John Citizen
Biography
1955-2014
Born Monto, Queensland
1988
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
Awards
2009 Winner of the inaugural ROI Art Prize, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Gordon Bennett and John Citizen: Moving Images Part I, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2009
John Citizen: Interiors, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2008
John Citizen: Interiors and Coloured People, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2007-2009
Gordon Bennett Survey, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2007
John Citizen: Interiors and Coloured People, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2006
John Citizen: Interiors and Coloured People, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
John Citizen: Interiors, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2005
John Citizen: Interiors, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2004
Out of Print: Gordon Bennett , Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art Travelling Exhibition, Brisbane
John Citizen: Swimming Pool, (DVD), The Viewing Room, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2003
John Citizen: A Quiet Place, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2001
John Citizen: Coloured People, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2000
John Citizen: Coloured People, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1998
John Citizen: Flatland, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1997
John Citizen: Flatland, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
John Citizen: Sacred Cows, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1996
John Citizen: Sacred Cows, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1995
John Citizen: Works on paper, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2017
A Decade of Collecting: The Kurilpa Collection 2007 to 2017, QCA Galleries, Brisbane
2016
Shut Up and Paint, NGV International, Melbourne
Green Eyed Monster Eating Its Own Tail, Sydney
2011
Ten Years of Contemporary Australian Art: The James C Sourris AM Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
House Inspection Interior Motives, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
2009
Cache, Blackfriars off Broadway, Chippendale
2008
ShContemporary ’08, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai
Home, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
2007-2009
The World in Painting, Chang Mai University Gallery, Chang Mai, Thailand
Chulalongkorn University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Yuchengco Museum, Manila
Hanoi, Vietnam
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, touring to regional venues in Victoria
2006
Radical Regionalism: The Empire of Shadows, Museum London Travelling Exhibition, Ontario, Canada
New to the Modern (Heide twenty-five years on), Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2004 - 06
Three Colours Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson, Heide Museum of Modern Art Travelling Exhibition, Melbourne
2001
Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Peggy Scott & David Teplitzky Collection
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
The Kurilpa Collection, Brisbane
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba
Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Perth
Private Collections
Bibliography
AAC ‘John Citizen’, 50 Most Collectable Artists 2007, Australian Art Collector. Issue 39, January – March 2007, p121
Chamberlin, Lou. ‘Gordon Bennett’, ‘Art inSight’, Sydney: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2007, pp. 196-197.
Clemens, Justin. ‘The Analphabeast: Identity and Relation in the Work of Gordon Bennett’, Gordon Bennett exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2007.
Enticknap, Simon. The Art of the Print Goes Digital, Print 21, July 2005.
Ewington, Julie. ‘Beauty and Turmoil: Two Paths Through the James C Sourris, AM, Collection’, Ten Years of Contemporary Art /The James C Sourris AM Collection exhibition catalogue, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2011, p 48.
Gellatly, Kelly. ‘Citizen in the Making: The Art of Gordon Bennett’, Gordon Bennett exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2007.
Heartney, Eleanor. ‘Identity and Locale: Four Australian Artists’, Art in America. May, 2009.
Holubizky, Ihor. Radical regionalism: the empire of shadows, Radical Regionalism: The Empire of Shadows exh.. cat, Museum London, Ontario, Canada, 2006.
Jorgensen, Darren. Planning for Deep Time: Nuclear Monuments and Aboriginal Art, Artlink. 2009.
McLean, Ian. Who is John Citizen?, John Citizen Interiors exh.. cat, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 2006.
Gordon Bennett’s Home Décor: the joker in the pack, Law/Text/Culture: In the wake of Terra Nullius, Sydney: School of Law, Macquarie University, Australia, vol 4 1998.
Parker, Francis. Review - Gordon Bennett: Retro (Home Décor) Aboriginal Art & John Citizen: Interiors, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts #69, Brisbane: Eyeline Publishing Ltd.
Stanhope, Zara. - How do you think it feels?… and when do you think it stops? Response and riposte in the art of Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson, Three Colours exh.. cat, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004, pp. 46 & 56.
Home Centre, John Citizen: Interiors and Coloured People wall text, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2006.
Ganymede and Rosalind, Interiors and Coloured People exh., cat. Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2008.
‘John Citizen’, The Heide Collection/Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2011, p 86.
Wallis, Geoff. Eye to I exh.. cat, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 2007.
Wright, Simon. Into the Print-Out, Out of Print: Gordon Bennett exh.. cat, Griffith Artworks, Brisbane, 2004.
Wright, William. ‘Conversation: Bill Wright talks to Gordon Bennett’, Gordon Bennett Survey exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2007.