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23 June - 23 July 2011
Leo Coyte
Guardians of the Threshold


Images

Artist CV




Born 1976, Sydney
Lives and works in Sydney

Solo Exhibitions
2011 db Project, Sydney (upcoming)
Guardians of the Threshold, Grantpirrie Gallery
2008 SLO BLO, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
WEB KICKER, MOP, Sydney
2003 You Will Know Me By the Trail of Dead, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Twenty/20, Coordinated by Ron and George Adams, UTS Gallery, Sydney and Dubbo Regional Gallery, NSW.
2009 Save Firstdraft 2009 Art Auction, Firstdraft’s Renovation Fundraser, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery and Art Centre, NSW
32m Squared, Firstdraft Gallery Studio Residents 2008 at Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney
Leo Coyte with David Griggs, a collaborative painting as part of DAVID GRIGGS, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2008 By George! Art and About 2008 - Downtown, Sydney
Rookie, Deloitte, Sydney
Look out Wembley Arena, MOP, Sydney
2006 The Tonight Show, The Rehearsal Room, Sydney
Broken Records, China Heights Gallery, Sydney
2004 Base Ten New Directions in Painting, Side On Gallery, Sydney
2001 Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whitley Studio, Sydney
Travel Ten (Ten Painters), Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney
Jenny Birt Painting Prize, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, Sydney
On the Tiles, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney
Anything Grows, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, Sydney
1998 Selected Exhibition, Graduating Students Exhibition, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
1997 Transitionism, Trouble in Utopia,151 Regent Street Gallery, Sydney
1993 28th Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst

Education
2003 Master of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (first class), College of Fine  Arts, UNSW

Grants, Residencies and Awards
2010 2010 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize. (finalist)
Artist in Residence- Any Space/Serial space, Sydney. Artist in Residence- Fraser Street Studios, Sydney
2009 Finalist, Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Art Centre
2008 Artist in Residence-Firstdraft Emerging Artist Studio Program, Sydney
2000-02 Australian Postgraduate Research Award, University of NSW, Sydney
2001 Finalist, Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whitely Studio, Sydney
2000 Highly Commended, Jenny Birt Painting Prize, COFA PerformanceSpace, Sydney
1999 Chroma Prize For Painting, Graduating Students Exhibition, COFA, Sydney
1994 Zonta International Orange Art Prize, Young Artist Award, Orange, NSW

Collections
Artbank
Private collections, Sydney, Melbourne and Manila
Sydney University Collection, Sydney