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Christian Capurro

Born Dampier, Western Australia, 1968
resides Melbourne, Australia.

Upcoming Exhibitions

2009-10

Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, Asialink/AGNSW touring exhibition

2009

Still Vast Reserves, Magazzino D'Arte Moderna, Rome

2009

+/-, Switchback Gallery, Churchill/Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne

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Selected Exhibitions

2009

More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid, Feinkost, Berlin
Behind the Image | The Image Behind, STUK, Leuven
Lo Sguardo di Giano, The American Academy, Rome
Second Hand, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna

2007/8

Monash University Collection: A selection of recent acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne [cat.]

2007

Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennale 52. International Art Exhibition, [cat.]
NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne [cat.]

2006/7

Before the Body - Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne [cat.]

2005

The body. The ruin, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University, Melbourne [cat.]
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985-2005, G.C.A.S., Melbourne [cat.]

2004/5

Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, multiple presentations and venues, Melbourne (solo + collaborators)

2004

Insufferable Nebulae and other couplings, Studio 12 Project Space, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (solo)
Gertrude Studios 2004, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne [cat.]
Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne [cat.]
Performance Anxiety, Ocular Lab, Melbourne

2003

Gorgonia, Studio 12 Project Space, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (solo)
West Space Goes Downtown, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
Gertrude Studios 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne [cat]
PrintROOM, CLUBS project Inc., Melbourne

2002

Capurro, Ellis, Hutchison and Parsons, 1ST. Floor, Melbourne

2000

White Breath, West Space Inc., Melbourne (solo)

1999

Trying to keep more than one thing in your head at any one time (Viva Timor Leste, 30.08.99), West Space Inc., Melbourne (solo)
After the deluge, corrections, Temple Studio, Melbourne (solo)
Roadside Goods, cityartpublicspace transport shelters, Melbourne (solo)
Raw Hin; Christian Capurro, Choi Sung Youn and Soyoug Kang, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo

1998

Engorge, Stripp, Melbourne (solo)

1997

Cicatrix, Gallery 106 Lt. Lonsdale St., Melbourne (solo)
Garnish (a suite of graftings), Linden, Melbourne (solo)

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Interviews / Contributions / Writings

The Value, Parabol AM #4, May 2009 (pic)

Coda, Motiv #14 Slutet/The End, December 2008 (pic)

111 [Risposte]. 3 [Domande] x 37 [Artisti], Exibart.biennale anno sesto #40, giugno-luglio 2007 (pic)

Christian Capurro interviewed by Julie Copeland, 'Exhbit A' ABC Radio National, 01.04.07

NEW07 Interviewed, Broadsheet: Contemporary Visual Arts & Culture vol. 36 #1, February 2007

Christian Capurro on NEW07 'Compress' works, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Soundfiles February 2007. www.accaonline.org.au/SoundFiles

On Originality, Natural Selection Issue 5, 2006. www.naturalselection.org.nz

Dear un Responsive, un Magazine Issue 4, Winter 2005. www.unmagazine.org

C. Capurro & P. Tyndall (a.k.a. fpm) ---- Day of Protests @ NGV, Haiku Review #6, 15.12.04. www.haikureview.net/node/54

M. Bullock, C. Capurro & T. Nicholson ---- After Images, Meanjin vol.62 #2, 2003 (pic)

Interview, 1998, The John McBride Collection (Tokyo/Melbourne) archive catalogue(s), National Library of Australia, Canberra

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Selected References

A. van Leeuwen ---- Walter B. en Christian C., Mister Motley, #17, 2008 (pics)

G. Chabert & R. Parcollet ---- Think with the Senses/Feel with the Mind, art 21, numero 14, octobre/novembre 2007 (pic)

E. Meoli ---- Recchese d'Australia in Biennale a Venezia, Il Secolo XIX, 13.11.07 (pic)

E. Lauria ---- La Carica degli Art Vandals, Exibart.grandtour, anno sesto #42, agosto-settembre 2007 (pics)

L. Harris ---- Christian Capurro, Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, 52. International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale of Art, Marsilio, Venice 2007 (pics)

E. Brown ---- Between Rapture and Refusal, NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2007 (pics)

S. Smee ---- Come feel the disdain, The Australian, 22.03.07

M. Backhouse ---- When what's left is more, The Age, 14.03.07 (pic)

K. McFarlane & G. Barlow ---- Before the Body - Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2006 (pics)

K. Murray ---- Beyond Fortress Ceramica: A Knight's Tale, Craft Culture (pic). www.craftculture.org/world/kmurray6.htm

B. Crone ---- The Ruined Body?, The body. The ruin, The Ian Potter Museum Of Art, Melbourne University, Melbourne 2005 (pics)

S. Koop ---- Say No, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985-2005, ed. Charlotte Day, G.C.A.S. with Black Inc. Press, Melbourne 2005 (pic)

J. Clemens ---- Getting off your face with a destructive character; Christian Capurro's 'Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette', Artlink, vol. 25 #1, 2005 (pics)

J. Engberg ---- Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2004 (pics)

C. Webb ---- Artists take up pencils to protest against NGV ban, The Age, 09.12.04 (pic)

P. Webb ---- Eyes wide open, The Age, 15.10.04 (pic)

P. Webb ---- Deconstruction writ large, The Age, 21.05.04 (pic)

M. DiPietro ---- Printmakers in the raw, Asahi Evening News, Tokyo, 23.09.99.

T. Nicholson ---- Garnish (a suite of graftings), LIKE, art magazine #4, Spring 1997 (pic)

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Grants / Residencies / Awards

2007

Australia Council Arts Development Grant, ISCP New York Studio Residency (2009).

2005

Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative Nomination.

2004/5

Australia Council New Work Grant.

2004

City of Yarra Arts Development Grant.

2003

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency.

1998

Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts.

1996

U.W.S. Macarthur National Printmedia Acquisitive Prize.

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Studies

2004 - 2006

Master of Arts (Media Arts), RMIT University.

2003

Digital Imaging Units, Media Arts Department, RMIT University.

1993 - 1995

B.F.A. (Printmaking), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.

1987 - 1989

Diploma of Photography (Fine Art), Australian College of Photography Art and Communication, Melbourne.

1986

Photographic Studies College, Melbourne.

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Selected Professional Activities

2009

Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome.
Tutor in Fine Art Honours Program, School of Fine Arts, Monash University.

2008

Tutor in Fine Art Honours Program and Drawing dept., School of Fine Arts, Monash University.
Visiting Artist Talks: RMIT University and Monash University.

2007

Visiting Artist Talks: Williams College, Williamstown MA (USA), Reading University (UK) and Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (IT).

2006

Lecturer/Tutor MVA Art History and Drawing dept's, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
Third Year Program Coordinator, The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
Tutor in Drawing, School of Fine Arts, Monash University.

2003 - 2005

Lecturer/Tutor in Photomedia, Faculty of Multimedia and Digital Arts, Monash University.
Visiting Critic, Media Arts dept., RMIT University.

2002 - 2005

Committee Member, West Space Inc. artist-run initiative.

2002

Printmaking Lecturer/Tutor and Visiting Artist, NMIT.

2002/1999/1996

Assistant Printmaker/Archivist, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy.

1999

Drawing Tutor, Printmaking dept., Victorian College of the Arts.

1996 - 1997

Lecturer/Tutor in Photography, College of Art and Design,
Monash University.

1993 - PRESENT

Freelance Photographer.

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