Artist's CV

EDUCATION
1970 Graduated, School of Fine Art, Tehran
1973 Emigrated to Australia
1977 Graduated, South Australian School of Art

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Hossein and Angela Valamanesh, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2012
Hossein Valamanesh, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2011
Hossein Valamanesh, GRANTPIRRIE Gallery Sydney

2010
Hossein Valamanesh, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2010
Time Travel, 1985 – 2009, Manning Regional Art Gallery

2009
Hossein Valamanesh, AMA Gallery Helsinki Finland

2009
NO LOVE LOST, GRANTPIRRIE Gallery Sydney

2008
Hossein Valamanesh, Turner Gallery, Perth

2007
This will also pass, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2006 & 02
Hossein Valamanesh, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2005 & 02
Hossein Valamanesh, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2004 & 01
Hossein Valamanesh and Angela Valamanesh, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2003
Natural Selection, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra,

2002
Tracing the Shadow: Hossein Valamanesh Recent Works, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney

2001
Hossein Valamanesh: A Survey, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

1999
internal travel, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

1998 & 95
Hossein Valamanesh, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

1997
Tracing the Shadow, Art Front and Hillside Galleries, Tokyo

1996 & 99
Hossein Valamanesh, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

1995
Viewers and Audiences, Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW

1993
The Lover Circles His Own Heart, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw

1993 & 91
Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne

1991
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1990
Hossein Valamanesh 1980–1990, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide

1988 & 90
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1987
Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide

1986
Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne

1985 & 84
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1983 & 81
Bonython Gallery, Adelaide

1977
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

1972
Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Australia, Royal Academy of Art, UK
Heartland: Contemporary art from South Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

2012–13
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Kerala, India

2012
On collaboration: Angela & Hossein Valamanesh, Raafat Ishak & Tom Nicholson, Breenspace, Sydney
Rose Issa Project at Art Dubai

2012
Drawing Room, BREENSPACE Sydney

2011
Generations, Wollongong City Gallery

2010
Recycled Library: Altered books, Artspace MacKay touring exhibition

2009
Great Collections, Museums & Galleries of New South Wales, touring exhibiton,

2008
Handle with Care, 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of SA
Uneasy, Recent South Australian Art, Samstag Museum of Art, Uni SA, Adelaide

2006
Ephemeral, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Prism: Contemporary Australian Art, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne

2005
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2004
Fire Dreaming, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney

2002
Shape of Air, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Deeper Places, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

2001
Orbit, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide

2000
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Chemistry: Art in South Australia 1990–2000, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

1999–2000
The Rose Crossing, Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane; Hong Kong Arts Centre

1998
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

1997–98
Other Stories: Five, Asialink exhibition, travelling to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan & Nepal

1997
Australian Perspecta: Between Art and Nature, Temple of Earth Memories, S.H. Ervin Gallery,

1994
Aussemblage!, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand

1993
Fifth Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
Inner Land, Gallery Soko, Tokyo
Identities: Art From Australia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

1988
Monuments, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide Festival of Arts

1987
Painters & Sculptors, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Australian Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Siatama, Japan

1985
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1984
Australian Sculpture, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

1983
Survey of Recent South Australian Sculpture, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1981
First Australian Sculpture Triennial, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Centenary Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2010 Green Room Awards for set design in theatre for When the Rain stops falling
2008 Artist in residence, Turner Galleries and Central TAFE, Perth
2006 Artist in residence, Aomori, Japan
Artist in residence, ANU School of Art, Canberra
2005 Artist in residence, Sydney Grammar School, NSW
2001 Artist in residence, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
2000 Artist in residence, School of Art, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
Asialink residency, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
1998 Grand Prize at the Dacca Biennale, Bangladesh
Australia Council Fellowship
1991 Visual Arts/Crafts Board Fellowship Residency, Kunstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin
1982 Visual Arts Board Grant, Australia Council
1981 Artist in residence, Praxis, Perth

SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2011 Ginkgo Gate, Botanic Gardens, Adelaide
2008 When the Rain Stops Falling, stage design, Brink Productions, Adelaide Festival
2005 14 Pieces, in collaboration with Angela Valamanesh, North Terrace, Adelaide
2004 Unveiled, Australian Phenomics Facility, Australian National University, Canberra
2000 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
1999 An Gorta Mor, Memorial to the Great Irish Famine, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, in collaboration with Angela Valamanesh
1996 Fault Line, Riverside Quay, Southbank, Melbourne
1994 You just sit here..., Tachikawa Project, Tokyo, Japan
1992–93 Garden of Memories, in collaboration with Angela Valamanesh, Pennington, South Australia
1991–93 Journey, sculptural environment, Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney
1989 Knocking from the Inside, sculptural environment, ASER Complex, Adelaide
Recent Arrival, lithograph, Bicentennial Folio, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
National Gallery of New Zealand
Alice Springs Art Centre, NT
Artbank
University of Melbourne, VIC
University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of South Australia, Adelaide
University of Western Australia, Perth
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
City of Melville, WA,
Edith Cowan University
Westfarmers
Parliament House Canberra
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Stephanie Radok, ‘Fingers of memory’, catalogue essay, Sydney: Sherman Galleries, 1999
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Jutta Feddersen, ‘Soft Sculpture and Beyond: An international perspective’, Sydney: Gordon and Breach Arts International, 1993, pp. 154-(157)
Deborah Hart, ‘Identities: Art from Australia, contemporary Australian art in Taiwan’, catalogue, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1993
Ross Gibson, and Namikawa, Emiko, ‘Inner-Land: Exhibition of Australian contemporary art’, catalogue, 1993
Margo Osborne, ‘Symbols and Metaphors’, catalogue, Adelaide: Union Gallery, Adelaide University, 1993 
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