CV February 2019 Jessie Bullivant 1986 www.jessiebullivant.com

ACADEMIC DETAILS 2018 - 2019 Master of Fine Arts – Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki 2015 Bachelor of (Honours) – First Class - VCA - 2010 - 2011 Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) – with Distinction - RMIT – Melbourne 2011 one semester study abroad at Parsons: The New School - New York 2008 - 2009 Diploma of Visual Art – RMIT- Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 Fantasy 1 and 2 – curated by Saara Hannus – Helsinki (forthcoming) 2019 Kuvan Kevät – University of the Arts Masters Graduate Exhibition - Helsinki 2018 Wayfind - curated by Amelia Winata - Next Wave Festival - Melbourne A thousand times the rolling sun - curated by Gabriel Curtin - HM Prison Beechworth Infrastructuralism - curated by Kent Wilson- Latrobe Art Institute Bendigo 2017 Darebin Art Prize – Bundoora Homestead – Melbourne On Being – curated by Charlotte Cornish – Honeymoon Suite – Melbourne Fort Delta Suite - SPRING 1883 (Art Fair) – Sydney Unproductive Thinking– curated by James Lynch – Deakin University Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize 2017 - National Art School - Sydney 2016 Saturn Returns – curated by James Bowen - Fort Delta John Fries Award 2016 Finalists’ Exhibition – UNSW Galleries – Sydney 2015 VCA School of Art 2015 Graduate Exhibition – Victorian College of the Arts Feeling Material – curated by Benjamin Woods – c3 NEW15 – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 2014 SUB12 – Collaboration with Laresa Kosloff - The Substation West Space Fundraiser – West Space 2013 Sticky Substance – curated by Ulrika Lublin and Johanna Nordin - mellanrummet – the Royal Institute of Art – Stockholm My Avant-Garde is Bigger than Yours– curated by Nik Papas- Kings ARI Sedition – curated by Drew Pettifer - Bus Projects Vantage Point– curated by Will Foster – The Substation West Space 20th Anniversary Annual Fundraiser - West Space 2012 Start - curated by Julia Powles- Blindside Common Room - curated by Isabelle Sully – Rearview We Are That Within Which We Operate - Kings ARI 2011 Drawing Twenty Eleven (BFA Drawing Graduate Exhibition) - RMIT Golden – a series of performance events curated by Malcolm Lloyd - Kings ARI Rupture - 25 East Gallery – Parsons: The New School – New York 2010 Siemens Traveling Scholarship Finalists Exhibition-– RMIT Gallery

SOLO / COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS 2014 Both at once – Linden Centre for Contemporary Art 2013 How to fold a fitted sheet - TCB Giving away something that is free – West Space Interpreting Variable Arrangements – Collaboration with Isadora Vaughan - SUPERMARKET 2013 - International Art Fair – Stockholm 2012 Energetic Discipline Collaboration with Susan Jacobs, First Site Gallery 2010 Lift & Lower – curated by Patrice Sharkey - Platform Gallery RESIDENCIES / WORKSHOPS 2019 The Academy of Fine Arts’ Berlin residency, August – September (forthcoming) 2018 Chris Kraus Masterclass, PUBLICS Helsinki 2016 What happens now? Public Art Melbourne Biennial Lab 2014 PICA, Perth RM Gallery, Auckland 2013 My House Is Too Small, West Melbourne

CURATORIAL 2016 No, no, no! (after you) – KNULP – Sydney (co-curated with Mitchel Cumming) Bedshed – Seventh Gallery 2014 Leisure & Lifestyle – Horsham Regional Art Gallery 2014 Leisure & Lifestyle – Incinerator Gallery (co-curated with Richard Ennis) 2013 Interpreting Variable Arrangements – SUPERMARKET - Stockholm (collaboration with Isadora Vaughan)

WRITING / SPEAKING 2018 Words immediately become events, Writing & Concepts 2016: Volume 1. Edited by Edward Colless & Jan Van Schaik. Dispatches: Helsinki, Art+Australia online 2017 In conversation with Ian Milliss, David Cross & Patrick Pound Deakin Downtown 2016 Writing & Concepts Lecture, 14.04.16 RMIT Design Hub Artist Page – Un Magazine 10.1 Catalogue text – My Father was a rock star exhibition by Julia Powles, Bus Projects

GRANTS / AWARDS 2018 Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant 2017 Finalist - 2017 Darebin Art Prize 2016 Finalist / Highly Commended - John Fries Award 2015 NGV Women’s Association Award 2013 Australia Council ArtStart grant NAVA Australian Artists’ grant 2012 RMIT Mentorship with Susan Jacobs 2011 RMIT equity travel grant University of Mobility in the Asia Pacific (UMAP) scholarship

TEXT / REVIEWS 2018 Amelia Winata, Wayfind, catalogue essay, Next Wave Festival Amelia Winata, 2018 Undiscovered Artists, Art Collector Issue 84 Laura Couttie, Infrastructuralism, review Art+Australia online 2017 Amelia Winata, Mindfulness Meditation: Unproductive Thinking at Deakin University Art Gallery Memoreview.net 20.05.17 James Lynch, Unproductive Thinking, catalogue essay, Deakin University Art Gallery 2016 Oliver Watts, Neo-Normal: John Fries Award 2016 Finalist Exhibition, curator talk Oliver Watts, Neo-Normal: John Fries Award 2016 Finalist Exhibition, catalogue essay Art News Portal Winner of John Fries Award 2016 e-flux Artists Announced. Public Art Melbourne Biennial Lab. Toby Fehily, NEW16 review – artists’ processes are put under the microscope. The guardian. 11.03.16 2015 Tai Snaith, “Smart Arts”, 3RRR, 29.10.15 Georgia Robenstone, “How not to be seen”, Un magazine 9.2 Brendan McCleary, “An Inside Look into an Inside Job”, Runway, Issue 28 Laura Skerlj, “NEW 15” artasiapacific.com April 19 Helen Johnson, “INTRODUCTION: NEW15”, NEW15 catalogue, ACCA Tara McDowell, “The Insider” Catalogue essay, NEW15, ACCA Robert Nelson “Jessie Bullivant's Inside Job at ACCA's NEW15 showcase is ingenious and worth a shrug or two”, The Age, 08.04.2015 Dylan Rainforth, “Incinerator Gallery brings art and sport together at Moonee Ponds”, The Age 20.01.15 2013 Dylan Rainforth “One way to express yourself” The Age 26.06.13 Dylan Rainforth “News travels fast: art can be fleeting” The Age, 22.05.13 Stephen A Russell “Shopping Around: A lot of ideas to fit into one basket” The Age, pg 9. 22.02.2013 Daniel Stephen Miller “Uncommon Room: Profound Essay” Un Magazine 6.2 2012 Julia Powles ”Start” Catalogue essay Patrice Sharkey, ‘Energetic Discipline” catalogue essay