SUSAN JACOBS
Born Sydney, Australia
Lives London, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Collaborative
2022 The Ants are in the Idiom Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, Australia
2018 Animal Grammar Mackintosh Lane, London UK
2016 Eleanor Duffin and Susan Jacobs Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne Australia
2015 Vessel for Mixing Metaphors Living Museum of the West, Melbourne Australia
2014 Force Work Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne Australia
2011 Half Specific / Not Half Obvious Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Australia
2010 Hard Age New Edge Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne Australia
2009 Security Illusion Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne Australia
2008 Ubiquitous Slopes Utopian Slumps, Melbourne Australia
2008 Exhausted Nature collaboration with Andrew Hazewinkel, Conical Inc. Melbourne Australia
2008 Side Effect The Narrows, Melbourne Australia
2007 For Every Solution There Is A Problem Ocular Lab, Melbourne Australia
Group Exhibitions
2021 Not Painting Cøpperfield, London UK
2021 Underpinned by the movements of freighters The Florence Trust, London UK curated by Joe Moss
2021 The Factory Project Thameside Industrial Estate, London UK curated by Recreational Grounds x Thorp Stavri
2020 When we cannot touch art is the object that passes between us An art correspondance project, curated by Melissa Ratliff and Bree Richards
2019 Slippery Sum APT Gallery, London UK
2017 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture Federation Square, Melbourne Australia
2016 Incerteza Viva : 32nd São Paulo Bienal curated by Jochen Volz, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo Brazil
2015 Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits curated by Lars Bang Larsen & Mario Pasi, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Australia
2015 The Melting Point of Reason curated by Mark Feary, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian college of the Arts, Melbourne Australia
2015 Witness curated by Marian Tubbs, Minerva, Sydney Australia
2015 Guiguis New Art Prize Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria Australia
2015 Nature/Revelation The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne Australia
2014 Octopus 14: Nothing Beside Remains curated by Tara McDowell, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Australia
2014 Deep Time TCB Art Inc. Melbourne Australia
2013 Melbourne Now National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne Australia
2013 You promised me and you said a lie to me curated by Alexie Glass Kantor, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney Australia
2012 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane Australia
2012 Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art curated by Alexie Glass and Natasha Bullock, Art Gallery of South Australia
2012 When You Drink The Water Remember The Spring Ryan Renshaw Gallery Brisbane, Australia
2011 A Condition of Change with Katie Lee and Bridie Lunney, curated by Meredith Turnbull, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne Australia
2010 Risk Potential with Katie Lee and Bridie Lunney, curated by Meredith Turnbull, DieEcke, Santiago, Chile
2010 Opening Lines curated by Emily Cormack, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Australia
2010 NEW10 The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Australia
2010 The Ecologies Project curated by Dr Kyla McFarlane and Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Australia
2009 Broken Fall with Lou Hubbard and Katie Lee, curated by Jan Bryant, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland University of Technology and Newcall Gallery, New Zealand
EDUCATION
1999 Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Art, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Australia
1995 Bachelor of Visual Art, The University of Newcastle, Australia
SELECTED GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2021 Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship (2020-2021)
2018 London Summer Intensive, Camden Arts Centre and Slade School of Art, London UK
2018 Australia Council for the Arts - Development Grant
2018 Copyright Cultural Fund - Ignite Grant
2016 ACME, London / Australia Council for the Arts International Studio Residency
2015 Creative Victoria VicArts - Development Grant
2014 Wassaic Project Artist Residency, New York, NY USA
2013 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, New Hampshire, USA
2012 QANTAS Foundation Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award
2012 Artspace Sydney, Studio Residency
2011 Arts Victoria - Development Grant
2011 Australia Council for the Arts - Skills and Arts Development Award for travel and research to 1970’s Land Art sites in South West desert regions of the USA
2010 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency, Melbourne (2010-2012)
2008 Australia Council for the Arts - New Work Grant
1999 A.N.Z Bank Visual Arts Fellowship Award - The Victorian College of the Arts
1999 VCA Postgraduate Prize - Selected by Jacques Derrida (Exhibition in conjunction with Derrida’s visit to The Victorian College of the Arts)
COLLECTIONS
Australian Centre for Synchrotron Science, Clayton Australia
Monash University Art Collection, Melbourne Australia
University of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane Australia
Victorian College of the Arts Collection, Melbourne Australia
Methodist Ladies College Art Collection, Melbourne Australia
Poster Collection, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich Switzerland
Private Collections