Victoria Lynn CV
POSITIONS HELD
Since 2005
Director, Victoria Lynn Art Projects, independent curator and writer
2011
Visual Arts Curator, Adelaide Festival 2 – 18 March, 2012
2010
Curator, The Trickster, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea, 7 September to 5 December 2010
Visual Arts Curator, Adelaide Festival, and Curator, Adelaide International: Apart, we are together, Samstag Museum of Art, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, JamFactory, Flinders University Art Museum, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
2009
Curator, Double Take: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2008
Churchill Fellow
2007
Curator, turbulence, 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery and Associated Venues
Curator, Regarding Fear and Hope, Monash University Art Museum
Curator, Julie Rrap Body Double, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006
Curator, TarraWarra Biennial Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
April 2002 – June 2004
Director, Creative Development, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2003
Commissioner, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
February 2001 – May 2002
Curatorial Manager, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (formerly Cinemedia).
June 2001 – June 2004
Councillor, Australia Council and Chair of its Visual Arts and Craft Board
July 1991 – January 2001
Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1995 – Dec 2000
Member and Chair (1998-Dec 2000), Board of Directors, The Performance Space, Sydney
1987– June 1991
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1986
Independent curator and writer
CURATED EXHIBTIONS
AUSTRALIAN ART (exhibited in Australia at Art Gallery of New South Wales unless otherwise stated)
Julie Rrap: Body Double, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2007
Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
Moët & Chandon Exhibition 2000 - Passing Time (Mutlu Çerkez, Gail Hastings, Xiao Xian Liu, David Noonan and Simon Trevaks, Patricia Piccinini), 2000
Imants Tillers and Robert MacPherson, (works from the permanent collection), AGNSW 1999
Hard Edge, (international and Australian works from the permanent collection, 1960-1998), AGNSW 1999
Web Sites, Australian Perspecta, 1997 Between Art & Nature, 1997, AGNSW, (Simryn Gill, Stephen Holland, Fiona Hall, Lauren Berkowitz, Arnhem Land Weavers).
Review, Works by Women from the Permanent Collection, 1995, AGNSW, co-curator with Deborah Edwards
Susan Norrie, 1994, AGNSW, (included works from 1989-1994)
Australian Perspecta 1993, AGNSW
Australian Perspecta 1991, AGNSW
Abstraction, 1990, AGNSW
Australian Perspecta 1989, AGNSW, co-curator with Tony Bond
Michael Johnson, 1968-1988, 1988, AGNSW, co-curator with Tony Bond
Level 2 Contemporary Projects, AGNSW 1991-2000
co-curated with Tony Bond and Wayne Tunnicliffe. Australian artists in this series have included Mike Parr, John Nixon, Lindy Lee, Dale Frank, Robyn Backen, Simeon Nelson, Elizabeth Gertsakis, A.D.S. Donaldson, Mark Theman, Janet Laurence, Howard Arkley, Stevie Wishart and Joan Grounds, Dom de Clario, Stephen Bram, Melinda Harper, Rose Nolan, Gary Wilson, Jon McCormack, Kyle Ashpole, Sophie Coombs, Robert Pulie, Tony Schwenson, Regina Walter, Justene Williams, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Geoff Kleem, Adam Cullen, John Beard, Maria Cruz, Mikala Dwyer, Anne Ooms, Joe Felber, John Conomos, Michael Goldberg, Horst Kiechle and Margaret Roberts, Joan Brasil, Neil Emerson, David Stephenson, Richard Goodwin, Peter Hill, Ruark Lewis & Paul Carter.
AUSTRALIAN ART (exhibited internationally)
The Trickster, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea, 2010: Tony Albert (Aust), Phil Collins (UK), Cao Fei (China), Yiyun Kang (Korea), Chosil Kil (Korea), Donghee Koo (Korea), Gabriella and Silvana Mangano (Aust), TV Moore (Aust), Pushpamala N (India), Yongseok Oh (Korea), Jooyeon Park (Korea), Lisa Reihana (NZ), Julie Rrap (Australia), Yinka Shonibare (UK), Mari Velonaki (Aust), YANGACHI (Korea).
EXIT, international exhibition of film and video, co-curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 1999 (Peter Callas, Destiny Deacon & Michael Riley, John Gillies, Lin Li)
Fluent, Emily Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson, Venice Biennale exhibition, 1997, exhibition manager and co-curator with Brenda L. Croft and Hetti Perkins
Strangers in Paradise, Contemporary Australian Art to Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul and AGNSW, 1992, co-curator with Soyeon Ahn
Tenth British International Print Biennale, curator of Australian section, Bradford, England, 1989
Marion Borgelt and Jenny Watson, Sixth Triennale India, New Delhi and Australian Tour, 1986
INTERNATIONAL ART (exhibited in Australia)
Adelaide International: Apart, we are together, Samstag Museum of Art, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, JamFactory, Flinders University Art Museum, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (Tara Donovan Rosella Biscotti, Nina Fischer + Maroan el Sani, Julian Hooper, Iman Issa, Donghee Koo, Li Mu, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Raeda Saadeh, Praneet Soi Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Double Take: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (Phil Collins (UK), Cao Fei (China), Gabrielle and Silvana Mangano, T.V. Moore, Lisa Reihana (NZ), Mari Velonaki)
Regarding Fear and Hope, 2007 (Yael Bartana, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, David Griggs, Willie Doherty, Lázaro A. Saavedra González, Lucia Madriz, r e a, Sriwhana Spong, Tom Nicholson, Lynette Wallworth), Monash University Museum of Art and Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Monash University.
Space Odysseys: Sensation & Immersion, 2001 (Luc Courchesne, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Gary Hill, Làszlo Moholy-Nagy, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, Lynette Wallworth). Toured and enlarged at ACMI Melbourne, 2002, as Deep Space: Sensation & Immersion.
Voiceovers, The Fifth Guinness Contemporary Art Project, 1999 (Lin Li, Nalini Malani, Shirin Neshat, Mariko Mori).
Bhupen Khakhar, (contemporary Indian artist who travelled to Australia to exhibit at AGNSW as part of Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras), co-curator with John Kirkman, 1998
The Performing Body, film and video program, BODY, AGNSW and Bodies in Space, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1998 (Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, Valie Export, Gilbert and George, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Otto Muehl, Dennis Oppenheim, Mike Parr, Jackson Pollock, Jill Scott, Irm and Ed Sommer, Stelarc, Ken Unsworth, Hannah Wilke)
Asia Pacific Triennial, co-curator with Kamala Kapoor, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996-97 (the inaugural inclusion of Indian art in the APT)
No Exit, The Guinness Contemporary Art Project, 1996, (Maureen Burns, Luc Courchesne, Mike Parr)
Fire & Life, co-curator with Alison Carroll and Julie Ewington, various museums and galleries in India and Australia, 1996-97
India Songs, Multiple Streams in Contemporary Indian Art, AGNSW and regional tour, 1993
Level 2 Contemporary Projects, 1991- 2001
co-curated with Tony Bond and Wayne Tunnicliffe. International artists in this series included Harvey Quaytman, Patrick Heron, Wang Youshen, Edgar Heap-of-Birds and Ulrike Rosenbach.
British Artist in Residency Series, Co-curator with Tony Bond, (Patrick Heron, Alison Wilding, Antony Gormley, Richard Wentworth), 1989-1992
INTERNATIONAL ART (exhibited internationally)
The Trickster, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea: Tony Albert (Aust), Phil Collins (UK), Cao Fei (China), Yiyun Kang (Korea), Chosil Kil (Korea), Donghee Koo (Korea), Gabriella and Silvana Mangano (Aust), TV Moore (Aust), Pushpamala N (India), Yongseok Oh (Korea), Jooyeon Park (Korea), Lisa Reihana (NZ), Julie Rrap (Australia), Yinka Shonibare (UK), Mari Velonaki (Aust), YANGACHI (Korea).
Turbulence, 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Artspace, Gus Fisher Gallery, St Paul St Gallery and Academy Cinemas, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007. Lida Abdul (Afghanistan); Chantal Akerman (Belgium); Vyacheslav Akhunov (Uzbekistan) and Sergey Tichina (Uzbekistan); Eve Armstrong (New Zealand); The Atlas Group / Walid Raad (Lebanon/United States of America); Carlos Capelán (Uruguay/Sweden); Kah Bee Chow Malaysia/New Zealand); Phil Collins (United Kingdom); Donna Conlon (Panama); Shane Cotton (New Zealand); Christina Dimitriadis (Greece); Willie Doherty (Northern Ireland); Regina José Galindo (Guatemala); Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba); Alexandros Georgiou (Greece); Monica Giron (Argentina) George Gittoes (Australia); Fiona Hall (Australia); Mona Hatoum (Palestine/United Kingdom); Julian Hooper (New Zealand); Alfredo Jaar (Chile/United States of America); Isaac Julien (United Kingdom); Long March Project (People’s Republic of China); Lucia Madriz (Costa Rica); Daniel Malone (New Zealand); Oscar Muñoz (Columbia); John Pule (Niue/New Zealand); r e a (Gamilaraay/Wailwan people of NSW, Australia); Julie Rrap (Australia); Michal Rovner (Israel/United States of America); Lázaro A. Saavedra González (Cuba); Sriwhana Spong (New Zealand); Yuk King Tan (New Zealand); Laura Waddington (United Kingdom); Lynette Wallworth (Australia); and Areta Wilkinson (New Zealand)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Sole Author:
Julie Rrap Body Double, Piper Press and MCA, Sydney, 2007
History Painting, Stieg Persson, Anna Schwarz Gallery, Melbourne, 2006
Marion Borgelt, Fine Arts Press, Sydney, 1996
Joint Author:
Eugene Carchesio, Selected Works, 1985-1995, published by artist, Brisbane, 1996
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
‘Current Fragments’, Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, ed. Art and Australia, Art and Australia, Sydney, 2008, pp 8 - 10
‘Remembering Toba Tek Singh: A video installation by Nalini Malani', Reinventing Textiles, Volume 2, Textiles Gender and Identity, ed. Jannis Jefferies, Telos Press, London, 2001
EDITED COLLECTIONS
'Preface', Uncertain Ground Essays Between Art & Nature, AGNSW, 2000 (my role in this collection was to commission the editor to compile the essays in response to the exhibition Australian Perspecta 1997: Between Art & Nature)
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
‘Phil Collins’, Singapore Biennial, Singapore, forthcoming
‘Apart, we are together’, Adelaide International: Apart, we are together, Adelaide Festival, 2010
‘The Trickster’, The Trickster, Geyonggi Museum of Art, Korea, 2010
‘Eugenia Raskopoulos’, Writing Towards Disappearance, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, np.
‘Janet Laurence: The Life-World’, Handle with Care, 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, (ed. Felicity Fenner), 2008, p.36
‘Regarding Fear and Hope’, Regarding Fear and Hope, catalogue, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2007
‘Eve Armstrong’, turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2007
‘Shane Cotton’, turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2007
‘Julie Rrap’, turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2007
‘Lynette Wallworth’, ‘Eve Armstrong’, turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2007
‘we live in turbulent times…’, turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2007
‘Imagination: The moving image in the work of Michael Riley’, Michael Riley, National Gallery of Australia, ACT, 2006
Julie Rrap, ARC Gallery, Melbourne, 2005
Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 2005
‘Surveying the Boundaries of Nation: From Montage to Network’, 2004, catalogue, National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004
‘Shirin Neshat’, Synopsis 2: Theologies, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 2003
‘The Art of the Screen in Australia’, Face Up, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2003
‘Patricia Piccinini’, Face Up, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2003
‘ConVerge Archive’, Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art: Converge (Art + Science), Art Gallery of South Australia 2003
Space Odysseys: Sensation & Immersion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001
Bill Seaman, Telstra Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, 2000
‘Introduction’, ‘Mutlu Çerkez’, ‘Gail Hastings’, ‘Xiao Xian Liu’, ‘David Noonan & Simon Trevaks’, Moët & Chandon Exhibition 2000 - Passing Time, AGNSW, 2000
Rosemary Laing Gradience, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2000
Bill Seaman, Artspace, 2000
‘Words on Ad Reinhardt’, 25 Songs on 25 Lines of Words on Art Statement For Seven Voices and Dance, Joe Felber, Elliot Gyger, Lucy Guerin, published by artist, 1999
Voiceovers, the Fifth Guinness Contemporary Art Project, AGNSW, 1999
‘Fluvial Mix’, Global Liquidity Fiona Hall and Nalini Malani, Gallery Chemould Bombay, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 1998
‘Sheela Gowda’, Private Mythology: Contemporary Art from India, Japan Foundation Asia Center, 1998
‘Web Sites’ and ‘Introduction’, Australian Perspecta 1997 Between Art and Nature, AGNSW, 1997
‘What happens when you really listen’, Fire & Life, part two, Asia Link, Melbourne, 1997 (Indian/Australian exhibition and residency exchange project)
‘Introduction’, No Exit, The Guinness Contemporary Art Project, AGNSW, 1996
‘Contemporary Indian Art: Between Continuity and Disjuncture’, The Second Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 1996
‘Contribution’, Bonheurs des Antipodes, Regards sur l’art contemporain australien, Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France, 1996
Review, Works by Women from the Permanent Collection, catalogue, AGNSW, 1995
‘Laminae’, Susan Norrie, AGNSW, 1994
‘Judy Watson’, Antipodean Currents, Ten Contemporary Artists from Australia,
Australian Art Promotions, New York, 1994
‘Introduction’, India Songs, Multiple Streams in Contemporary Indian Art, AGNSW, 1993
‘Introduction’, Australian Perspecta 1993, AGNSW, 1993
‘Introduction’, ‘Bill Henson’, ‘Susan Norrie’, ‘Ken Unsworth’, Strangers in Paradise Contemporary Australian Art to Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 1992
‘Introduction’, ‘Laurens Tan’, ‘Deborah Vaughan’, ‘Bronwyn Oliver’, Australian Perspecta 1991, AGNSW, 1991
‘Introduction’, Abstraction, AGNSW, 1991
Sydney Ball, A Jubilant Light, Wollongong City Gallery, 1989
‘Introduction’, ‘Pat Hoffie’, Australian Perspecta 1989, AGNSW, 1989
‘Introduction’, Tenth British International Print Biennale, Bradford, England, 1988
‘Lise Floistad’, Mapping the Edge of Enchantment, Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
‘Marion Borgelt’, Advance Australia Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
‘David Rankin’, Contemporary Australian Art to China 1988-89, Darling Downs Institute of
Advanced Education, Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou
Marion Borgelt Jenny Watson, Sixth Indian Triennale, catalogue, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, 1986
‘Introduction’, Sixth Triennale India, New Delhi, India, 1986
‘Des Euraustraliens, From the History of Silent People’, Salon de la Jeunne Peinture,
Grand Palais, Paris, 1986
ART JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘The Songs We Sing Across Cultures : Phil Collins’, Broadsheet, forthcoming, 2011
‘Politics of Internet Culture : Interview with Geert Lovink’, Broadsheet, Vol. 39. No. 1, 2010, pp 29-31
‘Okwui Enwezor : A space of encounter’, Art and Australia, Vol. 46. No. 2, 2008, pp 216-217
‘Antony Gormley’s embodied space’, Art and Australia, Vol. 45, no. 4, 2008, pp540 -541
‘Archive, Montage, Network’, Art and Australia magazine, Vol. 43, no. 3, 2006, pp 421-425
‘India Inside Out’, Textile The Journal of Cloth and Textile, Vol.1 Issue 2 Berg Publishers, Oxford, UK, July 2003
‘The Art of the Screen in Australia’, article, Art and Australia, Winter Vol.40 No.4 2003
‘Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford – Time, Light and Water’, Art and Australia, Vol.39, No.2, 2001
‘Between the Pot and the Sword, the Art of N.N. Rimzon’, Art and Asia Pacific, Vol.3, No.2, 1996
‘Sensuality and Violence in the art of Sheela Gowda’, Art and Asia Pacific, Vol.3, No.4, 1996
‘Balance and Duality: The Recent Work of David Rankin’, Art and Australia, Vol.34, No.2, 1996
‘Thinking about Australian and Indian Painting’, Art and Asia Pacific, Vol.2, No.1, 1995
‘Minimalism and its shadows’, Art and Australia, Vol. 32, No.2, Summer, 1994
‘Judy Watson’, Eyeline, Brisbane, Winter, 1992 (reprinted Judy Watson, catalogue, Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, Paris, 1996)
‘Bill Henson’, Arts Magazine, September, New York, 1991
‘Earth Above Ground: Fleshing Out Antony Gormley’, Art and Text, Sydney, 1989
‘Secrets Strategies/Ideal Spaces, Julie Brown-Rrap’, Photofile, Summer, Sydney, 1987-88
‘Sixth Indian Triennale’, Art and Australia, Vol.24, No.1, Spring, 1986
REVIEW/CRITICISM
‘Biennale of Sydney’, Artpulse, Miami, USA, Nov 2010
‘Lida Abdul : Body of Ruins’, Artpulse, Miami, USA, March-May, 2010, p.89
‘Rethinking the present : The 53rd Venice Biennale’, Art and Australia, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2009, pp32-35
‘In Civic Spaces : The 7th Gwangju Biennale’, Art and Australia, Vol. 46, No. 3, 2009, pp 376 – 377
‘Unravelling the Image: Glenn Ligon – Some Changes’, Fuse Magazine, Canada, Vol 29 No. 1 Jan 2006
‘2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: 21st Century Modern’, Artlines, Queensland Art Gallery, No. 2/3, 2006
‘Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’, Art Review, United Kingdom, June 2005
‘Recent Exhibitions’, Art and Australia, Vol 42, No. 3, 2005, p440-441
‘Robert Owen’, Art and Australia, Vol 42, No. 3, 2005
‘Barry McGee’, Art Review, United Kingdom, November, 2004
‘Documenta 11’, review, Art and Australia, Autumn, Vol.40 No.3, 2003
‘The Critical Passenger Forum’, tramjatra, The Passenger, Issue 3, Friday 16th November, 2001, RMIT, Melbourne
‘Drawing Space: Contemporary Indian Drawing’, TAASA Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2001
‘Biennale of Sydney’, review, Arts Magazine, New York, 1991
‘Perspecta Balanced’, The Eastern Herald, 1989
ONLINE
‘Interview with Geert Lovink’, trans in German, www.polar-zeitschrift.de, 2010
‘The Art of Linda Wallace’, http://www.montevideo.nl 2005
‘Nalini Malani’, http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh17 2004