Christian Capurro
Born 1968 in Dampier, Western Australia,
resides in Melbourne, Australia.
Individual Exhibitions
2004-5
Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, multiple venues in Melbourne.
2004
Insufferable Nebulae and other couplings, Studio 12 Project Space, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy.
2003
Gorgonia, Studio 12 Project Space, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy.
2000
White Breath, West Space Inc., Melbourne.
1999
Trying to keep more than one thing in your head at any one time (Viva Timor Leste, Aug. 30 1999), West Space Inc., Footscray.
After the deluge, corrections, Temple Studio, Prahran.
Works-off-paper, cityartpublicspace transport shelters, Melbourne.
1998
engorge(o)us, Stripp, Fitzroy.
1997
Cicatrix, Gallery 106 Lt. Lonsdale St., Melbourne.
Garnish (a suite of graftings), Linden, St. Kilda.
Selected Group Exhibitions
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 [cat.].
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985-2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne [cat.].
2004
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
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.
1999
Raw Hin; Christian Capurro, Choi Sung Youn and Soyoug Kang, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo.
Interviews / Contributions / Writings
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. http://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. http://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
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)
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)
Grants / Residencies / Awards
2007
Australia Council Arts Development Grant.
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.
Studies
2004 - 2006
Master of Arts (Media Arts), R.M.I.T. University.
2003
Digital Imaging Units, Media Arts Department, R.M.I.T. 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.
Selected Professional Activities
2008
Tutor in Honours and Drawing, School of Fine Arts, Monash University.
2007
Visiting Artist Talks: Williams College, Williamstown MA, U.S.A., Reading University, U.K. and Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Ita.
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., R.M.I.T. 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.