Damiano Bertoli
Born 1969 and Lives & Works in Melbourne.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
Damiano Bertoli: Come to Now, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, Victoria.
2014
Associates, Neon Parc, Melbourne
Continuous Moment: Sordid's Hotel, CCP, Melbourne
2011
Continuous Moment: Anxiety Villa, IMA@Surfers, Gold Coast, Queensland.
Continuous Moment: Anxiety Villa, Artspace, Sydney.
2010
Continuous Moment: Le Desir…, Neon Parc, Melbourne
Continuous Moment: Le Desir…, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2009
Continuous Moment: Bad Infinity, The Narrows, Melbourne
2008
Continuous Moment: I’m Ok, You’re Ok, CACSA, Adelaide
Continuous Moment, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
2007
Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006
Continuous Moment: Hot August Knife, MOP Projects, Sydney
2005
Continuous Moment: Hot August Knife, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
2003
Continuous Moment, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2002
Frightened of This Thing That I’ve Become, 1ST FLOOR, Melbourne
2000
Lagrange, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1998
Damiano Bertoli, 1ST FLOOR, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Dancing Umbrellas: An exhibition of movement and light, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
2013
Video Arte Australia y Neuva Zelanda, Centro Cultural Matucana, Santiago
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Drawing Now (Melbourne Now), NGV, Melbourne
Video Contemporary, curated by Mark Feary, Sydney
My Avant-Garde is Bigger Than Yours, KINGS ARI, Melbourne
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
Like Mike, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Collage: The Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne
Lie of the Land, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Drunk vs Stoned XIII, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2012
Deep Inside, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington
Radio Alice, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Post-Planning, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Chinatown, The Sequel, LTD Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2011
New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Museum, Brisbane (Upcoming)
When The Dead Help the Living, Light Projects, Melbourne (Upcoming)
Reason and Rhyme, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (Upcoming)
Cognitive Dissonance, Cottage Home, Los Angeles (Upcoming)
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (Upcoming)
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (Upcoming)
2010
Stick It! Collage in Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Event Horizon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
The Nothing, WestSpace, Melbourne, and Chalk Horse, Sydney
Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Waterside Pavilion, Hobart
Silent Nights, Light Projects, Melbourne
The Narrows Monochromes, The Narrows, Melbourne
2009
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
The Gift, ICAN, Sydney
Expandex, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
+/-, Switchback Gallery, Monash Centre for Art & Design, Churchill
Lo Sguardo Di Giano, American Academy, Roma
LOOP ’09, Hotel De Las Ramblas, Barcelona
ART LA, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica
2008
Structural Decline, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
True Crime – Murder and Misdemeanor in Australian Art, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Print Workshop, The Narrows, Melbourne
Informal Rituals, TCB Arts Inc, Melbourne
Nice Stratigraphy, Conical, Melbourne
2007
West Space East, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
Paper/Scissors/Rock, Westspace, Melbourne
Blueprints for a new Topiary, Metro Arts, Brisbane
NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Relentless Optimism, Carlton Club Hotel, Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2006
One God, No Masters, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Motion Pictures, PICA, Perth
Endgame: Late- Capitalist Realism, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Adventures with Form and Space, Balnaves Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Trinity Nine, Trinity College, Melbourne University, Melbourne
Silenzi, Palazzo dei Prigione, Venice, Italy
Kids Stay Free, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2005
Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Deep Purple, Manning Clark House, Canberra
National Sculpture Prize, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Re/Thinking, Bus, Melbourne
Ocular Lab: 12, Spacement, Melbourne
2004
Quiet Collision, Viafarini & C/O, Milan, Italy
Labrador, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
2004 Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Papercuts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
This Was the Future…Australian Sculpture of the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s +Today
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Awards, Residencies, Grants
2013
Australia Council Visual Arts Board, New Work Grant
2009
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Gallery, WA
2003
Arts Victoria, Development Grant
2000
Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Overseas Studio Residency, Milan
1999
200 Gertrude St. Melbourne, Studio Residency
Collections
Artbank
City of Fremantle
Geelong Art Gallery
Deutsche Bank (Australia)
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand and Italy
Texts by the Artist
'Tempo Kolossal’ in Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction, pp 169-174, Eds. Barikin and Hughes, Melbourne, Surpllus, 2013
'Stratified and Gratified: Lizzy Newman’s Expanded Feel’, in Elizabeth Newman - More Than What There Is, pp 87-93, Eds. Fayen D’Evie & Elizabeth Newman, Melbourne, 3-Ply, 2013
‘Post-Structural-Jam', Catalogue , Masato Takasaka, Y3K Gallery, 2009
‘Continuous Moment: Bad Infinity’, The Narrows, 2009
‘Another Soft Machine’ essay for Matt Hinkley in NEW 08 catalogue, ACCA, 2008
‘Twin Lizzy’, Exhibition essay for Elizabeth Newman, Ocular Lab Inc, Melbourne, 2007
‘The Sounds of Science’, Artlink, Vol 25, No. 1, 2005, Adelaide
‘For Many Artists of My Generation - Mutlu Cerkez’, New05, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2005
‘Good Secret’, Raafat Ishak, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne Art Fair, 2002
‘Rose Nolan’, MAKE, Special Edition, 2002, London
‘In the Before Time’, Emily Floyd, Artissima, Exhibition Catalogue, Torino, 2001
‘Baby Mess; the Work of Katherine Huang’, LIKE, Summer 2001, Melbourne
‘Excerpts from a Conversation…’ Mutlu Çerkez and Damiano Bertoli, HOT ROD, Melbourne/Oslo, 2001
‘Cityscape Melbourne’, Flash Art International, No. 212, 2000, Milan
‘Ways of Living’ review, LIKE,Winter, 1999, Melbourne
Rubik #1, 1998, Melbourne
Bibliography
2014
'Material', No. 3, Eds. John Nixon, Danny Lacy, Melbourne
Johnson, H. 'The Now is Not Present', Exhibition Catalogue, 'Continuous Moment: Sordid's Hotel, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
2013
Hughes, H. ‘Like Mike’, Frieze No. 157, p. 169
Newton, G. ‘Like Mike, Exhibition Catalogue, Various Venues, Melbourne, p. 81
2012
Papas, N. ‘Radio Alice’, Exhibition Catalogue, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Hughes, H. ‘Radio Alice’, Exhibition Reviews, Art Guide, Nov/Dec, pp 49-50
Leonard, R. ‘Continuous Moment: Anxiety Villa’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 11, 2011, p.80
Keehan, R. ‘The Set-up: Performative performance in ten uneasy stages’, Column 8, Artspace, Sydney, p.6
2011
Discipline, Number One, Winter, 2011, Melbourne
Hughes, H. ‘Continuous Moment: Le Desir…’ Eyeline, # 73, p. 87
Wise, K. ‘When The Dead Help the Living’, Ex. Cat, Light Projects, Melbourne
Webb, P. ‘Continuous Moment: Le Desir’, Exhibition Reviews, Art Guide, Jan/Feb pp 31-2
2010
Rainforth, D. What’s On, The Age, September 29th, p17
Modra, P. Reviews, M, The Age, 26th Sept, p19
Rule, D. Around the Galleries, The Age, 25th Sept, A2, p20
Daly, A. ‘Meeting With The Monster: Hair, Sex, Shame’, Un Magazine 4.1, Melbourne, pp 52-3
Feary, M. ‘Beyond What Lies Beyond,’ Ex. Cat. ‘Event Horizon’, CCP, Melbourne
Rule, D. Around the Galleries, The Age, 1st May, A2, p22
Croggon, N. ‘Continuous Moment: AndAndAnd…’ Ex. Cat, ‘The Nothing’, Westspace, Melbourne
2009
Bell, D. ‘Judges choose to do something witchy’, Fremantle Herald Arts, 3rd October, p35
Snell, T. ‘Images pack a manipulative punch’, The Australian, Out and About, 1st October, p14.
Yeoman, W. ‘Series on serial killer gang takes out print award’, The West Australian – Today, 9th October, p17
Bertoli, D. Titmarsh, M. Trendall, J. ‘The Uncanny X-Men’, Ex. Cat, eXpandex, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2008
Wise, K. ‘Looking Back; Biennials, Surveys and Retrospectives’, Frieze, Issue 112, Jan - Feb
Daw, K. & Sullivan, L. Eds. ‘Bureau’, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, p85
Sullivan, L. ‘True Crime- Murder and Misdemeanour in Australian Art’, Ex. Cat, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Feary, M. ‘Structural Decline’, Ex. Cat, Melbourne Art Fair
2007
Garifalakis, T, ‘Year Of The Pig’, Ex. Cat, Neon Parc
Bertoli, D. ‘New 07 Interviewed, Broadsheet, vol 36. No.1,p14.
Barclay, A. ‘Bertoli’s Face Value’, Herald Sun, July 16th
Colless, E. ‘Momentum’, Ex. Cat, NEW07, ACCA
Nelson, R, ‘Pessimism is the new black as artists shrink, erase and shatter expectations’, The Age, 11 April
Crawford, A, ‘Blueprint for a New Topiary’, Australian Art Collector
Chambers, N. ‘Brushmen of the Bush’, Ex. Cat. Blueprints for a New Topiary, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Smee, S. ‘Come feel the Disdain’, The Australian, March 22nd
Webb, P. ‘Relentless Optimism’, The Age, February 14th
Clemens, J, ‘Continuous Moment: I’m OK, You’re OK’, Ex. Cat, Relentless Optimism, Carlton Club Hotel
Nelson, R. ‘A Look On the Bright Side’, The Age, February 17th
Palmer, D, Looking Back: Themed Shows, Frieze, Issue 108 Jan - Feb
2006
Amery, M; Hothouse Flowers, The Dominion Post, New Zealand 27/10
McDonald, J, Lights, action, entertainment, Sydney Morning Herald, September 9 - 10
Millner, J, Adventures in Form And Space, Eyeline 62
Natasha Bullock, 'Continuous Monumental Moments', Adventures with Form in Space, Ex.Cat, pp 18-19, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006
Ashley Crawford, 'Lost in Translation', Art Monthly, August, 2006, pp - 23 - 26
Justin Clemens, - placed, Trinity Nine, Ex.Cat, Melbourne University, 2006
Natalie King, Interview, Slienzi, Ex. Cat, 2006, pp 40- 43, Venice
2005
Edward Colless, Ocular Lab 12, Un.Magazine, issue 5, 2005, Melbourne,pp 28 &29
Ashley Crawford, 'Figures of Question', Sunday Age Preview, pp 22 &23
Charlotte Day, Ed. A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Ex. Cat, Gertrude Contemporary Artspaces, Melbourne, 2005-09-27
Justin Clemens,‘The Future Lasts a Long Time; Or, Damiano Bertoli’s Continuous Moment, Ex. Cat, Ocular Lab, Melbourne,2005
2004
Daniel Palmer, ‘2004: Australian Culture Now’, Art in Australia, Vol. 42, No.2, Summer, 2004
Zara Stanhope,’ In Conversation With’, Un. Magazine, issue 2, 2004, Melbourne
2003
Stuart Koop, ‘A Slow Quiet Collision: Notes Toward a New Serialism’, ‘Quiet Collision’, C/O & Viafarini, Milan, 2003
Zara Stanhope, "Finding Heaven", 'Continuous Moment,' Ex. Cat, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2003
2002
Simone Le Amon,' Frightened of this thing that I've Become,' Monument, no.53, pp93, Melbourne, 2002
Ihor Holubizky,’ Mutable Spaces’ , Eyeline, Vol 48, 2002 Brisbane, p 46.
Josh Milani, Mutable Spaces, Exhibition Catalogue, Metro Arts, Brisbane, 2002
2000
Daniel Palmer, Final Fantasies, Flash Art International, No. 213, Milan, 2000
1999
Lara Travis, System*, Review, LIKE, Winter 1999, Melbourne
Tom Nicholson, System*, Exhibition Catalogue, Linden Gallery, Melbourne 1999
1998
Zara Stanhope, ‘Graphic’, Exhibition Catalogue, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 199