PENNY BYRNE CV

EDUCATION

1997 Bachelor of Laws, (LLB) La Trobe University,

1990 Graduate Diploma (Ceramics and Glass Conservation and Restoration) West Dean College, United Kingdom

1987 Bachelor of Arts (BA Fine Art Ceramics), RMIT University, Melbourne

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 #EuropaEuropa, Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Brutal, Linden New Art, Melbourne,

2014 Ettonez Moi, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia

2013 iPROTEST, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention Centre, Sullivan+Strumpf

2012 Life is a Riot, Library Museum, Albury, NSW

The Art of the Possible, The Jam Factory,

2011-12 Commentariat, Art Gallery, Melbourne; Gallery; Gallery;

Mildura Art Gallery.

Political Porcelain, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House,

2011 Plausible Deniability, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art,

Gear Box Gallery, The Motor Works, Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne

2010 ILL-Gotten Gains, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2009 Interesting Times, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2008 Collateral Damage, Melbourne Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Royal Exhibition Centre, Melbourne

2007 Blood, Sweat and Fears, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2006 Mantelpiece, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 Survival Bias, La Trobe Art Institute, ,

Volta13 Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Selected works, Coates and Scarry, Gallery8, London, United Kingdom

Time and Tide, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne

The Extractive Frontier, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria

2016 - 17 Flight Paths – The Bird in Australian Art, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery BYRNE CV

2016 10+3, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

80/80. Eighty Years of SAM. The Collection, Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria

Art16 London, Grand Hall Olympia, with Fehily Contemporary, London, United Kingdom

GlassFever Contemporary Art in Glass, Huis van Gijn, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Wait, weep and be worthy, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor,

New16, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne

Antipodean Inquiry, Yuvaz Gallery, Singapore

2015 Sidney Myer Australian Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria

GLASSTRESS Gotika, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy

First Landing to Last Post, Australian Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Vestige, Gallery8, Coates and Scarry, Duke Street, London, United Kingdom

Storm in a Teacup, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria

Guarding the Homefront, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

2014 Young Masters Ceramics Award, Lloyds Club, London, United Kingdom

The Object Divine, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, with Fehily Contemporary, London, United Kingdom

Paradise Again, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria

Animal Ark, Art Gallery of , , Western Australia

Art14 London, Grand Hall Olympia, with Fehily Contemporary, London, United Kingdom

Made to Last, NETS (Victoria) Touring exhibition, CDU Art Gallery, Charles Darwin University

Private assembly: a contemporary collection, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

2013-14 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Made to Last, NETS (Victoria Touring Show), McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Victoria

2013 Australia – Contemporary Voices, The Fine Art Society, London, United Kingdom

Censored, Fehily Contemporary, Collingwood, Victoria

In the Public Interest, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria

Enucleo – Contemporary Clay, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston and 146 Artspace,

Auckland Art Fair, Fehily Contemporary, The Cloud Convention Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

Made to Last, NETS (Victoria Touring Show), QUT Art Museum,

(What’s so funny ‘bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Brighton,

Victoria

Diorama, City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales PENNY BYRNE CV

Made to Last, NETS (Victoria) Touring Show, Manningham Gallery, Doncaster, Victoria

2012 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, New South Wales

Subvert, Australian Ceramics Triennale Group Show, Light Square Gallery, AC Arts, Adelaide

Made to Last, NETS (Victoria) Touring Show, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Art Gallery, Victoria

iPROTEST installation in Haunts and Follies, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Like, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney

Hello Dolly, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, New South Wales

Albury Art Prize, Albury Art Gallery, Albury, New South Wales

SSFA12, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2011 Art by Wendouree, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria

Capriccio, Red Gallery, Melbourne

SSFA11, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2010 Power Chicks and Men Who Sew, Deloitte, Sydney

New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria

Recent Acquisitions, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria

Ceramics Now! Whitehorse Art Space, Melbourne

The Navigators, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne

Recent Acquisitions, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria

ARTHK10, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

Clash: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics, Newcastle Region Gallery, Newcastle

SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

Time Travel, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales

2009 Copenhagen Art Fair, ADCO:VENUE, Copenhagen, Denmark

Horror – Come Darkness, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney

Thing: Beware of the Material World, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

White Heat, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney

Facing the Future, Australian Ceramics Triennial, National Art School, Sydney

The Climate Show, Copenhagen, Denmark

Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

SSFA09, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2008 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, New South Wales

Stan and Maureen Duke Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, PENNY BYRNE CV

2008 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney

SSFA08, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2007 Arc Biennial, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

SSFA07, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

Exquisite Palette, St Luke The Colourmen, Melbourne

2006 New Social Commentaries 06, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria

The (Royal) Melbourne Show, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

SSFA06, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2005 Sydney Affordable Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2004 It’s Murder on Easey Street, Easey Street Studios Gallery, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne

2003 Castlemaine State Festival Ceramics Award, Castlemaine, Victoria

2002 Pat Emery Award for Emerging Ceramicists, Victorian Ceramic Group, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria

2001 Pat Emery Award for Emerging Ceramicists, Victorian Ceramic Group, Northcote Pottery Kiln Gallery,

Melbourne

2000 The White Cube Project, Dante’s Gallery, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia

Artbank, Sydney, New South Wales

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria

Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria

City of Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria

Henning V. Claassen Collection, Germany

Holmesglen TAFE Collection, Victoria

Lyon House Museum, Melbourne, Victoria

Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura, Victoria

Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory PENNY BYRNE CV

Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, New South Wales

RMIT University Art Collection, Victoria

Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria

Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria

Western Plains Cultural Centre, , New South Wales

Private collections in Australia, United Kingdom, Turkey, USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, The Netherlands.

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2017 Woollarah Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, finalist

2016 Deakin University Small Sculpture Prize, Burwood, Victoria, finalist

2015 Sidney Myer Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, finalist

2012 The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, finalist

Adelaide Fringe Festival Visual Arts Awards, finalist

Sidney Myer Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria, finalist

Albury Art Prize, Albury, finalist

2011 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, finalist

2010 City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart, finalist

2009 Stan + Maureen Duke Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, finalist

Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, finalist

2008 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, finalist

Stan and Maureen Duke Award, finalist

The Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, finalist

2007 Ripe, Art & Australia and ANZ Emerging Artists, finalist

2006 Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery New Social Commentaries 06 exhibition, Warrnambool, finalist

2005 Linden Post Card Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Postcard Winner

2002 Pat Emery Award for Emerging Ceramicists, Victorian Ceramic Group, Honourable Mention

2001 Pat Emery Award for Emerging Ceramicists, Victorian Ceramic Group, Honourable Mention

1990 Victoria and Albert Museum Internship, Ceramics Conservation Laboratory, London, United Kingdon Contact

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