Raquel Ormella
Education
PhD Visual Arts, Australian National University
2003-5 Masters of Fine Arts, University of Western Sydney, Nepean
1997 Non award studies, Akademie der Bilden Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1992-6 Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Hons.), University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Awards/ Grants/ Prizes
2018
Visions of Australia program, Department of Communications and Art
2016
One Year Studio Artist, Artspace, Sydney
2012
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, NSW
2009
New Work Grant, Australia Council
2007
PHD scholarship, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
New Work Grant, Arts ACT
New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2006
New Social Commentaries, Warnambol Regional Art Gallery
Capital Arts Patrons Organisation, Singapore Airways travelling grant.
2003
Australian Post graduate research scholarship, and UWS Research Bonus
2000
Western Sydney artist Fund, NSW Ministry for the Arts
1999
Australia Council Studio Residency, Barcelona, Spain
1996
Dyson Bequest travelling Scholarship, Art Gallery of NSW for study
1992
William Fletcher Trust Prize
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD
Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Penrith, NSW
2018
I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC
Horsham Regional Gallery, Horsham, VIC
2016
Artists as Cartoonists, or Extended Black & White, Cross Art Projects, Sydney
Golden Soil, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2013
New Constellation, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2010
Walking Through Clearfells, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2009
She went that way, Artspace Sydney, Sydney.
2007
It’s a big experiment basically, International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA), Kellerberrin, WA.
2005
Just left of the right lift, In Art lifts, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2004
The unattainable simple, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2003
Pick me, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2002
Living in other peoples houses, Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne
2001
Living in other peoples houses, The Lounge, Casula Powerhouse Regional Gallery, Liverpool, Australia
2000
while sleeping, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Rental beige (incomplete), Blaugrau, Sydney
1998
What do you want from me? (groschen, pfennige, cents), Mori Gallery, Sydney
What do you want from me?(6 month lease at $180 a week, plus gallery rent $250 a week), 151 Regent Street Gallery, Redfern
Anxiety books, 151 Regent Street Gallery, Redfern
A is for Archive (sic), in collaboration with Lucas Ihlien, The Verge Perth
Selected Groups Exhibitions
2019
National Anthem, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
Unfolding: Fabric of Our Life, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textle, Hong Kong
Just Not Australian, Artspace, Sydney
Zephyr, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Victoria
Exploded Textiles, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth
2018
Hunter Red: Seeing Red, The Lockup, Newcastle
State of the Union, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2017
MCA Collection: Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
1917: The Greatest Strike, Carriageworks, Sydney
Material Politics, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
The Dust Never Settles, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
The National, Art Gallery of New South Wales/Carriageworks/Museum of Contemporary Art
2016
Dissenting Voices, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artists as Cartoonists, or Extended Black and White, Cross Art Projects, Potts Point, NSW
2015
Artist Making Movement: 2015 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
More love hours: Contemporary artists and craft, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
See you at the barricades, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
21, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2014
Basil Sellers Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2013
California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2012
Pavilions Project - Sydney, The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai.
Social Networking, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2010
Universes in Universe, Aichi Triennale, Nagoya
Change, MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, Victoria.
In the Balance: Art for a Changing World, Museum of Contempoarary Art, MCA, Sydney.
Zen to Kawall: The Japanese Effect, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
Tokyo Story, TWS, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya Tokyo.
2009
Making it New: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Sydney.
Problem Solving: Express Yourself, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne.
2008
Revolution-Forms that turn, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Contemporary Australia: Optimism, GOMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
The Ecologies Project, MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Better Places, PICA, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
Girls, Girls. Girls! The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne, VIC,
Australian, Casula Powerhouse, curated by Nick Toutas, Casula, NSW
2007
Territorial, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT, 24Hr Art Darwin, NT
2006
If you leave me can I come too, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
Transversa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
Multiplicity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Yours, mine, ours, 50 years of the ABC, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
2005
International Geographic, Artists Space, New York, USA
C’Town Bling, curated Anne Loxely, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown
Art is a social space, Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown
Who’s Afraid of the Avant Garde? Performance Space, Sydney
disobedience, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, Sydney
2004
Cycle paths will abound in utopia, ACCA, Melbourne
City views, Museum of Brisbane, curated by Chris Handran, Brisbane
2003
Poetic Justice, The 8th Biennale of Istanbul, Turkey
The difference is the gap, ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand/ Aotearoa
Feedback, Art and social consciousness and resistance, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Anita and Beyond, Lewers Bequest Penrith Regional Gallery
Home sweet home, National Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia and national tour
Boofheads and Scrubbers Revenge, Lewers Bequest Penrith Regional Gallery
2002
Cidades, 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bittersweet, curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Urban Anxiety, curated by Kate McMillan, Artrage 2002 Festival, Midlands, Western Australia and 1aspace, Hong Kong
2001
Temporary Fixtures, curated by Jacqueline Phillips, Artspace, Sydney
Sunburn, curated by Anita Fricek, K3, Hamburg, Germany
2000
Drawing Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Sydney!Vienna!, curated by Anita Fricek, Akademie der Bilden Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1999
Talkback, Living Here Now, Art + Politics, Australian Perspecta 1999, curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe and Hetti Perkins, Art Gallery of NSW
1998
Injection, The Performance Space, Sydney
Homemade, (with Lucas Ihlien) SOUTH, Sydney
1997
Parking, Casula Powerhouse Regional Gallery, Liverpool
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
The University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Casula Powerhouse Regional Gallery, Liverpool, NSW, Australia
Warnambool Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Sir James and Lady Cruthers Collection, Perth, Australia
The Buxton Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Private collections Australia and overseas
Bibliography
Kyla McFarlane, Rebecca Coates, Reuben Keehan, I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella, NETS Vicotria, Melbourne, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC, 2018.
Anneke Jaspers, Wayne Tunnicliffe, Genevieve O’Callaghan, eds., The National 2017: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2017.
Wes Hill, review of Material Politics, Artlink, vol. 37, no. 2, Adelaide, 2017.
Vanessa Berry, Speculative space: Artists working with data, Artlink, vol. 37, no. 1, Adelaide, 2017.
Tsai Chao-Yi, ed., Artist Making Movement: 2015 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2015.
Dan Cameron, 2013 California-Pacific Triennial, New York, Penguin Random House, 2013.
Hayley McFarlene, Global Warming Painting, Black & White Drawings: Glenn Morgan; New Constellation: Raquel Ormella; The Surface of Language: Madeleine Kelly, Artlink, vol 33, no. 4, Adelaide, 2013.
Anna Waldmann, 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012: Reactivation, Art and Australia, vol. 50, no. 4, Melbourne, 2013.
Li Xiangyang, Xu Jiang, Reactivation: 9th Shanghai Biennale, The Power Station, Shanghai, 2012.
Reuben Keehan, ed., Raquel Ormella: she went that way. Artspace, Woolloomooloo, 2010.
Bec Dean, Raquel Ormella and Andrew Bowers: life in the balance, Art and Australia, vol. 48, no.1, Melbourne, 2010.
Bec Dean, Raquel Ormella: landscape and complexity, Artlink, vol 28 no 3. Adelaide, 2008
Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane, catalogue essay The Ecologies Project, MUMA, Melbourne, 2008
Daniel Palmer, review of the 16th Biennale of Sydney Art World, Issue 5, October/ November, Sydney, 2008
Max Delany, review of the 16th Biennale of Sydney, Freize, summer, London, UK, 2008
Anthony Gardener, review of the 16th Biennale of Sydney Column #2, Artspace, Sydney, 2008
Stephanie Radok, review of the 16th Biennale of Sydney, Artlink, vol 28 no 3. Adelaide, 2008
Bec Dean, review of the 16th Biennale of Sydney Column #2, Artspace, Sydney, 2008
Glenn Barkley, artist interview, Biennale of Sydney, Artist Profile, issue #4, 2008
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ed. Revolution-Forms that turn, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, Thames and Hudson, 2008
David Broker, catalogue essay Territorial, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT, 2007
Blair Frencrah catalogue essay Who’s Afraid of the Avant Garde?, Performance Space, Sydney, 2006
Charlotte Day, ed. A Short ride in a Fast Machine: History of Gerturde Street Artists Spaces, Gerturde Street Artists Spaces, Melbourne, 2005
Zanny Begg catalogue essay disobedience, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, Sydney, 2005
Julianna Engberg catalogue essay Cycle paths will abound in utopia, ACCA, Melbourne, 2004
Annette Larkin, artists of the 21st millennium, The Australian Art Market Report, issue 11, Autumn, 2004
Rachel Kent, Istanbul Biennial, Poetic Justice, Art and Australia, vol 41, Autumn, no.3, 2004
Wayne Tunicliffe, catalogue essay Poetic Justice, Istanbul Biennial, Turkey, 2003
Charlotte Day, catalogue essay Feedback, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2003
Lisa Havilah, catalogue essay Anita and Beyond, Lewers Bequest Penrith Regional Gallery
Trevor Smith, Sydney, Cidades, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2002
Wayne Tunicliffe, catalogue essay Bittersweet, Art Gallery of NSW, 2002
Jacqueline Phillips, Topographic democracy? catalogue essay, Temporary Spaces, Artspace, Sydney 2001
Raquel Ormella, artist pages, Uniglory, blaugrau, Sydney
Lena Lapschina, State Artist, State of the Arts #3, Culturepress, Austria, 2000
Stephen O’Connell, review of Perspecta, Freize, winter, London, UK, 2000
Bec Dean, Perth, Australia, is a small city... MU magazine #05, surfacepseudart pty Ltd, Perth, 1999
Charles Green, Art and Politics: Living Here Now, review of Perspecta, Art and Australia, vol.37 no.3 2000