Artist's CV

EDUCATION
2008 Master of Visual Arts by research, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2004–05)
2003 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Media Art), Hons. (Class 1 + University Medal)
2000–2002 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
1996–1997 Canberra School of Art, Australian National University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2011
The Plastic Arts, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2010
While you wait, Locksmith Project Space, Sydney

2009
Study, BREENSPACE, Sydney
Blank Media, MOP Projects, Sydney

2008
Rise and Fall, Firstdraft, Sydney
The Artist, Bus, Melbourne

2007
Instructions for a still life (snowclone), Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Tautology, MOP Projects, Sydney

2005
Paper Trail, Phatspace, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2013
Occasional Miracles: contemporary artists respond to the Shepparton Art Museum ceramics collection, Shepparton Art Museum, VIC

2012
Look Closely Now, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Swedish for Argument, UTS Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Breenspace, Stand C35, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Mostly Agree, Stills Gallery, Sydney

2011
Hidden Definition, Sutton Projects, Melbourne
Forms of Deception, Light Projects, Melbourne
Primavera 2010: exhibition by young Australian artists, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Primavera 2010: exhibition by young Australian artists, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

2010
Primavera 2010: Exhibition by young Australian artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
RBS Emerging Artist Award 2010, Sydney
Time and Space: Art and Artist Run Spaces in Australia since 1970, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sutherland, NSW
Still, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW
Group Show, Breenspace, Sydney
FOLK SERIES 2010: Assemblage N0.4, Sydney Non-Objective (SNO)

2009
I’m worse at what I do best, Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney
The Cosmic Battle for Your Heart, Rozelle, Sydney

2008
Making Sense, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship (finalist), Artspace, Sydney
Under Stars, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
ergas, ergo, Silvershot, Melbourne
Seamless: Object and Image, National Art School Gallery
Dirty Popsicle (curated by Giles Ryder), Peloton, Sydney
Little Rituals (curated by Clare Lewis), Prism screen, Westpac Building, Sydney

2007
Smash Hits, Parramatta Artists’ Studios Gallery
Metadrawing, Workshop Showroom, Sydney
Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship (finalist), Artspace, Sydney
Range of Motion, West Space, Melbourne
Projector, Gallery Four, Dublin, Ireland and Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Emerging, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Cut ‘n’ Paste, Peloton, Sydney

2006
Cones of Zontact, Loose Projects, Sydney
Only some of the time (banal personal revelations), Firstdraft, Sydney

2005
Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Chewing the Phat, Phatspace, Sydney, and CLUBSproject, Melbourne
Sold Out, Truck Art, London
International Video Ate Screening Program, Phatspace, Sydney
Videobox, Miss China Lunchbox, Paris

2004
Supermart, Breadbox Gallery, Perth
720x576 (curated by Kate Murphy), Phatspace, Sydney

2003
How long is a piece of string?, Phatspace, Sydney
Are We There Yet?, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
Three Quiet Rooms, BUS, Melbourne
Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship (finalist), Artspace, Sydney
Avoiding the Eye Area, MOP, Sydney
Me and My Coma, Firstdraft, Sydney
Ate, Phatspace, Sydney
Wish You Were Here, Firstdraft, Sydney

2002
Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts
Lead Balloon, Firstdraft, Sydney
Five go to Billycock Hill, Firstdraft, Sydney
one hundred places, Firstdraft, Sydney

2001
Rundgang, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
z*a*a*d: video art, Newspace, Sydney

2000
The Guinness Contemporary Art Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
aquarium (six video artists), Newspace, Sydney

COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Artbank
National Library of Australia
Ergas Collection

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011
Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award
2009
Marketing Grant for NSW Artists, National Association for the Visual Arts
2007
Highly Commended, Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship
2005
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artist’s Scholarship
2004–05
University Postgraduate Award, The University of Sydney, Sydney
2004–05
College of Humanities & Social Sciences (CHASS) Supplementary Scholarship, The University of Sydney, Sydney
2004
Skills and Arts Development grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2003
Marketing Grant for NSW Artists, National Association for the Visual Arts
2002
University Medal recipient, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2002
Zelda Stedman Young Student Scholarship
2001
Zelda Stedman Young Artist Travelling Exchange Scholarship
2000
The Guinness Contemporary Art Prize, Winner

RESIDENCIES AND EXCHANGES
2010
FLAG residency, Riversdale Education Centre, (Bundanon Trust)
2008
Artist-in-residence, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (July)
2008
Artist-in-residence, Firstdraft Studio Program, (April–June)
2008
Hill End Artist-in-residence, supported by Arts NSW (Feb–March)
2007
Artist-in-residence, Stone Villa artist studios, Sydney (July–December)
2007
Artist-in-residence, Bundanon Artists’ Centre (throughout May)
2005
Ecole National Superieur des Beaux Arts, Paris, Atelier Guillaume Paris (exchange)
2001
Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany, Klasse Maria Vedder (exchange)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2006
Only some of the time (banal personal revelations) (with Jessica Olivieri), Firstdraft, Sydney
The Invisible Reading Room (with the collective The Invisible Inc), Containers Village, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2003
How long is a piece of string? (with Jonathan Hochman), Phatspace, Sydney
Resistance is Useless (with Sara Oscar), First Draft Gallery, Sydney

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012
COFA News Blog, October 2012
ABC Radio National, Weekend Arts, 3 November
RealTime, 'In the loop', issue #111, Oct-Nov 2012
The Art Life, <http://theartlife.com.au/?p=7264>, 19 October
'Swedish for Argument', Arts Hub, 13 October
Adam Fulton, 'Moving pictures for a bit of art house video', Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 3 October 2012
Glenn Barkley, ‘Looking, looking’, Artist Profile, #18, March
Lauren Carroll Harris, ‘Mostly Agree’, Concrete Playground

2011
‘Emma White’, Artist Profile, #16, pp.124–125
Marni Williams, profile, Art & Australia, Autumn issue 2011, back page
Bethany Small, ‘Emma White, The Plastic Arts’ The Thousands

2010
Katie Dyer, ‘Delicious Industry’, Primavera 2010: Exhibition by young Australian artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010
Tanya Peterson, ‘Studies in (Dis)appearance’, runway, no. 16: disappearance, Invisible Inc, Sydney, July 2010
‘Looking forward, looking back: emerging artists’, Frieze, Jan–Feb 2010, p.90
RBS Emerging Artist Award 2010, Sydney, August 2010
Rachel Fuller, ‘Concrete Playground talks with Primavera 2010 artists’, Concrete Playground, 16 August 2010
Amelia Groom, ‘Primavera 2010’, Concrete Playground, 2010
Nick Garner, Das Cinema EP05/3, Roccoco Productions, Sydney, August 2010

2009
I’m worse at what I do best, Parramatta Artists Studios, July 2009
Olivia Sophia, ‘Blank Media’, Un Magazine, no. 3.1, June 2009
Chloe Wolifson, interview with Tom Polo about I’m worse at what I do best exhibition, Das Superpaper issue 10, 2009, pp. 14–18

2008
Ella Barclay, ‘Thinking is Working’, Blank Media, MOP, Sydney, February 2008
Helen Lempriere Traveling Arts Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney, October 2008
Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Under Stars, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, September 2008
Katie Dyer, Seamless, NAS Gallery, National Art School, Sydney, May 2008
Jessie Angwin, ‘Range of Motion’, runway, no. 10: romance, Invisible Inc, Sydney, May 2008, pp. 80–81
‘Time’s a-wasting’ runway, no. 11: conversation, Invisible Inc, Sydney, August 2008
‘Schmomance’ runway, no. 10: romance, Invisible Inc, Sydney, May 2008

2007
Anneke Jaspers, ‘Tautology’, Artlink, vol. 27, no. 4, December 2007
‘Projector’, screening program, Gallery Four, Dublin, June 2007
Discursive, Westspace, interview with Emma White, June 2007 
Only some of the time (banal personal revelations), First Draft Twentylove festival, 2007
Kate Just, ‘Range of Motion’, West Space, Melbourne, June 2007
Emerging, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, March 2007

2006
‘Back to the World’, Cones of Zontact, Loose Projects, June 2006

2005
‘Show us the magic’, The Artlife, November 2005 
‘Paper Trail: Clare Lewis talks to Emma White’, Phatspace exhibition dialogues, October 2005
‘Managing Processes–Part One: Applying Methodologies’ video, runway, no. 6, DVD, Invisible Inc, Sydney, October 2005

2004
‘Not have way’, The Artlife, November 2004
‘Dreams of an artist’, runway, no. 4: work, Invisible Inc, Sydney, October 2004

2003
Sara Oscar, ‘Ample Sufficiency: the problem with recording in documentary photography’, runway, no. 2: collection, Invisible Inc, Sydney, October 2003
How long is a piece of string, Phatspace, October 2003
‘Emperor of the undiscovered’, runway, no. 2: collection, Invisible Inc, Sydney, October 2003

2002
‘Insert’, runway, no. 1: exchange, Invisible Inc, Sydney, October 2002

COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art & Australia Collection
Artbank, Sydney
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
National Library of Australia
Private collections