| Callum Morton |
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| Biography |
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1965
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Born Montreal, Canada
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| 1983–85 |
Bachelor of Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1986–88 |
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1996–99 |
Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| Currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia |
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| Selected solo exhibitions |
2006
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Piles, Pools and Projections, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
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Mini Monuments, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne |
2005
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Babylonia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Arts Festival
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2004
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Tomorrow Land, Chandigarh Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, India
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The Wishing Well, Gimpel Fils, London |
2003
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More Talk About Buildings & Mood, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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Habitat, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
2002
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Gas and Fuel, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
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The Big Sleep, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles |
2001
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Local +/or General, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
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2000
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Don’t Even Ask, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
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Malice in Blunderland, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen |
1999
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International Style, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles
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1998
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Lockout, CBD, Sydney
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Cellar, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne |
1997
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now and then, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
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Strip, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne |
1995
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The Heights, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
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1994
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Cul-de-sac, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
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1993
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Sanctuary, Critical Cities, Melbourne
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Office, Store 5, Melbourne |
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| Selected group exhibitions |
2006
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Everywhere, The Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea |
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Walk In/Drive In (with David Pledger), Adelaide Festival, Adelaide |
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The Unquiet World, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
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High Tide: New currents in art from Australia and New Zealand, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania |
2005
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Avalon (with Mutlu Cerkez and Marco Fusinato), Artspace, Sydney |
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The 2nd Istanbul Pedestrians Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey |
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Tomorrow Land, 11th Indian Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India |
2004
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Cycle tracks will abound in utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
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Satellite cities and tabloid life, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne |
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PUBLIC/PRIVATE Tumatanui/Tumataiti, 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland |
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Architypes, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
2003
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Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
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Come in: Interior Design as a Contemporary Art in Germany, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
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Architectural Allusions (with Edwin Zwakman), Gimpel Fils, London |
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Salon des refuses, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice |
2002
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Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968–2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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The Heimlich Unheimlich, RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne |
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Bittersweet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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Gulliver’s Travels, CAST Gallery, Hobart,Tasmania |
2001
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Feature, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
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The (Idea)l home Show, Gimpel Fils, London |
2000
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Longevity, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
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Rent, Overgaden, Copenhagen |
1999
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Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne |
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Facsimile, LAC Gallery, Caracas,Venezuela |
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The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
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The Persistence of Pop, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne |
1998
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Everybody Knows, Care of Space d’arte contemporanea and gallery, Openspace, Milan
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Strolling: the art of arcades, boulevards, barricades, publicity, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria, Australia |
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Proscenium, Artspace, Auckland |
1997
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Seppelt Contemporary Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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Power Corruption and Lies, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
1996
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The Expanded Field (with Danius Kesminas and Anna Nervegna), 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne |
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Ruins in Reverse, RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne |
1995
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The Object of Existence, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
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Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
1994
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Passage: Spatial Interventions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne |
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| Selected awards and residencies |
| 2006–2007 |
Australia Council Fellowship |
2005
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Golden Medal, 11th Indian Triennial, New Delhi, India
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2005
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Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
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2003
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The Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
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1997
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Visiting Instructor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
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1997
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Seppelt Contemporary Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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1995
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Monash University Inaugural Art Awards, Melbourne
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| Selected collections |
| The Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide |
| Artbank, Australia |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| Corbett and Yueji Lyon Collection, Melbourne |
| Ferriers, Sydney |
| Goldman Sachs JB Were, Australia |
| Minter Ellison, Australia |
| MONA Collection, Hobart, Tasmania |
| Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne |
| The Michael Buxton Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Melbourne |
| National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland |
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| Representation |
| Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne |
| Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Gimpel Fils, London |
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| Selected bibliography |
| Burke, Greg, Feature: art, life, cinema, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2001 |
| Burns, Karen, ‘About Face’, Monument, no. 58, Dec. 2003–Jan. 2004, pp. 38–9 |
| Campbell, Clayton, ‘Callum Morton at Santa Monica Museum of Art’, Flash Art International, Vol. XXXII, no. 208, October 1999, p. 117 |
| Colless, Edward, ‘Callum Morton: Interior World’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 25, 2003, pp. 46–9 |
| Delany, Max, ‘Raising the Dead’, LIKE Art Magazine, no. 10, Summer 1999, pp. 20–5 |
| Engberg, Juliana, ‘The Body in the Box’, Art & Australia, Vol. 42, no. 4, 2005, pp. 580–7 |
| Engberg, Juliana, Babylonia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2006 |
| Engberg, Juliana, Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, 1999 |
| Fenner, Felicity, ‘Callum Morton’, Art in America, March 2004, p. 140 |
| Gardner, Anthony, ‘Babylonia’, Broadsheet, Vol. 34, no. 4, Dec. 2005–Feb. 2006, p. 244 |
| Green, Charles, ‘Callum Morton’, Artforum, Vol. 38, no. 7, March 2000, p. 140 |
| Hubicki, Nicholas, ‘Conning Icons’, Architectural Review Australia, Spring 2002, pp. 20–1 |
| Intra, Giovanni, now and then, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1997 |
| Katz, Sylvia, ‘Learning from Callum Morton’, Abitare, Issue 420, September 2002, p. 122 |
| Koop, Stuart, ‘Groundhog Day’, Callum Morton: Habitat, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003 |
| Koop, Stuart, ‘International Style’, Monument, no. 41, 2001, pp. 94–7 |
| Koop, Stuart, ‘Real Model World’, Art +Text, no. 52, 1995, pp. 36–8 |
| Koop, Stuart and Philip Brophy, More Talk About Buildings and Moods, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2003 |
| Koop, Stuart and Vikram Prakash, Tomorrow Land, 11th Indian Triennale, New Delhi, 2005 |
| Mackenzie, Andrew, ‘Messing with Mies’, Broadsheet, Vol. 32, no. 3, 2003, pp. 24–5 |
| Melbourne.Glasgow.Edinburgh, The Modern Institute, Edinburgh, 1999 |
| Naylor, Stephen, ‘Letter from Istanbul’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 185, November 2005, pp. 38–9 |
| Palmer, Daniel, ‘Callum Morton’, Frieze, Issue 72, Jan.–Feb. 2003, p. 106 |
| Rees, Simon, ‘Bittersweet’, Art & Text, no. 78, Autumn 2002, pp. 90–1 |
| Tsoutas, Nicholas, ‘Avalon’, The Unquiet World, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2006 |
| Tunnicliffe, Wayne, Bittersweet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002 |
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| Acknowledgments |
| The artist would like to thank the following: |
Charlotte Day
Luke Pither
Richard Giblett
Doug Knox and Michael Loke at DW Knox and Partners
Peter Heraud and the team at C5 Systems Pty Ltd
Charles Spiteri and the team at Danfab—The Metal Specialists
The crew at Bluebottle
Jerril Rechter, Jeremy Gaden and everyone at Footscray Community Arts Centre
Brian Lawrence at Brian Lawrence Sound
Robin Batty at Boolean Engineering Pty Ltd
The crew at Langridge Artist Colours & St. Luke Artist Colourmen
Stuart Koop
John Kaldor
Juliana Engberg
Karilyn Brown
Sophie O’Brien
Jane Silversmith
Anna Waldmann
Diego Carpentiero
Nick Hubicki
Trudy Hellier, Polly and Milla Hellier Morton
Ian and Rhana Morton
Marco Fusinato
Andrew Gaynor
Steven Rendall
Julian Davis
Paul DeCampo
Anna Schwartz, Roslyn Oxley, Karyn Lovegrove and Jackie Haliday at Gimpel Fils |
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