| EDUCATION |
| College
Of Fine Art UNSW |
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Masters
of Fine Art (Research) 2007 |
| RMIT,
Melbourne |
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Bachelor
in Fine Art (Painting), 1999 |
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| SOLO
EXHIBITIONS |
2011 |
| • Standing Still, Gallerysmith,
North Melbourne, VIC |
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| 2010 |
| • Double Dutch, BREENSPACE, Sydney |
| • 1, Rimbun Dahan Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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| 2009 |
| • Have Your Cake and Eat it Too, Gallerysmith,
North Melbourne, VIC |
| • Salad Days, National Art School Artists in Residence:
Melody Willis & Monika Behrens, National
Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW |
| • Silent Bang, Gallerysmith - Project Space, North Melbourne, VIC |
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| 2008 |
| • Hush Historical – Rehearsing the Australian History Wars, Gallerysmith, North
Melbourne, VIC |
| • Battle Nullius, FirstDraft Gallery, Surry
Hills, NSW |
| • Cool the Globe: Glam Barbie, Horus & Deloris,
Sydney, NSW |
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| 2007 |
| • Silent Bang, Ivan Dougerty Gallery, Paddington, NSW |
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| 2006 |
| • Silent Bang, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, NSW |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| • Small, Breenspace, Waterloo, NSW |
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| 2009 |
| • Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace,
Sydney, NSW |
| • Group Show, Breenspace,
Waterloo, NSW |
| • Tanah Air, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia |
| • Origami High Street, Horus
& Deloris, Sydney, NSW |
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2007 |
| • Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace,
Sydney, NSW |
| • ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, ABN AMRO Foyer, Sydney,
NSW |
| • Smash Hits, Paramatta Studio Gallery, Parramatta NSW |
| • Square Dance, FirstDraft Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW |
| • Unwrapped, United Gallery, Perth, WA |
| • Match Box Projects, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford,
NSW |
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2006 |
| • EEA21, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Japan |
| • Post-it: An exquisite corpse mail art project, Peloton,
Chippendale, NSW |
| • 9 x 5 Truck show (International Noise), Art Gallery
of NSW, Dank Street Galleries and ACP, Sydney |
| • Sulman
Prize Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW |
| • PRIMAVERA 2005 (Touring) Muswellbrook Regional
Arts Centre, Muswellbrook, NSW |
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2005 |
| • PRIMAVERA 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, NSW |
| • Artists Against Sedition, Casula Powerhouse
Arts Centre, Casula, NSW |
| • Elastic, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, NSW |
| • Silent Bang, Solo Exhibition, Kudos Gallery,
Paddington, NSW |
| • MCQ International Art Award, Chifley Tower,
Sydney, NSW |
| • Scapes, Global Gallery, Paddington, NSW |
| • Pearl, Tsunami Aid Exhibition, Sheffer Gallery,
Darlington, NSW |
| • Metro 5 Art Award, Armadale, VIC |
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| COLLABORATIONS |
| 2011 |
• 21 (site specific light painting performance with Rochelle Haley), Hoexter, Germany (upcoming)
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks (collaborative painting exhibition with Rochelle Haley), MOP, Sydney |
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| 2010 |
| • Pleasure Garden (site-specific installation with Rochelle Haley), Penang, Malaysia |
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| RESIDENCIES |
| 2011 |
| • Artist in Residence - Artspace Sydney |
| • Artist in Residence - Performing Arts Forum, St Erme Outre et Ramecourt, France |
| 2010 |
| • Artist in Residence - Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France |
| • Artist in Residence - Performing Arts Forum, St Erme Outre et Ramecourt, France |
| 2009 |
| • Artist in Residence - Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, 12 Month Residency |
| 2008 |
| • Artist in Residence - National Art School, Sydney, 12 Month
Studio Residency |
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| GRANTS
AND SCHOLARSHIPS |
| 2010 |
| • Australian Council New Work Grant |
| 2009 |
| • Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant |
| 2007 |
| • Australian Council New Work Grant |
| 2005 |
| • Viktoria Marinov Scholarship in Art |
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| COLLECTIONS |
| • National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
| • Hijjas Kasturi Associates |
| • UBS
Art Collection, Brisbane |
| • ARTBANK,
Sydney |
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| SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS |
| • Runway, Issue 15: Lies, November 2009 - March 2010 |
| • Robyn Stuart, "The Viewers View" Das Superpaper, December 2010, p76 |
| • ‘What Now?’, Australian Art Collector, issue 49, Sept p96 |
| • ‘Marcus Browne, ‘Interviews Monika Behrens,’ das SUPERPAPER, issue 5, April 09 |
| • Runway,
Issue 12: Make Believe, December 2008 - March 2009, Cover work |
| • Holly Williams, “Emerging Art: It’s Not Simply Young
Talent Time”, Art Market Report, Spring 06 p.36 |
| • Brad Hatch, “The Company Curator”, Financial Review
(Boss Magazine) November 06 p.20 |
| • Barbara Flynn, “Girl Band”, (Catalogue), October
06 p.1 |
| • Dougal Phillips, “Interesting Times and Primavera”,
Art and Australia, Autumn 06 p.440 |
| • Melanie Watkins, “COFA Cleans up”, COFA Magazine,
01.06 p.21 |
| • Craig Scutt, "Blind leading the blind, Censorship of the
visual arts in Australia", NAVA Quarterly,12.05, p.4 |
| • Robert Buratti, “Strokes from the Primavera”, Drum
Media. 10.05 |
| • Tracey Clement, “Cleanse the palette”, Sydney Morning
Herald (Metro) 23-29.09.05, p26 |
| • Sunanda Creagh, "Young artists redraw perceptions of the
land", Sydney Morning Herald, 08.09.05, p.14 |
| • Sarah Ranawake "Timeout", City Weekly, 08.09.05, p.23 |
| • Shaun Ellis "Left by the wayside", Wentworth Courier,
07.09.05, p.50 |
| • Adam
Bennett, "Artists develop palette for a brush with tradition",
MX, 06.09.05, p.2 |
| • Felicity Fenner, Primavera 05 Exhibition by Young Australian
Artists, (Catalogue) p.14-15, p 20-23 |
| • Alexa Moses, "Primavera takes on a new sheen after casting
its net wide", Sydney Morning Herald, 24.05.05, p.14 |
| • Felicity Fenner, Undiscovered Artists, Australian Art Collector,
issue 23, April 2005, p.99 |
| • Jeff Makin "In praise of Caravaggio", Herald Sun (Melbourne),
14.02.05, p. 121 |
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