Christian Capurro
b. Dampier, Western Australia
res. Melbourne, Australia (Lisbon/Vienna 2012-13)
artist, working photographer & seasonal teacher
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agents: Milani Gallery, Brisbane | Breenspace, Sydney
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Presentations
2013
'IS', Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna (solo)
2012
Respiro Bianco shat o quadrado azul, Oporto 24.11.2012 (act.)
Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
knell dobre glas, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Oporto [cat.]
Cut with the kitchen knife, Melbourne, Wodonga, Morwell, Dubbo... A NETS Victoria touring exhibition [cat.]
2011
Christian Capurro, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Debra Phillips, Breenspace, Sydney
Mouthpiece, Milani Gallery, Brisbane (solo)
Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, NAS Gallery, Sydney
2010/11
During Office Hours, Verband Geschlossene Fonds e.V., Berlin
2010
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), Artspace, Sydney (solo)
It happened that, ST Paul St. Gallery, AUT, Auckland [cat.]
Print Resolution, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Art Fair Project Room
Still Vast Reserves: Two, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne [cat.]
The Waste of Breath, Light Projects, Melbourne (solo)
InVisible: Art at the Edge of Perception, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2009/10
Mary Kelly | Christian Capurro | Klaus Mosettig, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane/Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University/Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, Singapore & Thailand
2009
Zweckgemeinschaft, MICAMOCA, Berlin
Leave No Trace: Ridges, Troughs and Phantom Limbs, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
Still Vast Reserves, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome [cat.]
Plus/Minus, Switchback Gallery, Churchill/Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne
More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid, Feinkost, Berlin
Behind the Image | The Image Behind, STUK, Leuven [cat.]
Lo Sguardo di Giano, The American Academy, Rome [cat.]
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)
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)
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 given time (Viva Timor Leste 30.08.99), West Space Inc, Melbourne (solo)
After the deluge, corrections, Temple Studio, Melbourne (solo)
Roadside Goods, cityartpublicspace venues, 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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Contributions
Pagework (#10) #12, (B.164) B.166, Christchurch Art Gallery | Te Puna o Waiwhetu, (March-May) December 2011-February 2012 (ill.)
Depiction (Cripps), AGMA Magazine #4, Spring 2011 (ill.)
The Value, Parabol AM #4, May 2009 (ill.)
Coda, Motiv #14 Slutet/The End, December 2008 (ill.)
Christian Capurro interview, Incontri / Encounters: 52. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, ASAC La Biennale di Venezia / I.U.A.V., Venice 2007
Highlights from the Venice Biennale, ABC TV Sunday Arts, 22.07.2007
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
On Originality, Natural Selection Issue 5, 2006
Dear un Responsive, un Magazine Issue 4, Winter 2005
C. Capurro & P. Tyndall (a.k.a. fpm) ---- Day of Protests @ NGV, Haiku Review #6, 2004
M. Bullock, C. Capurro & T. Nicholson ---- After Images, Meanjin vol.62 #2, 2003 (ill.)
Interview, 1998, The John McBride Collection archive catalogues, National Library of Australia, Canberra
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Commentaries
J. Marmeleira ---- Suspensoes entre o poetico e a politica, Publico, 04.05.12
A. Roelants ---- The Spectacle of Destruction: Christian Capurro, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Debra Phillips, Art Monthly Australia, April 2012 (ill.)
N. Bullock ---- In the wake of the image: Christian Capurro's a vacant bazaar, Column #8, Artspace, Sydney 2011 (ill.)
M. Robinson ---- Christian Capurro and The Future Now, The Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2011 (ill.)
M. Gagen ---- Christian Capurro: a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts #73, 2011 (ill.)
R. Sireekan ---- Negative creative: palimpsest as ghost, Bangkok Post, 24.06.10 (ill.)
S. Smee ---- For art lovers, Western Mass. awaits, The Boston Globe, 07.03.10
K. Johnson ---- The Lower East Side, Home to the Young and Emerging, 04.12.09, and Correction, 22.12.09, The New York Times
S. Reber ---- Monster im Heizungsraum, Der Tagesspiegel, 26.09.09
J. Paton ---- Backwards, slowly, blindly: Christian Capurro's 'compressions', Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, AGNSW, Sydney 2009 (ill.)
C. Lally & V. Gfader ---- Condensation Revisited: A Lecture on Pigments: 3, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore 2008
A. van Leeuwen ---- Walter B. en Christian C., Mister Motley, #17, 2008 (ill.)
G. Chabert & R. Parcollet ---- Think with the Senses/Feel with the Mind, art 21, numero 14, octobre/novembre 2007 (ill.)
E. Meoli ---- Recchese d'Australia in Biennale a Venezia, Il Secolo XIX, 13.11.07 (ill.)
S. Smee ---- Venice Biennale, Artist Profile, Spring 2007
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 (ill.)
S. Smee ---- Come feel the disdain, The Australian, 22.03.07
M. Backhouse ---- When what's left is more, The Age, 14.03.07 (ill.)
K. McFarlane & G. Barlow ---- Before the Body - Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2006 (ill.)
K. Murray ---- Beyond Fortress Ceramica: A Knight's Tale, Craft Culture, Melbourne 2006 (ill.)
B. Crone ---- The Ruined Body?, The body. The ruin, The Ian Potter Museum Of Art, Melbourne University, Melbourne 2005 (ill.)
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 (ill.)
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 (ill.) and Minimal Domination, Surpllus, Melbourne 2011
J. Engberg ---- Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2004 (ill.)
C. Webb ---- Artists take up pencils to protest against NGV ban, The Age, 09.12.04 (ill.)
P. Webb ---- Eyes wide open, The Age, 15.10.04 (ill.) and Deconstruction writ large, The Age, 21.05.04 (ill.)
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 (ill.)
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Acknowledgements
2012/13
Sammlung Lenikus Residency, Vienna.
2012
Escola Maumaus International Artist-in-Residence, Lisbon.
2010
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship.
Artspace Residency, Sydney.
2009
Institute of Modern Art Residency, Brisbane.
International Studio & Curatorial Program New York Residency, Australia Council Arts Development Grant.
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, Melbourne.
1993 - 1995
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
1987 - 1989
Diploma of Photography (Fine Art), Australian College of Photography Art & Communication, Melbourne.
1986
Photographic Studies College, Melbourne.
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Jobs, Talks, Visits etc.
2012
It's no crime to change hands: on & with Jean Louis Schefer, Maumaus Independent Study Program Seminar, Guimaraes.
2011
Visiting Artist Talk: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Fine Art Honours & Drawing Tutor, School of Fine Arts, Monash University.
2010
Visiting Artist Talks: AUT, Auckland & Fremantle Arts Centre.
Fine Art Honours & Drawing Tutor, School of Fine Arts, Monash University.
2009
Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome.
Visiting Artist Talk: Queensland College of Art.
Fine Art Honours Tutor, School of Fine Arts, Monash University.
2008
Visiting Artist Talks: RMIT University & Monash University.
Fine Art Honours & Drawing Tutor, School of Fine Arts, Monash University.
2007
Visiting Artist Talks: Williams College, Williamstown MA, Reading University & Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
2006
MVA Art History Lecturer & Drawing Tutor, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
Third Year Program Coordinator, The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
Drawing Tutor, School of Fine Arts, Monash University.
2003 - 2005
Photomedia Lecturer/Tutor, Faculty of Multimedia & Digital Arts, Monash University.
Visiting Critic, Media Arts, RMIT University.
2002 - 2005
Committee Member, West Space Inc. artist-run initiative.
2002
Printmaking Lecturer/Tutor & Visiting Artist, NMIT.
2002/1999/1996
Assistant Printmaker/Archivist, Australian Print Workshop.
1999
Drawing Tutor, Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts.
1996 - 1997
Photography Lecturer/Tutor, College of Art & Design,
Monash University.
EARLY '90's - PRESENT
Freelance Photographer.