Macushla Robinson

Relevant employment Current Assistant Curator The New School Art Collection, New York

Current Research Assistant Department of Literary Studies Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York

2013 - 15 Assistant Curator, Contemporary International Art Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia

2010 - 13 Curatorial Assistant Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia

2008 - 09 Curatorial Assistant, Australian prints and drawings National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2008 Assistant in the digital archives, National Library of Australia

Publications / exhibition catalogues 2015 See you at the barricades, exh. cat. Macushla Robinson (ed) AGNSW: Sydney, 2015

2015 Entries, exh. cat. Suhanya Raffel (ed) Go East: the Brian and Gene Sherman Collection of Contemporary Asian Art, AGNSW, 2015

2014 The haunted lotus: Khadim Ali brochure, AGNSW: Sydney, 2014, np

2014 'A community of strangers' in Edge of Elsewhere 2011-12, Lisa Havila et. al. (ed) Sydney: Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2014, pp 51 - 53

2013 ‘David Noonan’ in exh. cat. Natasha Bullock (ed), We Used To Talk About Love AGNSW: Sydney, 2013

‘Poetic Geometry in the work of Jessie Traill: Building the Harbour Bridge series’ in exh. cat Roger Butler (ed) Stars in the river: the prints of Jessie Traill, NGA: Canberra, 2013 , pp 58 – 62

2012 Entries, exh. cat. Anthony Bond (ed) Francis Bacon: Five Decades AGNSW and Thames and Hudson: Sydney/London, 2012

2011 ‘The Future Now’ in The John Kaldor Collection at the Art Gallery of NSW Art Gallery of NSW: Sydney, 2011, pp 301 – 329

Publications / articles and papers 2016 To One A Century Hence in The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Writing Award brochure (winning essay)

2016 Living The Past Within The Present: Australian Artists At Performa 15 in Broadsheet 41.5, pp 46-7

2016 ‘The Second Isn’t Long Enough: an interview with Sara Morowetz’ in Artist Profile Issue 35, pp 114-117

2015 Editorial, Runway Australian Experimental Art #29 [PORN], http://runway.org.au/editorial-porn/

2014 ‘Tony Garifalakis: hysterical glory’ in Art & Australia Issue 52.1, Summer 2014, 144-152

2014 ‘ACP Winter season’ in Photofile vol. 95, spring/summer 2014-15, pp 94-95

2014 ‘Sharpness of the senses: the subtle politics of Hu Xiaoyuan’ in ArtAsiaPacific issue 88 May/June 2014, pp 71-73

2013 ‘Thinking through the body: transcription and its visual image in the work of Bea Maddock’, peer reviewed paper in Luke Morgan (ed) Intersections and Counterpoints: Proceedings of Impact 7, an International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference Monash University Press: Melbourne, 2013

2012 ‘Nalini Malani: in the shadow of partition’ Art Monthly 256 2012/13, pp 39-43

‘Lying figure: Francis Bacon and the female nude’ Art Monthly, 255 2012, pp 13-15

‘Nalini Malani: bodies in pain’ in Art & Australia, Vol. 49 No. 3, 2012, pp 464 - 472

Exhibitions Curator See you at the barricades Art Gallery of NSW, 30 June – 30 November 2015

Assistant curator Go East: the Brian and Gene Sherman Collection of Contemporary Asian Art Art Gallery of NSW, 15 March – 20 June 2015 (curated by Suhanya Raffel)

Curator: Tony Garifalakis: Mob Rule Art Gallery of NSW, 12 June – 21 August 2014

Curator Khadim Ali: The Haunted Lotus Art Gallery of NSW, 8 March – 1 June 2014

Managing Curator Tino Sehgal: This is so contemporary Art Gallery of NSW, 7 – 23 February 2014

Curator Imprimatur: the politics of friendship (John Loane, John Nixon, Mike Parr) William Wright // Artists Projects 30 August – 22 September 2013

Assistant curator Sol LeWitt: your mind is exactly at that line AGNSW, 20 February to 3 August 2014 (curated by Natasha Bullock) Assistant curator Francis Bacon: Five Decades AGNSW, 17 November 2012 – 24 February 2013 (curated by Anthony Bond OAM)

Assistant curator Mother India: video plays by Nalini Malani AGNSW, 11 February – 20 May 2012 (curated by Jackie Menzies OAM)

Lectures and public talks 2013 ‘Francis Bacon’s Gender Trouble’ Bacon’s Bodies Symposium Art Gallery of NSW February 2013

2012 ‘The body in motion: Francis Bacon and the influence of Eadweard Muybridge’ Study for self-portrait: Francis Bacon’s Britain, 21st October 2012, AGNSW ! Mother India: transactions in the construction of pain, public lecture and floor talk 27 February 2012, Art Gallery of NSW

Picasso/Bacon intersections and divergences, 27th of March 2012 Art Gallery of NSW

Panel convener and speaker, In Memory of a Name seminar 4A Centre of Contemporary Art, 18th February 2012

Conference papers 2014 Grief for the object: Tino Sehgal at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2014

2012 ‘Nalini Malani: in search of vanished blood’, Violence studies University of Newcastle, 21st – 23rd of August 2012

2011-12 Interview with Mike Parr presented at Impact7 Monash University 27 – 30 September 2011 and as part of Mike Parr: Brain Coral, National Art School Gallery March 2012

2011 ‘Art in the wake of violence: the work of Nalini Malani‘ Paper presented at World and World Making in Art: Connectivities and Difference, Australian National University, 11 – 13 August 2011

Residencies 2013 Red Gate residency, Beijing. A one-month residency to undertake research and development in curatorial practice relating to Chinese contemporary art

Grants 2015 Myer Foundation John Monash Scholar, a two year scholarship to fund a Masters of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research, New York

2014 Copyright Agency Ltd Professional development grant to travel to Chicago to give a paper at the annual CAA conference, USA

2013 Australia Council for the Arts, Skills and development grant to undertake a month-long residency in Beijing, China

Education Current - Masters, Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research, The New School New York

2009 Honours (1st class + medal) Bachelor of Visual Arts / Theories of Art Practice Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

2004 - 08 Bachelor of Arts (Visual)/Bachelor of Arts Canberra School of Art and Australian National University Printmaking and Drawing major Art Theory and Philosophy majors

2006 Student Exchange to the ‘Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni V Praze’ (AVU) Atelier of Vladimir Kokolia (graphics studio), Prague, Czech Republic

Committees and memberships 2012 – 15 Editorial and Management board member, Runway: Australian Experimental Art Managing editor: Issue #25 [MONEY] http://runway.org.au/archive/25-money/ Editor: Issue #29 [PORN] http://runway.org.au/archive/29-porn/

Emerging curators’ intensive, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney 2012

Curatorium member, In Memory of a Name, Edge of Elsewhere 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney 2012