Jayne Dyer
Education
1994 MFA Painting (Research), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1989 BFA (Honors), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
Sharpness, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Last things, Bury Art Museum, England (In collaboration with Wayne Warren)
2015
Personal Structures – Crossing Borders, Palazzo Mora, 56th Venice Biennale, European Cultural Centre/Global Art Affairs Foundation, Holland/PITT Projects, England (In collaboration with Wayne Warren)
2013
Just suppose… Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2012
Blood Sport, Art Vault, Mildura, Australia
EVER EVER, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
The Butterfly Effect: Istanbul ARTBosphorus Art Fair, Istanbul
City of Dreams, ARTHK12, Asia One – China Art Projects, Hong Kong
2011
The Butterfly Effect: Hong Kong, ART HK 11 Art Fair, Hong Kong (Public Project)
And then we dream, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2010
Talking In Tongues, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Utopia: post-Eden, Today Art Museum, Beijing
The Butterfly Room, Chengchi University,Taiwan (funded by Fubon Art Foundation)
The Butterfly Effect: Taiwan Zhong Xiao Dun Hua & Australian Commerce and Industry Office Gallery (funded by Fubon Art Foundation)
2009
The Book Project: Spill Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
The Book Project: Spill Korea, Seoul International Print Photo Art Fair, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul
2008
Black Friday TAV, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
Black Friday, Grass Mountain Village, Taiwan
The Reading Room, Uber Gallery, Melbourne
White Work, King St Gallery on William, Sydney
2007
WORDSFORPICTURES, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Spare Room, Elizabeth Bay House Museum, Sydney
2006
Stutter, Uber Gallery, Melbourne
One Reading, Sydney Writers Festival Launch, Royal Mint, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney
The Reading, Room Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney
2005
Shadowlands, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Greyspace, Yoshi Kono Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2003
Greyspace, Gallery SP, Sydney
2002
Site-lines, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Site, Gallery SP, Sydney
Mapping the Sky, Gallery SP, Sydney
2000
Mapping the Sky, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
1999
Site: Post Paris, Span Galleries, Melbourne
1998
Critical Influence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney
1997
Site, George Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Site, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Chien Lie Hall, Beijing
1995
Site, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre Regional Gallery, Australia
1994
Heat, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
Heat, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
1992
Site, Gore St Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Conceiving Space, Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka, 4th Edition, curated by Alnoor Mitha. Opening 24 November Pulse Art Fair, New York, represented by PITT Projects, England
2015
Book in Time, JCCAC L0 Gallery, Hong Kong
TEXTfestschrift, Bury Art Museum, England
2014
The Language of Lists, Bury Art Museum, Bury, Manchester
Outside Reading, JCCAC L0 Gallery, Hong Kong
Peach Blossom Spring: Cacotopia, Kui Yuan Gallery, Guangzhou
Dallas Art Fair, PITT Projects, England
India Art Fair, Gallery Espace, New Delhi & TAG Fine Arts, London
2013
Unbound, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney
Seeing Red, Meijiang Art Center, Tianjin, China
The Trophy Room, India Art Fair, New Delhi & TAG Fine Arts, London
House of Gold, Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire, England
Ger to Ger, The National Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2012
The protest that never ends ARTISTERIUM 5 / 2012, International Contemporary Art vent, Tbilisi, Georgia
Daydreaming with…. The Hong Kong Edition, Artistree, Hong Kong
Cloud Cities, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
Animal Instinct, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2011
MEMORYspace & READINGroom, URS27 Urban Regeneration Series, Taipei
Sounds of Peace, ROC Centennial Peace Day, Kinmen Peace Memorial Park, Kinmen Island, Taiwan e-Co.design – Sunhoo Creativity and Innovation Festival Hangzhou, Hangzhou, China
My Australia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Found LOST, Osage Gallery, Beijing
One World One Home, Urumqi Museum, China (in conjunction with the China Eurasia Expo)
2010
Constructed Landscapes, ME Photo Gallery, Beijing
Photoshow, Keusman Gallery, Seoul
PostEDEN, with Tony Scott, Lindy Lee and Wayne Warren (UK), Today Art Museum, Beijing
(Australian) Diversity, Crossovers, Sunshine International Art Museum, 6th International Songzhuang Art Festival, Beijing
Object(ive), Front Line Gallery, Shanghai
2009
The Recycled Library, Art Space, Mackay (Touring Australia 2009-10)
Luminous Dark, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
Tempting God, The Depot Gallery, Sydney
Zibo International Art Exhibition, Zibo Museum, China
Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair, Seoul
2008
Songzhuang Dreamtime, China and Australia, Song Zhuang Museum, Beijing
Luminous Dark, Bleitreu Gallery, Berlin
China Art Projects Launch, Two Lines Space, Beijing
Compositions, King St Gallery on William, Sydney
2007
Process –Journey, toured Red Gate Gallery at the Watchtower and Australian Embassy, Beijing
Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, Sino HK Art Project Space, Hong Kong & regional Australia
Translucent Text, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Ten Years of Images, Too Art Gallery, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
Artefact, City Museum at Old Treasury, Melbourne
2006
Praise of Shadows, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Art Interchange, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Hongik University, Seoul; & National Art School, Sydney
Twenty/20 Vision, Parliament House, Sydney
Pataphysical Pending Machine, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Pataphysical Pending Machine, Liverpool Regional Museum, Liverpool
The Delmar Codex, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
Shanghai/Australia, Jingan Cultural Exhibition Centre, Shanghai
The Blake Prize National Art School Gallery, Sydney (Toured: New South Wales, Australia)
2005
Altitude, Shepparton Regional Gallery, Australia
Annual, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
Small, Offerings Cross Art Projects, Sydney
World Year in Physics Art Prize, Macquarie University Gallery, Australia
2004
Drawing Dust, Maroondah Regional Gallery, Melbourne
Altitude Billboard, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2003
Drawing Dust, Span Galleries, Melbourne & Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
AltitudeI, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Blake Prize, Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney (Toured: Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, Australia & ACU National, Sydney)
2002
2002 – The Year in Art, National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Dialogue with the Watchtower, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane (Toured: Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne; Red Gate Gallery, Beijing)
Hobart Art Prize 2002, Hobart
2001
Australian Paper Art Awards 2001, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne & UTS Gallery, Sydney
A Studio in Paris: Australian artists at the Cite, National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
31st Alice Prize, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Australia
The Hutchins Art Prize 2001, The Long Gallery, Hobart
Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, Australia
Landscape, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra
2000
London Art Fair, London
Half Metre Square, Cellblock, National Art School, Sydney
Redlands Westpac Prize Mosman Regional Gallery, Sydney
Big Small, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
1999
Kunst Rai Art Fair, Amsterdam, rep. Akky Von Ogtrop Fine Art, Sydney
Annual, Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris
1998
Skin Culture, George Gallery, Melbourne (Toured: John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong; La Salle Gallery, Singapore; Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney)
Transformations, Storey Hall, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Co-Existence, toured Hogarth Galleries, Sydney; Wollongong University, New South Wales
Pas D’Accrochage En Publique National Art School Cellblock Gallery
1997
Affinities – Australian and Korean artists interact, Tin Sheds, Sydney (Toured: Watt Space, Newcastle University & Canberra School of Art; Australia; Walker Hill Gallery, Seoul)
Field of Dreams, message sticks for native title, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney & Parliament House, Canberra
Works on Paper, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
1996
Oblique Travellers, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne (Toured: Annandale Galleries, Sydney; Australian Embassy, Beijing; Galerie Boomerang, Amsterdam)
The London Artists 96 Book Fair Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London
World Money Fax Art, Shanghai Hua Shan Art School Gallery, China
Continuum, National Art School, Sydney
Celebrate Australia, China Gallery, Hong Kong
1995
Australia Felix, Festival, Benalla, Australia
Past Shelf Life, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1994
China Art Expo, Guangzhou, China
8 Australian Artists, Red Gate at Song He Tang, Beijing
Artomatch, Gallery Artomat vending machine project, ACAF 4, Australia
Site, Museum of Natural History, Launceston, Australia
ACAF 4, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1993
Threads, McClelland Regional Gallery, Langwarrin, Australia
Miniatures, Melbourne University, Melbourne
Recent Paintings and Drawings, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
1990
Mini Print International 10, Cadaques, Spain Art Workz Two, Melbourne
1989
Art Workz One, Melbourne, Australia Crafts Council of the Northern Territory Gallery, Darwin, Australia
Abdullah Conn Prize, RMIT, Melbourne
1988
Mini Print International 8, Cadaques, Spain
1987
International Graphics Art Foundation Miniature Print Biennial, Connecticut and NY, USA
St Kilda Arts Festival, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Biennial Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Australia
Projects & Commissions
2014
New Delhi, India, private commission
Crown Manilla, Phillipines
2013
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, private commission
Le Meridian, Zhengzhou, China
Bury Art Museum, Manchester, England
2012
Crown Metropol Burswood, Perth (10 storey atrium)
Four Seasons, Beijing (20 storey atrium)
2011
Commission, Swire City Plaza Bridge Link, Hong Kong
Commission, Prudential Hotel, Hong Kong
2010
Fubon Art Foundation Very Fun Park event July-September
Commission, Swire East Hotel, Hong Kong Island
Commission, Mandarin Oriental, Macau
2009
Commission, K11, Art Mall, New World Development, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Commission, Crown Metropol Hotel, Melbourne
2007–6
Commission, Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney Theatre, stage design
2006
Commission, Sydney Writers Festival Launch, Sydney
2003–4
Sitework: Hong Kong, documentation street project in China
1995
Sitework: Critical Distance, documentation artwork in public locations in Australia
1994
Crossovers Site(s) projects and symposium, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Selected Media & Publications
2013
Whitney Fitzsimmons, correspondent, ABC TV Arts, 2:8
‘Australian artists on Asia’, Artlink, 33:1
Katherine Brooks, ‘India Art Fair: 10 Artists To Watch Out For At The New Delhi Event’, Huffpost Arts and Culture, The Huffington Post, 5:2
Gayatri Rangachari Shah, ‘Highlights of the India Art Fair’, The New York Times 6:2
Pallavi Pundir, ‘Crowd Magnets’, The Indian Express, 2/2
Subuhi Parvez, ‘Is 3D art the next big thing in Indian art space?’ Hindustan Times, 5:2
2012
Maurice O’Riordan, ‘Afterglow: Jayne Dyer’s City of Dreams’, Art Monthly Australia, May
ArtBosphorus, Star Gazetesinin, Istanbul, Turkey, 10:3
Lauren Roden, ‘Hunters in her sites’, Sunraysia Daily, 12:7
2011
Brendan Shanahan, ‘The great call of China’, The Australian, 4:6
Mark Graham, ‘Foreign Artists in China’, That’s Beijing, November
2010
Dan Rule, ‘Around the Galleries’, The Age, Saturday A2, 30/10 p. 18
Paul Flynn, ‘NOW: Jayne Dyer’ (feature), Artist Profile, Issue 13 October: 88 – 93
Lisa Power, ‘New message in an old medium’, The Age, 11/5 , p.17
Andre Cooray, ‘Madame Butterfly’, Swire In House, Hong Kong, 05/10
Mark Graham, ‘Home is where the art is’, South China Morning Post, 21/10
Post Eden, China Art Projects catalogue. Essay by Damian Smith
Fubon Art Foundation, Very Fun Park catalogue
Constructed Landscapes, China Art Projects catalogue
2009
Black Friday at Grass Mountain Village, Evening News, Public Television Service Foundation, 18/01 Jayne Dyer – Seoul International Print Photo Art Fair, China Art Projects catalogue
Kevin Tu ,interview Kuandu, CTV Evening News Report 3/9
Noel Buchan, ‘The good, the bad and the baffling’, Art Journal KdMoFA, Review, Taiwan Times, 7/10
2008
An Artist’s Diary, front cover magazine and cover story, Centered on Taipei, 12/08
Black Friday review, What’s New, Deco Magazine, Taiwan, 12/08
The Reading Room review, Vogue Living, Australia, 9/08
China Art Projects launch catalogue
Jayne Dyer, Luminous Dark CAP catalogue
Jayne Dyer 2006-2008, catalogue
Damian Smith, The Reading Room, Uber Gallery catalogue
2007
Jayne Dyer, Translucent Text China Today, New York Arts magazine, August
Elaine Yau Black, ‘Red and white’, South China Morning Post, 30/05
Jean Wright ‘Page Turner’, Belle, March issue
Process-Journey catalogue. Essays by Kelly Gellatly, Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV; Damian Smith, Curator, Maroondah Gallery, Melbourne; H. E. Dr Geoff Raby, Australian Ambassador, China
Translucent Text, catalogue
Mette Hjort & Frederick Nesta, Words for Pictures, catalogue
Jennifer Barrett & Scott Carlin, Spare Room catalogue
Spare Room’, Insites, winter 2007
Tracy Clements, ‘Three artists have their wicked way with a grand 19th century house’ review, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald 17/08
‘Artists meet history’, Wentworth Courier 18/07
2006
Robert Nelson, ‘Festivity low, quality high’, The Age 27/12
Robert Nelson, ‘On paper, a closed book’, Arts & Culture, The Age 3/05
Susan Wyndham, ‘Artistry in the Background’, Sydney Morning Herald 13/05
Art Interchange catalogue, Korean & Australian exchange exhibition
Stutter, Uber Gallery catalogue. Essay by Lesley Harding, Melbourne
Jo Higgins, ‘Picture Book’, State of the Arts online review 4/06
‘Artists at Home’, Belle, April/May p. 22
Tracey Clement, ‘Metro Picks In Praise of Shadows’, Sydney Morning Herald, 3/02
The Blake Prize 2006 catalogue
2005
Graeme Sullivan, Art Practice and Research, Sage publication, USA, 133-135
Walking the Line, exhibition catalogue
2003
Peter Hill, ‘Spectrum’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6/12
2002
Simon Rees, Review, Art & Australia, Dec
Artichoke 2SER, interview with Fran Morgan, 10/05
Sasha Grishin, ‘Little gems within a diverse group’, Canberra Times, 9/05
2001
A Studio in Paris: Australian artists at the Cite catalogue
Australian Paper Art Awards 2001 catalogue
Peter Hill, ‘Australians who made the French connection’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21/05
ABC News, interview with national arts reporter Anne Maria Nicolson, 3/05
1999
Kunst Rai Amsterdam Art Fair catalogue
Works on Paper Fair Sydney catalogue
1998
Seven Artists in Residence Jayne Dyer-Beijing, Artlink, Vol 18 No. 4: 32-33
Skin Culture – Australian Art in Hong Kong, Aust. Chamber of Commerce, October: 44-45
Anna Clabburn, ‘Private Meanings within Public Art’, The Age 17/06
Celia Ko ‘Skin Culture’, Pace Interior Magazine, Hong Kong
Birong Wang To the Wall and Back exhibition essay
Skin Culture SOCOG catalogue, Reaching the World Festival, 66
Jason Gagliardi, ‘Skin of a culture peeled away’, Sunday Morning Post, Hong Kong, 18/10
Anita Bragge ‘Skin Tight but Right’, Sun Herald, 13/06
Mary Lou Jelbart, Arts National ABC Radio, 14/06
Louise Adler, Arts Review, Radio National, 17/02
Nick Waterlow, Joanna Mendelson, Graeme Sullivan, Critical Influence catalogue
Michael Wardell, Skin/Culture catalogue
S Ainger, ‘Critical Influences’, Uniken, UNSW, No 442, p. 11, 13/02
1997
Hannah Fink, Second Contact Affinities, catalogue
1996
Sasha Grishin, ‘European Visions of the Other’, Art Monthly (December)
Peter Timms, Site catalogue, Oblique Travellers catalogue, Beijing
1995
Australia Felix catalogue; City of Hobart Art Prize catalogue
1994
Panorama, Beijing TV, December
Roger Taylor, The Art Show 3RRR, interview 4/7, Report from Beijing & Guangzhou 20/11 & 27/11
Australian Painting and Sculpture, China Art Daily 5/11
‘Meridian to Beijing’, News Briefs, Asian Art News Nov/Dec
Susan McCulloch, ‘Meridian Mounts China Mission’, The Age, 7/11
Meridian at Song He Tang catalogue, 2nd China Art Expo catalogue
Sandra Taylor, ‘Jayne Dyer in Conversation’, Interacta, March issue
1993
AIAE conference program Past Perfect: Future Tense, The Big Picture
1985
150 Victorian Women Artists, Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council/Myer Foundation/Women 15
Awards & Residencies
2013 Individual Artist Award (Achievement in Asia), Australian Federal Government, Australia
2012 Artist residency, Istanbul ARTBosphorus, Istanbul
2012 Art Vault residency, Mildura, Australia
2011 Artist residency, Taipei Culture Foundation; e-Co.design – Sunhoo, Hangzhou
2010 Artist residency, Chengchi University, Taipei; Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei
2009 Artist residency, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
2008 Asialink Residency, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2006 Artist-in-Residence, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
2005 Commonwealth of Australia public service medal (Arts & Education), Australia
2005 FONAS Studio Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2005 World Year of Physics Art Prize (3rd prize) Macquarie University, Australia
2000 National Art School Travelling Scholarship, Sydney (project Hong Kong)
1997 AGNSW Residency, Moya Dyring Studio, Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris
1995 Asialink VACB/Australia Council Residency, Beijing
1991 Residency, Verdaccio Studio, Italy, Monash University
Selected Collections
Alison Pickett, Hong Kong
Artbank, Australia
Australian Embassy, Beijing
Crown Metropol, Australia
Deakin University, Australia
Fehily Collection, Australia
K11 New World Development, Hong Kong
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Macquarie Bank, Australia
Mandarin Oriental, Macau
Maroondah Art Gallery, Australia
Monash University, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Australia
University of Melbourne, Australia
Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
Swire East, Hong Kong
Swire City Plaza, Hong Kong
Sydney Living Museums, Australia
Other Professional experience
2009 – 2010
Head of Academic Programs, International Foundation Course, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China
1997 – 2009
Head of Public Programs, National Art School (NAS), Sydney
1995 – 1996
Painting/Drawing Lecturer, NAS & University of Western Sydney, Sydney
1988–1994
Painting/Drawing Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne
1987–1993
Painting/Drawing Lecturer, RMIT, Melbourne
1984–1986
Artist/Art Education Officer, National Gallery of Victoria & Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
