Kate Beynon
Born 1970 in Hong Kong. Arrived in Australia 1974. Lives and works in Melbourne.
Education
1996
Sessional tutor, Drawing Department, Victorian college of the Arts, Melbourne.
1995 - 96
Coordinator of S.W.I.M (Support Women Image Makers).
1995
Short studies-Chinese, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
1991 - 93
Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
1990
Advanced Certificate of Art & Design, Prahran College, Melbourne.
1989
Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne (1st year).
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living, Level 2 Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2007
Espirito Transcultural/ Transcultural Spirit, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Mixed Blood & Migratory Paths, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2004
Harlem to Noco: The Hybrid Life of Li Ji, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2003
100 Forms of Happiness/From the Lives of Li Ji, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne,
From the Lives of Li Ji/Forbidden City, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane,
2002
Kate Beynon 1994-2002, survey exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide,
From the Dreams of Li Ji, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne,
Calligraffiti Wall, 1st Floor Artist & Writers Space, Melbourne.
2001
Chinese Calligraffiti, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne.
Li Ji: Warrior Girl, Gallery 4A/ Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney;
2000
Li Ji: Warrior Girl, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Li Ji: Warrior Girl, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1999
Hope/Wish, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane;
Happiness, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1998
Intrinsic Defence, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne;
1997
WHAT People, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne,
1996
Old Folktale, Bellas Gallery, Melbourne,
The Story of LI Ji, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne,
1995
Old Story, 1st Floor, Melbourne,
1994
Kate Beynon, 1st Floor, Melbourne
1992
Knots, Bats, Characters, Tala Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2009 - 10
Zhongjian/ Midway, curated by Wollongong City Gallery, Yuan Centre of Art, Beijing & touring China
2009
The China Project/ Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane,
2007
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A
Premonitions, Monash University Museum of Art Collection, 1961-2007, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin,
SHIFT/Places Changing, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW
Heading North: Contemporary Australian Artists of Australia, Maroondah Art Gallery, Victoria
Eye to I: the face in recent art, Ballarat Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
Who Let the Dogs Out?, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre & touring to Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
2006
TarraWarra Biennial 2006- Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, curated by Victoria Lynn, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Yarra Valley, Victoria
The 2006 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney & touring,
Meeting Place/Keeping Place, The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne,
Extra Aesthetic; 25 Views of the Monash University Collection, Monash University of Art, Melbourne
2005
C’town Bling: art and the youth demografik, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW
Identity and Desire, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Pitch Your Own Tent/ Art Projects/Store 5/1st Floor, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Unscripted, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,
The Plot Thickens, Narratives in Australian Art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria and touring
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces,1985-2005, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Art for Science Fundraiser for the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Xin Nian, Contemporary Chinese Australian Art, The Ian Potter Centre/ NGV Australia Response Gallery, Melbourne
The Plot Thickens, Narratives in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne
Home and Away, Place & Identity in Recent Australian Art, Faculty Gallery of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne
2003
Synergies, Drill Hall, Australian National University, Canberra
The Future in Every Direction: Joan Clemenger Endowment for Contemporary Australian Art, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV, Australia, Melbourne
The Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
See Here Now, Vizard Art Collection of the 1990’s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
2002
Upstream: 400 Years of VOC/ Dutch East Indies Company, Australian representative, historic sites in Amsterdam & Hoorn, The Netherlands
Watching Ocean & Sky Together; Fourth Wall, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, U.K
Tales of the Unexpected, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
No Worries!/Mai Pen Rai! Art from Australia & Thailand, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Art Gallery & Museum, Hobart, Tasmania
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Energy Fields: Selected Installations from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2001
Our Place: Issues of Identity in Recent Australian Art, Monash University in Prado, Palazzo Vaj, Italy
hybrid<life>forms: Australian New Media Art, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
31st Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
Short Soup: Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival, Reading Cinemas, Sydney
Asia in Australia, Beyond Orientalism, QUT, Art Museum, Brisbane
Paperworks: Australian Artists Exploring Drawing and the Printed Image, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
MCA Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Gertrude Studio Artists 2001, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
STOP/FRAME, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
CACSA Fundraiser, Contemporary art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Bellas Gallery Group Exhibition, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1st Floor Fundraiser, 1st Floor Artists & Writers Space, Melbourne
2000
Rent, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne & Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pragmatics of Inscription: Wall Drawings, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Gertrude Street Studio Artists 2000, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1999
Talkback: Living Here Now/ Art & Politics, Perspecta 99, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Facsimile, LAC Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
Diaphanous, Span Gallery, Melbourne & Caldwell House Gallery/ Nokia Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore
Look Again, Contemporary Prints & Drawings from the Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Flux, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
1998
Objectivity: International Subjects of Objectivity, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia, U.S.A
Mr Big & Friends, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Expanded Field, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Alter Point, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Special Issue, 1S Floor, Melbourne
1st Floor Artists, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
1997
Moet and Chandon Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Touring,
Blackphoenix with Michael Pablo, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Gallery 4A Fundraiser, Gallery 4A, Sydney
Now and Then, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1st Floor Fundraiser, 1st Floor, Melbourne
1996
Primavera 1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Above & Beyond/Austral Asian Interactions, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
AERPHOST, The Debtors Prison, Dublin, Ireland
1996 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Deacons Graham & James/Arts 21 Award, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
Heirloom, Next Wave Festival, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
A Celebration: Recent Acquisitions of Heritage and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Supermodels, Next Wave Festival, 1st Floor, Melbourne
S.W.I.M.Fundraiser, Project Space, R.M.I.T, Melbourne
1995
Artists Editions, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne and Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1st Floor Fundraiser, 1ST Floor, Melbourne
Kate Beynon, Maria Griffin, Megan Marshall and Jessica Rankin, 1st Floor, Fringe Festival, Melbourne
1994
1st Floor Fundraiser, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Intimate, with Maria Griffin & Megan Marshall, Linden Gallery, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
Read My Lips, curated by Shiralee Saul, M.igrant Resource Centre Ascent Gallery, Melbourne’; Union Gallery, Adelaide
1st Floor Group Show Two, 1st Floor, Melbourne
1993
VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Inside with Maria Griffin & Megan Marshall, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1992
Learning, curated by Jenny Zimmer & Gail Hastings, Monash Studios, Nextwave Festival, Melbourne
1991
The Double Lucky Ho-Ho, with Wai Ling Lai, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Awards & Prizes
2009
Australia Council, New Work Established grant
2007
Arts Victoria: International Program Grant
Arts Victoria: New Work/ Creation Grant
2003
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Edition Fundraiser Invited Artist
2002
Arts Victoria, New Work- Presentation Grant
1999
Arts Victoria Women Artists Award
1997
Australia Council Visual Arts & Crafts Board, New Work Grant
1995
The George Award, Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Residencies
2004
Australia Council for the Arts, Professional Development for Residency, Harlem New York, U.S.A.
2000 - 02
200 Gertrude Street Studio Artist
Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Artbank, Sydney.
The Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney.
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.
BHP Billton, Melbourne.
Curtin University, Perth.
Goldman Sachs/JB Were, Sydney.
Griffiths University, Queensland.
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Melbourne.
Mercer Collection, Melbourne.
Michael & Janet Buxton Collection, Melbourne.
Monash University of Art, Melbourne.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
Vizard Foundation, University of Melbourne.
Wesley Hospital, Queensland.
Private Collections, Australia, New Zealand, USA.
Selected Bibliography
Penelope Aitkin: Bearing Gifts from the East, The Weekend Australian, 16-17 April 2005
Megan Backhouse: Galleries/Kate Beynon, The Age (Melbourne) Magazine, November 2007, p122
The Hybrid Life of Li Ji, Art Gallery Guide Australia, September/ October 2004,
Bossence, J Looking East for Help with an Old Picture, Melbourne Times, April 1997, p1
Ruth Brown: Planet Art, The Artist, Preview, The Age, Melbourne, July 30, 2006
Clabburn, A In between and Beyond,: Irony and Art of the Present, 1997 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, ex.cat, p18-21
Cook,Peter & Gleeson-White, C’town Bling, art & the youth demografik, catalogue, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2005
Cramer, Sue Primavera 1996, catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Crawford, Ashley Exploring the Passionate Hybrid World of Li Ji, The Age, Saturday, Oct 23, 2004
Daw, Kate & Kate Beynon, Maria Griffin, Megan Marshall, Jessica Rankin, 1st Floor catalogue, Melbourne, Tutton, Sarah 2005
Delany, Max ed Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects/Store 5/ 1st Floor, ex.cat, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2005
Delany, Max& Gertrude Street Studio Artists 2000, 200 Gertrude Street, 2000
Comte, Samantha; Nick Dent: Charmed Offensive, Time Out magazine, Sydney, Issue 38, July 30, 2008 p42
Mixed Media: Martial Art, Black & White Magazine, no.39, October 1999, p20, Australia
Tessa Dwyer: Welcoming Luck: Kate Beynon’s Art into Action, Art & Australia, vol.41/1, Australia, 2003, pp 86-93
Epstein, Anna The Changing Face of Australian Woman, Artlink, vol.14,no.1, 1994
Elizabeth Fortscue: As luck would have it, The Daily Telegraph, August 12, 2008
Gibson, J Primavera 1996, Art+Text, no.56, 1997, pp92-92
Goldsmith,M, Intimate, Linden Gallery, artfan, 3/4, Spring, 1994
Sue Green: Dragon Lady thanks her lucky start and throws it all in the mix, Arts/The Review, South China Morning Post, August 6, 2008
Grishin, Sasha Memorable Exhbition of Works on Paper, Canberra Times, June 19,2001
Hamston, Julie Australian Kaleidoscope, Curriculum Corporation, Australia, 2004 pp42-47
Hart, Melissa Kate Beynon, Dragon Spirit, Art Monthly, November,#205, 2007, p50
Heinrich, Karen Beyond the Dragon, The Age, Today 3, Sep 19, 2001
Natalie King: Kate Beynon: Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living, Art Gallery of New South Wales, room catalogue, 2008;
Warrior Women, Luck & Good Fortune, Sutton Gallery at the Melbourne Art Fair, 2006
Kate Beynon: Warrior GRRL, Australian Style, NO.50, April 2001 pp88-91
Kate Beynon, Art & Asia Pacific, vol3, no.4, 1996, pp107-108
Heirloom, catalogue, Monash University Gallery, 1996.
Stuart Koop: beep…crackle: Contemporary Art from the Middle of Nowhere, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008;
Warrior Girl: Kate Beynon’s Tussle with Language, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 29, 2001, cover & pp56-61
Facsimile, LAC Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela, catalogue, 1999
MELBOURNE-GLASGOW-EDINBURGH-The Queen is Dead: Stills Gallery, ex.cat Melbourne, Glosgow, Edinburgh Exchange, 1999
Kate Beynon, A New Foreign Language, Art+Text, no.61, 1998
Koop, S & Red, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2001
Leah, McCarthy, Ownership Issue, Name magazine, April, 1997 p9
Reehia, Travilian eds
Marsh, Anne Kate Beynon, Li Ji, The Herald Sun, March 6, 1996
Marshall,M, Kate Beynon, 1st Floor, publication, Melbourne, 1995
Helen McDonald: Global City Dreaming,, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 39, Winter 2004
Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art, Routledge, U.K & U.S.A, 2001
McKenzie, Robyn Kate Beynon, 1996 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, ex.cat, Art gallery of South Australia, 1996
Lena Mohammed ed. Rest of the World, Our Selection A-Z, The Art Newspaper, U.K. no.193, July-August, 2008,p.70
Nelson, Robert Poetic Characters Twisted with Irony, The Age, March 6, 1996
Linda Nochlin & Maura Reilly eds, Global Feminisms, exhibition catalogue, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A, 2007
Rann, Kirsten Diaphanous, ex.cat, Multicultural Arts Victoria, 1999
Natalie Robertson: Portrait of the Artists, Northcote Leader, March 28, 2006
Rooney, Robert Above & Beyond, The Australian, August 9, 1996
Heirloom, Nostalgic, The Australian, June 7, 1996
Russel Storrer& eds: The China Project, exhibition catalogue, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2009
Taylor, Catherine Exhibitions new perspective on being dinky-di Aussie, The Australian, August 20, 1999
Tunnicliffe, Wayne & Talkback, Australian Perspecta 99, Living Here Now: Art and Politics, ex.cat, art gallery of New Perkins, H South Wales, 1999
Verghis, Sarah Slaying the myths of race with modern tools, The Sydney Morning Herald, April4, 2001
Webb, Carolyn The Young Collectables/The Bright Young things of Art, The Age, Today 2& 3,Oct 2, 2001
Williamson, C& Snelling, M, Above & Beyond: Austral Asian Interactions, Australian Centre for Contemporary art, Melbourne/Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Wood, Andrew P Sublime Technology, Listener, vol.201, no.3421, Dec 3-9, 2005, New Zealand, p44
Art Beat, Visual Arts, The Press, Nov 5, 2005, New Zealand
Get Some Art Down Ya, Pressto, Dec 2005, New Zealand, pp24-25