Jemima Wyman
Jemima Wyman
Education
2005 - 2007 MFA at California Institute of Arts – Los Angeles
2001 Honours (first class) at Queensland University of Technology- Brisbane
1995 - 1997 Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts at QUT- Brisbane
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Conjuring Radical Openness, Commonwealth and Council , Los Angeles
2016 Jemima Wyman: Tactical Frivolity, Artspace Mackay, Mackay
2015 Tactical Frivolity, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Pattern Bandits, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2013 Effacing Power, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
2012 Piecing Together Core Concerns, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2010 The Will to Deceive, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2009 The Declaration of Resemblance and Fluid Insurgents, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008 Combat Drag: Lessons in Unlimited Expansion, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Putting on, Steven Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
More Jungle then Paradise – IMA @TCB, Brisbane
2007 The Difficult Word Is Born At Last, A402 Gallery, CalArts, Los Angeles
2006 No Nonsense: Great Shapes: a survey of past and recent video works by Jemima Wyman, The Block @ QUT, Brisbane (+ CamLab)
Whak’emall, 507 Rose, Los Angeles
Off Their Heads! Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Catastrophe Theory: Earthquake Girl and other Stories, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Minnie Peep, 18th St Arts Centre, Los Angeles
2003 See- Saw, The Farm, Brisbane
2002 Chroming, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Violent Salt (touring), Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australian Capital Territory
2019 Violent Salt (touring), Artspace Mackay, Mackay, New South Wales
Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Queensland
The Abyss: Strategies in Contemporary Art, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
2018 Craftivism: Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms, Shepparton Art Museum, VIC
2017 The National, Carriageworks, Sydney
Material Politics, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
I Can See Russia From Here, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne
2015 Quaternary, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Guirguis New Art Prize, Federation University, Australia, Ballrat
2014 Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2013 Direct Democracy, Monash University Museum of Art
Chockablock, University Art Museum, Long Beach
2012 The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial FACT, Liverpool (cat.)
Feminage, Cross Art Projects, Sydney
Panorama, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney (cat.)
2011 Inner Voices, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (cat.)
New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Museum, Brisbane (cat.)
The Open Day Book Exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles (cat.)
2010 THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney
Biennale Cockatoo Island, Sydney (cat.) 2009 GPS, Cypress Collage Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Total Nowhere Emotional Expansion, Brisbane Powerhouse No Other One Is, Threewalls, Chicago (CamLab)
2010 Feminism Never Happened, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2009 The Declaration of Resemblance and Fluid Insurgents, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008 The Art Resort, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Pap Spears, Karen 19, Gold Coast
2007 The Collective Body, Galerie Califia, Czech Republic (CamLab)
Powder Room, Track 16, Los Angeles
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, CalArts, Los Angeles (CamLab)
The Juice is Loose, 507Rose, Los Angeles
Too Check Effect, 4000, Chicago (+ CamLab)
2006 Seeing is Believing, Gatov Gallery West (CSU), Long Beach, California (+ CamLab)
2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne
Someone Shows Something to Someone, CCAS, Canberra
Rectangular Ghost, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2005 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (cat.)
Twofold, Westbeth Gallery Kozuka, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
2005 Prime, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Not Worried, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
2004 Talking about Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (cat.)
2003 Colour, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Unit 197, Gamma Space , Melbourne (cat.)
The Portia Geach Memorial Award , S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2001 QUT Alumni Exhibition , QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Virtually Furniture, Brisbane Powerhouse
2000 Next Gen, Metro Arts, Brisbane (cat.)
(painting), Monash University Gallery, Melbourne (cat.)
1999 Colourfield, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
1998 Griller Girls, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Fragility, Smith & Stoneley on Stratton, Brisbane
Awards
2012 Australia Council Grant, New Work Grant (Mid-Career)
2011 Arts Queensland, Career Development Grant
2010 QANTAS Foundation Art Award, Australia
Elam International Residency, University of Auckland , New Zealand 2009 Threewalls Summer Residency, Chicago (CamLab)
2006 California Institute of Arts Scholarship, Los Angeles
2005 Creative Sparks Grant – Brisbane City Council & Arts Qld
2004 The Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
Los Angeles Studio Residency - Australia Council for the Arts
2001 Graduate Award (Honours) - Software Engineering Aust.
2000 Melville Haysom Scholarship - Queensland Art Gallery
Selected Live Performances and screenings
2012 Embodied, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CamLab)
Engagement Party, MOCA, Los Angeles (CamLab)
2011 Social Clothing Experiments, The Getty Centre, Los Angeles
2010 Outside the Box, Bongout Gallery, Berlin
The Fish Bowl, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
Whak’emall, San Pablo Arts District, Oakland
Short Play , Thousand Pound Bend, Melbourne 2009 Ben Russell: Burns, Chicago (CamLab)
2008 Drift, Volta, New York
No News is News No Better, Exchange Rate, Los Angeles (CamLab)
Swoon Soon Suit, Silver Platter, Los Angeles (CamLab)
Gentle Extended Performance, Anarchist Bookfair, Los Angeles (CamLab) From Brain to Labia and Back Again, REDCAT, Los Angeles (CamLab)
2007 4th Monkey Town Semiennial – Monkey Town – New York
Genre Trouble – Mandrake / Armory – Los Angeles (CamLab)
Our Mark Their Mark – CalArts – Los Angeles (CamLab)
Ladyfest07 – Verdenskulturcentret –Copenhagen (CamLab)
Pillow Talk Foreplay with Blue Skies and Scissors-29025Eveningside#5 (CamLab)
Greatest Hits and Previously Unreleased Tracks – IMA - Brisbane
2006 You/Me (Puppet Cabaret) - CalArts – Los Angeles
[PAM] Cinema-scope program - Scope Miami - Miami
Chromophonozone - Don’t Tell Mama - Brisbane
Cat Theory – Director’s Lounge - Berlin
2005 Video works 2001-2003 - artLA - Los Angeles
2004 Love it or Leave! - Dangerous Curve - Los Angeles
Video Works 2000-2004 - Project Artaud - San Francisco
Homegirl - 18th St Arts Center - Los Angeles
2003 Body Double - (Participant Prime Two event) Qld Art Gallery
Selected References
Mallouk, Elyse. Engagement Party: Social Practice at MOCA 2008-2012, 2013, pp. 203-220 (CamLab)
http://www.moca.org/party/camlab/ with writing by Melinda Guillen (CamLab
Ziherl, V. ‘Techniques of the Skin,’ Inner Voices, 2011
Baum,G., Gluck,M. & Johnson,A. ‘Arts & Power,’ Angelino Magazine, December 2011, pp.72-73.
Kim, S. ‘Looking Back/ Looking Forward,’ Frieze Magazine, Issue 136 Jan-Feb 2011, p. 90.
Dick, L. ‘Jemima Wyman: Incognito’, Eyeline, Issue 69, 2009, pp. 29-33.
King, S S. Santa Fe Summer Preview, Art in America, No.6: June/July, 2007
Stratton, S. CamLab, artUS, Issue18: May – June, pg44, 2007
Mackinlay, D. Someone Shows Something to Someone, Art and Australia, Vol. 44 no.3, pg 444, 2007
Mayer, A. Jemima Wyman: Whak’emall, Eyeline, Issue 61: Spring, pg 55, 2006
Mackinlay, D. Under the City’s Skin, RealTime, Issue 75: Oct-Nov, pg 7, 2006
Fitzgerald, M. Finding Their Inner Spring, Time Magazine(Aus.),pp 70 – 72 October 3rd,2005
Jackson, B. A Sensorial Abstraction, Eyeline, Issue 57: Winter,pp. 22-26, 2005
Butler, R. Smart Art, Australian Art Collector, Issue 33: July – Sept pg 128, 2005
Stevens, G. Video National//Queensland, Photofile, Issue 74: Winter,2005
Flash Art News. 2005 Samstag Scholarships, Flash Art, Issue No.240, Jan – Feb, 2005
Brand, S. You know what they say, UN. Magazine, Issue 2, pp.55-56, 2004
Butler, R. Surface Tension Australian Art Collector, Issue 21 July – Sept, pg 144 2002
Webb, M. ‘The Body, The Imago, and The Intermezzo’ Eyeline,no.45 Autum/Winterpg 32-35(& cover), 2001
Kubler,A. ‘(You make me feel) mighty real ’ Art Monthly, no. 130 June 2000
Selected Collections
University of Queensland Art Museum Q
ueensland University of Technology
21st Century Museum of Art, Japan
Kulrilpa Collection Group
Queensland Teachers Union
National Gallery of Australia
Art Bank