CV | Dani Marti

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Biography
1963	Born Barcelona, Spain
1978-1979	Ramon Gomis, studies in tapestry technique, Barcelona, Spain
1982-1988	MBA, Esade, Barcelona, Spain
1990-1991	Diploma Fine Arts, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
1991-1992	Fine Arts Course, Art Students League, New York
2000	Master of Arts, majoring in sculpture and installation, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2006	Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

solo exhibitions
2011	Book of miracles, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne And that’s it, Paul Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide TOUCH; The portraiture of Dani Marti, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Australia
2010	Bacon’s Dog, Breenspace, Sydney
2009	INsideOUT, Gallery of Modern Art and Glasgay!, Glasgow Time is the fire in which we burn, Arc ONe Gallery, Melbourne
2008	One breath below consciousness, Breenspace, Sydney
2007	Glitering Shadows, The Studio, Glasgay Festival, Glasgow Closer, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne Off my noodle, Live Sites, Newcastle Region Art Gallery and Newcastle City Council, NSW
2006	Dark Bones, Citric Gallery, Brescia,Italy The Seven Pleasures of Snow White, Sherman Galleries,Sydney
2005	There is nothing at the end of the rainbow,Arc One Gallery, Melbourne Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Viewing Gallery, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Orifices 2000-2004 and Looking for Felix 2000, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
2004	Looking for Rover, Sherman Galleries,Sydney Orifices 2000-04,The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
2004-05	Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, travelling to Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney; Port Macquarie Hastings Regional Gallery, NSW; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW; La Trobe Regional Gallery, VIC; Monash University Art Museum,VIC
2003	Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney Portrait of a young man returning a ladybird to the grass, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2002	Blue angels, Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona Mother is crying, Briefcase Project and Block, Sydney
2001	You make me feel like love, peace and happiness, Gallery 4A, Sydney I am forever blowing bubbles, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney missing spain, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney Enhance Systems and Orifices,Span Galleries, Melbourne Jamón, La Capella, Barcelona
2000	Thin Wall PB-I,Artspace, Sydney Coco, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney Sorry I just dropped my guts, The Lounge, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney Looking for felix, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
1999	WS-S#, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
1998	Warren de Maria Gallery, Sydney

group exhibitions
2011	Group Show, Breenspace, Sydney Art of the Ordinary, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne Espiritu de Epoca, Una Decada de Pintura, MIAC, Lanzarote, Spain Highly Strung, Peter Potter Gallery, Scotland Let’s the healing begin, IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane INHABIT, Third floor, building 2, 92 White Post Lane, London Found, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2010	Cinema X: I like to watch, MOCCA Toronto Social Documents: the Ethics of Encounter, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh Vocal thoughts, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide 100 YEARS: Highlights from the University of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane Cine the Barrio: La Velada de Santa Lucia, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Hands On, Hazelhusrt Region Art Gallery, Hazelhurst, NSW, Australia
2009	Bienal de Lanzarote, MIAC, Lazarote, Islas Canarias The University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize, UQG, Brisbane Disclosure, Sh(0ut)- LGTB film program, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Où va la vidéo?, a project curated by fondazione march, various locations Non Age, Kunstalle Winterthur, Zurich Runing Time: artist films in Scotland:1960 to now, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
2008	Gifts to the collection, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia 50×50, arc one gallery, melbourne New, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane jam, peloton gallery, sydney IDENTIDADES: arte y sexos, sala astragal, gijon,spain festival sos 4.8, recinto ferial, murcia, spain repeat that again!, the university of queensland art museum, brisbane in transit: glasgow international festival of contemporary art, glasgow australian, casula power house, liverpool, australia plastic theory, peloton, sydney
2007	m.a.s.h expanded painting, coinciding with miami basel, miami trouble with the weather, uts gallery, sydney cornice art fair, venice he dominates all, black box, puerto rico
2006	tomorrow now, foundation bevilacqua lamasa, venice the projection room, coinciding with the liverpool biennale, liverpool a man’s world, museum of brisbane, brisbane love video 2006,gallery sad- artunison-, moscow vad festival internacional de vídeo i arts digitals, girona iondromo film competition, m+b studio, venice goods to declare: mfa international, bezalel art school, tel aviv celeste art prize, goldsmiths university of london, the old truman brewery, london marks and comments,mfa degree show,tramway, glasgow and moca, roskilde, denmark gridlines, newcastle region art gallery, newcastle, new south wales ii premio internacional de pintura de castellón,fundacion astroc, madrid scream sounding images, in collaboration with diana simpson, calarts, los angeles
2006-07	strange cargo: contemporary art as a state of encounter, newcastle region art gallery, newcastle, new south wales, touring regional galleries in new south wales, victoria and queensland
2005	post, residence gallery, london and castlefield gallery, manchester ii premio internacional de pintura de castellón, espai, castellon glad-wrap-up, sherman galleries, sydney vad festival internacional de vídeo i arts digitals, girona academy now!, sound collaborations with diana simpson and vivian barty-taylor, royal scottish academy of music and drama, glasgow good and gruesome, cca student lab night, centre for contemporary arts, glasgow arafura craft exchange, museum and art gallery of the northern territory, darwin new town pasadena, in collaboration with diana simpson, armory center for the arts, pasadena, ca nuit blanche,paris
2004	one of: festivus 04, sherman galleries, sydney pistilsi petals, fundacio espais conteporanis, girona
2003	festivus, sherman galleries, sydney summer show,arc one gallery, melbourne 25 years of mardi gras, tin sheds gallery, sydney home sweet home: works from the peter fay collection, national gallery of australia, canberra the canberra contemporary art space and the art store art award 2003, ccas, canberra
2002	festivus, sherman galleries, sydney summer show,arc one at span, melbourne opening show, arc one at span, melbourne ruin, helen lempriere national sculpture award, melbourne dressing and dreaming, sherman galleries hargrave, sydney archive of dud slides, briefcase, sydney
2001	artful park 2001, museum of contemporary art, sydney 1×1, boutwell draper gallery, sydney blue angels, helen lempriere national sculpture award, melbourne interiors,object gallery, sydney plastic by nature, canberra contemporary art space, canberra ante, sydney gay & lesbian mardi gras festival,imperial slacks gallery, sydney
2000	twothousand&99, exhibition and performance space, college of fine arts, university of new south wales, sydney not quite right, grey matter contemporary art, sydney to exist (24), blue funghi, grey matter contemporary art, sydney
1999	three of a kind, gallery 19, sydney
1998	aula de lletres, barcelona, spain
1997	what is love?, toast ii gallery, sydney fund-raising exhibition for the aids trust of australia love, no te nom gallery, barcelona, spain

grants and awards
2011	Creative Scotland, professional development Grant Australia Council for the Arts, studio residency Greene St Studio, New York , May 2012
2010	Stills, Edinburgh, Artist residency, October 2010- March 2011
2009	Gallery of Modern Art residency, Glasgow
2007	Newcastle Regional Gallery Residency, Newcastle Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant- Established artist Scottish Arts Council Creative and Professional Development Grant
1999	Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant

commissions
2009	The non age, four video portraits, Kunstalle Winterthur, Zurich Time is the fire in which we burn, GoMA Glasgow Disclosure, three channel video installation , commissioned by GoMA and Glasgay, Glasgow Sydney, a concrete wall commissioned by Westfield and UAP, for Center Point Tower, Sydney, Australia
2008	david, under the coolabah tree, Glasgow international bolted, casula power house, Liverpool, Australia
2007	ed filipowski-mark lee, flash, new york
2006	under the crescent moon, wardle + hassel and lend lease, melbourne
2005	alexander tzannes associates, european monarchs (silver and gold), sydney
2004	george freedman & associates, philip and catherine (european monarchs series), amp circular quay, sydney burley katon holliday architects, sydney, the last sins of st francis: scaring the flesh (last episode) fast lane, sans torquay, melbourne
2003	batessmart, different trains, melbourne crown casino, melbourne
2002-03	docklands/mirvac, melbourne, conceptualisation and design of wind-wall installations, with dale jones evans
2002	linda gregoriou, art collector, linda pink scapes,sydney
2001	university of wollongong, new south wales, lorca
2000	murray thomas, architect, obs 4,sydney; ian halliday, architect, linda and ws-s, sydney; dale jones evans, architect, australian landscape – yellow
1999	burley katon halliday architects, obs 1, sydney; dale jones evans, architect, obs#3,sydney

public collections
	mca, museum of contemporary art, Sydney, australia the university of queensland art museum, brisbane, australia chartwell collection, auckland city art gallery, auckland, new zealand university of wollongong, new south wales, australia newcastle regional art gallery, new south wales, australia penny clive collection, tasmania, Australia mordant’s collection, Australia art bank, australia Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

public collections

mca, museum of contemporary art, Sydney, australia
the university of queensland art museum, brisbane, australia
chartwell collection, auckland city art gallery, auckland, new zealand
university of wollongong, new south wales, australia
newcastle regional art gallery, new south wales, australia
penny clive collection, tasmania, Australia
mordant’s collection, Australia
art bank, australia
Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

bibliography
2011	Rosemarie Milson. “Knowing the ropes’, Newcastle Herald Weekender magazine, front cover and pages 8-11, 5th November 2011, Australia Dan Rule, ‘Dani Marti: Book of Miracles’, THE AGE, Life & Style section, page 5, 30th July, 2011 Australia Megan Backhouse, ‘Book of Miracles’, Art Guide July/August 2011, page 31, Australia Kirsten Lloyd, ‘The Ethics of Encounter’ Art Pulse, pag, 26-28, Vol2, No3, summer 2011, US Anne Kirker, ‘Let the healing begin’, ‘Art Monthly’, pag. 43-45, Issue 239, May 2011, Australia Timothy Morrel, ‘Theraphy Session ‘Australian art Collector’, pag 102-105, Issue 56, April – June 2011 Fearghus Roulston, ‘Dani Marti and Public Pillowtalk’, Samizdat press, March 9, 2011, Edinburgh Craig Judd, ‘Bacon’s dog: Dani Marti’s portrait of Peter Fay’ Art & Austrlia, pag 26-429, March 2011 Anthony Gardner, ‘Intimacies in a desert: the videos of Dani Marti’ , Atlantica magazine, primavera-verano 2011, issue 50, pag 98 -106, Spain Dani Marti, ‘Vial Queen’ a project for Atlantica magazine, primavera-verano 2011, issue 50, front cover and pag 107-115, Spain Rachael Cloughton, ‘The Ethics of Encounter @Stills” THE SKINNY, 05 January 2011, Scotland Chris Reid, ‘Intimate Warnings’, Real time Magazine, February 2011, Australia
2010	Paco Barragan, “Spirit of the epoch, a decade of painting’, exhibition catalogue, MIAC, Lanzarote, February 2011, Spain Jason Smith, ‘Dani Marti: Finding Peter”, exhibition catalogue, Breenspace, July 2010, Sydney
2009	Omar Kholeif , ‘No social justice for Glasgow’s art?’, The Guardian, 15 September Duncan Macmillan, ‘Art review: Dai Nippon/The Tale of Genji’, The Scotsman, 15 September Charlotte Higgins, ‘Glasgow’s sex and drugs row rumbles on’, The Guardian, 23 September Allan Radcliffe, ‘Conversation Piece’, The LIst, Scotland, 22 September Robert Nelson, ‘Rumbling, dripping and slipping away’, The Age, 30 September, Page 20. Talitha Kotzé, ‘Dani Marti: Insideout’, The LIst, 1 October Lauren Mayberry, ‘Sh(OUT) About Censorship’, The Skinny, 2 October Edd McCraken, ‘Boycott threat to ‘homophobic’ council in censorship row’, Sunday Herald, 13 September, pg 18 Jennie Kermode, ‘Dani Marti talks about film, art and HIV’ Eye for Film, website, September 8 Edd Mc Crakken, ‘Artist attacks GoMA for ‘censorship’ of gay life exhibition’ Sunday Herald, 23 September, pg13 Graeme Murray, ‘Artist makes abrasive point in city protest’, Evening Times, September 4, page 18 Ximena Moreno, ‘Dani Marti’, Arte al Limite, May-July 2009, issue 36, pp.14-21, pp.118-119, & front cover Owen Craven, ‘Dani Marti”, Artist profile, issue 7, April 2009, page 50-53, Australia
2008	Lisa Slade, ‘New’, catalogue published by The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, December 2008, Australia Juliana Engberg, ‘On cultural capital’, Art & Australia, vol 46, no.1, spring, 2008, pp 48-49. Anthony Gardner, ‘The Gestural Unconscious’, catalogue essay, Breenspace, Sydney, July 2008 Laura McLean-Ferris, ‘Glasgow International Festival’, ArtReview, issue 23, page 140-141, June 2008 Martin Vincent, ‘Glasgow International’ Frieze,issue 116, June 2008, page 237. Sharon Mangion, ‘Glasgow International of Contemporary Art’, AN: The Artists Information Company, 26 April 2008, UK Martin Vincent, METRO, Art review, page 27, 21 April 2008, Scotland Laura Cumming, ‘Glasgow makes a show of itself’, The Observer, Review, page 18, 20 April 2008, UK Jack Mottram, ‘Outsiders give the art festival its edge’, The Herald, page 18, 18 April 2008, UK Adrian Searle, ‘What a Riot’, The Guardian- g2 ARTS, page 23-25, 15 April 2008, UK Paco Barragan, ‘The hell of the beautiful’, Wynwood, March 2008, pp 8-13 Lois Rowe, ‘IN TRANSIT’ catalogue essay for Glasgow International, 11-27 April 2008
2007	Sandra Marron, ‘Glittering Shadows’, LIST Scotland Magazine, 4 October 2007 Michael Hugues, ‘Insight Radio’, 101 FM, Glasgow, 28 September 2007 John Calcutt, ‘Inside – Out’, catalogue essay for Glittering Shadows, Glasgow Gerri Williams, ‘Sunday Arts’, ABC Television, 8 July 2007, Australia Ashley Crawford, ‘Art around the galleries’, p.14 – A2, The Age, 19 May 2007, Melbourne Penny Webb, ‘Closer at Arc one Gallery’ art review, The Age, 26 May 2007, Melbourne
2006	Lisa Slade, ‘Strange Cargo’, catalogue essay, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition, 2006-2008 Paco Barragan, ‘Heaven & Hell’, Contemporary, issue 86, October 2006 pp. 58-59 Domenico Quaranta, ‘Closer’, exhibition catalogue, Citric, Brescia, October 2006 Paco Barragan, ‘The art of tying ends’, exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, February – March 2006 Peter Carrol, ‘Artwork raises a stink Minging’, Glaswegian, 15 June 2006, p. 5
2005	Anthony Gardner, ‘There is nothing at the end of the rainbow’, catalogue essay, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne, March 2005 Rick Rutjens, ‘Arafura Craft Exchange: Fibre 2005′, Object, no. 47, p. 44 Allison Gray, ‘Arafura Craft Exchange: Fibre 2005′, catalogue essay, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, May 2005, pp. 6-7 Angus Cameron, ‘Arafura Craft Exchange: Fibre 2005′, Australian Art Collector, issue 32, April – June 2005, p. 241 Robert Nelson, ‘Marti ties viewers in knots’, Age, Friday, 20 May 2005
2004	Dominique Angeloro, ‘Negative attitude: Festivus 04′, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 November – 2 December 2004, p. 26 Victoria Hynes, ‘Tactile textiles’, Australian Art Review,July-October 2004, p. 10 Victoria Hynes, ‘Dani Marti and Holy Holy Holy’, the(sydney)magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2004, p. 94 Tactile textiles’, exhibition preview, Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Vogue Living Apartments, June 2004, p. 10 Martyn Hook, ‘House edge: Crown Promenade, Southbank, Melbourne’, Monument, no. 61, June – July 2004, pp. 22-6 Victoria Hynes, Looking for Rover, exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, March-April 2004 Desmond Foo, ‘Orifices’, The Straits Times, Singapore, 7 April 2004 Sasha Grishin, ‘Depth in surreal paradise lust’, Canberra Times, Canberra 25 February 2004 Ann Finnegan, Variations in a Serious Black Dress, exhibition catalogue, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT, February – March 2004
2003	Marinka Ferrier, ‘Knots of seduction’, Artwrite,University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2003 Robert Nelson, ‘Floating into space’, Age, Melbourne, 7May 2003 Roger Taylor, Radio interview, RRR, Melbourne, 23 April 2003 Victoria Hynes, ‘The semiology of weaving’, Art & Australia, vol. 40, no. 3, autumn, 2003, pp. 410-17, front cover image Bruce James, ‘Mardi Gras 25 years show’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 February 2003
2002	Laura Murray Cree, Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2002 Leta Keens, ‘Magic weaver – Dani Marti’, Belle, October-November 2002 David O’Halloran, ‘Go inside and freshen up’ (Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award), Broadsheet, vol, 31, no. 2, June – August 2002, p. 22 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, March 2002
2001	Victoria Hynes, ‘One metre x one metre’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 14-20 December 2001 Anne Loxley, ‘Outdoor art’ (Artfull Park), Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December 2001 Sasha Grishin, ‘An ironic medium’, Canberra Times, 14 May 2001 Andrew Frost, ‘Undiscovered artists’, Australian Art Collector, no. 16, April – June 2001, pp. 74-75, front cover image Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, Arts Program, ABC Television, Sunday, 8 April 2001 Robert Nelson, ‘Winner shed’s pretension’ (Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award), Age, Melbourne, 28 March 2001 Maria Bliske, ‘The Helen Lempriere Sculpture Prize’, Artlink, vol. 21, no. 2, 2001 Simon Rees, ‘Looking for felix‘, Art + Text, no. 73, 2001, p. 87 Victoria Hynes, ‘Weird science’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 22-28 June 2001 Interview with Bruce James: ‘I am forever blowing bubbles…‘, Arts Program, ABC Radio, Monday, 11 June 2001 Ann Finnegan, ‘missing spain’, catalogue essay, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, August 2001 Jane Barney, ‘Metis – waste’,catalogue essay, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, May 2001 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, March 2001
2000	Verity Newman, ‘Not quite wrong’, City Sydney Hub, vol. 5, no. 49, 2000 Courtney Kidd, Critic’s picks, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 22-28 December 2000 Alexie Glass, ‘Chez view’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 17-23 November 2000 Brian Boys, ‘Exhibitions site’, Monument, Architecture/Design Issue, October – November 1999, p. 39 Bruce James, ‘Conservation pieces’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2000 Victoria Hynes, ‘Lofty ambitions’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2000 Courtney Kidd, Critic’s picks, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 18-24 August 2000 Ann Finnegan, ‘Coco’, catalogue essay, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney, August 2000 Ann Finnegan, Thin Wall PB-1, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Sydney, February 2000
1999	Bruce James, ‘Pope Alice overcomes strong penis challenge’, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 1999