Selected Curriculum Vitae
| Sanné Mestrom | |
| Studies/Professional |
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| 11 | RMIT University, Graduate Certificate in Public Art |
| 08 | RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, PhD, Fine Art |
| 00 | RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art (Hons) |
| Selected solo exhibitions and projects | |
| 11 | The Reclining Nude, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne |
| 10 | Shaker Peg; Chalk Horse, Sydney, October Link |
| 09 | Things fall down. Sometimes we look up. Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia |
| 08 | Certain Sacrifices (PhD Presentation); RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 07 | A history of space is the history of wars; Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand |
| 07 | Passing through; Rm103, ARI, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 07 | Slump; Dep-art-ment, ARI, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 06 | A history of space is the history of wars; Spacement Gallery, Melbourne |
| 06 | What keeps us this side of that dark line?; Counter Point Project Space, Hardware Lane, Melbourne, Australia |
| 05 | A man's name; TCB Inc., Melbourne, Australia |
| 04 | The Myth of a Political Vision; Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 04 | At the Foot of Justice; Conical, Melbourne, Australia Link |
| 03 | Critical Feedback; ClubsProject, Melbourne, Austraila Link |
| 03 | Site of Cultural Negotiation; Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| Curated group exhibitions and collaborations | |
| 11 | OCTOPUS 11:The Matter of Air;curated by Jacqueline Doughty, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (also with Michaela Gleave, Joao Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva, Zilvinas Kempinas, Sanne Mestrom, Dane Mitchell) |
| 11 | OOO, curated by Anusha Kenny, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne (with artists Brooke Babington, Hedwig Houben, ReneeJaeger, Sanne Mestrom,Ilia Rosli) |
| 11 | Social Sculpture, curated by Charlotte Day, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, (with artists Agatha Gothe-Snape, Sanné Mestrom, Stuart Ringholt, Kate Mitchell, Joshua Petherick, Lauren Brincat, Laresa Kosloff) |
| 11 | John Fries Memorial Prize 2011 (winner), curated by Venita Poblocki, Sydney (with artists yrus Tang, Erica Molesworth, Eva Hampel, Heath Franco, Jennifer O'Brien, Karl Khoe & Tessa Zettel, Keiko Matsui, Kristel Britcher, Kurt Sorensen, Nathan Taylor, Pauletta Kerinauia, Sanne Mestrom, Susie Nelson, Wade Marynowsky and Walter Brecely) |
| 11 | Nothing is true, everything is permitted, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney (with artits David Capra, Yvette Coppersmith, John A Douglas, Sanne Mestrom, Kate Mitchell, Christian Thompson and Gregory & Watts) Curated by Clementine Blackman and Kat Sapera |
| 10 | GERTRUDE STUDIOS 2010; (with artists Belle Bassin, Damp, Emily Ferretti, Nathan Gray, Matt Hinkley, Susan Jacobs, Ash Keating, Silvana Mangano And Gabriella Mangano, Sanné Mestrom, Moya Mckenna, Rob Mcleish, Geoff Newton, Selina Ou, Kate Smith, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk) |
| 10 | Eight Artists, Eight Editions, curator, West Space, Melbourne (with artists Nathan Gray, Brad Haylock, Alasdair McLuckie, Sanné Mestrom, Natalie Ryan, Kiron Robinson, Bill Sampson, Matthew Shannon |
| 10 | Things I wish I'd known; A West Space project (with artists Ross Coulter, Melody Ellis, Brad Haylock, Veronica Kent, Sanné Mestrom, Lillian O’Neil, Patrick Pound, Ben Sheppard, Utako Shindo, Tai Snaith, Kieran Stewart and Dominic Redfern, with essays by Phip Murray and Kelly Fliedner.) |
| 10 | Not Fair (in conjunction with the Melbourne Art Fair), curated by Ashley Crawford, Tony Lloyd, Sam Leach |
| 10 | The Nothing, curated by Kelly Fliedner, West Space Melbourne & Chalk Horse Sydney (with artists Damiano Bertoli, Lou Hubbard, Sanné Mestrom, Deborah Ostrow, Daniel Price, Matthew Shannon & Jackson Slattery) |
| 10 | Carry On Stow Away, Gambia Castle, Auckland (with artists marcelaygina, Eduardo Abaroa, Fiona Connor, Tania Perez Cordova, Adriana Lara, Louise Menzies, Sanné Mestrom, Joaquin Segura & Sofia Taboas) |
| 10 | A quarter turn on every screw, curated by Kel Glaister and Tamsin Green, Kings ARI, Melbourne (with artists Brad Haylock, Anthony Johnson, Yvette King, Sanné Mestrom, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson, Jackson Slattery, Nedko Solakov, Lee Walton) |
| 09 | Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, curated by Olivia Polini, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (also with James and Eleanor Avery, Laresa Kosloff, Dorota Mytych, Izabela Pluta,Amélie Scalercio) |
| 09 | De Architectura, curated by Kirsten Rann, MARS Gallery, Melbourne (also with artists Daniel Argyle, Savatore Panatteri, Meredith Turnbull) link |
| 09 | De Architectura, curated by Kirsten Rann, Level 17 Artspace, Victoria University, Melbourne (also with artists Daniel Argyle, Savatore Panatteri, Meredith Turnbull) link |
| 08 | Spaghetti Junction, Gallery 64Zero, Christchurch, New Zealand (also with artists Martin Basher (NZ/NY), Paul Johns, Eileen Leung, Peter Madden and Seung Yul Oh |
| 08 | An ideal for living, curated by Simon Gregg, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia link |
| 08 | Rembrandts: Nine Installations, public art and urban architecture project, coordinated by Simon Whibley (RMIT Architecture, Urban Architecture Laboratory) and Anthony McInneny (RMIT School of Art, RMIT Public Art) (with Antarctica, Jillian Allan, Greg Creek, Herbert + Mason, Sean Loughery, Sally Mannall, Sanne Mestrom, Vin Ryan, Workshop Architecture) |
| 07 | Life is Sweet: Contemporary Australian Watercolour, Curated by Bryony Nainby, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia (also with artists Patrick Hartigan, Noel McKenna, Michelle Ussher, Pat Waters, John Wolseley) |
| 07 | Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (with Kate Newby), Munster, Germany link |
| 06 | Siemens Scholarship exhibition, RMIT Storey Hall, Melbourne, (Recipient of Siemens Fine Art Award) |
| 06 | Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
| 06 | Portrait of Salote, in collaboration with Maxine De Feaux, curated by Salote Twale, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Link |
| 06 | Text Me, Spacement Gallery, curated by Glen Walls (also with artists Gabrielle De Vietri, Pandorosa, Danielle Freakley, Glen Walls, Rose Nolan) |
| 06 | Selekta, WestSpace, Melbourne, Australia |
| 05 | "I'm travellin' light', curated by Deborah Ostrow, Spacement Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia (also with artists Hany Armanious, Thomas Bernstein, Natalie Davey, Domenico DeClario, Deej Fabyc, Nicola Loder, Tracy Nakayama, Jonathan Nichols, Rob McHaffie, Deborah Ostrow, Tere Recarens, Peter Robertson, Gareth Sansom, David M Thomas, Jeremy Yoder) |
| 05 | One anothers other world, Curated by Peter Westwood, Alliance Francaise, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia(also with artists Laetitia Bourget, Philippe Charles, Steve Cox, Dominic Redfern, Philip Samartzis, Ania Walwitz, Louiseann Zahra) |
| 05 | KISSS, Conical Inc., Curated by London based Australian artists Joanna Callaghan and Deej Fabyc, Melbourne, Australia |
| 04 | The Time Image, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Curated by Phe Rawnsly, Melbourne, Australia Link |
| 04 | Sensoria, Conical, Fitzroy, Melbourne (part of the Sensoria Conference, hosted by RMIT) |
| 04 | Multiple Miscellaneous Alliances, CLUBSProject, curated by Bianca Hester, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia |
| 04 | The Conceptual Reconstruction of Brunswick, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Curated by Alex Daglish, Melbourne |
| 02 | Trope, Honours graduate exhibition, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 02 | My Blues Book, curated and self-published by Kate Newby, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 02 | Take it Away - (curator) Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| Awards/Residencies | |
| 11 | Winner, John Fries Memorial Prize, Sydney |
| 10 | Studio Residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne |
| 10 | Artist Residency, SOMA, Mexico City |
| 10 | Chartwell Trust Independent Funding, New Zealand |
| 09 | Arts Victoria Creation Grant |
| 09 | Arts Victoria International Grant |
| 08 | Shortlisted Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship |
| 07 | Arts Victoria Creation Grant |
| 07 | Shortlisted for Rijksakademie artist residency, Amsterdam |
| 07 | NAVA Janet Holmes Artist Grant07 NAVA Janet Holmes Artist Grant |
| 06 | Siemens Post Graduate Fine Art Scholarship Award |
| 06 | Shortlisted for Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery |
| 05 | Australian Federation of University Women, Daphne Elliott Research Award |
| 04 | Australian Postgraduate Research Award |
| 03 | RMIT Union Arts, Cultural Arts Grant |
| 01 | Artist in residence, Sangmyong University, Seoul, South Korea |
Catalogue
What
keeps us this side of that dark line?
Paperback, 1800mm x 2500mm
ISBN 978-0-646-47797-8
Thanks to NAVA and the Arts Victoria International grant.

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