.

1998                       
Linden - Drawing. Linden St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne.

1997                       
Into the Light.  Arthouse. London. Residency

1996                       
Eighth Location. Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual
Lisbon. Residency           
Seventh Location. Riversdale. The Bundanon Trust, NSW. Residency
Sixth Location. Domain Powder Magazine, Hobart. Residency

1995                       
Fifth Location. Kevin Dosser Pavilion, Benalla.                     
Fourth Location. Tower Studio. Queens College, Melbourne.

1994                       
Third Location. C.F.M.E.U. Studio, Melbourne. Residency
Second Location.In vincino Paretaio, Tuscany, Italy.

1993                       
First Location. Linden St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne.

 COLLABORATIONS

March 10 - 24 2018, Mirrors 11 : collaboration with Kez Hughes
38 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood

August/September 2016, Mirrors 1 : collaboration with Kez Hughes,
BUS PROJECTS, Melbourne.

November 21, 2014: Point B Studios; Brooklyn, NY. House: A Work in Process
: Collaboration with Joseph di Ponio.

April 13, 2015: The Gallery at Avalon Island; Orlando, FL. House.
Florida premiere :collaboration with Joseph di Ponio.

February 12 2009, Chapelscapes : collaboration with musicians  Benjamin Lanz and Kyle B. Resnick 
AC Institute New York      

OTHER SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015           
The Urban Bodegon.  Institut für des alles Mögliche, Berlin.

2014    
The Urban Bodegon. AC Institute. New York

2007               
Still Light. Rewark Gallery. University of Sharjah. United Arab Emirates

2006                
Small Stills.  Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne 

2005              
Still. Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

2004              
Double Decoy. Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

2001                      
Surface for Reflection. Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne.

1996                      
Shoalhaven Days. LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne. 
Six Locations. Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland.
Monash Studios, Melbourne.

1992                         
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney.

1991                         
Realities Gallery, Melbourne.

1990                         
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.

1989                         
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

1988                         
Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane.

1987                         
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

'Ten Years in Black & White.' Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart.

Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane.

1986                          
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney.

1985                         
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

1984                       
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

1982                         
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

1980                         
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

1976                         
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

1974                         
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

1973                         
Pinacotheca, Melbourne.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS.

2021 
Listen from the Well : Space of Culture, Barbaros, Turkey  
Sendeanstalt: youtube channel. Berlin/Athens

2020
Assisi International Contemporary Art. Italy

2019       
Deconstruction  AC Institute. New York
Platforms Project. Independent Art Fair. Athens, Greece.
Postcard Salon. Jarvis Dooney Gallerie. Berlin
Bridges&Walls&Bridges. AC Institute. New York

2017
USB shuffle show. Institut für des alles Mögliche, Berlin. 

2016 
Tricking the eye - contemporary trompe l'oeil. Geelong Art Gallery.Geelong, Au.   Oslo Flanneur Festival, Oslo, Norway https://osloff.com/john-r-neeson/ 
Point B' Virtual Exhibition Space http://pointb.org/event/transcendence/

2015             
The USB Show.  Institut für des alles Mögliche, Berlin.     
8 x 18. PointB, Brooklyn.

2013              
Object Abuse. Spinach, London.

2012              
OBJECTIVES. TechnoPark Studios, Melbourne.

2011              
West Space 2011 – Annual Fundraiser

Substation Contemporary Art Prize. Substation Arts Centre

Cause and Affect : Art, Community and Generosity’ Level 17 ArtSpace

2010              
Imaging the Apple. AC Institute. New York City.  www.imagingtheapple.com
Constellations – Small Drawings. RMIT University Gallery. Melbourne 

 
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Ian Potter Museum,Melbourne.

2009                         
Instructions for Initial Conditions. Drift Station & Parallaxspace. 
Shelter :On Kindness. RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne. 
SketchBook Project & Tour. Art House Coop. Brooklyn. NYC 
6x6x2009. Rochester Contemporary Art Center. NYS. USA

2008              
1000 Drawings. Artists Space. New York City   
Recent Acquisitions’.City of Port Phillip.

2007                       
Snap Freeze. TarraWarra Museum of Art     
Full Frontal. Plimsoll Gallery  University of Tasmania. Hobart

2005                 
Whiteout’ Maroondah  Gallery & Regional Galleries 

2004 
Imaging the Apple.
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, , Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania,LaTrobe regional Gallery, RMIT Project Space, Geelong Art Gallery, Noosa Regional Gallery,War Memorial Art Gallery, University of Sydney, McClelland Gallery.
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize. Bendigo Gallery.

2003  
Projects One.  VCA Gallery, Melbourne.         
Works on Paper - by  Australian Artists. Anhui University. China.

2002             
Good Vibrations.  Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.   
Summer Heat. Noosa Regional Gallery.

2001               
Little Treasures -  Artists’ Books. RMIT. Gallery, Melbourne.

2000                       
The Exquisite Corpse. Bendigo Art Gallery.

1999                       
‘Exposure’ Linden. St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne.

1998                       
Drawing. Linden. StKIlda Arts Centre, Melbourne. 
A.C.A.F. 6. Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne. 
Future Perfect. A.C.U.A.D. Melbourne. 
Nature.Cooloola Public Gallery. Queensland.

1997                       
Notations. Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne.   
Forming the Line at  Hales Gallery, London.

1996               
Absolut Secret. Royal College of Art, London. 
Tangibility?. Queens Domain/Plimsoll Gallery. Hobart.                             
The Art of Collecting #2. Linden St KIlda Arts Centre, Melbourne.

1995                                 
The Derwent Collection. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.                 
Australia Felix. Benalla, Victoria               
Chameleon: A Decade. CAST, Hobart.

1993                               
Arrangement -Australian Still life 1973-1993. Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne..

1992                               
Food in Art. Tolarno Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne.                                                                         
Miniatures. Realities Gallery, Melbourne.     
Contemporary  Drawing. Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane.                                                Rediscovery-Australian Artists in Europe 1982-1992. Worlds Fair, Seville & Australian Embassy, Paris.    Inherited Absolute.   Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Melbourne.                                                  The Angelic Space. Monash University Gallery, Melbourne.

1991                
Art & Architecture. Faculty of Architecture University of Melbourne.                                                                From the Landscape. Museum of Contemporary Art. Brisbane.

1990                                                                                                                                                     Fire & Ice:Aspects of Contremporary Australian Surrealism. Manly Museum Art  Gallery    

1989                                                                                                                                          Landscape & Light. Macquarie Galleries, Sydney.                       

1988                                                                                                                                                    The New Romantics. Touring Exhibition NSW.                                                                                  Australian Tapestries 1976-1988. National Gallery of Victoria.

1987                                                                                                                                                      Art Banks' Big Paintings. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.                                                                          The New Romantics. Macquarie Galleries, Sydney.                                                                                    Selected Contemporary Drawings & Invitation Prize.  Heide Park & Art Gallery.            

1986                                                                                                                                                    Still-Life. City of Ipswich Gallery, Queensland.                                                                                    Aspects of Tasmanian Landscape.  Plimsoll’Gallery. University of Tasmania. Hobart.

1985                       
Isolaustralia. Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, Venice.                                                                    Australiana. Student Cultural Centres, Belgrade and Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

1984                                                                                                                                              Changing Hemispheres-2 Eras of Australian Art Abroad. Melbourne University  Gallery.

1982                                                                                                                                                    The Seventies. National Gallery  of Victoria, Melbourne.

1981                                                                                                                                        Pinacotheca at Watters. Watters Gallery, Sydney.

1979                                                                                                                                                    The Work and Its Contex. Australian Embassy. Paris

1978                                                                                                                                                  Road Show 2. V.A.B. travelling exhibition N.S.W.

1975                                                                                                                                               Artists' Artists. National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne.

1967                                                                                                                                                  Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney.

 

ARTICLES  & PUBLICATIONS

2016

ANYWHERE, article The Urban Bodegon, Project Anywhere,Parsons NY,
University of Newcastle Au, ISBN 978-0-692-322297-0

2014    

‘Art and Research at the Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity'.
 
The Urban Bodegon. Conference Paper ISBN 978-0-692-322297-0

https://www.academia.edu/9354343/THE_URBAN_BODEG%C3%93N

2012       

'OBJECTIVES'

https://www.academia.edu/3451441/OBJECTIVES

2010              

‘Imaging the Apple’  Catalogue. AC Institute. New York City. ISBN 978-0-9841309-2-4

2008               

‘On Three Decades On’ Dale Hickey-Life in a Box. Catalogue. Ian Potter Museum of Art. University of Melbourne. ISBN 978-0-734039-04-0

2005                       

Grove Art On Line  www.groveart.com Oxford University Press. New York 

(Entries - Installation, J Dunkley-Smith, Australian Still Life)

2004                         

‘Imaging the Apple’  Catalogue University of Ballarat ISBN 187 6851 120

‘Les Obscurities de Beaumont’  

2003                        

‘Projects One – VCA ‘  Catalogue  VCA/University of Melbourne

2002           

‘Time, Light and Space – Mimetic Painting & Drawing as  Installation’  PHD Thesis (MonashUniversity)

1993

'Arrangement - Australian Still life 1973 - 1993' Catalogue. Museum of  Modern Art at Heide.ISBN. 0 947 104 216.

1986               

'On Site 2' Catalogue. University of Tasmania. ISBN. 0 85901 343

1985               

'6 Drawing.' Catalogue. University of Tasmania. ISBN. 0 85901 .

 

EXHIBITIONS CURATED

2014
'The Urban Bodegon' AC Institute. New York City. 

2012              
'OBJECTIVES' TechnoPark Studios, Melbourne.

2010              
‘Imaging the Apple’  AC Institute. New York City.

2004          
‘Imaging the Apple’  Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania,LaTrobe regional Gallery, RMIT Project Space, Geelong Art Gallery, Noosa Regional Gallery, War Memorial Art Gallery, University of Sydney, McClelland Gallery.

2003              
‘Projects One – VCA’  VCA Gallery, Melbourne.

1993              
‘Arrangement - Australian Still life 1973 - 1993.' Museum of Modern Art, Heide.  

1986          
‘On Site 2’. Artists' in Residence Programme and exhibition Centre for the Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart.

1985                
‘6 DRAWING.’ Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart.

 

AWARDS & FUNDING.

2021                                                                                                                                                        City of Melbourne, Artists Project Grant.

2019   
I-Park Site-Responsive Biennale. Invited participant.

2016
City of Melbourne - Artist Project Grant

2015
City Of Yarra - Artist Project Grant

2014              
PointB Residency. New York.

Institut für des alles Mögliche, Residency.  Berlin.   

Copyright Agency Career Fund

City Of Yarra - Artist Project Grant

2009                          
Dame Joan Sutherland Grant American Australian Association NYC

Arts Project Grant. City of Melbourne             

2007    
New Work Grant.  Australia Council. VACB

2003                       
Research Grant. Arts Academy. University of Ballarat

NETS  Victoria. Touring Funds

Telstra Country Wide   Exhibition Funding

1998                                  
Australia Council, Visual Arts & Craft Board, New Work Grant\

1997                        
Royal College of Art, London.  Project Funds

1996              
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts  Scholarship.

Royal College of Art, Studio. Ar.Co-Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Lisbon.

1996
Australian Post Graduate Research Award ( PhD )

Artist in Residence -  The Bundanon Trust.

1994                      
Artist in Residence - Tower Studio. Queens College. 200 Gertrude St

Artist in Residence - C.F.M.E.U. Studio. Trades Hall. Melbourne.

1993                       
Research Grant S.V.P.A.E. University of Melbourne.

( Production of Instructional Video Resources for Visual Arts&  Overseas Research )

1986                        
Research Grant, University of Tasmania Interstate exhibition of  new work

Visual Arts Board funding for ‘On Site’ University of Tasmania 

1983                      
Visual Arts Board Overseas Studio, Artist in Residence Paretaio Studio, Italy.

1981                      
Visual Arts Board Grant, for development of new work

 

COMMISSIONS.

1993                                                                                                                                                  Cone Project. St Kilda Town Hall. City of Port Phillip

1986                                                                                                                                            Members' Print, Chameleon, Hobart

1981                                                                                                                                                Victorian Tapestry Workshop.

 

COLLECTIONS /REPRESENTATIONS

ArtBank, Australian National Gallery, Bundanon Trust, City of Port Phillip, Geelong Art Gallery, Mornington Regional Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, University of Tasmania, University of Ballarat, University of Melbourne.

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAHY.

2011

GAGER TREVOR  Southern Light – John R. Neeson ArtsHub Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Shelter: On Kindness Catalogue RMIT University ISBN 9780980367980 (hbk) 2010

'Northern Light-Fugitive Light'  AC Institute  New York  www.artcurrents.org/  2009

RANN KIRSTEN  ‘Available Light’ Tarrawarra Museum of Art .  2008

RANN KIRSTEN  ‘Second VCA Mirror’ VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery. 2007

DAHL KAREE  ‘Still Lights’ University of Sharjah. U.A.E. 2007

BLYTH JENNA ‘Snap Freeze’ Catalogue. Tarrawarra Museum of Art.  2007

HOLMES JONATHAN & ZIIKA PAUL  ‘Full Frontal’ Catalogue. University of Tasmania  2007

McCULLOCH A. S & E ‘New Encyclopedia of Australian Art’ Aus Art Rditions. 2006

DAY CHARLOTTE ed. ‘a short ride in a fast machine gertrude contemporary art spaces 1985 -2005’

KAJI-0’GRADY Sandra ‘Projects One’ Catalogue. VCA. Melbourne. 2003

PEERS Juliet. ‘Good Vibrations’ Review.Artlink. Vol.23 No 1. 2003

StTANHOPE Zara. ‘Good Vibrations’ Catalogue. Heide MoMA2002

HOLMES Jonathan. 'tangibility ?' Catalogue.Tasmanian School of Art. Hobart. 1996

WOLFE Ross 'Samstag's Class of '96'. Samstag Program.University of South Australia.

HAMMOND Victoria 'The Derwent Collection.' Catalogue. Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery 1995

C.A.S.T. Tasmania. 'Chameleon : A Decade' Catalogue. 1995.

ARMOUR Mim. 'A conversation with John R. Neeson. ‘Heide Newsletter’ Summer 1993-94.

STEPHENS Andrew. 'Still life lives, but with fresh fruit.' The Age.' Dec. 17 1993.

HEATHCOTE Christopher. 'An unfashionable but thought-provoking show ' The Age. Dec. 22 1993.

ZIMMER Jenny. 'Arrangement.' Stages. Victorian Arts Centre magazine.Jan/Feb. '94.

ROONEY Robert. 'Our sill life assurance.' The Australian.' December 11-12. 1993.

HEATHCOTE Christopher. 'A continuing search for enduring values.' The Age. October 29. 1993

HEATHCOTE Christopher. ' A fresh direction.'  Art Monthly Australia. March 1993. Number 57.

HEATHCOTE Christopher. 'Imagined worlds provide inspiration for new movement.' The Age. 3/1993.

HEATHCOTE Christopher. 'Shows that speak for the Gallery as well as the art.'  The Age. 1993

ROONEY Robert. 'Boom Goes the art of parenthood.' TheWeekend Australian. August 15-16, 1992.

DRURY Nevill,'Images in Contemporary Australian Painting.' Craftsman House, Sydney1992.

ENGBERG Juliana, 'The Angelic Space. A Celebration of Piero Della Francesca.'  Monash University Gallery. 1992. Catalogue.

Gertsakis Elizabeth, 'Inherited Absolute. Artists with Children.'  Catalogue ACCA 1992.

COLLESS Edward, 'Rediscovery : Australian Artists in Europe' 1982 - 1992.' Catalogue. AETA & University of Tasmania.

APTHORP Shirley, 'The gain in Spain', The Bulletin, June 23rd 1992, p. 100.

HEATHCOTE Christopher, 'Neeson and McRae explore the past to rediscover the art of communication.'  The Age,  9.10.91.

CHANIN Eileen (ed), Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, 1990.