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Curriculum Vitae

1977 born Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Currently lives and works in Northern N.S.W, Australia.

Education

2007 – 2008
Graduate Affiliate Programme
Slade School of Fine Art, London
2003 – 2004
Masters of Visual Arts
Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
1995 – 1998
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours
Sydney College of the Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2018
Exsanguination, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2014
Melbourne Art Fair, Artereal Gallery stand, Melbourne
2014
Unfound, Artereal, Sydney
2012
In between Something I have, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
The Swimmers, Ballarat Art Gallery, Ballarat.
2011
On Reflection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore.
First. One. Thing. Then. Another., Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
2009
The Floating Edge, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
Aqueous Trace, Video Lounge, Australian Center for Photography.
2007
The Thaw, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2006
The Shape of Between, Elastic Residence, London.
The Shape of Between, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
2005
Plant, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2004
The Rate of Forgetting, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2003
Tenuous Ground, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
Skin, Rocketart, Newcastle.
2002
Souvenir, Gallery Wren, Surry Hills, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, with Artereal Gallery, Sydney.
2018
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Sydney
2017
Contemporary Female Photo Artists, Artereal Gallery, Sydney.
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, with Artereal Gallery, Sydney.
Sydney Film Festival Exhibition, curated by Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
Video Easy, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne.
Red, Green, Blue: A history of Australian Video Art, Griffith University Art Gallery, Queensland.
Levitated Potentility, Hong Kong, curated by Linda Lai, Art Central Hong Kong, with Artereal
Gallery, Hong Kong.
2016
The Other in the Self, Funf Seen Film Festival (fsff), curated by Juschi Bannaski, Rasha Ragab, Roman Wörndl and Christoph Nicolaus, The Art House Cinema, Starnberg, Germany. X/I: ten year anniversary exhibition, Artereal Gallery, Sydney.
Sydney Film Festival Exhibition, curated by Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
2015
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, with Artereal Gallery, Sydney.
Solid State, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney.
2014
Of and For, The Bank, CASS Arts, London Metropolitan University, London.
The Queensland Festival for Photography 5 (QFP5) Urban Screens, curated by Andi Halfpapp.
PAST PRESENT FUTURE – 21st century art making, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Queensland.
Striking Contrasts, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW.
2013
NEW 2013, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
National Artists’ Self Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney.
2012
All Our Relations: 18th Biennale of Sydney, Curated By Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster, Various Venues, Sydney.
Speak to Me; 5th International Experimenta Biennial of Media Art, Curated My Abigail Moncrieff, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne and then touring until 2015.
Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Wonderland, curated by Antoanetta Ivanova, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei.
When I grow up I want to be a video artist, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
Cloud Cities, Delmar Gallery, Sydney.
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
Where there is water, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW, Australia.
2011-2012
Selectively Revealed, Aram Art Gallery, Seoul, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Chulalongkorn University Art Space, Bangkok.
2011
Drawn From Life, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria.
VideoRow, The Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles.
Screengrab, Federation Square, Melbourne.
Vitrine, Curated by Joao Laia, Bond and Gardner Streets, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Latent Appearences and colours, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung.
New Age: New Media, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, and then touring Hangzhou, Jinan, Chongqing, Songzhaung, Art Yard Lhasa, Tibet, Sichuan Fine Art Academy.
Art Stage Singapore, Singapore Exhibition and Convention Centre, Singapore.
2010
On the Border of Cinema and Painting, Uplink, Tokyo.Move: The Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Dream Worlds, Sanlitun Village Screen, Beijing, and Xian Qujiang Datang Buyecheng Xinlehui Screen, Xi’an.
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens.
Encoded, curated by Antoanetta Ivanova, Novamedia, Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Centre, Taipei.
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong.
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
2009
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternate Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.
Rising Tide, Film and Video Works from the MCA Collection, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2007-2009
Loop: New Australian Video Art, Hamilton Art Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Aarat Gallery, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Ballarat Art Gallery, Bedigo Art Gallery, Victoria.
2007-2008
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Primavera, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide.
2008
Drawn from Life: Drawing Space, Green Cardamom, London.
Shadowplay, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW.
Notations, Slade Research Centre, University College London.
Roving Eye, Advance, London.
Slade MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London.
Art HK 08, Hong Kong.
gbk @ Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
2007
The Year in Art, S.H. Errvin Gallery, Sydney.
Keep Going, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney.
Freedman Foundation Awards, COFASpace, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.
New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
CCB Club, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2006
Strange Times, The Art Organisation’s Meta-Conceptual International Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travelling Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney.
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney.
Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange.
Art and Football, German Bundestag, Berlin, Germany.
gbk @ Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
Official FIFA World Cup Art Posters, Multiple Box, Sydney.
Official FIFA World Cup Art Posters, Goethe Institute, Sydney.
Material Witness: Representations of Space, Contemporary Art Centre South Australia, Project Space, Adelaide.
2005
Translation, Gallery 101, Melbourne.
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney.
Freedman Foundation Awards Exhibition, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney.
International Painting on Paper, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
Emerging Artists, Span Galleries, Melbourne.
2004
Two for One Two, MOP, Sydney.
The Year in Art, S.H Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, Sydney.
Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney.
Perception, Conception, Deception, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane.
Frank Saxby Bequest Exhibition, Manning Regional Gallery, NSW.
2003
The Year in Art, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
Two for One, MOP, Sydney.
Avoiding the Eye Area, MOP, Sydney.
Julie Fragar, Jessica MacNeil, Shaan Syed, Grunt, Vancouver.
2002
Surveillance, Firstdraft, Sydney.
Deskjob, Mori, Sydney.
Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks, Sydney.
2001
Artcastle, The Castle, Dover Heights, Sydney.
Space, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.
2000
Magic Bullet Theory, Imperial Slacks, Sydney1999Post No Bills, Newspace, Sydney.

Grants and Awards

2018
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, Winner, Viewers Choice Award
2013
National Artists’ Self Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (finalist).
2012
Experimenta Media Arts Comission.
Australia Council, New Work Grant.
2011
Lakeland Arts Trust and Green Cardamom Drawn From Life Residency and Commission.
2009
Primavera Veolia Award.
2007
Anne & Gordon Samstag Schoralship, University of South Australia.
2006
Australia Council, New Work Grant.
Winner, Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travelling Scholarship.
Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship.
2005
Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship.
Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship.
2003
Zelda Stedman Young Artist Scholarship.
2002
NSW Artists Marketing Grant, NSW Ministry for the Arts

Selected Collections

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • The Australian Council for the Arts, Sydney
  • Sydney Opera House Collection
  • University of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
  • Hamilton Regional Gallery, Victoria
  • Artbank, Australia
  • Gadens Lawyers Corporate Collection, Brisbane
  • Willougby Partners Corporate Collection, New York
  • Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney

Selected Bibliography

  • Art and Australia (Ed), Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Dott Publishing, 2008
  • Benjamin, Andrew, Writing Art and Architecture, Transmission, re.press, Melbourne, 2010
  • Benjamin, Andrew, Traces of Anonymity, Catalogue Essay, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2008
  • Blackall, Judith, Soluble Time, Catalogue Essay, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2008
  • Boquai, Wang, Illusion and Origin, “New Age New Media”, Pub: China Art Projects, Beijing, 2011
  • Boyce, Elizabeth, Translation, “Un Magazine”, Iss 7, Autumn 2006
  • Brand, Sally, Keep Going, exhibition catalogue, published by Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, 2007
  • Breen, Sally, The Rate of Forgetting, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2004
  • Chambers, Eddie, Drawing Form, Published by Green Cardamom, London 2008
  • Blackall, Judith, Soulble Time: The work of Jess MacNeil, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2011 and republished
    in “Wonderland” by Taipei Cultural Foundation and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 2012
  • Copley, Martina, Translation, published by Gallery 101, 2005
  • De Zegher, Catherine, acr are ark arm art”¦ act!, “18th Biennale of Sydney: All our Relations”
    Catalogue, published by the Biennale of Sydney Ltd, 2012
  • Dunn, Richard, Tenuous Ground, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2003
  • Flynn, Paul, Jess MacNeil, “Artist Profile”, Issue 3, 2008
  • Frost, Andrew, Jess MacNeil, “Scanlines: Video Art in Australia since the 1960s”, www.scanlines.net,
    published by COFA UNSW, Dlux Media Arts and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • Ivanova, Antoinetta, Searching For Wonderland, Wonderland, published by Taipei Cultural Foundation and
    Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 2012
  • Jaffe, David Critical Essay for “The Roving Eye”, pub Advance, Sydney, Australia and London, UK,
    2008
  • Jones, Sarah New Age, New Light, “New Age New Media”, published by China Art Projects, Beijing, 2011
  • Kaldor, John (Ed) Move Video Art in Schools: Jess MacNeil, The Swimmers, Education Booklet, NSW
    Department of Education and Kaldor Public Art Projects, 2009
  • Kaldor Public Art Projects (Ed) Move: The Exhibition, published by Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of
    Modern Art, Queensland Government and Kaldor Public Art Projects, Brisbane, 2010
  • Kent, Rachel, New Acquisitions 2007: a Collection in Focus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2007
  • Lewis, Claire, The Shape of Between, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2006
  • MacNeil, Jess, Painting Notes, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2005
  • MacNeil, Jess, Gummers How (Slow Pan): Notes for a Commission, “Drawn From Life”, published by Green
    Cardamom, London and the Lakeland Arts Trust, Kendal, Cumbria, 2011
  • MacNeil, Jess, Two for One, Two, Exhibition Catalogue, MOP Projects, Sydney, 2004
  • McMaster, Gerald, Ntotemuk: Commonalities Among Great Differences, “18th Biennale of Sydney: All our
    Relations” Catalogue, published by the Biennale of Sydney Ltd, 2012
  • Merewhether, Charles, Media Based Exhibitions, “Glossary”, Institute of Contemporary Arts
    Singapore,Volume 1, 2011
  • Moncrief, Abigail, Speak To Me, “5th International Biennial of Media Art, Experimenta Speak To Me”
    Published by Experimenta Media Arts, 2012
  • Moncrief, Abigail, Commissioned Artist Interviews, “5th International Biennial of Media Art,
    Experimenta Speak To Me” Published by Experimenta Media Arts, 2012
  • Morrow, Christine, Primavera 07, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007
  • Morrow, Christine, What Now, “Australian Art Collector”, Issue 60, April-June 2012
  • Nasar, Hammad and Dawood Anita (Eds), Drawn From Life, published by Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria and
    Green Cardamom, London, 2011
  • Needham, Claire (Ed), Selectively Revealed, published by Asialink and Experimenta 2011
  • Newitt, Reg (Ed) Introduction, “New Age New Media”, pub: China Art Projects, Beijing, 2011
  • Okamura, Kieko, Jess MacNeil, Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternate Visions, Tokyo
    Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2009
  • Okubo, Ken”ichi, On the Border of “Cinema” and “Painting” Yebisu International Festival for
    Art and Alternate Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2009
  • Rhodes, Colin (Ed) Fauvette, SCA Galleries, published by Sydney College of the Arts, 2007
  • Reid, Chris, Material Witness: Representations of Space, “Australian Art Collector”, Issue 35,
    January to March 2006
  • Stout, Katherine, Journeys Across Space and Time: A view to international drawing practices, “Drawn
    From Life”, published by Green Cardamom, London and the Lakeland Arts Trust, Kendal, Cumbria, 2011
  • Taylor, Alex, What Do You Call Good Video Art?, “Loop: New Australian Video Art”, published by NETS
    Victoria, 2007
  • Warren, Daina, Journal/Journey, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, 2002
  • Woodburn, Jena, Material Witness: Representations of Space, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia,
    2006