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THERESA BYRNES - ARTIST
Curriculum Vitae

DOB: 1969 Sydney, Australia

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2006 "New York to Sydney", Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney Australia
2006 "Sydney to New York", Saatchi & Saatchi, New York
2005 "Fractals of Thought", Australian Embassy, Washington DC USA
2004 "Tantric Painting", Theatre For the New City, New York
2003 "La Bomb", performance and works on paper, Photo-graphic Gallery, SoHo, New York
2002 "Landscape of Mistake", Australian Embassy, Washington DC USA
2001 "Knot Not Know", Cristianne Nienaber Contemporary Art, New York
2000 "Recent Work", Scots Church, Sydney Australia
1998 "The Divine Mistake", Wagner Gallery, Sydney Australia
"Light to Hot to Dark", Angel Orensanz Foundation, Lower Gallery, New York
1997 "Studio Show & Auction", conducted by Sotheby's Australia, Sydney Australia
1995 "Markings" Milkwood Gallery, Sydney Australia
1993 "Overview" Whitfield Gallery, Sydney Australia
1991 "A Soulful Journey", Artburn Gallery, Sydney Australia
1989 "Apples in Disguise", Sylvester Studios, Sydney Australia
1987 "Body With Soul", rondeau Gallery, Sydney Australia

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

 

2003 "Works on Paper", Photo-graphic Gallery, Soho New York
"Lower East Side Festival of the Arts" Theater of the New City, New York
2002 "My Life My City", KIBOKO PROJECTS touring exhibition, New York & Russia
"Video Art" Museum of New Art (MONA)
"Painting As Abstraction", Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Michigan, USA
2001 "DOCUMENTA USA", Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA
"Art/Science Fusion" Sapienza University, Rome Italy
2000 "Recent Work", Scots Church, Sydney Australia
1999 "Christmas Show", Wagner Gallery, Sydney Australia
1998 "Young Art", Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne Australia
1997 "Redlands/Westpac Invitational Prize", Sydney Australia
North Shore Fine Art, Sydney Australia
1996 The Theresa Byrnes Foundation Inc Art Auction (conducted by Sotheby's Australia)
1995 "40 Emerging Artists" Tap Gallery, Sydney Australia
1993 Hilton Hotel Gallery, Sydney Australia
1992 "Tibet" Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Australia
1991 Bathurst Art Purchase Selected exhibition, New South Wales, Australia
1989 "Endangered Spaces", Artspace, Sydney Australia
"The Production of Optical Equivalences" EMR Gallery, Sydney Australia
1987 Ansett Golden Wing Executive & VIP Lounges, Sydney, Melbourne & Western Australia
"Women's War & Peace Art Exhibition", Pier 2 -3 Walsh Bay, Sydney Australia
1986 "Nudes", Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney Australia

 

PERFORMANCES

 

2003 curator/performance, HOWL Festival Avant Garde(n) REMOVING THE VEIL, New York.
co-curated & performed La Bomb in THE NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION St Marks Church.
New York, La Bomb Photo-Graphic Gallery, Soho New York.
2002 The Flag, TBG, New York.
Emergency Empire Tompkins Square Plaza, New York.
21 Crash Tompkins Square Plaza, New York.
No Blood For Oil St Mark's Church, New York.
Opening Mary Magdalen Cabaret, St Mark's Church, New York, Curator & performance.
2001 War & Christmas, St Mark's Church, New York.

 

PUBLISHED/REPRODUCED

 

2003 Manhattan Neighborhood Network "Voices for Peace" "Emergency Empire" performance.
BBC & ABC TV performance included in Documentary by George Gittoes
2002 Short Story, Penguin Australia, Big Night Out
The Shadow newspaper. Kate Millett & The Suicide Parlour
Neighborhood Network TV, New York. "Careless" & documentary on T.Byrnes
2001 From the Mayor's Doorstep 33 (from an appropriate distance) by Piri Halasz (review New York)
1999 Australian Style
1998 Australian Art Collector, Michel Hewtac
1994 The Sydney Review, Jacques Delaruelle
Who's Who of Australian Visual Arts, DW Thorpe (in association with NAVA)

 

OTHER

 

2006 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant
2005 Commission, for private collection of M.Night Shyamalan
2004 WARCHILD "Hope" Art Auction, Christie's, London U.K
2003 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant
2000 Relocated to New York
1999

Autobiography, The Divine Mistake published by Pan Macmillian Australia

NSW Community Services Award, Young Australian of The Year

1998 Australia Day Ambassador
1992 Lecturer, Painting Toowoomba University, Queensland Australia
Selected for The Queen Elizabeth Trust "Future Perspective's" National Forum
Incorporated "The Theresa Byrnes Foundation Inc", raising funds for research into gene therapy
1991 Director - Paramatta's first Contemporary Art Gallery
Curator - Downing Center Show Cases, Sydney Australia
1987 Sydney College of the Arts, Visual Arts

 

 

 

 


 

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