GRANT STEVENS

Born 1980, Brisbane QLD Lives and works in Sydney

EDUCATION

PhD, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) (First Class), QUT, Brisbane, 2002

SELECTED AWARDS

2013 New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts 2013 City of Hobart Art Prize, Highly Commended for Tranquility Falls 2010 Skills and Arts Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts 2010 The International Art Residency, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China 2009 The John Coburn Emerging Artist Award, 58th Blake Prize, National Art School, Sydney 2008 New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts Spirit of Youth Award (SOYA), Qantas 2007 RIPE: Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award 2006 Los Angeles Studio Residency, Australia Council for the Arts 2005 The Artworkers Award, Artworkers Alliance, Queensland

RESIDENCIES 2016 Bundanon Artist in Residence, Bundanon

COLLECTIONS

Artbank Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Balnaves Collection Bendigo Regional Gallery, Bendigo Deutsche Bank Australia Kaldor Art Projects Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore Monash University Museum of Art, Monash Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Kansas, USA Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 What You Seek is Seeking You, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2015 Dark Mess, Boxcopy, Brisbane 2014 What We Had Was Real, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington 2014 Hold Together, Fall Apart, Starkwhite, Auckland 2014 Supermassive, Screen Space, Melbourne 2013 Supermassive, LA Louver, Venice, California 2013 Tranquility Falls, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Angel Place, Sydney 2012 Seriously, Relax, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2010 Burst, PICA, Perth Horizons, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2009 Wobbly, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2009 Fazed, Starkwhite, Auckland 2008 No Bad Days, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 2008 Really Really, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2007 Education, Education, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2007 Cliché and Collusion: Video Works by Grant Stevens, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 2007 Going Steady, Starkwhite, Auckland 2007 The Switch, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome 2006 New Ideas for Cake, The Block, Brisbane 2006 Cut to the Cheese: Selected Works, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane 2006 The Switch, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore

2005 I Like Ike, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2005 When There’s Love, Metro Arts, Brisbane 2005 Like Two Ships, Kings ARI, Melbourne 2004 Some Want It All, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2004 Dazed and Praised, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 S+S Melbourne Pop-up, Melbourne, Australia 2017 Out of the ordinary, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney 2017 Group Show 2017, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2016 Group Exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2016 Group Exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2015 GOMA Q: Contemporary Art from Queensland, QAGOMA, Brisbane 2015 In Motion, Starkwhite, Auckland 2015 My Feet Would Hurt If They Still Existed, Alaska Projects, Sydney (curated by Finn Marchant and Nicholas Shearer) 2014 Striking Contrasts, touring exhibition, various venues including Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW (curated by dLux Media Arts) 2014 The Wandering: Moving Images from the MCA Collection, touring exhibition, various venues including 2014 Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld, Artspace Mackay, Qld, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, ACT, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW 2014 It’s Timely, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney (catalogue) (curated by Paul Howard and Gary Carsley) 2013 Bazinga!, Starkwhite, Auckland (curated by Robert Leonard) 2013 We Used to Talk About Love, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (catalogue) (curated by Natasha Bullock) 2013 City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 2012 Desire Lines, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (curated by Juliana Engberg) 2012 Speak to Me, Experimenta 5th International Biennial of Media Art, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (curated by Abigail Moncrieff) 2012 Greatest Hits Volume 3, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (curated by Anna Zammit) 2011 National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane 2011 The New Arcadia, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore 2011 VideoRow, The Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles, California 2011 Let the Healing Begin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (curated by Robert Leonard) 2010 Big Tree Foot, J & Z Gallery, Shenzhen, China 2010 City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 2010 In Order Out, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Speaking in Tongues, Nature Morte Berlin, Germany 2009 The more you ignore me, the closer I get, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane 2009 Word, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney 2009 Some Text Missing, CAST, Hobart 2009 Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion, Brisbane Festival (curated by Vivian Ziherl) 2008 Ornament is a Crime, Gallery 1927, Los Angeles 2008 The Dating Show, IMA @ TCB, Brisbane 2008 Typecast, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne 2008 neo-goth: back in black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane 2008 Artisti, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome 2007 The Leisure Class, the Australian Cinematheque, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane 2007 Bad Brains, a little blah blah, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2007 New Deities: Art and the Cult of Celebrity, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart 2006 Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2006 Man/Trouble, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide (catalogue) (curated by Peter McKay) 2005 Like Two Ships, Elastic residence, London 2005 Prime05: New Art From Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 2004 Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (catalogue) 2004 Octopus 5, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (curated by Nicholas Chambers) (catalogue) 2004 Zeitgeist, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney 2004 Gravity, MAAP Festival, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (catalogue)

SELECTED SCREENINGS AND COMMISSIONS

2017 Art By Accident, Murray Art Museum, Albury, NSW 2014 Public Art Screens, i/o/lab, Stavanger, Norway 2014 MAF Video, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne 2013 Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney 2012 Mingling, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney

2011 Kick Off, Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast 2011 Move Primary, Art In Motion, Kaldor Public Art Projects 2010 Next Wave Time Lapse, Federation Square’s Big Screen, Melbourne

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2014 Tappenden, Alice. ‘Grant Stevens in Wellington’, Eyecontact. 9 August 2014 Cardy, Tom. ‘When words collide’, The Dominion Post, Wellington Review, 1 July 2014 McNamara, T.J. ‘The inadequacies of language’, NZ Herald, 19 July 2014 Hurrell, John. ‘Grant Stevens in Auckland’, Eyecontact. 16 July 2014 Webb, Penny. ‘Tapping the heart of glass’, The Age, 20 June, p. 30 2014 Frost, Andrew. ‘It’s Timely review: Australia’s long lost radicalism revisited’, The Guardian, 2 May 2014 Gibb, Susan. ‘We Used to Talk About Love: Balnaves Contemporary Photomedia’, Eyeline, Issue 80, pp. 96 - 97 2014 Ferrell, Robyn. ‘Between Cliché and Rapture, We Used to Talk About Love: Balnaves Contemporary Photomedia’, Eyeline, Issue 80, p. 97 2013 Pagel, David. ‘A serene state of mind in orbit’, The Los Angeles Times, February 6 2013 Mudie, Ella. ‘Love might not come easily to art, but...’, RealTime Arts, Issue 114 2013 Jaspers, Anneke. ‘Grant Stevens’ in We Used to Talk About Love, Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 124 - 125 2013 Bullock, Natasha. ‘We Used to Talk About Love – and Photography’ in We Used to Talk About Love, Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 9 - 35. 2013 Hurrell, John. ‘Life’s Universal (Hackneyed?) Dilemmas’, Eyecontact 2012 Millner, Jacqueline. Grant Stevens: Seriously, Relax. Exhibition Catalogue. Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2011 Kraus, Chris. ‘Turtles, Torture and Vapour’, in Grant Stevens: Are You Upset With Me?, Institute of Modern Art and Gallery Barry Keldoulis: Brisbane and Sydney, pp. 83 - 87 2011 Pennings, Mark. ‘Cliches, Communication and the Meaning of Existence’, in Grant Stevens: Are You Upset With Me?, Institute of Modern Art and Gallery Barry Keldoulis: Brisbane and Sydney, pp. 7 - 13 2009 Kent, Rachel. MCA Collection: New Acquisitions 2009, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2009 Harvey, Nicola. ‘Word’, Frieze, online, August 2009 Hurrell, John. ‘The Edges of Sincerity’, Eyecontact, August 2009 Garner, Nick. ‘Grant Stevens: Interview’, Das Superpaper, Issue 4, March, pp. 7 - 10 2008 Hogg, Vivian. ‘Grant Stevens: In conversation’, Eyeline, Issue 67, pp. 16 - 24 2008 Frost, Andrew. “Warning: this artist is messing with your head”, Australian Art Collector, Issue 44, April - June, pp. 108 – 113 2008 Fitzgerald, Michael. ‘RIPE: ANZ Private Bank and Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award’, Art & Australia, Vol 45, No.3, Autumn, p. 496 Oliva, Achille Bonito, Artisti Solitari - Uno Sguardo dal Ponte sul Terzo Millenio, Silvana Editori, Rome, Italy