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.