Artist's CV

EDUCATION
2006 Master of Arts (Media Arts), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne
2003 Digital Imaging Units, Media Arts Department, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Melbourne
1989 Diploma of Photography (Fine Art), Australian College of Photography Art & Communication, Melbourne

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013
Bootleg, Breenspace, Sydney (solo)
Unbound, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
IS, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna (solo)

2012
Respiro Bianco shat o quadrado azul, Oporto 2012 (act.)
Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
knell dobre glas, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal [cat.]
Cut with the kitchen knife, Melbourne, Wodonga, Morwell, Dubbo (touring 2012-13) [cat.]

2011
Christian Capurro/Agatha Gothe-Snape/Debra Phillips, Breenspace, Sydney
Mouthpiece, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Erased (Contemporary Australian Drawing), National Art School Gallery, Sydney [cat.]

2010
During Office Hours, Verband Geschlossene Fonds e.V., Berlin
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), Artspace, Sydney (solo)
It happened that, St. Paul Street Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland [cat.]
The Waste of Breath, Light Projects, Melbourne (solo)
Still Vast Reserves II, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne [cat.]
Print Resolution, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Art Fair Project Room
InVisible: Art at the Edge of Perception, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA [cat.]

2009/10
Erased (Contemporary Australian Drawing), Singapore, Bangkok, Chiang Mai & Khon Kaen [cat.]
Mary Kelly | Christian Capurro | Klaus Mosettig, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane / Tin Sheds, University of Sydney / Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide [cat.]

2009
Zweckgemeinschaft, MICAMOCA, Berlin
Leave No Trace: Ridges, Troughs and Phantom Limbs, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
More love hours than can ever be repaid, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
Behind the Image | The Image Behind (on covering and uncovering media), STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven [cat.]
Lo Sguardo di Giano, American Academy in Rome, Rome [cat.]
Second Hand, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna

2008
Monash University Collection: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne [cat.]

2007
Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennale 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice [cat.]
NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne [cat.]

2006/07
Before the Body—Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne [cat.]

2005/06
The body. The ruin, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University [cat.]

2005
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985—2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne [cat.]
Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, multiple venues, Melbourne (solo with collaborators)

2004
Insufferable Nebulae and other couplings, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (solo)
Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne [cat.]
Performance Anxiety, Ocular Lab, Melbourne

2003
Gorgonia, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (solo)

2002
Capurro, Ellis, Hutchison and Parsons, 1ST. Floor Artists & Writers Space, Melbourne

2000
White Breath, West Space Inc., Melbourne (solo)

1999
Trying to keep more than one thing in your head at any given time (Viva Timor Leste 30.08.1999), West Space Inc., Melbourne (solo)
After the deluge, corrections, Temple Studio, Melbourne (solo)
Roadside Goods, cityartpublicspace transport shelters, Melbourne (solo)
Raw Hin; Christian Capurro, Choi Sung Youn & Soyoug Kang, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo.

1998
Engorge, Stripp, Melbourne (solo)

1997
Cicatrix, Gallery 106 Lt. Lonsdale St., Melbourne (solo)
Garnish (a suite of graftings), Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne (solo)

ARTIST WRITINGS PUBLISHED COMMISSIONS
'Pagework (#10) #12', (B.164) B.166, Christchurch Art Gallery|Te Puna o Waiwhetu, (March–May) December 2011–February 2012
‘Depiction: Capurro/Cripps’, AGMA Magazine, #4, Spring Issue 2011
‘The Value’, Parabol AM, #4, May 2009
‘Slutet/The End’, Motiv, #14, December 2008
‘On Originality’, Natural Selection, #5, 2006

INTERVIEWS/WRITINGS
‘Christian Capurro interview’, Incontri/Encounters: 52. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, ASAC La Biennale di Venezia / I.U.A.V., Venice 2007
‘Highlights from the Venice Biennale’, ABC TV Sunday Arts, 22 July 2007
111 [Risposte]. 3 [Domande] x 37 [Artisti], Exhibart.onpaper anno sesto no.40, 2007
‘NEW07 Interviewed’, Broadsheet: Contemporary Visual Arts & Culture, vol. 36, no.1, February 2007
‘Exhibit A’ Christian Capurro interview, ABC Radio National, 1 April 2007
‘Christian Capurro NEW07 interview’, ACCA Soundfiles, February 2007
‘Dear un Responsive’, un Magazine, no.4, Winter 2005
fpm (C. Capurro & P. Tyndall), ‘Day of Protests @ NGV’, Haiku Review, no.6
N. Bullock, C. Capurro & T. Nicholson, ‘After Images’, Meanjin, vol.62, no.2, 2003
‘1998 Interview’, The John McBride Collection archive catalogue(s), National Library of Australia, Canberra


SELECTED GRANTS/RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2012/13 Sammlung Lenikus Residency, Vienna
2012 International Artist-in-Residence, Escola Maumaus, Lisbon2010 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
2010 Artspace Residency, Sydney
2009 Institute of Modern Art Residency, Brisbane, & Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome
2007 Australia Council Skills and Arts Development International Studio & Curatorial Program Residency, New York (2009)
2004 Australia Council New Work Grant & City of Yarra Arts Development Grant
2003 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency, Melbourne
1998 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts


SELECTED ARTIST LECTURES
2012 It's no crime to change hands: on & with Jean Louis Schefer, Maumaus Independent Study Program Seminar, Guimaraes (PT).
2011 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (AUS)
2010 Auckland University of Technology, Auckland (NZ) & Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle (AUS)
2009 Queensland College of Art, Brisbane (AUS)
2008 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne (AUS) & Monash University, Melbourne (AUS)
2007 Williams College, Williamstown (USA), Reading University, Reading (UK) & Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (IT).

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. Backhouse, Christian Capurro: between image & body, art guide Australia, July/August 2013
A. Groom, There's Nothing to See Here: Erasing the Monochrome, e-flux journal #37, 09.2012
J. Marmeleira, Suspensoes entre o poetico e a politica, Publico, 04.05.2012
E. Jones, Room for further excavation, Cut with the kitchen knife, NETS, Melbourne 2012 [cat.]
A. Roelants, ‘The Spectacle of Deconstruction: Christian Capurro, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Debra Phillips’, Australian Art Monthly, no. 248, April 2012, pp.16–17
N. Bullock, ‘In the wake of the image: Christian Capurro’s a vacant bazaar’, Column 8, Artspace, 2011, pp.26–29
M. Robinson, ‘Christian Capurro’ & ‘The Future Now’, The Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2011
M. Gagen, ‘Christian Capurro: a vacant bazaar (provisional legend)’, Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts, no.73, 2011 
R. Sireekan, ‘Negative creative: palimpsest as ghost’, Bangkok Post, 24 June 2010
K. Zavistovski, ‘Come Curious’, Art:21 blog, 7 June 2010 / ‘Come Curious: The Artists Look’, Art:21 blog, 15 September 2010
S. Smee, ‘For art lovers, Western Mass. Awaits’, The Boston Globe, 7 March 2010 A. Stephen, ‘Jumping through the Mirror’, Mirror, Mirror: Then and Now, IMA, Brisbane 2010 [cat.]
K. Johnson, ‘The Lower East Side, Home to the Young & Emerging’, New York Times, 4 December 2009 / ‘Correction’, New York Times, 22 December 2009
S. Reber, ‘Monster im Heizungsraum’, Der Tagesspiegel, 26 September 2009
J. Paton, ‘Backwards, slowly, blindly: Christian Capurro’s ‘compressions’’, Erased (Contemporary Australian Drawing), Asialink / Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2009[cat.]
C. Lally & V. Gfader, ‘Condensation Revisited: A Lecture on Pigments: 3’, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore 2008
A. van Leeuwen, ‘Walter B. en Christian C.’, Mister Motley, no.7, 2008
E. Meoli, ‘Recchese d'Australia in Biennale a Venezia’, Il Secolo XIX, 13 November 2007
G. Chabert & R. Parcollet, ‘Think with the Senses/Feel with the Mind’, art 21, no.14, October/November 2007
E. Lauria, La Carcia degli Art Vandals, Exhibitart.grandtour anno sesto no.42, August/September 2007
L. Harris, ‘Christian Capurro’, Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale of Art, Marsilio, Venice 2007 [cat.]
E. Brown, ‘Between Rapture and Refusal’, NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2007 [cat.]
S. Smee, ‘Come feel the disdain’, The Australian, 22 March 2007
M. Backhouse, ‘When what's left is more’, The Age, 14 March 2007
G. Barlow & K. McFarlane, Before the Body—Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2006 [cat.]
K. Murray, ‘Beyond Fortress Ceramica: A Knight's Tale’, Craft Culture, September 2006
B. Crone, The Ruined Body?, The body. The ruin, The Ian Potter Museum of Art Melbourne University, Melbourne 2005 [cat.]
S. Koop, ‘Say No’, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
1985—2005, Charlotte Day ed., Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces with Black Inc. Press, Melbourne 2005
J. Clemens, ‘Getting off your face with a destructive character; Christian Capurro's 'Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette'’, Artlink, vol. 25, no.1, 2005
J. Clemens, ‘Minimal Domination’, Surpllus, no.7, Melbourne 2011
C. Webb, ‘Artists defy gallery’s sketch ban’, The Age, 9 December 2004
J. Engberg, Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2004 [cat.]
P. Webb, ‘Deconstruction writ large’, The Age, 21 May 2004
P. Webb, ‘Eyes wide open’, The Age, 15 October 2004
M. DiPietro, ‘Printmakers in the raw’, Asahi Evening News, Tokyo, 23 September 1999
T. Nicholson, ‘Garnish (a suite of graftings)’, LIKE, no.4, Spring 1997