ARTIST CURRICULUM VITAE ABDUL ABDULLAH www.abdulabdullah.com - [email protected] Born in Perth, Western Australia, 1986

Selected Studies: The Public Body, Artspace NSW 2015 - 2017 Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography, Masters by research (MFA), UNSW Art and Design Museum of Photographic Arts SAN DIEGO 2006 - 2008 Painting, more painting, Australian Centre of Bachelor Art (Art), Faculty of BEAD, Curtin University of Contemporary Art VIC Technology, WA Fraud Complex, Westspace VIC Here&Now16, Lawrence Wilson Gallery WA Selected Solo Exhibitions: Embrace, Kunstraum LCC NEW YORK 2017 2015 Terms of engagement, UNSW Galleries NSW Asia Pacific Triennial, Gallery of Modern Art QLD Rationally benevolent gods, Lisa Fehily Contemporary Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art NSW Art, Contemporary NSW Epic Narratives - PICA Salon, Perth Institute of 2016 Contemporary Art WA Burden, Fehily Contemporary VIC Post-Hybrid; Re-imagining the Australian self, John Coming to terms, Fehily Contemporary NSW Curtin Gallery WA 2015 24SEVEN Screen, Lawrence Wilson Gallery WA Coming to terms, Chasm Gallery NEW YORK WA Focus: Abdul Abdullah and Abdul-Rahman 2014 Abdullah, The Art Gallery of Western Australia I see a darkness, Future Perfect SINGAPORE The Skin off our time, Contemporary Art Centre of South Siege, Fehily Contemporary VIC Australia SA 2013 Video Stage, Art Stage Singapore Homeland, Fehily Contemporary VIC Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Turner Gallery WA 2012 2014 Mongrel Fehily contemporary VIC Sealed Section, Artbank NSW 2011 Domestic Departures (with Jasper Knight and James Them and Us, Kings ARI VIC Oram),Chalk Horse Gallery NSW The List, Campbelltown Arts Centre NSW Selected Group Exhibitions: START Art Fair, Fehily Contemporary, Saatchi Gallery, 2018 London UK Gebrochene Welten, Galerie Oqbo, Berlin Germany ART14 (with Penny Byrne, Kate Shaw and Michelle Infinite Conversations, NGA ACT Hamer) Fehily Contemporary, Olympia Grand Hall Waqt al-tagheer: Time of change, ACE Open SA London UK DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia, 2013 MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand Being Eurasian (With Leslie Morgan) Fremantle Arts Art Basel Hong Kong, Yavuz Gallery Singapore Centre WA 2017 Project HOME (with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah) GEBROCHENE WELTEN, Kunstverein Gera Germany Underbelly Arts Festival, Cockatoo Island NSW Asia Now, Yavuz Gallery Paris ORIENTing, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, UWA WA We are all affected, Fairfield Museum NSW Homecoming (with Tada Hengsapkul and Adnan Dark Horizons, PATAKA Art + Museum New Zealand Chowdhury), Fehily Contemporary VIC Art Basel Hong Kong, Yavuz Gallery Singapore The Social, Campbelltown Art Centre, NSW Young & Free, Bega Valley Regional Gallery NSW Interregna (with Nathan Beard and casey Ayres) Looking at me through you, Campbelltown Arts Centre MOANA ARI, WA NSW 2012 I am, you are, we are, they are, Peacock Gallery NSW Melbourne Art Fair (with Sally Smart and Gosia Know your neighbour, The Lock-Up NSW Wlodarczak), Fehily Contemporary C46, Royal 2016 Exhibition Centre, VIC Primavera at 25, Museum of Contemporary Art NSW Beyond Likeness, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, UWA WA Jogja Calling, 4A Centre of Contemporary Asian Art The Greater Asia co-Prosperity Sphere (with Nathan NSW Beard and Casey Ayres) Dead Centre, Spectrum Project Space WA NGV Studio VIC

Collections: Awards, residencies and Grants: MAIIAM, Thailand 2017 The National Gallery of Australia, ACT Guirguis New Art Prize (Finalist) The Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA Sulman Prize (Finalist) The Gallery of Modern Art, QLD 2016 The Museum of Contemporary Art, NSW Western Australian Multicultural Recognition Award Artbank, AUS WA Young Achievers award (Art & Fashion) (finalist) Murdoch University, WA Basil Sellers Art Prize (finalist) Islamic Museum of Australia, VIC Archibald Prize (finalist) Lawrence Wilson Gallery, The University of Western Sulman Prize (finalist) Australia, WA travelling scholarship (finalist) The Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC 2015 Campbelltown Arts Centre. NSW Sovereign Art Prize Hong Kong (Finalist) The Town of Victoria Park, WA UNSW Art and Design Grant 2014 Selected Bibliography: Linden Postcard Show (First Prize) 2017 Archibald Prize (finalist) Australiana to Zeitgeist: an A – Z of . John Fries Award (finalist) Thames and Hudson: Melissa Loughnan Western Australian of the Year Youth Award (finalist) Art-in-sight. Ocula: Mikala Tai Rockhampton Gold Award (shortlisted) 2016 Art Flight – WA Department of Culture and the Arts 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Frieze Campbelltown Arts Centre residency No. 177: Sophie Knezic Black Swan Prize for Portraiture (finalist) 50 Things Collectors need to know, Australian Art Victoria Park Art Award for Excellence and People’s Collector choice award 2015 2013 18 Emerging artists to watch, Modern Painters Bowness Prize (finalist) Porträt der Verzweiflung. Der Spiegel: Ulrike Knöfel (finalist) Lover, Fighter. Art Monthly, Number 278: Robert Cook Archibald Prize (finalist) Observation Point, Portrait, Autumn edition UWA Artist in residence Inventory management: The list, Broadsheet: Pedron De Development Grant – WA Department of Culture and Almeida the Arts 2014 2012 What’s Next: Abdul Abdullah, Art Collector, Issue 70: PICA residency Andrew Nicholls Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (finalist) Petals, Overland Literary Journal. Issue 216: Christos Metro Art Award (finalist) Tsiolkas New Work Grant – Young Artists, Western Australian Artist captures the mood of the marginalised, Department of Culture and the Arts Al Jazeera: Rudabah Abbass Interarts Grant – Australia Council for the Arts 2013 Arts Project Grant, City of Melbourne Abdul Abdullah: Art Marginality and Identity. Re- Besen Family Foundation Grant for Arts and Culture Imagining the City. The University of Chicago Press: Black Swan Prize for Portraiture (finalist) Leslie Morgan 2011 Underbelly arts festival 2013- review, The Guardian, Blake Prize for Human Justice, Blake Prize Monday 5th August: Andrew Frost Archibald Prize (finalist) 50 things collectors need to know. Australian Art Janet Holmes a Court Artists’ Grant collector, Issue 63. 23rd January: Andrew Nicholls Quick response grant - Young artists, WA Department of 2012 Culture and the Arts A visit to the embassy: The Greater Asian (sic) Co- Kickstart 2011 Grant, Next Wave festival Prosperity Sphere. Broadsheet: Dan Rule Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, Perth Town Hall The Embassy will be open, RealTime Magazine Issue (Finalist) 108 April/May; Sheridan Coleman 2010 2011 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, Perth Town Hall Featured artist, Art Almanac, June edition (Finalist) Young Artist’s Grant. The City of Melbourne