Represented by MARS Gallery Editor-at-large at Running Dog Gallery Manager at SEVENTH www.diegois.monster (or www.diego-ramirez.net) [email protected] SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Signs of the Undead, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne 2018 IMPERI❍: el borde de las tieneblas, Deslave, Tijuana Once More, With Diversity Feeling, Recess, Melbourne Postcard eXotica, PhotoAccess, Manuka Arts Centre, Canberra 2017 The Umbral Empire: Prologue, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Postcard eXotica, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth Postcard eXotica, Adelaide College of the Arts, Adelaide Delegated Performance (Radish), Melbourne Central Art Loop, Shopping Mall, Melbourne 2016 Postcard eXotica, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne 2015 My Material World, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne aXolotl’s Happiness, FELTspace, Adelaide aXolotl’s Happiness, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston aXolotl’s Happiness, Interior 2.1, Guadalajara 2014 aXolotl’s Smile, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Digimaster: The Ultimate Dream, The Substation, Melbourne Happy Summer Tank, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne sPICY, Trocadero Art Space (billboard), Melbourne 2013 Radish, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Multiverse curated by Charlotte Christie, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne No Show, Runway section curated by Nathan Beard, Carriageworks, Sydney April Fool, MARS Gallery, Melbourne Spring1883, Art fair with MARS Gallery, Melbourne 2020 Strange Uncertain Times, Grey Gardens Gallery, Melbourne 2019 Those Monuments Don’t Know Us curated by Andy Butler, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne Sydney Contemporary (NEXT), Art fair with MARS Gallery, Sydney Ventriloquy: Lifenessless curated by Joel Stern, West Space, Melbourne WTF is Lecture Performance?, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne MARS Video Exchange, MetroArts, Brisbane Hell curated by Melissa Deerson, KINGS ARI, Melbourne Studying food through video making, Ruang MES 56-Galeri RJ Katamsi, Indonesia, Yogyakarta 2018 Terror en lo Profundo curated by Deslave, Human Resources, LA Boxed Light, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Beyond The Veil curated by Jake Treacy, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne No Play, The Band Presents, Melbourne B-Side, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne Train/ennial, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne 2017 Necronomicon Uploaded, Deslave, Tijuana Art Central Hong Kong (Media X) curated by Linda Lai, Art fair with MARS Gallery, Hong Kong c3+, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne 17th Media Art Biennale WRO, Wroclaw Camouflage, Griffin Art Space (Koszyki Hall), Warsaw B-Side, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne 2016 Drawing to An End, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne The 39th Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs Melbourne Central Art Loop, Shopping Mall, Melbourne 2015 Flesh Express, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne Whyalla Art Prize, Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla Whyalla Art Prize, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Les Irrecuperables, Galerie du Genie de la Bastille, Paris Paramor Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Forever Now, MONAFOMA Festival, Hobart Forever Now, TRILOGIES, The Substation, Melbourne 2014 The Return of Ghosts, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei South curated by David Corbet, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney Nervous Tensions curated by Anabelle Lacroix, Careof, Milan Unco curated by Ian Haig, NCCA, Parap The Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne 2013 WRO 15th Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, NAS Gallery, Sydney Unco curated by Ian Haig, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles Mada Now, Monash University, Melbourne 2012 Graduation Show, RMIT University, Melbourne Videoooooh, The Slade School of Fine Art, London Night-Sun-Day (Desert Equinox), Broken Hill WRITING 2021 Thorns and Prickles, Shine like Gold: Towards a sonic Marian apparition, Disclaimer Journal, Melbourne Fuck Dying, Catalogue essay for Georgia Banks, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne The Creed, Catalogue essay for Nadia Hernández, Station, Sydney Feature on Jake Treacy and Dord Burrough, 50 things collectors should know Issue, Art Collector Melbourne Feature on Katie Paine, Undiscovered Issue, Art Collector, Melbourne Dragonology: A PhD proposal, Catalogue essay for Michael Kennedy, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne Feature on Cyrus Tang, CoBo Social, Hong Kong Feature on Hayley Millar Baker, CoBo Social, Hong Kong Feature on Lucreccia Quintanilla, CoBo Social, Hong Kong 2020 Uncivil Optimism: art and writing in times of pestilence, Running Dog, Sydney : Nathan Beard, Catalogue essay for HERE&NOW20, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth Feature on Phuong Ngo, Undiscovered Issue, Art Collector, Melbourne Feedback Loops, Australian Book Review, Melbourne So Melbourne, Special Issue S, Melbourne Feature on Caleb Shea, The Natsiaa Issue, Art Collector, Melbourne 2019 Unnatural Hunger: the copy, the vampire and postcolonial anxieties, Island Island, Melbourne Felt cute might delete never: Andy Butler’s All-in-One Solution for Glowing Fairness’, un Extended, Melbourne Escape to Aphelion, Catalogue essay for Alicia King, Linden, Melbourne Do The Creep, Catalogue essay for Emile Zile & Annika Koops, Bus Projects, Melbourne Wicked Hotel: Neon Parc at Spring1883, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne Waiting, Dead End Film Festival Program, Melbourne The Falling Star, Catalogue essay for Alexandra Nemaric, TCB Inc, Melbourne PoC Barometer (or what I really think about the conversation we had at the gallery opening), Art Speak by Metroarts, Brisbane Mary, Holy Mary, Catalogue essay for A Treasured Private Notebook, CCP, Melbourne and Metroarts, Brisbane 2018 Racial Phantasmagoria: The Demonisation of the other in Richard Mosse’s Incoming, Issue #Mapping, NECSUS, Amsterdam Nosferatu on Reddit: Hito Steyerl’s Factory of the Sun, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne Semiotic Dungeons, A+a: Art and Australia, Issue Three (54.2): Unnaturalism, Melbourne The Will of Sound and Image: TarraWarra Biennial 2018, Runway Conversations, Sydney Floating Megalopolis: Dwelling Poetically curated by Chris Sharp, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne *dumb brun(ette) vol.1, co-editor with Katie Paine, Bus Projects x NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair, Melbourne Illicit Love, Catalogue essay (with Katie Paine) for Collaboratory, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo The Foaming Node: A Mutant Cult and Television, Horror Homeroom, Online Interview with Miko Revereza, Recess, Online 2017 Ghost Stories of Sadism: notes on micro-racism, Catalogue essay for Always There And All A Part, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne Bermuda Triangle: Repertoires of Contention, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne Techno-Ghoul, Catalogue essay for Aaron Christopher Rees, First Draft, Sydney *Republished in The Article, Melbourne Alexandra Nemaric: Faith In The Perishability of Love, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne Another Space: VR Eyeballs and CGI Limbs, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne Lucreccia Quintanilla: The Void After The Colonies, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne The Ryan Sisters: Dark Pit, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne Triple F: Tribulations and Western Hallucinations, The Article, Melbourne Phuong Ngo: Post-Apocalypse Now, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne Héctor Jiménez: Guadalajara 666, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne The Will to Death, Catalogue essay for Inherent Vice, Nicholas Projects, Melbourne A Spoiled Egg, Catalogue essay for Si Ma Va, Bus Projects, Melbourne Pandemonium, Catalogue essay for Maria Miranda and Amie Anderson, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne Backgammon, Catalogue essay for Deanna Hitti, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne The Nightmare of Nathaniel Ward, Catalogue essay for Ara Dolatian, Five Walls, Melbourne 2016 Super Phalluses and Western Clutter, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne The Act of Misplacing, Catalogue Essay for Katie Paine, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne A Freak Encounter: anime fans and the friki subculture, Fragmented Magazine #3, Melbourne 2015 Happy Summer Tank: the politics of gender, race and memory in cosplay, CCC Journal #4, London Cerveza Corona!, catalogue essay for Jeremy Eaton, Kings ARI, Melbourne Pop Necromancer, catalogue essay for Bon Mott, Kings ARI, Melbourne MIS-, catalogue essay for Tom Ames and Lucie McIntosh, Kings ARI, Melbourne About Airplanes, catalogue essay for Matt Rochford, Archive ARI, Sydney 2014 The aXolotl: a vehicle for knowledge and the postcolonial ‘return’, Runway #26, Sydney Collider, Catalogue Essay for MVAS, Kings ARI, Melbourne Money Map, Catalogue Essay for MT Walker, Rubicon ARI,Melbourne Thinking through humour, Catalogue Essay for Avni Dauti and Tom Parsons, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne JF Payne and the dematerialization of cinema, Catalogue Essay for JF Payne, Kings ARI, Melbourne PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2021-23 Panel Member, Darebin Art & Heritage Advisory Panel, Melbourne 2021-24 Peer Assessor, Australia Council, Melbourne 2020- Editor-at-large, Running Dog, Sydney Portfolio Reviewer, Aarhus Centre for Visual Art x Art Weekend Aarhus, Denmark 2020-24 External Assessor, City of Melbourne Arts Grants Panel, Melbourne 2019 Assessment Panel, Video Visions, Channels Festival: International Biennale of Video Art, Melbourne 2018- Gallery Manager, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne 2018 Producer, Neutron Star, workshop with Guillermo Gomez Peña and La Pocha Nostra, Melbourne Board Member, Exhibition Liaison and Curatorial Mentor, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne 2017-18 Co-editor and founder with Katie Paine, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT 2021 Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions, ACCA, Melbourne