PENNY BYRNE CV
EDUCATION
1997 Bachelor of Laws, (LLB) La Trobe University, Melbourne
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, Australia
2014 Ettonez Moi, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2013 iPROTEST, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention Centre, Sullivan+Strumpf
2012 Life is a Riot, Albury Library Museum, Albury, NSW
The Art of the Possible, The Jam Factory, Adelaide
2011-12 Commentariat, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne; Geelong Gallery; Warrnambool Gallery;
Mildura Art Gallery.
Political Porcelain, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra
2011 Plausible Deniability, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
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, Bendigo, Victoria
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 PENNY BYRNE CV
2016 10+3, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
80/80. Eighty Years of SAM. The Collection, Shepparton 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, New South Wales
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, Perth, 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, Hobart
Auckland Art Fair, Fehily Contemporary, The Cloud Convention Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
Made to Last, NETS (Victoria Touring Show), QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
(What’s so funny ‘bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Brighton,
Victoria
Diorama, Wollongong 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, Ballarat 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, Queensland 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, Dubbo, 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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