lives and works in New York

born: 14th July 1981 in Kalgoorlie, Australia
contact: christiandevietri@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2009 Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York City
2005 Post Diplome Arts Plastique, Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts Marseille
2002 Post Graduate Residency at Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Art Paris
2001 Bachelor of Visual Arts with Distinction, Curtin University of Technology, Perth

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 XYZ, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm
2007 Being and Becoming, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2007 New Work, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2005 New Work, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2004 The Nature of Things, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Anthony Riding Gallery Inaugural Exhibition curated by Ben Riding and Andreia Anthony with Rebecca Beardmore, Maschi Fontana, Sophia Hewson, Simon Pericich, Jack Pam, Justin Smith, Jean-Thomas Vannoti
2011 Common Love, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York curated by A.E. Benenson, Kristen Chappa, Donald Johnson-Montenegro, and Tomoko Kanamitsu supervised by Kaira M. Cabanas, with Dave Arnold, Ronnie Bass, Guy Ben-Ner, Sean Dack, N Dash, Marc Handelman, Tim Hyde, Will Kwan, Mads Lynnerup, Yasue Maetake, Gabriel Martinez, Gedi Sibony, Mika Tajima, and Rona Yefman
2010 Green Honey, Ramiken Crucible, New York curated by Andrea Cashman and Borden Capalino with Anna Betbeze, Lucas Blalock, Borden Capalino, Tony Cox, Frank Haines, Joanna Malinowska, Gilad Ratman, Peter Simensky, Ruby Sky Stiler
2009 Double Take, Metrotech, New York curated by Jesse Hamerman and Liz Linden with Michael DeLucia, Matt Irie and Dominik Talvacchio, Natasha Johns Messenger, Johannes VanDerBeek
2009 The Open, Deitch Projects LLC, New York curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Dodie Kazanjian with Sebastian Black, Alison Blickle, Eoin Burke, Scott Campbell, Borden Capalino, Whitney Claflin, Caleb Considine, Abigail DeVille, Peter Demos, Keltie Ferris, Aaron Gilbert, Kathy Grayson, Evan Gruzis, Josephine Halvorson, Midori Harima, Joshua Abram Howard, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Adam Krueger, Eva LeWitt, Brendan Lynch, Cassandra MacLeod, Ted Mineo, Alyssa Pheobus, Cassie Raihl, Theo A. Rosenblum, Chelsea Seltzer, Patricia Treib, Antoine Wagner, Didier William, Saya Woolfalk
2009 Columbia University Thesis Exhibition, New York curated by Regine Basha with Cara Siik Benedetto, Christian de Vietri, David Brooks, Davida Nemeroff, Dennis Santella, Douglas Boatwright, Einat Amir, Eric Palgon, Eric Ramos Guerrero, Erik Wysocan, Gabriel Martinez, Gilad Ratman, Ian Cheng, Jaqueline Cedar, Mary Simpson, Michael Berryhill, Mira Dancy, Natalie Beall, Paul Heyer, Per Billgren, Peter Mandradjieff, Rona Yefman, Samara Golden, Valerie Piraino, Virginia Poundstone, and Zoe Nelson
2009 THING, Art Gallery of Western Australia curated by Robert Cook with Atelier Van Lieshout, FriendsWithYou, Ricky Swallow, Richard Giblett, Miles Collyer, Max Pam
2008 Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Australia curated by Julie Ewington with Lisa Adams, Vernon Ah Kee, Tom Alberts, Tony Albert, Del Kathryn Barton, Chris Bennie, Daniel Boyd, Matthew Bradley, Stephen Bush, Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, Aleks Danko, Christian de Vietri, Rolf de Heer, Gabrielle de Vietri, James Dodd, Emily Floyd, Juan Ford, Julie Fragar, Dale Frank, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Mark Galea, Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont, Kristin Headlam, Petrina Hicks, Timothy Horn, Jamin, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Christine Dew, Dave Jones & Students of Macleay Island State School, Kayili Artists, Nola Campbell, Pulpurru Davies, Mary Gibson, Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles, Ngipi Ward, Clara Law, Sam Leach, Michael Leunig, m3architecture, Robert MacPherson, Michael McWilliams, Tim Maguire, Thomas Meadowcroft, Tom Moore, Arlo Mountford, Kate Murphy, Jan Nelson, George Nona, Raquel Ormella, Robert Owen, Debra Phillips, Patricia Piccinini, Anna Platten, Scott Redford, Victoria Reichelt, Tony Schwensen, Ritchey Sealy, Ivan Sen, Gemma Smith, Darren Sylvester, Regan Tamanui, Kathy Temin, Arlene TextaQueen, Jane Turner, Nawarupu Wunungmurra, Michael Zavros
2007 PEEP: art since 1963 selected from the Kerry Stokes Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art curated by John Stringer with Christo, Ad Dekkers, Walter de Maria, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alfred Jensen, Philip Pearlstein, Bridget Riley, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Miriam Stannage, Howard Taylor, Andy Warhol, James Angus, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jim Campbell, Jiri Dokoupil, Anya Gallaccio, Philip Gamblen, Gilbert and George, Matthew Hunt, Tim Johnson, Tim Lewis, Michael Light, Allan McCollum, Michael McMillen, Mike and Doug Starn, Haim Steinbach, Steve Tepper, Cecile Williams
2006 Baroqueism, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth with Justin Smith, Tove Krabo, David Tremlett, Therese Howard, Heather Grauaug
2006 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney curated by Aaron Seeto with Benjamin Armstrong, Fergus Binns, Julia deVille, Matthew Griffin, David Griggs, Chayni Henry, Wilkins Hill, Katherine Huang, Rob McHaffie, Peter McKay, Koji Ryui and Simon Yates
2006 AMRO Emerging Artists Exhibition and Award, Sydney Australia
2005 National Sculpture Exhibition and Award, National Gallery of Australia Canberra
2005 College Invisible Session 4 Exhibition, Galerie Montgrand, Marseille France with Marcell Esterhazy, Julien Celdran, Johann Van Aerden, Dominique Blais, David Rych, Ileana Gonzalez Ortiz, and Tove Krabo
2003 Wild Frontier, Down Town Contemporary Art Space, Adelaide Australia
2002 Gertrude Street studio artist exhibition, Melbourne Australia
2002 HOTEL 6151, at the hotel formally known as Rhodes Hotel Perth, Australia curated by Ben Riding Heather Webb and Christian de Vietri with Andrezza Valentin, Annabel Dixon, Bennett Miller, Brian McCormick, Bruce Slatter, Corey Biscoe-Marwick, Dawn Gamblen, Domenico De Clario, Elissa Sadgrove, Erin Coates, Gary Wiseman, Guillame Paris, Heidi Trudinger, Helen Smith, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen, Jan Van Der Ploeg, Jarrod McKenna, Jerrem Lynch, Jodi Pachnuik, Joshua Webb, Julian Goddard, Kai Faigenbaum, Karl Tuikkanen, Kate McMillan, Kathleenkelly, Larissa Pryce, Lucy Morley, Matthew Hunt, Michael Johansson, Johan Fredrick Jonason, Neale Ricketts, Paul Fiocco, Petro Vouris, Pilar Mata Dupont, Nic Reid, Rick Vermey, Sarah Contos, Sedon Pepper, Simon Pericich, Stuart Clipston, Tess MacNamara, Monique Powell, The Atlas Group, The Pedestrian Bureau, Thea Costantino, Tom Muller
2002 Transit Narratives, Centre for Culture and Visual Art Le Venezie Italy, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Victorian College of Art Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery curated by Ted Snell
2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts, John Curtin Gallery Perth Australia
2001 Tactical Intervention Strategies, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia curated by Marcus Canning

ART FAIRS

2010 Market Art Fair Stockholm, Nordin Gallery with Dan Holdsworth, Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena, Henrik Eriksson
2009 Art Basel Miami, Deitch Projects with Kehinde Wiley, Jon Kessler, Evan Gruzis, Kristin Baker, Mariko Mori, Tim Noble and Sue Webster
2008 Melbourne Art Fair, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery
2007 Market Art Fair Stockholm, Nordin Gallery
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2011 Ascalon, in collaboration with Marcus Canning, St Georges Cathedral, Australia
2009 The Gathering, Public Art Fund, New York
2009 X, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
2005 Destination Day, City of Perth

AWARDS

2009 Australia Council New Work Grant
2007-2009 Columbia University Merit Scholarship
2007-2009 Columbia University Work Fellowship
2006 Art&Australia Magazine Emerging Artist Award
2005 Arts Western Australia New Concepts Grant
2005 Australia Council New Work Grant
2005 Melbourne Maquarie Bank Peoples Choice Award, National Gallery of Australia National Sculpture Award
2004 Quantas Spirit of Youth Fine Art Award
2004 Nescafe Big Break, Art Category
2003 West Australian Citizen of the Year Award for contribution to Visual Art
2001 The Hugh Child Memorial Award for Sculpture, Curtin University of Technology

COLLECTIONS

Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Tony Salame Collection
Gallery of Modern Art of Australia Collection
Kerry Stokes Collection
Axel Nordin Collection
Curtin University of Technology Art Collection
Rodney Glick Collection
John Curtin Gallery Art Collection
Art&Australia ANZ Collection
ArtBank Collection
various private collections

CURATORIAL WORK

2003 Assistant curator at the Palais de Tokyo Site for Contempoary Creation, Paris
2002 Co-curator of HOTEL6151 at the Rhodes Hotel with Ben Riding and Heather Webb

RESIDENCIES

2005 Atelier de la Ville de Marseille
2004 Triangle Studio, Marseille
2003 Annexet Studio, Royal College of Art Stockholm

PUBLICATIONS

2011 Common Love Aesthetics of Becoming, edited Kaira M. Cabanas, produced by Wallach Art Gallery Columbia University New York, Text by A.E. Benenson
2010 XYZ, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm
2010 Double Take, Public Art Fund, New York
2009 Thing, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2009 PEEP Glimpses of the last four decades from the Kerry Stokes Collection, Text by John Stringer
2008 Optimisim, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Text by Emma Cain
2006 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
2005 Paris Project Room Archive, by Suelgi Lee, Simon Boudvin, Cyril Dietrich, Paris
2003 What are you fucking afraid of?, edited by Karl Tuikkanen, Stockholm
2003 Wild Frontier, edited by Tony Nathan, text by Josephine Wilson, Perth
2003 CCAS Trophee 2003, editied by Jean-Robert Franco, Paris
2001 Tactical Intervention Strategies, Perth Insitute of Contemporary Arts, Perth

TEXTS

2009 Aporias of Perfection
2009 Nobody Asked You To Do Nothing, A potential school by Liam Gillick with Erik Wysocan, Georgia Sagri, Seth Scanlen, Ian Cheng, Christian de Vietri, Dennis Santella, Jason Boughton, Keil Borman, Mads Lynnerup, Nate Wolf, Gilad Ratman, David Brooks, Mary Simpson
2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition Accompanying Text
2006 Being and Becoming
2005 Windows
2004 Six Degrees of Separation

INTERVIEWS

2011 with the curators of the exhibition Common Love at Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery Columbia University New York
2010 with Ashley Black, New York, preceding the exhibition XYZ at Nordin Gallery
2009 with Jesse Hammerman and Liz Linden, New York, following The Gathering commissioned by the Public Art Fund
2006 with National Association of Visual Art Australia, Perth, following Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
2002 with Chris Hatherill, London, following HOTEL6151

ONLINE REVIEWS

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/art/87368/green-honey-ramiken-crucible-art-review
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/arts/design/23vogel.html
http://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/6989
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-gorin/deitch-projects-showcases_b_285142.html
http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/2273/christian-de-vietri-the-nature-of-things/
http://www.realtimearts.net/article/52/9276
http://www.artaustralia.com/article.asp?issue_id=173&article_id=55
http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/2442/hotel-6151/

PRINT REVIEWS

Christian de Vietri by Dina Ibrahim, WhiteWall Magazine, New York, Winter 2011, p54
The Ascalon Adventure, Insite Magazine, Perth Australia, Spring 2009, p94-98p
Christian de Vietri at Dominik Mersch, World Sculpture News, Hong Kong, Winter Issue (March) 2007, vol. 13, No. 1
Christian de Vietri, Gary Dufour, Art and Australia, Sydney, Autumn 2006, cover
Iconic Statues on the Move, Ric Spencer, The West Australian, Perth, Sat Dec 10 2005, p13 Arts
The Nature of Things, Ric Spencer, The West Australian, Perth, Thurs Dec 16 2004, p14 Arts
Christian de Vietri: The Nature of Things, Simon Blond, ArtLink, Adelaide, March 2005 vol 25 #1 p92
Young WA Artist Makes History, Nyanda Smith, The West Australian, Perth, Thursday December 16 2004, p14 Arts
Gertrude 2002, Lucinda Strahan, Broadsheet, Melbourne, March April May 2003, volume 32 no. 1, p31
HOTEL6151, Lucas Ihlein, Photophile, Adelaide, December 2003
HOTEL6151 Black Laughter, Marie Bonnal and Julian Goddard, ArtPress, Paris, February 2003, issue 287, p68/69
HOTEL6151 All Hallows Haunting, Felena Alach, ArtLink, Adelaide, January 2003
HOTEL6151, Julian Goddard, Neo2, Madrid, January 2003, issue 27, p177
HOTEL6151 Last Rights: Inspirational Installation, Ben Dean, Real Time, Melbourne, December 2002
HOTEL6151, Thea Costantino, Lucky Magazine, Melbourne, Vol. 3, November 2002
HOTEL6151, Andrew Nicholls