JESS LUCAS // CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Jess Lucas and Sean Bailey, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2008 General Manager, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
2007 Couples Therapy, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
2005 Balloon Hut and the Brethren, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne
Somewhere Suitable (to start an inflatable advertising business), Can Serrat Barcelona
Rabbit Island, Gallery Wren, Sydney
Slide show for the faint hearted, Clubs Project, Melbourne
2004 Best and Worst, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Painting Group, curated by Melissa Loughnan, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
The Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
Photocopier, curated by Rob McHaffie, Kristina Tsoulis-Reay and Jess Lucas, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne
2009 Cross Colouring, curated by Harriet Morgan and Sarah Hopkinson, Hell Gallery,
Melbourne and Gambia Castle, AucklandThe Albury Prize, curated by Dr. Gene Sherman, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury
Bedroom Poster Series I & II, Joint Hassles Project, Melbourne (collaboration with Lewis Boyes)
2008 Girlsgirlsgirls, curated by Lyndal Walker and Nat Thomas, The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
The World One Minutes, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Satellite Show (curator), Joint Hassles, Melbourne
Informal Rituals, curated by Helen Johnson & Alex Viviano, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne
Rookie Show, curated by Barbara Flynn for New Australian Art, Deloitte, Sydney
2007 All Killer, curated by Harriet Morgan, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
An answer for the parts only itinerant sighs can fathom, curated by Storm Gold, Victoria Park, Melbourne
2006 Friends at Special, Special, Auckland, New Zealand
2005 Volume Everything, curated by Laresa Koslof, Clubs Project, Melbourne
Friends, Seventh, Melbourne
She’s All That, THE ONEMINUTES Broadcast, Salto Television A1 Amsterdam
2003 De Een Minuten Awards Exhibition, Montevideo, Amsterdam
2002 The Arch Rival of Verbal Communication, curated by Helen Johnson, LaTrobe
Street Gallery, MelbourneThe Tormented Professor, (Collaborative project with Kristina Tsoulis-Reay and Tim Wells), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
We Don’t Charge For Looking, curated by Laresa Koslof, Block, Sydney
2001 Something for the Ladies, Penthouse&Pavement, Melbourne
EDUCATION
2007-10 MFA(Research), Monash University, Melbourne
1999-2003 BFA (Honours, First Class), RMIT University, Melbourne
1998 Certificate in Intermediate Studies (Visual Arts), AUT, Auckland
RESIDENCIES // GRANTS // PRIZES
2011 Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust, NSW
2010 Australia Council for the Arts, ArtStart Grant
2009 Artist in Residence, St Vincents, Caritas Christi, Melbourne
2005 Artist in Residence,Stipend, Can Serrat International Art Centre, Barcelona
NAVA Visual Arts and Craft Grant
2001 Siemens RMIT Fine Art Undergraduate Travel Scholarship
RMIT Graduate Painting Prize
PRESS
2011 Thomas Blatchford, Jess Lucas, GURU, The Thousands:Look, November 9 2011 (view)
Dan Rule, Katherine Hattam and Jess Lucas, Self Portrait: Still Life, The Age A2, August 27, 2011 (view)2010 Photocopier, The Age, July 2, 2010
Dan Rule, Jess Lucas, The Age A2, March 13, 2010 (view)
The Age, Melbourne Magazine, March 20102008 Penny Modra, General Manager, The Age Visual Arts, July 15, 2008 (view)
The World One Minutes Video and Literature, Lucette Ter Borg (ed), Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008, p.183
WORK EXPERIENCE
2008-11 John Young, Assistant
2006 Volunteer Arts Worker, Arts Project Australia
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