Artist's CV

EDUCATION
1990–92 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)
1989 Prahran TAFE, Melbourne, Advanced Certificate in Art & Design
1984 University of Adelaide, First Class Honours/Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science, Psychology Awarded the Australian Psychological Society Prize
1980–82 University of Adelaide, Ordinary Degree of Bachelor of Science, Majors in Zoology: Ecology & Psychology: Animal Behaviour

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Transfer Stations, Murray White Room, Melbourne
2010 Mira Gojak, Presented by Monash University Museum of Art. Curated by Kirrily Hammond Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland
2009 Another ground, Murray White Room, Melbourne
2007 Cave, Block Projects, Block Place, Melbourne
2006 Too Near, Too Far, Monash University Museum of Art presentation at the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2005 Time and Time Again, CLUBS Project Inc, Melbourne
2004 Stranded, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Stranded, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
2002 Wax me to the vapour and dusk, sometimes. Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Sorrow is no friend of mine, First Floor, Melbourne Encounter, First Floor, Melbourne 1998 Between the Street Lights & the Dark Trees, First Floor, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Burying time: Mira Gojak, Caroline Rothwell, Emma White, Breenspace, Sydney
2012 101 Contemporary Australian Artists, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
2011 Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Curated by Linda Michael, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
There’s no time, Curated by Bala Starr, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2010 Change, Monash Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Contemporary Encounters: A survey of recent acquisitions. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV, Melbourne
2009 Building a Collection, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne
PREVIEW 09, Murray White Room, Melbourne 2007 A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Materiality, Curated by Kirrily Hammond, Monash University Museum of Art at Gippsland Centre for Art & Design
A Bridge Too Far, Curated by Jacqueline Doughty, Alliance Francaise, Melbourne
Too Near, too far, Melbourne-Milan artist exchange, Curated by Chiara Agnello & Roberta Tenconi, Milan, Italy
2006 Before the Body–Matter, Curated by Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2005 NEW05, Curated by Max Delany, ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Fellow Anthropoid, Curated by Philip Watkins, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST), Hobart
Nothing before, nothing after, with Alexander Pittendrigh, RMIT Project Space & Spare Room Gallery Spare Room Gallery, Melbourne
Pitch Your Own Tent / Art Projects/ Store 5/ 1st Floor, Curated by Max Delany, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2004 The Blindside Effect, Curated by Christine Morrow, Blindside, Nicholas Building, Melbourne
Southern: A Show Of 10 Australian Artists, Curated by Nicole Tomlinson & Kristi Monfries, Home Gallery, Prague
2002 Why do birds suddenly appear, Curated by Clare Firth-Smith, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney New drawings, Curated by Mark Misic, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
2000 USEby Asia Pacific Artist Initiatives Project, Curated by Tessa Dwyer & Sarah Tutton, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1999 Nearest Habitat System. Curated by Eliza Hutchinson, First Floor, Melbourne
Rubik #3, Video vs Watercolour, Curated by Rubik, Andrew McQualter studio, Melbourne
1998 City Lights
2000: Opening Group Show, Hosier Lane, Melbourne
Rubik #1 Launch, Grey Area Art Space Inc, Melbourne We Are Electric, Curated by David Rosetzky, Foyer/ lightwell, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
1997 Another Green World, With Andrew McQualter, First Floor, Melbourne
Chemistry, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
1996 Paint ! Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Opening Group Show: Launch of First Floor, First Floor, Melbourne

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Andrew Frost, Sydney Morning Herald, Critics Choice, 8-14 February 2013
Exhibition brief, Burying time, Art Almanac, January 2013
FBi Radio, Canvas, Amy Gibbs interviews Mira Gojak, January 2013
2012 Kelly Gellatly (ed) 101 Contemporary Australian Artists, 2012,
Mira Gojak, National Gallery of Victoria 2012
Helen Johnson, Discipline, No. 2, Winter 2012, A moment an immeasurable whole
2011 Justin Clemens, Minimal Domination, 2011, The Bulb, the Chair and the Wardrobe: Mira Gojak Nicholas Croggon, Helen Hughes editors, Discipline, No. 1, Winter
2011 Nicola Harvey, Frieze, April 2011,
There’s no time Robert Nelson, The Age, Jan 2011,
Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing 2010 Ashley Crawford, The Australian, Oct
2010, Fine Space to air one of our best collections Linda Michael, Catalogue Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2010,
Freehand: recent Australian drawing Geraldine Barlow, Max Delaney & Kyla McFarlane, CHANGE, Catalogue Monash University Museum of Art, 2010 
2009 Max Delany, Looking Forward, Frieze, January/February 2009
2007 Jacqueline Doughty, Catalogue Alliance Francaise, 2007, A Bridge Too Far
2006 Geraldine Barlow, Catalogue Melbourne Art Fair, 2006, Too Near Too Far
Geraldine Barlow, Catalogue MUMA, 2006, Before the Body-Matter 
2005 Andrew McQualter, Catalogue CLUBS Project Inc, 2005, Time and Time Again 
Philip Watkins, Catalogue, CAST, 2005, Fellow Anthropoid 
Justin Clemens, Catalogue NEW05, ACCA, 2005, The Bulb, the Chair and the Wardrobe 
Ray Edgar, Monument 65, Feb/ Mar 2005, Memory Chamber 
Megan Backhouse, The Age, April 2005, Doors open on a wardrobe full of ideas 
Robert Nelson, The Age, April 2005, Welcome return to intuition and imagination 
Edward Colless, The Australian, April 2005, Artists stuck in a nostalgic gear 
Julie Copeland, ABC Radio National, Sunday Morning, Mar 2005, The Maker Series 
Natalie King, Art & Australia, Winter 2005, V42, No4, NEW05 
Paul Andrew, un.magazine, Issue 4, NEW05 & the CAOS phenomenon 
Edward Colless, Australian Art Collector, Issue 33/ July–Sept 2005, Smart Art Survey 
Charlotte Day (ed), Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Cont Art Spaces 1985–2005 
Pataphysics Magazine, Issue 2005
2004 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Catalogue Gertrude Studios 2004 
2003 Nicole Tomlinson, Wax me to the vapour and dusk, sometimes, Eyeline, No.50, Summer 2002/ 2003 
2002 Justin Clemens, Already without the trace it awaits the chair sits, Catalogue, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne 
2000 Tessa Dwyer & Sarah Tutton, USEby Asia Pacific Artist Initiatives, Catalogue, CCP 2000 
Robert Nelson, Learning to be exotic, The Age, October, 2000 
Anna Clabburn, New frontier comes with risk, The Australian, Oct 2000 
Larissa Hjork, Useby, Like, Autumn 2001 John Mateer, Useby: Asia Pacific artist initiatives project, Art Monthly, November 2000

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2011 Arts Victoria, $12,500 Arts Development Grant
2005 Maddock’s Art Prize
2004–06 Studio Artist, Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne 2004 Arts Victoria, $10,000 Arts Development Grant

COMMISSIONS
Maddock’s Lawyers Melbourne: large sculpture hanging from the ceiling and on the floor in main foyer and reception area.

COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Art Gallery of South Australia Buxton collection, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria
Private collections