Megan Cope
Qualifications
2006 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Visual Communication), Deakin University, Victoria
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 The Black Napoleon, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2019 The Black Napoleon, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2015 The Blaktism, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
The Blaktism, This Is No Fantasy + dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne
2013 The Tide is High, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne
2012 Deep Water - Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres
Rite of Passage, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum
OCCURRENT AFFAIR: proppaNOW, University of Queensland Art Museum
2019 Water, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Great Movements of Feeling, NETS Victoria (Touring)
Violent Salt, Artspace Mackay, QLD (Touring)
Material Place, University of NSW, Sydney
Haunt, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Concrete, Jam Factory, Adelaide (Touring)
A World of One's Own, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
2018 Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
Octopus 18: Mother Tongue, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Ex Embassy, Former Australian Embassy, Berlin
TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Adelaide
2017 Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The National 2019: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, ACCA, Melbourne
Coast: the artists’ retreat, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales
Sovereignty, ACCA, Melbourne
Another Day in Paradise, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2016 Frontier Imaginaries, Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
Bereft, Artspace, Sydney
Frontier Imaginaries, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
proppaNOW, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Re-visioning Histories, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Ideas Platform exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Ku-ring-gai pH, Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Dead Centre, Edith Cowan University, Perth
40 Years of 3CR, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Women, Art and Politics, Footscrazy Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
2015 Western Australian Indigenous Art Award, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Lost in Translocation at RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
BLAKOUT, Sydney College of Art Galleries, University of Sydney
Lifelines: Indigenous Contemporary Art from Australia, Musées de la Civilisation in Québec, Canada
Dead Ringer, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2014 Saltwater Country, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
From Where I Stand, Bunjilaka (Melbourne Museum), Melbourne
2013 A Journal of the Plague Year, Para Site, Hong Kong
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Curatorial Projects
2011 Art with Altitude, Brisbane Airport
2010 BARI Festival
Awards | Grants | Residencies
2020 Canberra Glassworks
2019 Hornsby Art Prize - Finalist
2018 Konica Minolta Redland Art Award, NSW - Finalist
Sovereign Words, Dhaka Art Summit (Artspace Sydney and OCA Norway), Bangladesh
2017 Redcliffe Art Award, QLD
2016 Ku-ring-gai pH Residency, NSW
2015 Winner, WA Indigenous Art Award
Collections
National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery |Gallery of Modern Art
Monash University Art Collection
National Gallery Australia
Australian War Memorial
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Melbourne Museum
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum
NEWflames Anne Gamble Myer Collection
Musées de la Civilisation: Canada
Artbank
Darebin Art Collection
Commissions
2018 Monash University Museum of Art, Public Art Walk, Clayton Campus, Melbourne
2016 The Koorie Art Commission, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne; QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2015 Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Selected Bibliography
2020 Climate inaction is the greatest monster in the biennale closet by Gina Fairley on ArtsHub
2019 Water exhibition in Brisbane proves a wellspring of ideas for positive action against climate change. By Dee Jefferson. ABC.
2019 Water: the universal solvent, on ABC Radio National
2019 How a peaceful Aboriginal artist got on with the Australian forces in the Middle East. Canberra Times. Steve Evans.
2019 Sacred ground. Phil Brown. Brisbane News.
2018 Resistance Reviewed. Natalie Furnas. Fine Print.
2017 A City Built On Shell Middens. Video. ABC TV.
2017 Artist profile: Megan Cope. Video. ABC Arts.
2017 Invisible Agency: An interview with Megan Cope. Mariam Arcilla, Runway, November 2017
2017 Material Politics. Review. Lu Forsberg. UN PROJECTS
2017 Upside down/right way up: Historiography of contemporary ‘Australian’ art. Essay. Helen Hughes. The National.
2017 Material Politics. Review. Henrietta Wilson. Art Asia Pacific, 2017
2017 Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial. Review. Sasha Grishin. The Age.
2016 Megan Cope's Blaktism. Review. Graham Mathwin, Nov 2016
2016 Megan Cope, Art Collector, Issue 75, Jan-Mar, p160
2016 When volcanoes clash: Transcendence tells Australia's history through Indigenous eyes. Andrew Stephens. The Age.
2016 Studio: Megan Cope. Toby Fehily. Art Guide Australia, 11 Feb
2015 Frontier Wars between Indigenous people and settlers the focus of Wyndham Art Gallery exhibition. Dylan Rainforth. Sydney Morning Herald.
2015 WA Indigenous Art Award: Megan Cope's The Blaktism questions authenticity obsession. Dylan Rainforth. The Age.
2015 WA Indigenous art award winner explores Aboriginal identity and authenticity. Chloe Papas. ABC Radio Perth.
2015 Megan Cope's 'Blaktism' video wins top indigenous art award. Victtoria Laurie. The Australian.
2014 Artist Megan Cope takes a fresh look at the question of identity. Kylie Northover. The Age.
2014 The Blaktism. Essay. Professor Steve Larkin. Metro Arts 2014
2013 Toponymic Interventions #2. Essay. Sarah Werkmeister. Level ARI. 2013