KAREN CASEY
EDUCATION
2003-5 Master of Fine Art (Public Art) RMIT University
SELECTED PROJECTS/COMMISSIONS
2006 Let's Shake NAIDOC Handshake event, Federation Square, Melbourne
Reconciliation Handshake, University of Adelaide
2005 Collins Towers, foyer commission, Melbourne
Footscray Mall redevelopment - project design team with Hassell architects
2004 Altitude; public art billboard design
Art of Mind - Arts/Science project with Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University
CH2 development, City of Melbourne - Public Art design team
Stolen generations memorial (waterfeature artwork) Reconciliation Place, Canberra
Eureka Stockade Commemorative Commission (shortlisted)
2003 Water feature design/commission for Birrarung Marr, City of Melbourne (to be commenced)
Heartland Yarra's Edge; Docklands Urban Art Commission, Melbourne
2002 Floor design for National workers Heritage Museum, Qld
2001 Native Title - Reconciliation Place, Canberra - Visual artist, commission design team
Scar a stolen vision; Victoria Commission, City Square, Melbourne
2000 Public art commission for Melbourne Museum opening (shortlisted)
1999 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Qld Art Gallery
Melbourne Moomba River Spectacular (concept design artist)
1998 Construction in progress VI: The Bridge - International artists event; Melbourne
Melbourne Museum, Bunjilaka Wall Commission (shortlisted)
1997 Melbourne Immigration Museum public art commission (shortlisted)
RESIDENCIES
2002/3 Artist in Residence; The City of Melbourne
2001 Redgate residency, MSG Studios Beijing, China
2nd WA International Artists Workshop, Walpole WA
1999 Artist in residence; Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Qld
Artist in residence; Melbourne's Living Museum of the West
1997 Tulipamwe International Artists Workshop, Namibia, Africa
1994 Artist in residence; Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Artist in residence; Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW
1992/3 Studio artist; 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/INSTALLATIONS
2005 Art of Mind, Darwin Arts Festival, 24HR Art, NT Centre for Contemporary Art
2004 Art of Mind: meditation in Alpha, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Casting Shadows/Drawing Light; Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Ripple - Multi-media installation; Span Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Pulse - Multimedia installation; Redgate Gallery, Beijing China
2000 Radiant - Exhibition/installation Span Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Dreaming Chamber - Multi-sensory installation; APT3 Queensland Art Gallery
1998 Water Chamber - Water & Sound Installation; Living Museum of the West, Melbourne
1997 Between Myth & Matter; Melbourne International Festival, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi,
1996 Journey to the Inner Worlds; Adrian Newstead Gallery, Sydney
1994 Illusions - the Nature of Reality; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1993 Transformation; - Interactive sculpture/installation, Fifth Australian Sculpture
Triennial, NGV
1992 Awakenings; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1991 Karen Casey; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Sunshine Coast Art Award, Caloundra Art Gallery, QLD
Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Vic
Tribal Expressions, Festival Melbourne 2006, Black Box, Arts Centre, Melbourne
2005 Altitude: Drawing Dust, Shepparton Art Gallery, Vic
Their Summer, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Skinned - City of Melbourne Biennial Outdoor Works Exhibition, Birrarung Marr
Yarra array 2004 - Skinned; City of Melbourne biennial sculpture exhibition, Birrarung Marr
Altitude; Australian launch at Dante's Gallery, Melbourne
Big Spooks; National Gallery of Australia
Via Vai - comings and goings; Counahan Gallery, Melbourne
Drawing Dust: Altitude, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Drawing Dust; John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong, Redgate Gallery, Beijing
Via Vai; Italian cultural exchange touring exhibition, Palena, L'Aquilla, Turin, Italy
X Melbourne; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Sydney College of the Arts
2002 Yarra array; City of Melbourne sculpture exhibition, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne
2001/2 Digital Ghosts; Redgate Gallery; Beijing, China, Mass Gallery, Melbourne & Tin Sheds,
University of NSW
2001 Scar - a stolen vision; Victoria Commission, City Square Melbourne
Lost & Found - a shared search for belonging; Immigration Museum, Melbourne
2000 Fleurieu Art Prize; McLaren Vale, SA
Art of Place 2000 - Australian Indigenous Heritage Awards; Old Parliament House, Canberra
Art Towards Reconciliation; Gernika Museum, Bizkaia, Spain
The Brick Show; Monash Gallery of Art, Vic
1999 3rd Asia Pacific Triennnial of Contemporary Art; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Love Magic - erotics and politics in indigenous art; Australian Perspecta 99, S.H.Ervin
Gallery, Sydney
1999/03 We are Australian; Victorian Arts Centre (touring exhibition)
1998/9 1998 Blake Prize Exhibition; The Gallery, Darling park, Sydney, (touring)
Tasmanian Tiger - The Mystery of the Thylacine; Tasmanian Museum &
Art Gallery, Hobart (touring)
Construction in progress VI: The Bridge; Living Museum of the West, Melbourne
1998 National works on paper exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
1997 In Relief - Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts; National Gallery of Victoria
Tulipamwe - International Artists Exhibition; University of Namibia, Africa
1997 Visy Board Art Prize; Tanunda SA
1996 12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
1995 Alice Prize; Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1995 National Women's Art Exhibition; Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Alice Prize; Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
Out of the Void - Mad and Bad Women's Art from the Collection of the Queensland Art Gallery
1994 The Urban Aboriginal - Four Contemporary Artists from Australia; Australian Embassy,
Washington DC, USA
Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art; National Gallery of Victoria
Journey - Karen Casey & Woody Cywink; Institute of American Indian Arts Museum,
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Drawing on inspiration; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Urban Focus: Aboriginal Art from the Urban Areas; National Gallery of Australia
1993/4 Aratjara - Art of the first Australians; Kunstsammlung Nordheim-Westphalen,
Dusseldorf, Haywood Gallery, London, Louisiana Museum, Denmark
1993 Inner Space: Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Raka 1993 - The Ruth Adeney Koori Award; Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne University
1992/4 New Tracks - Old Land: Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia; Boston, Santa Fe, New York, St. Louis, Portland, Seattle, Florida & Washington DC, USA
Crossroads - Towards a New Reality; National Museums of Modern Art Kyoto & Tokyo
1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibition; Art Gallery NSW and National Gallery of Victoria
Flash Pictures by Aboriginal Artists; Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1990 Balance 1990 - Views, Visions, Influences; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tagari Lia : My Family - Aboriginal Arts from Australia; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1989 Aboriginal Art the continuing Tradition; Australian National Gallery, Canberra
A koori Perspective - Perspecta 1989; Artspace, Sydney (touring exhibition)
1987/8 Aboriginal Australian Views in Print & Poster; Print Council of Australia & Commonwealth Institute London
GRANTS/AWARDS
2006 Australia Council Hybrid Arts board, New Work Grant
Wyndham City Council Acquisition, Lempriere Sculpture Award
2004 Research & development grant, New Media Arts, Australia Council
2003 Arts Grant, City of Melbourne
2001 Arts Grant, City of Melbourne
2000 Australian Indigenous Heritage Award for Reconciliation (with Damian Smith)
Project Grant, City of Yarra
International Export & Touring Grant, Arts Victoria
1999 Project Grant, Australia Council
Development grant, Arts Victoria
1993 Project Grant, Australia Council
1992 Gold Cost City Art Award
1989 Professional Development Grant, Australia Council
1988 Visual Arts Fellowship, Australia Council
COLLECTIONS
Public and private collections in Australia, USA, Europe and Asia including:
National Gallery Australia, National Gallery Victoria, Art Gallery New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery,
Art Gallery South Australia, Art Gallery Western Australia, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, New York Public Library, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, ATSIC Collection, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, New Mexico, Australian Embassy, Beijing, Kerry Stokes Collection, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Devonport Gallery and Arts Centre, Burnie Regional Gallery, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, State Library of Victoria, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Art Bank, Parliament House Collection, Reserve Bank of Australia, Flinders University, LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre, Naracoorte Regional Gallery, Riddock Art Gallery, Mt Gambier, Art Bank, Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Reserve Bank of Australia, Flinders University, Monash University, Queensland University of Technology, National Maritime Museum, National Capital Authority, Canberra
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art; OUP, UK, 2000
Beyond the Future - The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art; Qld Art Gallery, 1999
Australian Printmaking in the 1990s : Artist printmakers 1990 - 1995 Sasha Grishin; Craftsman House 1996
The Encyclopedia of Australian Art; McCulloch & McCulloch; Allen & Unwin 1994
Aratjara - Art of the First Australians; Kunstsammlung Nordrein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 1993
Aboriginal Art Wally Caruana; World of Art Series, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1993
Aboriginality - Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings & Prints Jennifer Isaacs; QLD University Press, 1992
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Johanna Mendelssohn, Karen Casey, 50 of Australia's most collectable artists, Australian Art Collector, Issue 31, 2005
Sasha Grishin, Profiles in Print - Karen Casey, Art Craft arts International, No. 63, 2005
Julie Clarke, Art of Mind: Meditation in Alpha, exhibition catalogue, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2004
Damian Smith, Karen Casey: Casting Shadows/Drawing Light, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, No 52, 2003
Gary Willis, X Melbourne, exhibition catalogue, Gulag Publishing 2002
Damian Smith, Ripple, exhibition catalogue, Span Galleries, Melbourne, 2002
Judith Ryan, Casey, Karen, in Klienert & Neale, Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art, Oxford University Press, 2000
Christine Watson, Writing on walls: Reflections of rock-art traditions in 'urban' Aboriginal art, Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art
Art Towards Reconciliation, catalogue, Gernika Museum, Spain, 2000
Barlow & Hill, The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Australia's Aboriginal Peoples, Vol 2, Macmillan, 2000
Margo Neale, Karen Casey - A moment out of time, Beyond the Future - The third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Qld Art Gallery, 1999
Richard Thomas, The Bridge - Construction in Progress VI, 1999
The Art Gallery of NSW Handbook, 1999
Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon: Leipzig-Munchen, Saur-Verlag, 1997
Jenny Aland & Max Darby, Australian Artlook, Heinemann, 1997
Kirsty Grant, In Relief - Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts by National Gallery of Victoria, 1997
Lou Chamberlin, Art InSight, McGraw-Hill, 1996
Sasha Grishin, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist printmakers 1990 - 1995, Craftsman House Australia, 1996
Contemporary Australian Women - 1996/7, Reed Reference Australia
National Gallery of Australia - Education kit for art teachers, 1996
Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists, Reed Reference Australia, 1995
McCulloch & McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, 1994
Clare Gervasoni & Susan Patterson, Catbuster: Art 1995 - 1999, MacMillan, 1995
Donlad Williams & Colin Simpson Art Now - Contemporary Art Post - 1970, McGraw Hill, 1994
David Novy, Karen Casey, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, 1993
Anna Long, Changing Face of Melbourne 1841 - 1993 by Malakoff Fine Art Press, 1993
Aratjara - Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 1993
Wally Caruana, Aboriginal Art by World of Art Series, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1993
Alison Barclay & Simon Plant, A walk in inner space, Herald-Sun 9/9/93
Dianna Bagnall, Casey, Vogue Living, May 1992
New Tracks, Old Land - Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Arts Management Association, 1992
Australian Modernism - the complexity and the diversity, Malakoff Fine Art Press, 1992
Jennifer Isaacs, Aboriginality - Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings & Prints, QUP, 1992
Michelle Stockley, Art Detective by, Heinemann Educational Australia, 1991
Susan Simons, Women grab the initiative, Arts - Sydney Morning Herald, 9/11/91
Flash Pictures by Aborigianal and Torres Strait Islander Artists, Australian National Gallery, 1991
Liz Thompson, Aboriginal Voices - Contemporary Aboriginal Artists, Writers & Performers, Simon & Schuster, Australia, 1990
Avril Quaill, A Koori Perspective Tour, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Sydney 1990
Anne Marie Brody, Contemporary Aboriginal Art - The Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings, 1990
Balance 1990 - Views, Visions & Influences, Queensland Art Gallery, 1990
A Myriad of Dreaming - Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art, Malakoff Fine Art Press, 1989
Australian Perspecta 1989 catalogue, Art Gallery of NSW
Directory 1988 - Australian artists producing prints, Print Council of Australia, 1988 |
