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Biography (download PDF version here)
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1967
1985-1987 |
Born Australia
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Currently lives and works in Melbourne |
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2006 2005 2004 2004 2004 2003 2003 2002 2001 2001 2001 2000-2001 2000 2000 2000 1999 1998-99 1998 1997 |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
The Simian Line, Karen Woodbury Gallery at the Depot Gallery II, Sydney Astro-Chimp, The Church Gallery, Perth Lisa Roet: Finger of Suspicion, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Melbourne Astro-Chimp, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne Pri-Mates, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, UWA, Perth Arts Festival, Perth Pri-Mates Drawing, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne Ape and the Bunnyman, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney The Shadow, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney The Shadow, National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Beauty and the Beast, MAAS Gallery, Melbourne Pri-Mates, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney Pri-Mates, Hands, LeibmanMagnan Gallery, New York Shaded Man, Kuala Lumpur National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur Sebrechts-Park, Brugge Kunst Halle, Brugge, Belgium Beauty and the Beast, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney That’s Entertainment, Artspace, Sydney Ape and the Bunnyman, LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York Primates, Tent Temporary-con Temporary, Brussels Primate, Atlanta Zoo, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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2005 2005 2005 2004 2004 2003 2003 2003 2002 2002 2002 2002 2001-2002 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2000 2000 2000 2000 1999 1999 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1997 |
Selected Group Exhibitions
The McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey & McClelland Award, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, VIC (winner) Kiss of the Beast, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane You’re so Vain: 5 Contemporary Sculptors, Karen Woodbury Gallery,Melbourne Instinct, Monash Museum of Art, Monash University, Melbourne Nature Machine Exhibition, Queensland Gallery of Art, Brisbane Helen Lempriere Prize, Werribee, VIC The McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey & McClelland Award, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, VIC National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (winner) Culture Centrum, Group Exhibition, Brugge The Perfect Snack, Luckenwalderstrasse 15 Gallery, Berlin Eve and the Snake, Kunstverein Bad an Salvenbein, Germany Zoo, Antwerp Culture Centrum, Antwerp Bootylicious, The Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne Melamide and Kormer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Information Days, Agros Video Museum, Brussels Sheroes, Clairefontaine Gallery, Luxemberg Rendezvous mitt Gitte, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Group Show, Aeroplastics Gallery, Paris Art Fair, Paris Innocence, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels Flesh + Blood, Witte Zeal (Aeroplastics) Ghent, Belguim Group Show/Gallery Artists, LeibmanMagnan Gallery, New York Sheroes, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels Trillenium Exhibition, Koekelberg, Brussels Installation, The Limelight, New York Information Days, Argos, Brussels Gallery Artists, LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York Pacific-Rim: Flowers of the World, Premorosky State Museum, Vladivostok, Russia Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Construction in Process VI, The Bridge, Melbourne mirror mirror on the wall: Berlin-Melbourne Encounters, RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne Nomenclature Museum, Atlanta, Georgia |
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2005 2005 2003 2003 1997 |
Grants and Awards
The McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Award, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, VIC
The Kedumba Drawing Award, NSW National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia and Macquarie Bank The Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland |
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2005 2000-2001 2000 1998 1997 1997 1997 1996 1996 1996 1996 |
Residencies
The Church Gallery, Perth Research, Kinabatangan River, Borneo, Malaysia Asia Link Residency, National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Australian Representative, Flowers of the World, Vladivostok, Russia Sole Australian Representative, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Georgia, USA Artist-in-Residence, Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, USA Observational work, Language Research Centre, Georgia University, Atlanta USA Three months working at the Kunstlehaus Brethanien Druck Werkstadt, Berlin Seven months Ape research, Berlin Zoo, Germany Six months Ape research, Zoo Atlanta, USA Residency, Verdaccio Studio, Siena Italy |
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Barker, C., Barrett-Lennard, J.,Bellamy, L., Colless, E., Colless, E., Crawford, A., Crawford, A., Doover, E., Glass, A., Levin, K., Losche, D., Richmond, L., Smee, S., Smee, S., Strickland, K., Teale, P., Volk, G., |
Selected Bibliography
Oyster Magazine, June-July 2001 Pri-Mates, catalogue essay, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of WA 2004 ‘Paying homage to Ham’s humanity’, The Age, 28 August 2004 ‘Burlesque Gesture’, World Art, May 1997 ‘Research’, catalogue essay, De Bond Kunsthalle, Brugge 2000 ‘Political Animal’, BRW magazine, July 24-30 2003 ‘CONTACT _Con-429B4B8F333 \c \s \l Lisa Roet: The Simian Connection’, Art & Australia, June 2001 ‘Praten Met Apen’, DeStandaard, Belgium, 24 October 1999 ‘Lisa Roet’, Thames & Hudson, Sydney 2005 ‘Ape and the Bunnyman’, Village Voice, New York, 5 January 1999 ‘The Shadow’, catalogue essay, 2001 ‘Arts Festival of Atlanta’, World Art, May 1998 ‘No ordinary picture books’, The Weekend Australian, 3-4 December 2005 ‘McClellland Sculpture Survey & Award 2005’, The Weekend Australian, 17-18 December 2005 ‘Human League’, The Weekend Australian, 23-24 October 2004 ‘Lisa Roet: Finger of Suspicion’, catalogue essay, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria 2004 ‘Primates’, catalogue essay, LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York & Australian Council Visual Arts Development Fund, 1999 |