Eugene CARCHESIO

EUGENE CARCHESIO
Born 1960
Brisbane, Australia
Lives and works in Brisbane

Solo exhibitions*
2002 Church Gallery, Perth
2001 ‘On Contemporary $ilence’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2000 Canberra School of Art
1999 ‘Dead Leaves of Tokyo’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Gelber Musik Berlin, Germany
‘Sleeper: Watercolours From the Museum of Contemporary Silence’,
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1993 ‘Eternal Mystery Paintings’, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
‘Interpreter’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1992 ‘Works From the Museum of Silence Nos 52–64’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1992, '95, '96, '98, 2000, '01
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1990 ‘Here (123 Works)’, 24 Hour Art, Darwin
‘187 Works For The Peoples Republic Of Spiritual Revolution’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (with performance)
‘artSPEAK 1: A Dialogue Event’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
(performance)
1989 ‘13 Pictures For The Peoples Republic Of Spiritual Revolution’, Store 5,
Melbourne
1988 ‘No Flag I'm Just Waving’, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
1988, '89, '90, '91, '94, '95, '97, 2000
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987 John Mills Annexe, Brisbane
‘Energy Question No.123’, Mini MOCA, Brisbane
1983, '84
One Flat Gallery, Brisbane

Selected group exhibitions*
2002 'Half The World Away: Drawings from Sydney, Glasgow, Sao Paulo', Hallwalls
Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, USA
'ARCO 2002', Madrid, Spain
'L x W x D: Contemporary Dimensions of the Box', Brisbane City Gallery
2001 ‘Phenomena: New Painting in Australia 1', Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
‘Lift Project’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
‘10th Indian Triennale of Art’, New Delhi, India
‘Paperworks: Australian Artists Exploring Drawing and the Printed Image’,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
‘The Jon and Eugene Show' (with Jon Cattapan), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
‘The Australian Paper Art Awards’, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
2000 ‘Spin Me Round’, Metro Arts, Brisbane
1999 ‘Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the
Chartwell Collection’, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Aotearoa New Zealand
‘On the Brink: Abstraction of the 90s’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
‘A Letter to Picasso: The Stamp in Contemporary Art’, Post Master Gallery,
Melbourne
‘The Drawing Room’, Brisbane City Gallery
'Tekhne', Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Brisbane
1998 ‘Metamorphosis: Images of Animals in Contemporary Art’, Mornington Peninsula
Gallery
'Ex. Cat: An Exhibition About Catholicism', as part of Volt and the Brisbane
Festival, Smith + Stoneley, Brisbane
‘Eugene Carchesio/Anne Wallace Collaborations’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 ‘On Dialogue: Contemporary Australian Art’, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
‘Geometric Painting in Australia 1941–1997’, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
‘Wild Kingdom’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
'Multiplication: The Multiple Object In Art', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1996 ‘Reference Points IV’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
‘Australia: Familiar and Strange’, Seoul Arts Center, Korea
‘Queensland Artist’s Books’, Brisbane City Gallery
1995 ‘Carnivales des Animaux’, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
‘Salon’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
‘Unsighted’, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
‘Art Rage’, ABC Television Video Project
1994 ‘Aussemblage’, Auckland City Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand
'Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition', Art Gallery of
Western Australia, Perth
‘Tableaux: Works from the Monash University Collection’, Monash University
Gallery, Melbourne
1993 ‘Eight Artists’, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
‘21,600 Each 24 Hrs’, Canberra Travelodge Public Bar
‘Third Australian Sculpture Triennial’, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1992 ‘Medium Density: Contemporary Australian Drawings and Photographs’, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
‘Above the Lake, Below the Sky’, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
‘Strangers in Paradise: Contemporary Australian Art to Korea’, National Museum
of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Australia
‘In the Light of Things’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
'Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition', Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
‘The Boundary Rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney’, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
‘The Caboose’, Ars Multiplicata, Sydney
‘Collecting Art: Critics Choice’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
‘Domino I: Collaborations Between Artists’, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
‘Abstract, The Non Objective (Part 2)', Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
‘From Silence: Postal Collaborations 1990–1991’, Deakin University Gallery,
Geelong
‘Abstract Art’, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
‘From Silence’ (with Victor Meertens), Deakin University Gallery, Geelong
(performance)
‘In the Light of Things’, (with Victor Meertens), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1991 ‘Microcosm’, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
First Draft West, Sydney
‘Signals’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
‘Correspondences: The Andrew and Lilian Pedersen Memorial Prizes for
Drawing and Small Sculpture’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1990 ‘Architecture of Light’, Mori Gallery, Sydney
‘Only Life’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
'Questions of Belief’, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia , Adelaide
‘4th Australian Sculpture Triennial’, National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne
‘In Full Sunlight’, First Draft West, Sydney
‘Theoretical Axis of Happiness’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1989 ‘Can Queenslanders Draw?’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
‘Collaborations’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
‘Uncommon Knowledge’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
‘Australian Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Tower of Babel’, Watters Gallery, Sydney
‘Cosmos’, City Gallery, Melbourne
1988 ‘(I) Magical Poetics’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
‘Site of Execution’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1987 ‘Living Money’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1986 ‘Distillation’, John Mills National, Brisbane
‘Young Contemporaries’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
‘Eugene Carchesio/Steven Grainger Exhibition’, THAT Contemporary Art Space,
Brisbane
1985 ‘Guttersnipers’, Watters Gallery, Sydney
‘One Flat Group’ Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1983 One Flat Group Gallery, Brisbane
‘No Names’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1982 Community Arts Centre, Brisbane
One Flat Group Gallery, Brisbane

Grants and awards*
2002 Artist-in-residence, Edith Cowan University/Church Gallery, Perth
Artist-in-residence, University of Queensland, Brisbane
2001 Triennale Award, 10th Indian Triennale of Art, New Delhi, India
2000 Artist-in-residence, Canberra School of Art
1999 Tokyo studio residency, Australia Council Grant, Japan

Collections*
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Brisbane City Gallery
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Aotearoa New Zealand
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Parliament House, Canberra
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
Waikato Museum, Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand

*All Australia unless otherwise stated

Selected bibliography
Airo-Farulla, Joe. ‘Eugene Carchesio’. Art and Australia, vol.29, no.4, Winter 1992, pp.477–9.

Lingard, Bob (ed.). Interviews with Nine Queensland Artists, Institute of Modern Art. Brisbane, 1986.

Lynn, Victoria. Eugene Carchesio: selected works 1985–1995 : works from the Museum of Silence (the Department of Intuition and Free Movement) 1990 : matchboxes and mixed media. Eugene Carchesio, Brisbane, 1996.

McClintock, Margo. ‘Eugene Carchesio speaks with Margo McClintock’. Eyeline, no.14, Autumn 1991, pp.12–15.

Szulakowska, Urszula. ‘Eugene Carchesio’. Art & Text, no.36, May 1990, pp.135–7.


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