Artist.

EDUCATION
2023-present Researcher, King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London
2019-2023 Vāstu Certification, American University of Mayonic Science and Technology, Chennai
2007-2009 Master of Fine Art, Columbia University, New York
2004 Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, School of Fine Art, Marseille
2002 Honors, National School of Fine Art, Paris
1999-2001 Bachelor of Fine Art, Curtin University, Perth

AWARDS
2009 Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship, New York
2009 Australia Council New Work Grant, Australia
2007-2009 Columbia University Scholarship, New York
2006 Art&Australia Magazine Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
2005 Macquarie Bank People’s Choice Award, Melbourne
2005 National Gallery of Australia National Sculpture Award Shortlist, Canberra
2005 Arts Western Australia New Concepts Grant, Perth
2005 Australia Council New Work Grant, Sydney
2004 Qantas Spirit of Youth Fine Art Award, Sydney
2004 Nescafé Big Break, Art Category, Sydney
2003 West Australian of the Year Award for contribution to Visual Art, Perth
2002 National School of Fine Art Paris Exchange Scholarship, Curtin University, Perth
2001 The Hugh Child Memorial Award for Sculpture, Curtin University, Perth
2000 Vice Chancellor’s List, Curtin University, Perth
1999 Vice Chancellor’s List, Curtin University, Perth

COMMISSIONS
2023 Karlkurla, Kalgoorlie
2018 Between Heaven and Earth, ZhengZhou
2016 Spanda, Elizabeth Quay, Perth
2011 Ascalon, in collaboration with Marcus Canning, St Georges Cathedral, Perth
2009 The Gathering, Public Art Fund, New York
2009 X, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
2005 Destination Day, Perth

POSITIONS
2023-present Associate Artist, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies, Oxford
2022-present Senior Advisor on Public Space, City Space Architecture in partnership with the United Nations
2021 Guest Teacher, Göteborg Art School, Gothenburg
2014-2018 Digital Sculptor for SITU Digital Fabrication Studio, New York
2007-2009 Assistant Professor, Sculpture, Columbia University New York
2005-2007 Lecturer, Sculpture, Curtin University, Perth
2005-2007 Bronze Sculptor, Perth Castings, Perth
2002-2003 Assistant to the Directors of the Palais de Tokyo Site de Création Contemporaine, Jérôme Sans & Nicholas Bourriaud, Paris
2001-2002 Assistant to the Curator of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Trevor Smith, Perth

INTERVIEWS
2023 Edith Cowan University, with Peter Kaye, Perth
2022 Art, Liberation and Worship, with Jarrod McKenna and Dru Hart, Inverse Podcast, Perth
2021 Indica Conference on “Hindu Art, Architecture & Artisan Traditions”, with Shefali Vaidya, India
2021 ABC Goldfields, with Elsa Silberstein, Kalgoorlie
2019 Perth Radio, with Tama Rima
2018 Adrian Snary Podcast, with Adrian Snary, Perth
2017 ABC Perth, with Hilary Smale, Perth
2016 ABC Australia, with Peter Holland, Perth
2015 ABC Perth, with Geoff Hutchison, Perth
2011 Columbia University Wallach Gallery, with A.E. Benenson, Kristen Chappa, Donald Johnson-Montenegro, and Tomoko Kanamitsu, New York
2009 Public Art Fund, with Liz Linden and Jesse Hamerman, New York
2009 Whitewall Magazine, with Dina Ibrahim, New York
2006 National Association of Visual Art, Sydney

TALKS
2022 The Goddess Parā, INDICA, Varanasi
2021 Artist Talk, Göteborgs Konstskola, Sweden
2020 Matsyendranath, The Center for Soft Power, Delhi
2019 Deities of the Tantric Tradition, with Mariya Karagyozova, National Gallery of Bulgaria, Sofia
2018 Between Heaven and Earth, Zhengzhou
2018 Artist Talk, UAP, Shanghai
2010 Common Love, Columbia University, New York
2009 Aporias of Perfection, The School of Visual Arts, New York

WRITING
2023 Matsyendranath: Being and Becoming, Tarka Journal Issue #7 “On Tantra”, New York
2021 The Goddess Parā, INDICA
2020 Hanumān, Soft Power Magazine
2019 Matsyendranath, Nāmarūpa Magazine, New York
2011 上海, Feature-length Film Script in collaboration with Ian Cheng, New York
2011 Memory for Ian Cheng, New York
2009 Nobody Asked You to Do Nothing, with Liam Gillick & co., Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century), MIT Press, Cambridge

EXHIBITIONS
2018 Director’s Cut, John Curtin Gallery, Perth
2018 Out of the Ordinary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014 Art and Australia Collection 2003-2014, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2012 A Camera Darkly, Camera Club of New York curated by A.E. Benenson with Phillip Sterns, New York
2011 Angel hair : Contemporary Western Australian art from the Kerry Stokes collection, Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, Mandurah
2011 Common Love, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2010 Market Art Fair Stockholm, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm
2010 XYZ, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm (solo)
2010 Green Honey, Ramiken Crucible, New York
2009 Art Basel Miami, Deitch Projects, New York
2009 Double Take, Public Art Fund, New York
2009 The Open, Deitch Projects LLC, New York
2009 Columbia University Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
2009 THING, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2008 Silver - Artrage 25, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2008 Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008 Melbourne Art fair, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery
2007 New Work, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney (solo)
2007 PEEP: Art since 1963 selected from the Kerry Stokes Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art, TarraWarra
2006 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
2006 Being and Becoming, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth (solo)
2005 Windows, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth (solo)
2005 National Sculpture Exhibition and Award, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2004 The Nature of Things, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth (solo)
2002 HOTEL 6151, at the hotel formally known as Rhodes Hotel, Perth
2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth
2001 Tactical Intervention Strategies, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
1999 Perspectives, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1998 The Young Oirignals, Department of Education, Perth

COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, Sydney
Emily Fisher Landau Collection, New York
Axel Nordin Collection, Stockholm
Tony and Elham Salamé Collection (Aïsti Foundation), Lebanon
Gallery of Modern Art of Australia Collection, Brisbane
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
Curtin University of Technology Art Collection, Perth
John Curtin Gallery Art Collection, Perth
Art&Australia ANZ Collection, Sydney
ArtBank Collection, Sydney
Glick International Collection, Bali
Sally Kempton (sallykempton.com)
Christopher Hareesh Wallis (Tantra Illuminated Kula)
Dharmabhodi Sarsvatī (Trika Mahāsiddha Yoga Kula)
Mark Dyczkowski (Anuttara Trika Kula)
Paul Muller-Ortega (Blue Throat Yoga Collection)
various private collections

PUBLICATIONS
2018 The Art of Elizabeth Quay, MRA, Perth
2017 Mark Dyczkowski interview by Joel Cran
2014 Beacon L1 album cover, New York
2013 Dear_Tony with A.E. Benenson, New York
2012 How to Download a Boyfriend, e-book published by Badlands Unlimited, New York
2012 Spectral Circuit, in collaboration with A.E. Benenson, New York
2011 Wall Paper City Guide Perth, Phaidon Press, London
2011 Angel hair : contemporary Western Australian art from the Kerry Stokes collection, Kevin Robertson, Australian Capital Equity, Perth
2011 Hacking in the Expanded Field by A.E. Benenson, New York
2011 Common Love Aesthetics of Becoming, edited Kaira M. Cabanas, produced by Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University Press, New York
2010 XYZ, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm
2010 Double Take, Public Art Fund, New York
2008 Silver - Artrage 25 Catalogue, Perth Insritute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
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, Perth
2008 Optimisim, Gallery of Modern Art, Text by Emma Cain, Brisbane
2006 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2005 Paris Project Room Archive, by Suelgi Lee, Simon Boudvin, Cyril Dietrich, Paris
2003 What are you afraid of?, edited by Karl Tuikkanen, Stockholm
2003 Wild Frontier, edited by Tony Nathan, text by Josephine Wilson, Perth
2003 CCAS Trophee 2003, edited by Jean-Robert Franco, Paris
2001 Tactical Intervention Strategies, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
1999 Perspectives, Art Gallery is Western Australia, Perth

RESIDENCIES
2021 Konstepidemin, Gothenberg
2005 City of Marseille, Marseille
2004 Triangle Sculpture Studio, Marseille
2003 Royal Institue of Art, Stockholm
2000 Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

PRESS
2023 Carwyn Monck, Kalgoorlie Miner, Kalgoorlie
2018 Maggie Baxter, Garland Magazine, Perth
2017 Athena Waligore, Interior Design, New York
2017 Margo Pfeiff, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco
2016 Arch Daily, Mexico City
2015 Andrew O'Connor, ABC, Perth
2015 Emma Young, WA Today, Perth
2015 Stephen Bevis, The West Australian, Perth
2012 Paul Chan, DIS Magazine, New York
2012 Victoria Laurie, The Australian, Sydney
2010 Dina Ibrahim, Whitewall Magazine, New York
2010 Carol Vogel, The New York Times, New York
2010 Anne Doran, Time Out New York, New York
2009 Carol Vogel, The New York Times, New York
2009 Andrew Gorin, The Huffington Post, New York
2005 Simon Blond, Art Link, Sydney
2002 Bec Dean, Realtime, Sydney
2002 Marie Bonnal, Art Press, Paris

Born in 1981 Kalgoorlie, Australia.