alex lawler
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Born 1981, Milan, Italy Co-founder of |
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| EDUCATION | |
| 2005- 2008 | Master Class Heimo Zobernig Academy of Fine Art, Vienna |
| 2005- 2008 | Masters of Visual Arts with Professor Richard Dunn Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| 2004 | Bachelor of Visual Arts (1st class honours) Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| EXHIBITIONS | |
| Solo shows | |
| 2010 | Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney (upcoming) |
| 2009 | Art & Pleasure, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna |
| Easy Work / Hard Work,Factory 49, Sydney | |
| 2008 | Colour Sounds, MOP, Sydney |
| Masters of Viisual Arts Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts | |
| 2006 | The Schleifmühlgasse Painting, The Eshenbachgasse Painting, The Puppy Dog Paintings, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna |
| The Orgasmatron Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna | |
| 2005 | Psychedelic Warlords (disappear in smoke), Mop Projects, Sydney |
| 2005 | The Graphic User Interface (GUI) Project, Peloton, Sydney |
| Selected Group shows | |
| 2009 | Bell Street Project Space at Subvision Off-Space Festival, Harbour City, Hamburg |
| Back toBasel, Schalter, Basel | |
| PP44 at Scheltema, Leiden, Holland | |
| Faith & Lust: Various Approaches to Formlaist Abstraction, Flinders Street Gallery | |
| N.O. (Curated by Richard Dunn), Sydney NonObjective, Sydney | |
| Panorama, Horus & Deloris Gallery, Sydney | |
| Making Our Times, Newcastle University Gallery, Newcastle | |
| Trick of the Light, MOP Projects, Sydney | |
| 2008 | Here Comes the Ocean, Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe |
| Junger, Immanence Paris | |
| Kein Bier Vor Vier , Konsortium, Düsseldorf | |
| Work in Progress, Forum +, Brugge | |
| 2007 | Spiel Weiter du Süsses Etwas, Cluster, Berlin |
| Spiel Weiter Noch, Pudel Kollection, Golden Pudel Klub, Hamburg | |
| Living Elvis, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Seasons in the Abyss, Mop Projects, Sydney | |
| ArtWoche, Neo-Contemporary, Kaiserslautern | |
| Ach Wir, Blumen, Vienna | |
| Heimo Zobernig Calling, Acapulco, Düsseldorf | |
| Shoebox, curated by Huseyin Sami, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna | |
| UND#2, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Formalismus, Swinger, Vienna | |
| Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna | |
| 2006 | Stupid as a painter, Brick 5, Vienna |
| CMKY, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna, part of Vienna Biennale 06 | |
| Platte 6, Platte, Vienna | |
| Trafik, a Peloton Project, curated by Matthys Gerber and Giles Ryder, Sydney | |
| Sprich zu mir - Mluv ke me, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague | |
| 1/2 Doz. Cutting Fields, Collage in the 21st Century, First Draft, Sydney | |
| 2005 | The Conception Show & Paintings About Fucking, Phatspace, Sydney |
| Punch, Mop, Sydney | |
| Anti Sedition Laws Show, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney | |
| Fundraising Show, Mori gallery, Sydney | |
| The Radical Painting Project, Space 3, Sydney | |
| 2004 | It’s Happening Again, Peloton, Sydney |
| Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney | |
| Nevereven, Studio 511, Sydney | |
| Disembodied, Newspace, Sydney | |
| Lay of the Land, 4th Floor Gallery, Sydney | |
| 2003 | Artist Run Initiative Exhibition, Australia Council, Sydney |
| AWARDS, GRANTS, COMPETITIONS and SCHOLARSHIPS | |
| 2008 | New Works Grant, Australia Council |
| Qantas SOYA Awards (Finalist) | |
| 2007 | NAVA Marketing Gratnt |
| Ripe Award Finalist, Highly Commended, Art & Australia Magazine | |
| 2005 | Fauvette Loureiro Exchange Scholarship, University of Sydney |
| NAVA Visual And Craft Artists’ Grants Scheme | |
| 2004 | Bursary, Sydney University |
| MEDIA and REVIEWS | |
| 2009 | Newcastle Herald, The Medium is the Surprise, Review of the exhibition Making Our Times, 11th April |
| Sydney Morning Herald, Metro Section, 3rd April | |
| 2007 | Living Elvis, Catalogue for the exhibition at RMIT University, Melbourne |
| Pfälzische Volkszeitung, Kultur Regional, Kaiserslautern, 30 May 2007 | |
| Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Open Gallery, by Kelsey Munro, August 18 - 19, 2007 | |
| Falter, Best of Vienna, Vienna, May, 2007. | |
| Falter, Profis im Off, Vienna, 15 th - 22 nd February, 2007. | |
| 2006 | Der Standard, 22nd June 2006, Spezial Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna |
| 2005 | Sydney Morning Herald, November 1st 2005, Metro Section |
| Sydney Morning Herald,July 22, The Week’s Best, July 22 – 28th 2005 | |
| 2SER radio, Artists Interview on Wednesday Overdrive, July, 2005. | |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| Airports On Mars (…When I look into your eyes, I want you back), Locksmith Publications Issue 1, Sydney, 2009 | |
| Catalogue Essay for Zurich, featuring Tom Langlands, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, 2009 | |
| Abrechnung, with Marita Fraser, One Star Press, Paris | |
| Catalogue Essay for Desperaely trying to tell you something, featuring Ben Terakes and Andrew Newman, Firstdraft, 2008 | |
| Half Dozen Artist Run Initiative Catalogue 2006, Sydney | |
| Runway, Issue 9, published by Invisible Inc., Sydney, 2007. | |
| SPACE 3, An Australian Independent Creative Network, published by Space3, Sydney, 2006 | |
| Tempelhof: Functionality in Painting, Functionality in Airspaces, Textual Bildhauerei, Vienna, 2006 |
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| Catalogue Essay for Space Age, featuring Clare Millege & Biljana Jancic, Pelt, Sydney, 2005 |
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