CHRISTIAN THOMPSON CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Museum of Others, Photo London Fair, London, United Kingdom
Museum of Others, Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Others, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Christian Thompson, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Bega, New South Wales, Australia
2015 Collection+: Christian Thompson, curated by Alana Kushnir, SCAP Project 29, Sherman
Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
Christian Thompson REMIX: a decade of photography, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Mystic Renegade - Christian Thompson, Chasm Gallery in collaboration with Michael Reid,
Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Christian Thompson, Dead Tongue, Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Polari, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
We Bury Our Own, The Hospital Club, London, United Kingdom
2013 Pagan Sun, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
2012 We Bury Our Own, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
2011 King Billy, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Christian Thompson Survey Show, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
Heat, Chalkhorse Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2009 Lost Together, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
2008 Australian Graffiti, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
2007 The Sixth Mile, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Constellations, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
2006 The Sixth Mile, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Vote Yes – An Aboriginal Thompson Project, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2004 The Gates of Tambo, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Emotional Striptease, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
Emotional Striptease, 24HRArt Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Parap, Darwin, Australia
2002 Show Me the Way to Go Home, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Blaks Palace, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
Gundang Ngaya Burbala, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia CHRISTIAN THOMPSON CV
2000 BIGIYI (Dream to Dream), Next Wave Festival, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Spring 1883, with Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, Australia
30 Years of CCP, curated by Naomi Cass, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns, Australia
Screen as a Room, curated by Nikki Lam, Newport Substation, Melbourne, Australia
Light Moves: Contemporary Australian Video Art, National Gallery of Australia, Travelling Exhibition
Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
Australian exotica, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
The 16th Bedroom, The Hospital Club, London, United Kingdom
2015 Christian Thompson, Bidjara People, The 8th Asia Pacific Triennal of Contemporary Art
(APT8), Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Christian Thompson in The National Self Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Australia, Brisbane, Australia
WALLPOWER: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography & Photomedia, Michael Reid, Sydney, Australia
2014 Seventh Skin, curated by Claire Watson, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
The Other and Me, The Sharjah Museum, United Arab Emirates
Magdalen Arts Week (with Sunil Gupta), Magdalen College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Dong Gang Museum of Photography in Yeongwol-gun, Gangwon-do Province, Taiwan
Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
PULSE: Reflections on the body,Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Australia
2013 Perennials: Selected USQ Alumni–The First Forty Years, curated by Alumna Bianca Acimovic, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
2012 The Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Crossing Cultures, The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, United States of America
UnDisclosed 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra CHRISTIAN THOMPSON CV
Contemporary Indigenous Art in Australia: the Sordello Missana Collection, Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain
Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Biennial 2012, curated by Victoria Lynn, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
Hijacked III – Australia/United Kingdom, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
Hijacked III – Australia/United Kingdom, Quad Gallery & The Silk Mill, Derby, United Kingdom
Hijacked III – Australia/United Kingdom, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Hijacked III – Australia/United Kingdom, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Shadow Life, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976 -2011, National Museum of Korean Art, Seoul, South Korea
Double Vision, McLelland Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Double Vision, curated by Penny Teale, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria, Australia
Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, Plugin Institue of Contemporary Art, Canada
Tell Me Tell Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
POWERHOUSE, Osney Power Station, Oxford, United Kingdom
SOLO, Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom
Freedom Riders: Art and Activism 1960s to Now, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Beauty, Vanity and Narcissism, Three Aboriginal Male Artist Photographers, Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
Change Has Come, UTS Tower Foyer, University of Technology, Sydney
2010 The Beauty of Distance/Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age–17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Before and After Science–2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2009 Culture Warriors–National Indigenous Art Triennial, American University, Washington D C, United States of America
Hybrid Arts Fest Australia, Radialsystem V, Berlin, Germany
Me-Take, Indigenous Self-Representation in Photomedia, Perth Centre for Contemporary Photography, Perth, Australia CHRISTIAN THOMPSON CV
Family Guy, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Half-Light: Portraits from Black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
2008 ReVisioning Australia, curated by Dr Ruth Johnstone, Belfast Print Workshop Gallery, Ireland
Kate Challis RAKA Award 2008: Contemporary Indigenous Visual Arts, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia
2007 Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial 2007, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Eye to ‘I’ – The Self in Recent Art, curated by Geoffrey J Wallis, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
This Crazy Love, curated by Jan Duffy, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Workin’ Down Under, curated by Murray Horne, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, United States of America
Andy and Oz: Parallel Visions, curated by Dr Deborah Hart and Thomas Sokolowski, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United States of America
ap.ro.pos: Human Rights and Art (Part of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival), curated by Romy Sedman, Bus, Melbourne, Australia
Schittering-Brilliance, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2006 Terra Incognita, curated by Jacqueline Doughty, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Next Wave Alumni Exhibition, BUS Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Self Made Man, curated by Kerrie-Dee Johns, Spacement, Melbourne, Australia
Black on White, curated by Maree Clarke and Megan Evans, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Blackspot, curated by Geraldine Barlow, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, Monash University, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
2004 Images, hedendaagse foto’s door Aboriginal kunstenaars (Images, contemporary photos by Aboriginal artists, curated by Annette van Ham, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Skin, curated by Fiona Foley and Jennie Gorringe, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia
Passage, curated by Brook Andrew, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Emotional Striptease (as a projection) in Transforming New Media: Australian Indigenous Artists, Gallery 3, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore CHRISTIAN THOMPSON CV
MAAP Gravity, Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
A Matter of Time, 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, curated by Suzie Attiwill, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Australia
Blackspot, curated by Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Spirit and Vision, Kunst der Gegenwart Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
The Space Between, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Art Paris, The Louvre, Paris, France
Sguardi Australiani, Camogli, Italy
2003 Tactility: Two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Australiens, curated by Eva Fernandez, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Drama is Conflict, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
TRAFFIC, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2002 Crossing: New art from Australia, curated by Peter Westwood, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, and University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
2001 LUMO Intohimo, Photographic Triennial of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Nothink! Victorian Indigenous Artists Explore Issues That Effect Indigenous People Today, curated by the Koori Arts Unit, Linden Gallery and Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Biennale De Noumea of Contemporary Art, New Caledonia
AWARDS
2015, Participant, Marina Abramović: In Residence, Kaldor Public Art Project
2014, Recipient, Wellington International Artist Residency, New Zealand
2014, Melbourne Art Tram
2012, Adobe Honourable Mention, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
2012, Finalist, The Anne Landa Award
2010, Charlie Perkins Scholarship for Post-Graduate Studies at University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2008, Highly Commended, Kate Challis RAKA Award for Indigenous Creative Artists
2007, RIPE Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award (Highly Commended)
2006, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Artist
2006 - 2008, Centre Contemporary Photography, Kodak Summer Salon Best Portrait for ‘In Search of the International Look’. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON CV
2005, Curatorial Internship at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2005, Creative Fellow State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2005, Visual Arts and Crafts Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2004, New Media Arts Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2003, City of Melbourne Arts and Culture Grant
2003, Australia Council for the Arts, Emerging Artist Grant
2002, City of Melbourne Arts and Culture Grant, Melbourne
TEXTS & CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016, The Creators Project, ‘Christine Prescott Follows Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Frida Kahlo’, Christian Thompson (http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/christian-thompson-christine-prescott), 8 August
(Also published on Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/27774652/Christine_Prescott_Tear_Out_Your_Art)
2006, A Lot of Love Goin’ Round, curated by Christian Thompson, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2006, Flash (Centre for Contemporary Photography), ‘Our Truth Will Be Told–The Art of Lisa Bellear 1961–2006’, Christian Thompson, #3 Oct 06-Feb 07, p 10
2002, High Tide, curated by Christian Thompson, Linden, Melbourne, Australia
2001, What’s Love Got To Do With It?, curated by Christian Thomspon, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Date unknown, Machine, ‘The Art of Politics / The Politics of Art: The Place of Indigenous Contemporary Art, ed. Fiona Foley’, review by Christian Thompson, Issue 2.1, p 12
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