Susan Jacobs
Born 1977, lives and works Melbourne

Susan Jacobs was included in the 7th Asia-Pacific Triennale, GOMA | Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and Parallel Collisions: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2012; NEW10, Australian Centre for Conntemporary Art and the Experimenta Utopia Now International Biennial of Media Art, 2010. She has recently completed new commissions for the National Centre for Synchotron Science at Monash University and for Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Artist's CV
EDUCATION
1999     Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Art, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne 
1995     Bachelor of Visual Art, The University of Newcastle, NSW Australia
 
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: SOLO & COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2013
RELATIONSHIPPAL: Tim Silver, Susan Jacobs, Mitch Cairns, Breenspace, Sydney
 
2011     
Half Specific / Not Half Obvious, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
 
2010     
Hard Age New Edge, Sarah Scout, Melbourne, Australia
 
2009   
Security Illusion, Margaret Lawrence Gallery in association with Melbourne International 
Arts Festival, Melbourne
 
2008     
Ubiquitous Slopes, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
Exhausted Nature, collaboration with Andrew Hazewinkel, Conical Inc. Melbourne
Side Effect, The Narrows, Melbourne
 
2007     
For Every Solution There Is A Problem, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
 
2006     
Pitch collaboration with Lisa Benson, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
 
2005     
Studies for Shifting Stable Parts, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Peripheral Static-Impulse Plan Mir 11-Ashton Raggatt McDougal Architects, Melbourne
 
2003     
Abject Arousal with Carly Fischer, curated by Angela Brophy, Conical Inc. Melbourne
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012      
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia
When You Drink the Water Remember the Spring, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, 
Mornington Peninsula Works on Paper Award, Mornington Regional Gallery, Australia
Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, curated by Alexie Glass and Natasha Bullock, Art Gallery of South Australia
 
2011
A Condition of Change with Katie Lee and Bridie Lunney, curated by Meredith Turnbull, Sarah Scout, Melbourne
If Loss Could Weigh, curated by Daniel Price, TCB Melbourne
 
2010     
Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artists exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Risk Potential, with Katie Lee and Bridie Lunney, curated by Meredith Turnbull, Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile
Opening Lines, curated by Emily Cormack, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
NEW 2010, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Experimenta ‘Utopia Now’ Biennial of Media Art, touring multiple Australian venues, 2010
 
2009     
The West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, curated by OSW, Melbourne
Broken Fall, St Pauls Street Gallery, AUT and Newcall Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Wilson HTM Art Prize, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
 
2008    
The Ecologies Project curated by Dr Kyla McFarlane and Geraldine Barlow
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Print Project collaboration with Scott Miles, The Narrows, Melbourne
2020? Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
Depot Grenda’s de-commissioned bus depot, Dandenong, Australia
 
2007      
All In An Afternoon Monash University Faculty Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria 
Structure Space & Place Kangaroo Ground War Memorial, Victoria
House Project 26 Surf Street, Merricks Beach, Victoria
 
2006    
The Narrows Opening Exhibition Melbourne
An Occupation 236 Drummond Street, Carlton Victoria
Selekta West Space, Melbourne
Marking Time Conical Inc. Melbourne
 
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2012  QANTAS Foundation Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award: State winner, Victoria
2012  Artspace Sydney, Studio Residency
2011  Arts Victoria, Development Grant, for the development of new sculptural work
2011  Australia Council for the Arts, Skills and Arts Development Award, for travel and research to 1970s Land Art sites, South West desert regions of the USA
2010  Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency, Melbourne (2010–12)
2010  RIPE Credit Suisse Private Bank / Art and Australia Magazine Contemporary Art Award 
2009  Arts Victoria Development Grant for the creation of new work
2009  Highly Commended Award, Wilson HTM Art Prize
2008  Australia Council for the Arts (Emerging Artist) New Work Grant 
1999  ANZ Bank Visual Arts Fellowship Award, The Victorian College of the Arts 
1999  Postgraduate Prize, selected by Jacques Derrida (exhibition in conjunction with Derrida’s visit to The Victorian College of the Arts)
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 'You promised me and you said a lie to me', exhibition catalogue essay, Alexie Glass-Kantor, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
2012  Richards, Bree, 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue essay, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia
Cormack, Emily, Parallel Collisions, 12th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Frieze, issue 148 
Artist Pages, Parallel Collisions, 12th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art and Australia, Volume 49, No. 3
Hynes, Victoria, Curators Radar: Susan Jacobs, issue 59, Australian Art Collector, March 2012
Somerville, Jane, Critics Picks, Parallel Collisions, Art Forum, April 2012 
2010  Williams, Marni, Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Bank Contemporary Art Award: Susan Jacobs, Volume 47 #4, Art and Australia, 2012 
Nelson, Robert, New 2010 review, The Age, Melbourne, April 2010
Stephens, Andrew, New 2010 ‘Radical rooms with a view’ article, The Age, Melbourne, 20 March
2009  McFarlane, Kyla, The safe space of the unknown, Security Illusion exhibition catalogue essay, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, October 2009
Coates, Rebecca, Ubiquitous Slopes, review, Art And Australia, March 2009 
Delany, Max. Looking Back: Emerging Artists Frieze, issue 120, January 2009
2008  Barlow, Geraldine & McFarlane, Kyla, The Ecologies Project exhibition catalogue essay, Monash University Museum of Art, 2008
Parsing with Scott Miles (ISBN 978-0-646-49391-6) Artists’ book produced during  
The Narrows Print Project, May 2008
2008  Coates, Rebecca, Exhausted Nature exhibition catalogue essay, Conical Inc, Melbourne 
Allen, Adrien, Exhausted Nature exhibition catalogue essay, Conical Inc, Melbourne
Barlow, Geraldine, Depot  exhibition catalogue essay www.depot-installation.blogspot.com
Webb, Penny, Depot exhibition review, The Age, Melbourne, April 12, 2008
Dalziel, Fiona, Depot  documentary, ABC Sunday Arts, April 20, 2008
Loughnan, Melissa, For Every Solution There Is A Problem review, Un Magazine, Issue 2.1, March
2007  Brophy, Angela & Byrne, Lisa, All In an Afternoon exhibition catalogue essay 
Cooper, Simon, Merricks Beach House essay www.26surfstreet.blogspot.com   
 
COLLECTIONS
Monash University Art Collection, Melbourne
University of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane
Victorian College of the Arts Collection, Melbourne
Methodist Ladies College Art Collection, Melbourne
Poster Collection, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
Private collections
 
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