DEBORAH KELLY 2 page CV B.1962 Lives

2021 The Gods of Tiny Things, Australian Centre of the Moving Image, Melbourne, Jul-Oct SOLO EXHIBITIONS CREATION: SONG, Antidote Festival, (September) SELECTED CREATION: Installation and performance The Lockup Gallery, Newcastle (October) CREATION: Event and exhibition Lismore Regional Gallery (November) CREATION: Publication and exhibition Griffith University Art Museum (forthcoming 2022) The Monstrous and the Sublime (with James Gleeson) Wagner Contemporary, Sydney 2020 Deborah Kelly VS the Archive Cross Arts Projects, Sydney (postponed Covid-19) Always Coming Home Finkelstein Gallery, Melbourne (postponed Covid-19) 2019 Magical Thinking Wagner Contemporary, Sydney (online) 2018 No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory) tour: Twelve city / regional galleries, 2014-2018 Life in the Ruins Fabian + Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland 2017 Venus Envy, Kvindemuseet, Aarhus, Denmark 2016 Scenes From The Death of Books Galleries UNSW 2015 Deborah Kelly: Bodies of Work Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewer’s Bequest, NSW 2014 The Miracles Tweed Heads Regional Gallery, touring to WPCC Dubbo, BRAG Bathurst, Counihan Gallery Melbourne 2013 Between Thresholds Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin 2011 Make More Monsters Artspace, Sydney 2009 Deborah Kelly, Contemporary Art Centre of South , Adelaide Big Butch Billboard, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

2021 CREATION: the collective dance, commissioned by Solstice Festival/MCA, Sydney INSTALLATION/ PERFORMATIVE CREATION: the Liturgy, presented at Queer Nu Werk, Performance Space, Sydney NSW WORKS 2020 CREATION: the Dance, dance project with Angela Goh for Performance Space, Carriageworks NSW SELECTED 2019 Women With Knives, durational community collage collaboration for the Cementa Festival 2018 The Gods Of Tiny Things, landscape installation, animation + music for Siteworks Festival 2017 Imagining A Future, durational workshop-based collaboration, Kirsten Kjaers Museum, Denmark 2015 Kampung Kolase, collaborative collage installation on Siliwangi Bridge village, West Java 2014 Lucy, Olivia, Emma collaborative portrait work commission for the Gates Foundation, Seattle USA 2009 Tank Man Tango, dancing memorial for the Tiananmen Square protests, in 24 cities on 4/6/2009 2001-10 BOAT-PEOPLE, co-founder of unauthorised performance/intervention artist protest group

2021 The National, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia GROUP EXHIBITIONS Flesh After Fifty, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne SELECTED A World of One’s Own, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC Fest Anca, Slovakia Film Festival Bremen, Germany Burnt Experimental Video Art Festival, Montreal, Canada Little Islands Festival, Greece 2020 Cut It! Collage to Meme, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD Queer Contemporary, Galleries, Sydney 20/20: Shared Visions: 40 years of Contemporary Artbank Gallery, Sydney Experimental Film Guanajato, Mexico Fringe! Queer Arts Festival, London UK 2019 Being Human Wellcome Trust permanent exhibition, London UK Cementa, Kandos biannual festival/exhibition, NSW Here We Are, Art Gallery of NSW KuirFest, Bi’bak Gallery, Berlin, Germany The Dora Ohlfsohn Commission, Art Gallery of NSW Channels Video Art Biennial, Melbourne 52 Artists, 52 Actions, Artspace, Sydney National Print Award finalists exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre WA Rococolonial, Hazelhurst Art Gallery + touring Palma Videodanza, Mallorca, Spain 2018 Craftivism Shepparton Art Museum (touring 2019-2020) Spaced3: North by Southeast, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Counternarratives: Performance in Public Space, Maryland College of Art, Baltimore USA My Monster: The Human Animal Hybrid, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Australia PhotoBasel Basel, Switzerland Portofemme Festival Porto, Portugal Strangelove Festival, Antwerp, Belgium FestAnca Zilina, Slovakia Museum of Love & Protest, NAS Gallery, Sydney Australia DEBORAH KELLY 2 page CV B.1962 MELBOURNE Lives SYDNEY

2017 Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art & FeminismACCA, Melbourne Australia Bideodromo Festival, Sarean Cultural Centre, Bilbao, Spain Moving Histories//Future Projections, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD, National tour Festival of (In)appropriation, Los Angeles USA (touring USA and Canada) 2016 London Experimental Film Festival National Works on Paper Award Mornington Peninsula Gallery. Winner, Acquisition Award. The Art of Parts Art Gallery of NSW 2015 of Thessaloniki Open One, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool UK Ghostwriter Project, Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia Performance Presence/Video Time Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide MONA FOMA, Hobart, TAS 2014 Biennale of Sydney Zero Tolerance, MOMA PS1, NYC TarraWarra Biennial, (in boat-people artist collective) Ada & After, ICA, London 2013 Meine Liebe Schwan, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany Cut with the Kitchen Knife Gippsland, Swan Hill Art & Central Goldfields Galleries (tour) 2012 Contemporary Australia: Women Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane Festival Imagem-Contato, Sao Paulo, Brazil Urban Festival, The Mosque, Zagreb, Croatia 2011 Burn What You Cannot Steal Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia From Blank Pages Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea 2010 An das Gerät! Halle 14, Baumwollespinnerei, Leipzig, and Galerie ACC Weimar, Germany Crosstalk Video Art Festival 2010 Budapest, Hungary

AWARDS AND 2021 Recipient, Sydney Opera House Artist Commision RESIDENCIES Destination NSW Solstice Festival Commission SELECTED 2020 Shortlisted, Fivex Public Art Prize, Melbourne Finalist, National Works on Paper Award MPRG Artist in Residence C-Lab, Arts House, Melbourne Recipient, Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant Create NSW New Work Grant City of Sydney Project Grant 2019 Winner, Fotogenia Dulac Avant Garde Award (first prize) Mexico City International Artist in Residence Wellcome Trust, London Nov-Dec 2018 Artist in Residencies: Noosa Regional Gallery QLD; Bankstown Arts Centre NSW; Bundanon Trust NSW; Cementa NSW 2017 Artist in Residence, Kvindemuseet, Aarhus, Denmark for the European Capital of Culture program 2015 Winner, Cayte Latta LGBTIQ Visual Arts Award 2012 Winner, Albury Art Prize 2011 Research fellowship, Copyright Agency Limited 2009 Travel research grant: Kulturstiftung Des Bundes, Weimar, Germany Winner, Fisher’s Ghost Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY Critical engagement in recent books and journals: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pPmrR2p_-RCCki912pF4u6cWxMjN7NkF?usp=sharing

2016 Master of Fine Arts, UNSW EDUCATION Recipient, University Scholarship Award

2018- Commenced PhD studies, UNSW Recipient, Scientia Award (on hold)