Melinda Harper
| Biography | ||||
| Born Darwin, Australia | ||||
| Education | ||||
| 1985 | Bachelor of Art (Fine Art- Painting), Victoria College, Melbourne | |||
| 1993-95 | Lecturer in Painting, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne | |||
| Selected solo exhibitions |
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2011 Prestorius Sweeney House Brisbane
2009 BMG, Gallery, Adelaide |
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| 2008 | Spectra, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne | |||
| Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney | ||||
| Sofitel, Global Art projects, Melbourne | ||||
| 2006 | Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
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| 2005 | Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney | |||
| 2004 | New Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne New Paintings, Sweeney House, David Pestorious, Brisbane |
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| 2002 | Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney | |||
| 2001 | Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney | |||
| 2000 | Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings Melbourne, Anna Schwartz Gallery | |||
| 1999 | Ana Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Sweeny House, David Pestouris, Brisbane |
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| 1997 | CDB Gallery, Sydney Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Jenson Gallery, New Zealand |
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| 1996 | David Pestorius, Brisbane Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 1994 | Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane |
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| 1993 | City Gallery, Melbourne | |||
| 1992 | 200 Gertrude Street Gallery #116 Store 5, Melboure | |||
| 1990 | #69 Store 5, Melbourne Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
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| 1987 | Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne | |||
| Selected group exhibitions |
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| 2009 Australian Cubism, Heide Museum 0of Modern Art, Melbourne |
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Contemporaneous: Australian Contemporary Painting 1, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Victoria 2 x 2 Group Exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Melboure Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
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| Taking a Line, VAVASOUR GODKIN Gallery, Auckland, NZ | ||||
| 2007 | Combine, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne |
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| 2006 | Celebrating 100 Years of the ABC, Penrith Regional Gallery |
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| 2005 | The Bendigo Art Prize, The Bendigo Art Gallery | |||
| 2004 | Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman, Sydney Talking About Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Three-way Abstraction: Works from the Monash University Collection, Monash |
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| 2003 | Untitled: Abstraction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Picnic, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West Inc, Melbourne Alchemy, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane The First Beijing International Biennale, China Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
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| 2002 | Good Vibrations: the legacy of Op Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Katharina Grosse, Melinda Harper, Michael Parekowhai, Gow Langsford Gallery,NZ Yellow, David Pestorious Gallery, Brisbane |
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| 2001 | Love Colour, Studio 91B, Adelaide | |||
| 2000 | Warm Filters, CASA, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide The Chrystal Chain Gang, Auckland City Gallery, Auckland, NZ |
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| 1999 | Kerrie Poliness, Melinda Harper, Fabrics, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne | |||
| 1998 | Primavera, The Belinda Jackson exhibition of young artists, MCA, Sydney Stephen Bram, Gary Wilson, Rose Nolan, Melinda Harper, Level 2, AGNSW, |
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| 1997 | Geometric painting in Australia 1941- 1997, University Art Museum, | |||
| 1996 | Spirit and Place, Art in Australia 1861- 1996, Museum of Contemporary | |||
| 1995 | Moet and Chandon Travelling Exhibition, AGNSW | |||
| 1994 | Melbourne Seven, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane Store 5 | |||
| 1993 | Australian Perspecta, AGNSW | |||
| 1992 | The Caboose, Ars multiplicata, Sydney Octopus, University of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| 1991 | Subversive Stitch, Monash University Gallery | |||
| 1990 | New Melbourne Abstraction, Art Space, Auckland | |||
| 1989 | Resistance, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne | |||
| 1988 | Quartet, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane | |||
| 1986 | Geometric Abstraction, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne | |||
| Commissions and Projects | ||||
| 1986 | Curated Exhibition Resistance 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne | |||
| 1993 | Curated an exhibition for the Next Wave Festival | |||
| 1998 | CD Rom, An Artistic Interpretation of an Australian Factory. Living Museum | |||
| 2000 | Australia Council Residency in Barcelona, Spain | |||
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Residency at the Boomerang House, Eltham |
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| 2002 | Australia Council Grant New Work Grant | |||
| 2007 | Residency at St Mary’s, Penrith, NSW |
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Collections |
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Heide, Museum of Modern Art |
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| Selected Bibliography | ||||
| Carolyn Baum and Victoria Lynn (Ed), Australian Perspecta 1993, essay, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney 1993. Ben Curnow, Melinda Harper, Art & Australia, Sydney, December 1995. Ben Curnow, Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1998. |
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