Born: Sydney, 1977
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 |
One of Several Centres, Performance Space @ Carriageworks, Sydney
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| 2009 |
3 films made between 2005 and 2009 - Flatscreen Alex Kershaw, Beaconsfield, London, UK
Phi Ta Khon Project, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
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| 2008 |
One of Several Centres, Fremantle Arts Centre |
| 2006 |
Petalody, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
A Lake Without Water, Artspace, Sydney
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| 2004 |
Conversations With Absent Others, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
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| 2003 |
Geodetic Monuments, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
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| 2002 |
Between Iran, Peter Hore and Australia, West Space, Melbourne
Eating Mao Zedong, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Hunting Peter Hore With Pigeons, Sherman ArtBox, Sydney
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| 2000 |
Tourist Miniatures, Opera House Forecourt, Sydney
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| 1999 |
Thoroughbred, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney
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Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2009 |
Family Guy, Lake Macquarie Regional Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen Germany |
| 2008 |
Wilson HTM National Art Prize, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne; GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney; Jan Manton Art, Brisbane |
| 2007 |
Perfect for every occasion: photography today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
National Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
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| 2006 |
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
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| 2005 |
The Grey Voice, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
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| 2004 |
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
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| 2003 |
Vision, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Terrain, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Artbox Inc., Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
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| 2002 |
Festivus, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Others, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Sir Herman Black Gallery,
University of Sydney, Sydney
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Attention Span, Free Space (Scots Church)
Transfer, Gallery Wren, Sydney
Expo 2002, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney
Nikon Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
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| 2001 |
"••• , Gallery Wren, Sydney
Stellar, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Serial Sevens, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney
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| 2000 |
Perfect Strangers, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne and the Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Recent Acquisitions, Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney
Critical Mass, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney
Urban Documents, Firstdraft, Sydney
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| 1999 |
New Australian Photo-Artists Award, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Fluid, Firstdraft, Sydney
Archival Purposes, Firstdraft, Sydney
Suture, http://www.suture.net
Umbrella, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, Sydney
Expo 99, Scientcia Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney |
Education
| 2007 - current |
Masters of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
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| 1997-2000 |
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
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Grants, Awards, Prizes and Residencies
| 2011 |
International Creator Residency, tokyo wonder site Institute of Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange, Tokyo |
| 2010 |
Siteworks Residency, Bundanon Trust, Bundanon, New South Wales
Inter-Arts Connections Residency and grant, Australia Council, Sydney
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| 2009 |
National Association for Visual Artists Marketing Grant
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| 2008 |
Artist-in-Residence Grant, Thailand, Asialink
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| 2007 |
New Work Grant (Established), Australia Council
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| 2004 |
New Work Grant (Emerging), Australia Council
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| 2003 |
1st Prize Sherman ArtBox Inc.
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| 2002 |
Artist in Residence, Scots Church Association
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| 2001 |
Goethe Institute Language Scholarship
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| 2000 |
Freedman Foundation Scholarship
Honours Scholarship
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| 1999 |
Kodak Australasia Colour Photography Award
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| 1998 |
National Association for Visual Artists Marketing Grant
GAS scheme Grant |
Collections
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
NSW Department of Land and Property Information
University of Sydney Union Art Collection
Private Collections
Artbank
Selected Bibliography
| 2009 |
Jonathan Marshall, 'Video art at PICA and Fremantle Arts Centre', Realtime, issue no. 89, February – March
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| 2008 |
‘New Work: Alex Kershaw’, interview with Amber McCulloch, Artworld, December 2008 – January 2009
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| 2007 |
Catriona Moore, 'Not Just a Pretty Picture: Art as Ecological Communication', in Researching Environmental Concerns, edited by Gavin Birch Sydney University Press |
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Dougal Phillips, 'Alex Kershaw', Art and Australia, vol. 44, no.3, p. 449 |
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David Teh, 'Landscape with vestiges: Alex Kershaw's A Lake Without Water,' in Reuben Keehan (ed.), Artspace Projects 2006, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney |
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Bec Dean, 'A Desolation Too Real', Realtime, issue no. 76 December 2005 – January 2006, p. 55 |
| 2006 |
In conversation with Amanda Smith, ‘The Deep End’, Radio National, 17 October, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/deepend/index/ |
| 2005 |
‘The Marker: Alex Kershaw’, Arts on Sunday with Julie Copeland,
ABC RADIO National, 576AM, 17 April
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Adam Geczy, ‘Conversations With Absent Others’, exhibition catalogue
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| 2004 |
Tracey Clement, ‘Exhibitions’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 26 November – 2 December, p. 27
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| 2003 |
Russell Storer, ‘Artbox Inc’, exhibition catalogue |
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Peter Hill, 'Go West, Young Artist', The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 23 May, p. 22
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Peter Hill, 'Terrain', exhibition catalogue, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst |
| 2002 |
Judy Annear, ‘Others’, exhibition catalogue
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Blair French, 'A Surfeit of Style', Broadsheet vol. 31, no. 4, December
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‘Today’s Best’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 19 September, p. 14
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Tanya Peterson, 'Serial Sevens', Eyeline, no 47, Summer 2001–2002, p. 41 |
| 2001 |
Daniel Palmer, 'Fresh', Photofile , no. 62, p. 27 |
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Sasha Grishin, 'Memorable Images', The Canberra Times, 23 February, p. 12 |
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Shane Breynard, 'Doing it for the Camera', Broadsheet, June – July |
| 2000 |
Blair French, 'The things that Bill Sees', Perfect Strangers exhibition catalogue |
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Robert Nelson, 'Public Face of Privacy', The Age, 9 August, p. 7 |
| 1999 |
'Worlds Apart', in New Australian Photo-Artists Award, exhibition catalogue Australian Centre for Photography
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Sebastian Smee, 'Shutter to Think', The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 10 December, p. 24
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