Polixeni Papapetrou — Biographie — Slash Paris

Education

2009

• Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University, Melbourne

2007

• PhD, Monash University, Melbourne,

1997

• Master of Arts (Media Arts), RMIT University, Melbourne

1984

• Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne

1984

• Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions (sélection from 2000)

2011

• Tales from Elsewhere, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

2010

• Between Worlds, ARTITLED, The Netherland
• Between Worlds, L MD galerie, Paris
• Between Worlds, Stills Gallery, Sydney
• Between Worlds, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
• Between Worlds, Gallery 25, Writer’s Festival, Mildura
• Between Worlds, Johnston Gallery, Perth

2009

• Between Worlds, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne

2008

• Games of Consequence, Foley Gallery, New York
• Games of Consequence, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
• Games of Consequence, Fotofreo, Fremantle Festival of Photography, Australie ; Johnston Gallery, Perth, Australia
• Games of Consequence, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• Wonderland, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Australia

2007

• Haunted Country, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
• Haunted Country, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2006

• Haunted Country, Foley Gallery, New York, USA
• Haunted Country, Johnston Gallery, Perth, Australia
• Dreamchild and Phantomwise, Stills Gallery, Sydney
• Elvis Immortal, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
• Haunted Country, Stills Gallery, Sydney
• A Most Curious Adventure, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
• Wonderland, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australie

2005

• After Alice, Maison de la culture Plateau-Mont-Royal,’Le Mois de la Photo’, 9th Mon¬treal Photography Biennale, Montrèal, Canada
• Go Ask Alice Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
• Dreamchild Felicity, Johnston Gallery, Perth, Australia

2004

• Mystical Places, Stills Gallery, Sydney
• Wonderland, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
• Phantomwise, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
• Dreams and Whispers, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide, Australia

2003

• Dreamchild, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
• Dreamchild, photographic, New York
• Saturday’s Child, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
• Phantomwise, Stills Gallery, Sydney

2002

• Searching for Marilyn, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
• Olympia Masked, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, Australie

2001

• Authority (Part II), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

2000

• Authority, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions (selection from 2000)

2011

• Black Box White Cube: Aspects of performance in contemporary Australian Art, Centre d’art, Melbourne 4 June au 18 September
• Pulse New York, Contemporary Art Fair, New York, Jenkins Johnson Gallery,San Francisco
• MOVE!, LMD Galerie, Paris
• My Australia, Haunted Country Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
• Hijacked 2: Australia and Germany, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane; The Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum, Adelaide; John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth
• New Worlds, The Museum of Photography, Seoul. 27 August to 26 September
• Phantasmagoria, Walker Street Gallery 1-29 October

2010

• Duetto, Experimental Arts Foundation, Adelaide
• La Forêt de mon rêve, Galerie du Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, France
• Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
• “Imagining the Everyday” Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
• Hijacked 2: Australia and Germany’ at The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and the Monash Gallery of Art

2009

• Alice’s Mirror, curated by Youngsil Sohn, Gallery SUN Contemporary, Seoul
• The History of the National Photography Prize, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
• Spectrum, Light in Winter Festival, ACGA Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne
• Josephine Ulrick Win Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland

2008

• Humanscape, Seoul International Photography Festival, Seoul, Commissariat par Youngsil Sohn, Seoul
• Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
• Artist File 2008 : The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, commissariat Yusuke Minami, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japon
• Silverlined : Contemporary artists and the Performing Arts Collection, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
• FX in Contemporary Photography, The McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne

2007

• Tell Me a Story : Narrative Photography Now, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
• Aperture 55th anniversary exhibition, Aperture gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York
• Selected works, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, Nouvelle Zélande
• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ?, Te Tuhi Gallery, Manukau City, Nouvelle Zélande
• Contemporary Group Show, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland Festival of Photography
• Beauty, What For ?, curator : les Éditions Babylone, Paris, El Zanjon, Buenos Aires, Argentine
• Living Elvis, RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne

2006

• Decade: Acquisitions 1996 to 2006, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
• Picturing the Sea, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
• Changeling, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australie

2005

• Beyond Real : Dressing Up, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
• The Plot Thickens : Narratives in Australian Art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
• Recent acquisitions : Photographs of the collection MGA, Melbourne
• Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

2004

• Changeling, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
• The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
• The Melbourne Art Fair, Stills Gallery
• The Plot Thickens : Narratives in Australian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
• Photographica Australis, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 11th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Inde
• The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
• MAKE Believe-Photographic Fictions, Stills Gallery, Sydney
• Chicks that click, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
• Larger than Life, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales

2003

• Fair Game, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• MAKE Believe-Photographic Fictions, Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Corpus of Meaning : Figures Through the Lens of Female Photographers, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
• Photographica Australis, National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Singapore Art Museum
• Construct, 24 HR Art, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
• Play, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
• Josephine Ulrick National Photography Portrait Prize, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
• Albury Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
• The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

2002

• Photographica Australis, Sala De Exposiciones Del Canal De Isabel II, (ARCO Arts Festival) Madrid, Spain
• Play, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
• When I was young: Impressions of Childhood, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
• Photography from Australia and New Zealand, Sotheby’s, New York; The Austral Consulate, New York
• Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
• Significant Contemporary Photographers, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne

2001

• Telling Tales : The Child in Contemporary Photography, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of South Australia Museum of Art, Campbelltown, Australia
• What John Berger Saw, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
• Striking, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
• Albury Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia

2000

• Telling Tales : The Child in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Bendigo Art Gallery, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
• What John Berger Saw, Orange Regional Gallery, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, University of South Australia Museum of Art, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
• Striking, Cambelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Geelong Art Gallery

Awards, Grants, Commissions (selection from 2000)

2009

• Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
• Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize

2007

• Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
• Arts Victoria International Touring Grant
• Bundanon Trust, Artist in Residence Program, New South Wales

2005

• Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant

2003

• Arts Victoria Professional Development Grant
• Albury Regional Art Gallery National Photographic Purchase Award
• Julie Millowick Photographic Award

2002

• Australian Post-Graduate Award , (3 year award)

2000

• Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant

Press/ Articles

• ‘Im Garten Der Kindheit’, (in the garden of childhood) Max Joseph magazine, No. 2
  2010/2011, Munich, Germany, pp. 20-23
• “Camera follows the children’s journey’, Alicia Wood, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 January
  2011, p. 36
• ‘Between Worlds’, BLOW Photomagazine, Issue #1, Autumn, Dublin, 2010
• Asterope Lazaridou, TO VHMA, Athens, 19 November 2010, p. A22
• Anne Marsh and Jessica White, Photography as Crime: Mapping anxiety in the Public
  Sphere, Art Monthly Australia, #235, Canberra, November 2010, pp. 17-20
• ‘Polixeni Papapetrou, Between Worlds’, Noovo magazine, Volume 3, Spain, 2010
• ARam Kim, ‘Polixeni Papapetrou, Between Worlds’, PHOTO+ magazine, Seoul, August
  2010, (Vol.4), pp. 26-31, 70-71
• Eleven Eleven, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Issue # 9, 2010
• David Sendra Domènech, ‘La infancia como inspiración’, Yo Dona magazine, Spain, # 253
  April 2010, pp. 52-53
• Cristina Franzoni, ‘Vision Paris, Between Worlds’, ZOOM International, Milan, May-June
  2010, p. 75
• Andrew Taylor, ‘Human Behaviour’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June 2010
• Jean-Marie Dubois, ‘Les enfants mythiques de Polixeni Papapetrou’, Paris Capitale, Paris,
  No. 149, April 2010, p. 115
• ‘Echos d’expos’, Azart Photographie, Paris, No. 7, April, May/ June 2010, p. 7
• Natalie King, ‘And this little piggy got her picture taken’, The Age, 6 November 2009, p.14
• Adrian Favell, Polixeni Papapetrou, L MD gallery, Paris, In ArtForum, 2010
• Adrian Favell, Polixeni Papapetrou, L MD galerie, Paris, In ArtForum, juin 2010
• Yena Ku, ‘Reinstatement of Lost Childhood’, PHOTONET, Seoul, Vol. 124, sept.
  2009, pp. 108-113 Martha Langford, “Down the rabbit hole-redux”, Exit #33 ‘Once
  Upon a Time’, Madrid, févr¬avril 2009, pp. 24-36, pp. 43 & 47 Dimitris Politakis, ‘The
  children who got lost in fairytales’, Tahidromos Magazine #463, Ta Nea,
  Athens, 10 janvier 2009, pp. 42-47
•  Naomi Rosenblum, A History of Women Photographers, Abbeville Press, New
  York, 2008
•  Amy Leal, ‘Lewis Carroll’s Little Girls’ The Chronicle, Volume 54, Issue 10, 2007,
  page B16 Washington, D.C
• Sonia Payes, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, MacMillan Publishers,
  Australia, 2007, pp. 260-265
•  Nikos Papastergiadis , Spatial Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday, Rivers Oram
  Press, London. 2006, p. 104-107
•  Susan McCulloch, The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The
  Meigunyah Press and Aus Art Editions, 2006, pp. 754-5, p.776
•  Martha Langford, ‘Mirroring Ourselves, Recasting Otherness, ‘After Alice: Angela
  Grossman and Polixeni Papapetrou’, Image and Imagination, ed. Martha
  Langford, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2005, p. 2, 75-80
•  Kendrah Morgan, ‘Riddles that have no answers’, p. 35, The Plot Thickens:
  Narratives in Australian Art, exh. cat., Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004
• Anne Marsh, The Child and the Archive, The Darkroom: Photography and the
  Theatre of Desire, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 249-259 and illus. figs.65-68)

Books (selection)

•  Naomi Rosenblum, A History of Women Photographers, Abbeville Press, New York, 2010
•  Hijacked 2, Big City Press, Perth, 2010
•  Anne Marsh, Australian Photography and Photographers, MacMillan Publishers, Australia, 2009
•  Glenis Israel, Artwise Contemporary 2, Jacaranda, John Whiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, Milton,
  Qld, 2009, pp.43-50
•  Anne Higonnet, Rachel Lafo, Kate Dempsey (ed.), Presumed Innocence: Photographic
  Perspectives of Children, exh. cat., De Cordova Museum,Massachusetts, 2008,pp.
•  Adrian Martin, ‘Polixeni Papapetrou’, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists,
  MacMillan Publishers, Australia, 2007

Public Collections

• Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
• Art Centre, Melbourne
• Artbank, Sydney
• Austcorp Group, Sydney
• Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
• Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
• Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
• BHP Billiton, Melbourne,
• Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, Australia
• Corrigan Collection, Sydney
• Edith Cowan University, Perth
• Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
• Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
• Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
• Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
• LaTrobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
• Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
• Murdoch University, Perth
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• National Library of Australia, Canberra
• Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria Wesfarmers Art Collection, Perth