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Shan Turner-Carroll
Born 1987 in Cessnock, Australia. Lives and works on Wonnarua Country/ Lovedale , Australia.
Education
2016 Master of Philosophy (Fine Art) The University of Newcastle, including one year exchange at & Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC
2012 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Class 1, University of Newcastle 2011 Bachelor of Fine Art (Distinction), University of Newcastle
2008 Advanced Diploma, Newcastle Art School TAFE, Newcastle
Solo Exhibitions
2024 SÚDA VÚDA AGGA BA, COMA, Melbourne Art Fair, Australia
2022 The Snake, The Rock and The River, COMA, Sydney, Australia
2022 Bodies On A Rock, Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2021 Edge Of The Garden, COMA, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia
2020 Bodies On A Rock, curated by Kim Blunt, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2019 Poems To The Poems, curated by Ryota Sato, Matsushima Bunko Museum, Japan
2017 Relics, curated by Casuarina Bird, GCS Gallery, in association ACP, Sydney, Australia
2016 Rites of Passage: The Lost art of Being Human, WATT Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
2015 Traveller, curated by Jessie English, Standard Practice Space, New York, USA
2013 Primal Crown, curated by Nathalie Johnston, 7000 Padauk, Myanmar
2012 Primal Crown, Honours exhibition, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
2011 RE’IM, curated by David Wills, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Live Works 2024, Carriageworks Sydney, Curated by Performance Space
2024 Installation Contemporary/ Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks curated by Talia Linz
2024 ‘A tide is a very long wave’, SYRUP Contemporary, Sydney, Curated by Sarah Hibbs
2023 Signals From…, with Ryota Sato, The Lock Up Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
2022 Where Shadows Meet, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, Australia
2022 Interspecies and Other Others, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Friends, relations, lovers and ancestors, Sydney College of Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2022 From impulse to action, Bundanon Trust, Illaroo, NSW, Australia
2021 It’s Only A Gift (If you See It As Gift), curated by Laurie Oxenford + Grace Dewar, OuterSpace, Brisbane, Australia
2020 20:20 ‘Edge Of The Garden’, curated by Nanette Orly, Andrea Briggs and Michael Moran, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, Australia
2019 All The Rivers Run, curated by Simone Douglas, The Australian Consulate, New York, USA
2019 At The Edge Of The Universe, curated by Simone Douglas, Pingyao International Festival of Photography, Pingyao, China
2018 C’mon step on my Lego “CONTINGENCY”, curated by Lotte Rose Kjær Skau and Daniel Grossman, LungA studios, Iceland
1818 Project, curated by Sarah Johnson, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
2018 Weaving Stories, Art Space Realm, Maroondah, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Create NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, curated by Talia Linz, Art Space, Sydney
2016 Its Timely, curated by Gary Carsley, The Lock Up Gallery, Newcastle, Australia Home, curated by Simone Douglas, Auckland Festival of Photography, New Zealand
2015 Scraping, Digging, Unearthing, 25 East Gallery, New York, USA
2014 Ash Island and its Transformations, “Hattie & Nellie”, curated by Belinda Howden, The Lock Up, Newcastle, Australia
2014 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist, Sydney, Australia
2013 Hatched, curated by Leigh Rob, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia
Awards / Scholarships
2023 Blake Prize Finalist Casula Powerhouse, Western sydney.
2017 Finalist for 2018 Create NSW, Fellowship Emerging, Art Space, Sydney, Australia
2015 Margaret Olley Memorial Scholarship
2014 APA University Scholarship
2013 Nick Waterlow OAM Highly Commended Award Finalist for the Macquarie Group Emerging artist
2013 Winner of The Doctor Harold Schenberg Scholarship, PIC, Perth, Australia Finalist in “Hatched” the National Tertiary Art Prize, PICA
2012 University of Newcastle Student Art Prize
2012 The Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship, University of Newcastle
Residencies
2024 ACE Hotel Sydney, Artists in residence Curated by The Substation Melbourne
2023 LungA School, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2021 Brand X Live Work Space, William Street Tenancy 2020 Parramatta AIR Program, Australia
2019 Matsushima Bunko Museum, Kojima, Japan
Space Bodies III, Ontario, Canada 2018 LungA School, Seydisfjordur, Iceland 2016 LungA School, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
Collections The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Artbank, Australia
Curve Gallery, Newcastle, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, Australia, The Macquarie Group collection, The University of Newcastle, Australia.
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