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practice 2014-ongoing
simon de boer
b. 1989 toronto, canada
currently living and working in melbourne [naarm], australia on the unceded lands of the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. This always was and is Aboriginal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.
De Boer has had projects in spaces locally and internationally including Castlemaine Art Museum and Knox Immerse, Victoria, ES Gallery and AMP Cafe in Tokyo, Vacant Space in Los Angeles, Praxis ARTSPACE, and Salad Days Gallery in Adelaide. De Boer has been selected for the Lloyd Rees Art Prize and Helpmann Academy Exhibition as well as receiving a grant through Redkite and a partial scholarship at ACSA, Adelaide for study. He also volunteers at the Heide Modern Museum of Art (Victoria), and recently has completed a Masters of Fine Arts (with distinction) at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia.
curriculum vitae:
SELECTED SOLO
2023
A telescope pointed at time, Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne
2022
Personal Histories, Praxis ARTSPACE, Adelaide
2017
Sowing Seeds, Unknown Space, Los Angeles
Sowing Seeds, ES Gallery, Tokyo
2016
Dating for Dinner, Praxis ARTSPACE, Adelaide
2014
Wine, Salad Days Gallery, Adelaide
SELECTED DUO
2021
Knox Immerse, site specific installation festival
with Matthew Fung for Marshall Arts Club Collective
2018
Ritual (Zine) limited book launch, AMP Cafe, Tokyo
2017
Neon Light // Skin (W/ Alvin Daughtery), AMP Cafe, Tokyo
SELECTED GROUP
2021
MFA Graduate Show, RMIT
Melbourne
2020
Bush Fire Fundraiser Exhibition, Collective Haunt Gallery, Adelaide
2019
Wild Goose Chase, Floating Goose Studios, Adelaide
2015
Since I Left Home, Aquvii, Tokyo
2014
Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
Tiny Universes, Tooth and Nail, Adelaide
2013
Menagerie, Urban Cow Studio, Adelaide
2012
Tooth and Nail One Year Anniversary, Tooth and Nail, Adelaide
Helpmann Academy Graduate
SELECTED AWARDS/GRANTS
2011
Selected Helpmann Academy Exhibition
2009
Redkite Foundation Grant Australia
2007
Adelaide Central School of Art Tuition Scholarship Adelaide, Australia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023
Art Technician, Carey Grammar School (Kew) Melbourne, Australia
2020-ongoing
Volunteer, Heide Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne)
2020-2022
Art Technician, Firbank Grammar School (Brighton)
2016-2018
Writer, TOKYO ART BEAT - A Tokyo based Visual Arts review website & blog
2016-2018
Art assistant at AOBA International School - Nerima, Tokyo
Artist in residence (Artist talks & three week workshop at Golden Grove High school,
Adelaide)
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