Nationality

Austria

EDUCATION

2008: Doctor of Philosophy (Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne)

2001: Masters by research (Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne)

1995: Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture (RMIT)

1994: An incomplete Bachelor Degree in Anthropology and Philosophy (University of Adelaide)

1993: A Postgraduate Diploma in Women's Studies (University of Adelaide)

1992: A four-year Bachelor Degree in Visual Arts majoring in Photography/Printmaking (University of South Australia)

EXHIBITIONS

CURATING EXHIBITIONS

2007: u-turn (funded by Arts Victoria), co-curated with Kate Shaw, Glendale Art College Gallery, LA

2003: Home loan exhibition (with Kate Shaw) of 16 contemporary artists at Carolyn Springs Delfin warehouse displays (funded by Besen Foundation); Really Reel emerging video artists at gallery 4A as part of Nightvision project

2002: gloss, cross-cultural Australian/Japanese magazine and exhibition project with curators Eri Otomo and Itaru Hirano (funded by Arts Victoria, Australia Council new media fund, Asialink-Japan Foundation, Pola Art Foundation, Noruma Cultural Foundation). Touring

Japan and Australia

2002: mobbypet: art zine and exchange project (funded by City of Melbourne)

1998: Postal Presents, a next wave exhibition with Esther Pierini at stripp gallery and postcards (funded by Myer Foundation)

1994: Women’s suffrage centenary exhibitions at Union Gallery, artzone and Adelaide School of Art gallery (funded by S.A Department for the Arts and Cultural Development)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: SOLO

2009: CU: presents of co-presence, Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne, Australia)

2007: Waiting for immediacy, Yonsei Media space (Seoul, South Korea)

2006: Snapshots: portrait of the mobile, spacement gallery (Melbourne, Australia)

2005: Snapshots of almost contact, SSamzie open studio (Seoul, South Korea)

2005: Locating the mobile, RMIT project space (Melbourne, Australia)

2002: DEMO at six24seven (Melbourne)

2001: glocal at Akiyoshidai International Art Village, 100 yen shop; glocalised at N-mark (Nagoya, Japan)

2000: nosegay: non-popular sound princess, CCP (Melbourne) and EAF (Adelaide)

1999: Freeways and Restrooms, CAC, (Adelaide)

1998: white trash and water tracks, h project, (Melbourne); Being Bag, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, (Melbourne); Restroom and Freeways, h. project at Arts Victoria, (Melbourne); 1997:Gift Giving, Stripp, (Melbourne)

1996: bbawd (blue blind and white deaf), Westspace (Melbourne); futurepresentofbecomingpast, Platform 1(Melbourne)

1995: a dress, Sym Choon Gallery (Adelaide); Cough, Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide)

1994: Enter Gesture (die-gestion), Hardlines at the X (Adelaide)

SELECTED GROUP

2007: Tokyo: floating world, curated by Jonathan Holmes, Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart; Australian Gothic, travelling exhibition of contemporary video art, curated by Shaun Wilson, RMIT Project Space (Melbourne, Australia), travelling to The Directors Suite, Berlin, Germany, PICA (Perth); Portable worlds, travelling exhibition of mobile art (including Pompidou), curated by Sasha Grbich, organized by ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology), http://www.anat.org.au/; Australian Gothic, travelling exhibition of contemporary video art, curated by Shaun Wilson, RMIT Project Space (Melbourne, Australia), travelling to The Directors Suite, Berlin, Germany

2006: SSamzie open studio exhibition (Seoul)

2002: gloss, Nadiff (Tokyo), CCP (Melbourne), CAC (Adelaide), The Lifetsyle Channel: Too Much Fun (curated by Christopher Chapman), Scott Donovan Gallery(Sydney), N-mark Shopping mall project, Nagoya

2001: Economic Fictions, Ocular lab (Melb) as part of Office of Utopic Procedures, Sukima project at Command N (Tokyo), 15s candy factory re: move/Yokohama triennial

2000: Room Service @ Stockholm Lydmar Hotel (Soap Opera re-mix) coordinated by Kogo Takuji, Paris Syndrome curated by Jude Walton at Sutton gallery, Sukima project at Command N, Tokyo, Curated project by Kogo Takuji at Candy Factory, Yokohama, Handle with Care (Steps gallery, Melb), Museum Magogo (London) and PB gallery, Melbourne, 1999: heartbeat, Smith and Stoneley gallery, Queensland, Chunky moves, ACCA at Revolver curated by Stuart Koop

1998: extra ordinary, Smith and Stoneley gallery, Queensland, loop, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne touring

1997: Adjacent, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Artists' Spaces, Stripp, Melbourne, Just Looking, 200 Gertrude Street and the City of Yarra, Wardrobe, Mad Love Gallery, Adelaide and touring to The Performance Space, Sydney; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth and IMA, Brisbane

1996: Rumble, Contemporary Centre for Photography (Melb), Out of Adelaide, Experimental Art Foundation (Adel), Being here, being there, Robert Lindsay Gallery (Melb)

1995: Decadence, 200 Gertrude Street (Melb), Short, sharp, shock, Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide), Past its shelf life, Meridian Gallery (Melbourne), To-whisper-each, Artzone (Adelaide)

1994: End, Sym Choon Gallery (Adelaide), Untitled, Artzone (Adelaide), group show, Montserrat Gallery (New York), 24 shows in 24 hours , re(ad) (Adelaide), Fuse, Mezzanine gallery/ Adelaide fringe, Sunset show, Hardlines at the X (Adelaide), Love dances' promotion, Oedean Theatre (Adelaide), Anything goes (suffrage exhibition), Artzone (Adelaide); 1993: The 1st Annual International exhibition of miniature art (Sweden), Parnases , Artzone (Adelaide), collections, Swerve (Adelaide)

1992: Incorporeal, Loft gallery (Adelaide), 16 x 20, Artzone (Adelaide); 1991: Women's Exhibition, Underdale Union Gallery (Adelaide), Witches and Warm Brothers, Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide).

AWARDS/ GRANTS

shortlisted for Josephine Ulrick Photography Prize (Gold Coast Art Gallery 2010)

Glocal Cities Institute grant (2009); Design Research Institute grant (2008)

RMIT emerging researcher grant (2006); Australia Council New work (established) grant (2006)

Arts Victoria grant for Snapshots exhibition (2006); TRIPS, University of Melbourne (2004)

Alma Hansen Scholarship (2004); Melbourne Institute for Asian Languages and Societies fieldwork scholarship (2004)

Besen Foundation and Australia Council New Media Presentation fund for Home Loan exhibition (2003)

Short-listed for Hobart Art Prize (2001)

Arts Victoria International grant (2001)

Melbourne City Council grant for mobbypet zine (2001)

Arts Victoria for gloss (2001)

Australia Council New Media for gloss (2001)

Asialink-Japan Foundation for gloss (2001)

Pola Foundation for gloss (2001)

Noruma Foundation for gloss (2001)

Arts Victoria grant for nosegay (2000); Australia Council Tokyo studio residency (1998)

Myer Foundation for postal presents (1998)

Pat Corrigan Grant (N.A.V.A) for Stripp exhibition (1997)

Pat Corrigan Grant (N.A.V.A) for Platform exhibition (1996)

Department for the Arts and Cultural Development for a dress (1995)

RESIDENCIES/ FELLOWSHIPS

ARC Discovery grant research fellowship (2009)

BK Research Fellow at CICC (Communication Interface and Culture Content) Research Group, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (2007)

ACA fellowship, Gwangju, South Korea (2006)

Asialink art residency, Seoul, South Korea (2004)

Akiyoshidai International Village Residency, Japan (2001)

200 Gertrude Street studio artist (1998-9)