Jon Cattapan Biography

Born 1956  in Melbourne, Australia. Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

1975
Studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

1992
Completed a Master of Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Threshold Days, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney 

2019
Turbulence, Conflict and the Gardens of Remediation, in collaboration with Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, exhibition in partnership between Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne and Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria.
Ghosts of Analogue, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney 

2018
The spaces of and in Between, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton

2017
Future Constellations, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Pulses and Signals, Athenaeum Club, Melbourne
The City Submerged, Gag Projects, Adelaide

2016
New Works and Collaborations, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
The Wind Cannot Read, Station, Melbourne
Lesson Plan, (With Lyndell Brown & Charles Green), Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

2015
Raft City, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Lesson Plan: A Collaboration (with Charles Green and Lyndell Brown), Bruce Heiser Gallery, Brisbane

2014
Framing Conflict, w Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
Spook Country: A Collaboration, w Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, STATION, Melbourne
Jon Cattapan, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Jon Cattapan: Monotypes, SG Gallery, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, IT

2013
Jon Cattapan Recent Works, Milani Gallery, Brisbane

2012
Imagine a Raft, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Jon Cattapan, KalimanRawlins, Melbourne

2011
Jon Cattapan new paintings, Milani Gallery, Brisbane

2010
Perspectives, Australian War Memorial, Canberra (with eX De Medeci) – exhibition travels during 2011-12
Viridian Eye, Sutton gallery, Melbourne

2009
Jon Cattapan First View, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Night Visions, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2008
Jon Cattapan Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Possible Histories: Valley Nights, QCA Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane

2007
Jon Cattapan, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney|
Jon Cattapan, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane

2006
The Drowned World: Jon Cattapan works and collaborations, Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Jon Cattapan: Journal forms and Carbon groups, Grafton Regional gallery, Grafton

2005
After Images Bellas Milani gallery, Brisbane
Tiny Signals Sutton gallery, Melbourne

2004
Line Culture Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2003
Carbon Groups Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Carbon Groups II, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2002
Jon Cattapan Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Figure : Ground Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2001
Vista : Crowd Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
The Jon and Eugene Show (with Eugene Carchesio) Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

2000
Jon Cattapan: The City Submerged tours to Gold Coast City Art gallery, Tamworth City Gallery, Manning Regional Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery
Some Seen Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

1999
In the Present Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Jon Cattapan: The City Submerged Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong (tours to Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery, Surfer’s Paradise)
Seven Deadly Systems(paintings) Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Selected Drawings Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

1997
Fluid Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Fire and Life – collaboration with Surendran Nair, Monash University Gallery
Jon Cattapan – Drawings Hong Ik University Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

1996
Alight Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Collection in Context: Jon Cattapan Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
Stem Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Fire and Life (with Surendran Nair), M.S. University of Baroda and Gallery Chemould, Bombay, India

1994
Pillars of Salt Annandale Galleries, Sydney
The Open Line pt. 2 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Room 32 Regent’s Court Hotel, Sydney

1993
Journal Entries Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
The City Submerged Monash Studios, Melbourne
The open line Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

1992
365 Days, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
365 Days, Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Paintings Annandale Galleries, Sydney

1991
Reworking the Notes-Photographs Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Recent Works, Photospace Gallery, Canberra School of Art, A.N.U., Canberra
Reworking the Notes- Photographs Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

1990
Paintings and Drawings, Nathalie Karg, New York, U.S.A.

1989
Local Sums – Paintings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings 1986-1989 D.C. Art, Sydney
Working The Notes – Drawings, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
Working The Notes (Part 2) – Drawings Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

1987
Household Names Words On Lips – Paintings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1986
Paintings And Works On Paper Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Paintings And Works On Paper Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth

1985
Recent Paintings And Drawings Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1984
Works On Paper Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney

1983
Paintings, Constructions And Works On Paper Realities Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
All That Shimmers: Collection of the Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton
Word of Mouth, Grau Projekt, Melbourne
Vis-ability, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane

2017
A Decolonial Geographic, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania

2016
Beyond the Tower: 40 Years and Counting, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane     

2015
National Artists Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum

2014
Conflict, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Group show Galerie Patrick Ebensberger, Berlin, Germany
Velocity, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra

2013
Mix Tape – 1980’s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style. Curated by Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Max Delany. National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Major survey of art, design and architecture. Represented with collaborative works (with Charles Green and Lyndell Brown)

2012
Fifteen From Melbourne (curated by Jon Cattapan), as part of Nanjing 100th Anniversary Exhibition, Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Things That Go Bump in the Night, curated by David O’Halloran, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong, Victoria
Negotiating This World: Contemporary Art. National Gallery of Victoria

2011
Collaborative Witness: Artists’ responses to the plight of the asylum seeker and refugee, curated by Michele Helmrich, Universtiy of Queensland Art Museum

2010
Love Loss and Intimacy, curated by Allison Holland, National Gallery of Victoria
Contemporary Encounters, National Gallery of Victoria

2008
Basil Sellers Art Prize, Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

2007
Intimate and distant landscapes, Devenport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Thresholds of Tolerance, Australian National University, Canberra
Beautiful World, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Inaugural display of Australian and International art, Gallery of Modern Art (QAG), Brisbane
Fondamenti Nove Australian Printmaking Workhop Gallery, Melbourne

2006
Parallel lives: a survey of Australian Painting, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Yarra Valley, Victoria

2005
People’s Choice, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW

2004
JADA Drawing Award Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
Sticks and Stones University of Tasmania, Launceston
Freaks, Fiends and Folly Bright Gallery, Melbourne
The Tarkine, Bright gallery, Melbourne
Blackfriar’s Drawing Award, Blackfriar’s trust, Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW
By Male Order, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW.

2003
Otherworlds Queensland Art Gallery
See Here Now -The Vizard Collection Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Love Letter to China Ivan Dougherty gallery, Sydney and Cntral Academy of fine Arts, Beijing.

2002
Nocturne Mornington Regional Gallery, Vic
Transit Narratives Le Venezie, Villa Letizia, Teviso, Italy
Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
Redlands Westpac Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
Nick Cave: The Good Son Mornington Regional gallery, Mornington, Victoria  

2001
Landscape as Metaphor Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (touring), Qld
Imaging Identity and Place Grafton Regional Gallery, N.S.W. (Touring N.S.W. and Victoria 2001 – 2003)
On Paper Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2000
Terra Australis Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
National Works on Paper Mornington Regional Gallery
SCEGGS Redlands Art Award Mosman Art Gallery, NSW

1999
Telling Tales Neue Galerie Landesmuseum Janneum, Graz, Austria

1998
Decalogue – a decade of Australian printmaking Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul
Graphic Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Telling Tales Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Expanse University of South Australia, Adelaide

1997
In Relief: Australian prints from the permanent collection National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Chandler Coventry Collection Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
The Urban Edge, Tours Regional Galleries in Queensland
The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria

1996
The Power to Move – Aspects of Australian Photography Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
The Constructed City, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne

1995
Bathurst Art Award Exhibition, Bathurst regional Art Gallery, N.S.W.
Our Parents’ Children (curated by Giacomina Pradolin) National Gallery of Victoria-Access Galley, Melbourne
The Constructed City (Touring exhibition curated by Simeon Kronenburg, beginning at University of Tasmania)
Flagging The Republic Sherman Galleries, Sydney (Touring exhibition)

1994
Sulman Prize exhibition Art Gallery of New South Wales
Reference Points III- The Immediate Past Queensland Art Gallery
Construction in Process First Draft Gallery, Sydney
Art Asia Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1993
Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery
Real Time, Canberra Contemporary Artspace
Perspecta, New South Wales Art Gallery
Cloudbusters Canberra School of Art Gallery
Art Asia Hong Kong , Hong Kong

1992
Resident Alien, Australian Embassy, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Drawings 1992, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra curated by Julie Ewington
Domino I, University of Melbourne, Museum of Art, Melbourne curated by Merryn Gates
Medium Density, National Gallery of Australia
Group Exhibition, Nathalie Karg New York, USA
Compact Art: A Clear Case, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra

1991
Works On Paper, Christopher Leonard Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Transitional Times, curated by Sheridan Palmer for Print Council of Australia, exhibition tours nationally
From The Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney • Ellipses, curated by Natalie King, Verity St. Gallery, Melbourne
Sites, curated by Ann Kirker, Queensland Art Gallery

1990
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and other state galleries
The City And Beyond, touring regional museums curated by Elizabeth Cross
Visiting Artist Exhibition, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH U.S.A.
Nomadic, Sullivant Hall, Columbus, OH U.S.A.

1989
The Intimate Object, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne curated by Jon Cattapan & Peter Ellis
Irony, Humour And Dissent, Manly Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne curated by Alison Carroll
The ICI Collection, touring regional museums curated by Robert Lindsay and William Wright Intimate Drawing, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, curated by Arthur McIntyre Imaging AIDS, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Linden, Melbourne curated by Christopher McAuliffe & Stephanie Holt
re:creation/Re-creation: The Art Of Copying, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne curated by Merryn Gates
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and state galleries

1988
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and other state galleries
The Newcastle Invitation Art Purchase Exhibition, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
The New Generation 1983-1988, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The 9″ x 5″ Commemorative Exhibition, The Centre Gallery, Gold Coast
Recent Australian Etching, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Naked City, Adelaide Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, curated by Margot Osborne

1987
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and other state galleries
Backlash – The Australian Drawing Revival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne curated by Ted Gott
Young Australians, The Budget Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Spring Drawing Festival Mornington Peninsula Art gallery, Mornington, Vic

1986
Artbank Works On Paper, Arts Council 1 Gallery, Canberra
Blake Prize Exhibition, Sydney
A First Look, Phillip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Directors’ Choice, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne

1985
Figure, Fantasy, Fetish, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne curated by Peter Clarke
Images Codes: Art About Fashion, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne curated by Robert Pearce
Under The Hand Behind The Eye, Deakin University, Geelong

1984
City of Caulfield Acquisitive Art Award, Caulfield Arts Centre, Melbourne
Melbourne   Printmakers, Print Council of Australia Exhibition, Aichi , Japan
Print Council of Australia Exhibition, University of Oregon, U.S.A.
Three Melbourne Artists Solander Gallery, Canberra
Henry Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool

1982
Forcing Wisdom , Art/Empire/Industry Gallery, Sydney (with Peter Ellis) •
Emerging Painters, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Faculty Gallery, Melbourne curated by William Ferguson
Australian Printmakers, touring exhibition – University of Bayreuth, Bavaria, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany Oxford University, England, National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand curated by Jenny Zimmer

1981
Our Natural Dispositions – prints, Drummond Street Gallery, Melbourne •Bon A Tirer – prints, University of Tasmania, Hobart • Animals And Animalism in Australian Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Faculty Gallery, Melbourne curated by Jenny Zimmer

1980
Whatever Happened To Me?, Drummond Street Gallery (with Peter Ellis), Melbourne

1978
Crisis Drawings, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Faculty Gallery (with Peter Ellis), Melbourne

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
British Museum
Hong Ik University, Seoul
Artbank
Museum of Modern Art, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Wollongong City Art Gallery, N.S.W.
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Vic.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, N.S.W.
Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Vic
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery , N.S.W.
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Vic
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Vic
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Southport, Qld
City of Glen Eira, Melbourne
City of Port Phillip, Melbourne
Parliament House, Canberra
Australian National University, Institute of the Arts, Canberra
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Curtin University Collection, Perth
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne
Bendigo Regional Art Gallery. Vic
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, (Vizard Collection)
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Australian Catholic University
Print Council of Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Northern Territory University, N.T.
Wollongong City Art Gallery, N.S.W.
University College of Southern Queensland, Qld
Wesley College, Victoria
Tamworth City Art Gallery, N.S.W.
Shire of Diamond Valley, Victoria
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
St. Leonard’s College, Victoria
Deakin University, Victoria
‘Sight’- etching commissioned by Print Council of Australia (Transitional Times Folio)

SELECTED AWARDS, RESEARCH, COMMISSIONS AND TRAVEL

2016
Winner of the Rockhampton Art Gallery Gold Prize

2014
Printmaking residency at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy (Bulgari Art Award)
Rome research and residency (Bulgari Art Award)

2013
Bulgari Art Award. $80,000 award given to a mid-career artist to allow a major acquisition of work into the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Selected by Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and the Trustees of the Gallery. The acquisition hangs in the gallery in exhibition for twelve months.
Australia India Institute Jaipur Residency, Jai Mahal Palace, Jaipur, India. Ten Australian and Ten Indian artists in dialogue/seminar format. National selection.
Research trips to Timore Leste and Indonesia (ARC Discovery Grant)

2012
Research trip to Vietnam (ARC Discovery Grant)

2011
Research trip to study the collection of the Imperial War Museum in London, research art dealing with conflict at Venice Biennale and make a tour of the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

2010
Awarded Australian research Council Discovery Grant (with Charles green and Lyndell Brown) to investigate the relationship of contemporary art to sites of conflict.

2009
Artists At Work: Jon Cattapan – a 30 min documentary is commissioned by and airs on ABC TV (Artscape series)

2008
Commissioned by The Australian War memorial to be an official artist auspiced by the Australian Army in East Timor.

2007
Fondamenti Nove Invited to participate in a residency project to generate new works at the Venice Printmaking Studio. This project was initiated, auspiced and curated by the Australian Print workshop and involved four Australian artists and a Master printer.

2006
Completed ‘Timeline suite’ a major commissioned piece for RACV Club.
Completed ‘Siren line’ a major commissioned work for Goldman Sachs, Sydney.

2005
Completed Endless, a major commissioned work for the RACV Club, Melbourne.
Awarded an Arts development Grant through Victorian Ministry of the Arts for the creation of Possible Histories.
Awarded a New Works grant through the Australia Council for the creation of Possible Histories.

2004
JADA Drawing Prize (1st Prize), Grafton Regional Galley, judged by Mary Eagle.
Blackfriars Drawing award –Work acquired for Country Energy Collection

2003
Completed The Melbourne Panels, a major commissioned work through

2002
Travelled to Italy as organiser/participant of Transit Narratives, Treviso, Italy
Residency at Bundanon, N.S.W.

2000
Research tour to Hong Kong

1999
Tour of Jon Cattapan: The City Submerged opens at Wollongong City Gallery, recipient of small A.R.C. grant to research ‘Representations of the City’.

1998
Awarded Australia Council V.A.C.F. New Works grant.

1997
Melbourne, Fire and Life project continues; Visiting Artist / Professor, Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea

1996
Living and working in Melbourne, Fire and Life project, residency/collaboration Baroda, India

1994
Living and working in Sydney; moved to Melbourne late 1994, appointed Senior Lecturer in Drawing, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts

1993
Moved to Sydney in late 1993.

1992
Moved to Canberra, Awarded Australia Council Creative Arts Fellowship (for 1993-4); commenced Master’s Degree through Monash University, School of Art and Design, Melbourne (1992 – 1993)

1991
Lived and worked in New York City, Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra

1990
Living and working in new York City; visiting artist, Department of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.

1989
Awarded Greene Street Studio Residency, New York Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, lived and worked in New York City

1986
Study tour to Tokyo and Hakone district, Japan

1985
Traveled for six months in Europe, New York, Los Angeles; lived and worked in Italy (Castelfranco, Veneto)

1982
Artist in Residence Fintona Girl’s School Melbourne (Artists in Schools Program)

1981
Artist in Residence Ivanhoe Girl’s Grammar, Melbourne (Artists in Schools Program)

1979
Traveled to U.S.A., Europe, England; lived and worked in London

1975-1977
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1974
1st year Computer Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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