CHRISTOPHER LANGTON
BORN 1954, Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
EDUCATION
1991-92 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts
1975-77 Diploma of Arts, Bendigo College of Advanced Education
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Nocturnal Missions, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2007 Pliant, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Solid Air, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2003 PrOn, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Winona's Wonderland, Victoria Gardens, Melbourne
2002 Buoys, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2000 Spinout, Sydney Festival, QVB & The Strand Arcade, Sydney
1999 Puffed Up, Australian High Commission, Singapore
1998 Pneumatic, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
1997 XLR8, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Transmission, The Basement Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Caution: This is not a Lifesaving Device, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1995 Sugar the Pill, The Basement Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Souvenir, The Basement Project, Melbourne
2002 Buoys, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
COLLABORATIONS/JOINT PROJECTS
2003 Premonition, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Modified Terrain, IMA, Brisbane
2000 Reeds, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
2000 Plastic Life, Level 2 Project Space, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1996 Tour de Force, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Swoon, Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2003 This was the Future...Australian Sculpture of the 50's,60's & 70's + Today, Heide Museum, Melbourne
Fair Game, Response Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Experimenta House of Tomorrow, Black Box, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Inflatable Art, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland
2002 Crime Scenes, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Botanica, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, NZ
Wallflower, National Gallery on Russell, Melbourne
Prime, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Our Place, Issues of Identity in Recent Australian Art, Palazzo Vaj, Prato, Italy
Botanica, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
2000 All Creatures Great and Small, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
Facsimile, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
The persistance of Pop, Touring Regional Victoria
1999 Facsimile, LAC Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
Volume and Form, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The persistence of Pop, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Sets and Series, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Osaka Triennale, Osaka Contemporary Art Centre, Osaka
Recent Painting, Prints and Sculpture from Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
All this and Heaven too, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide
Hype, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1997 Wild Kingdom, IMA, Brisbane
Multiplication: The multiple object in art, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Deacons Graham & James / Arts 21 Award, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne
World Without End, St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
Rapport: 8 artists form Singapore and Australia, Canberra School of Art Gallery & IMA, Brisbane
The Andy Factor, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Animal Instincts, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide
Nothing Natural, Plimsoll Gallery, Uni of Tasmania, Hobart
1996 Basement, Teststrip, Auckland, NZ
Short, Sharp and Very Current, Lonsdale Street Power Station, Melbourne
Sculpture 3, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne
The Field, 5th Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Ruins in Reverse, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Lovers, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Decadence, Gertrude St, Melbourne
Steam, Stop 22, Melbourne
Past its Shelf Life, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
Blow Up, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
Continuum and Contrast, McClelland Gallery, Victoria
1994 Bad toys, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Humanetics, New Media Network, Melbourne
Two Weeks, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Critical Mass, Arts Victoria Gallery, Melbourne
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Sculpture for Heidelberg, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne
AWARDS & GRANTS
2002 Cinemedia Digital Media Fund
2001 Australia Council Studio Residency (New York)
2000 Arts Victoria Project Grant
1998 Arts Victoria Travel Grant
1997 Australia Council New Work Grant
1996 Arts Victoria Project Grant
1992 Mr & Mrs Peter McLennan Award (VCA)
1991 Sir Russel Drysdale Memorial Prize (VCA)
COLLECTIONS
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic
Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura, Vic
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA COVERAGE
Robert Nelson, ‘A Look Back at the Future’, The Age, 12 November 2003
Zara Stanhope, All the things you are, (catalogue),Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2003
Anonda Bell, Fair Game(catalogue),National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003
Sara Givins, ‘Functional Fantasy’ (inside) interior review, issue 29, 2003
Gabriella Coslovich, ‘Inflatable object of desire’, The Age, 19 July 2003
Philip Brophy, Oooh, you’re hot (catalogue), Tolarno Galleries, 2003
Zara Stanhope, Everlasting (catalogue), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2003
Mark Feary, Beach Buoys, Beach Girls (catalogue), Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2002
Mark Feary, Modified Terrian (catalogue), IMA, Brisbane 2002
Benjamin Genocchio, 'Reality check via plastic bimbo', Weekend Australian, 9 August 2000
Jacqueline Millner, Plastic Life, (catalogue), AGNSW Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, NSW
Courtney Kidd, 'Getting away with it', Sydney Morning Herald, 16 January 2000
Stuart Koop, 'Commodity Realism', ART & TEXT # 58 1999
Peter Timms, 'Pop reveals its simple powers of persistence', The Age, 24 March 1999
Catherine Caines, 'Blow Jobs', Australian Style', Issue 29 1998/99
Cliff Burtt, 'An inflated look at ourselves', Herald Sun, 15 August 1998
Damien Woolnough, 'Works that are air apparent', Herald Sun, 7 August 1998
Jove Winter, West Side Observer, 5 June 1998
David Bromfield, 'Options for body and soul', The West Australian, 16 May 1998
Robert Schubert, 'Road Kill', All this and Heaven too (catalogue)Adelaide Biennial of
Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1998
Christopher Chapman, 'the real deal–simulated reality in contemporary Australian art', ART IN AUSTRALIA, Vol 35 No.3 1998
Chris Gregory, 'PVC Satire', MESH, Issue # 11, 1997
Juliette Peers, 'Three Fragments of an Aberrant Narrative of Australian Identity', Artlink, Vol 17 No 3, 1997
Anna Clabburn, 'Producing for masses', Herald Sun, 29 September 1997
Helen Stuckey, 'I Luv Christopher Langton, Globe E-Journal, Issue 5, 1997
Jorge Lopez, 'The Andy Factor', Globe E-Journal, issue 5, 1997
Esther Pierini, 'Awe Inspiring', Broadsheet, Vol 26, No 3, Spring 1997
Myfanwy Warhurst, 'Shimmer in the cathederal', The Age, 20 June 1997
Rosemary Crumlin, World without End(catalogue), St. Patrick's Cathederal, Melbourne, 1997
Rebecca Lancashire, 'Just blowing up pop culture', The Age, 21 May 1997
Alison Barclay, 'Power Pop Mix', Herald Sun, 29 April 1997
Clare Williamson, The Andy Factor (catalogue), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1997
Lara Travis, Like #2 1997
Robert Schubert, ART & TEXT #56 1997
Robert Nelson, The Age, 1 January 1997
Robert Nelson, The Age, 9 October 1996
Stephen O’Connell, Tour de Force (catalogue), 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne, 1996
Robert Rooney, The Australian, 4 October 1996
Robert Schubert, ART & TEXT #55 1996
Robert Nelson, The Age, Melbourne, 25 September 1996
Maria Prerauer, The Bulletin, 24 September 1996
Linda Sproul, In Search of a Continuum, Artlink, Vol 16 No 2&3 Winter 1996
Susie Wong, The Straits Times, 12 June 1996
Tay Swee Lin & Natalie King, Rapport (catalogue), Singapore Art Museum, Singapore and Monash University Gallery, Melbourne,1996
Helen Stuckey, Nothing Natural (catalogue), The Basement Gallery, Melbourne, 1996
Robert Nelson, The Age, Melbourne 18 May 1996
Robert Rooney, The Australian, Melbourne 10 May 1996
Susan Fereday, Ruins in Reverse (catalogue), RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 1996
Susan McCulloch, Asian Art News, Vol 6 No 2 March/April 1996
Kevin Wilson, Phantasmagoria (catalogue), Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, 1996
Juliana Engberg, Lovers (catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 1995
Jill Bennett, Blow Up, ART &TEXT #52 1995
Marie Sierra-Hughes, Herald Sun, Melbourne 27 Sept 1995
Patricia Piccinini, Sugar the pill (catalogue), The Basemant Gallery, Melbourne, 1995
Robert Nelson, The Age, Melbourne, 7 June 1995
Ken Scarlett, Continuum and Contrast (catalogue),McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Vic. 1995
Roger Taylor, ‘Contemporary Voices’ Asian Art News, Vol 5 No 3 May/June 1995
Natalie King, Blowup (catalogue), Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, 1995
Robert Nelson, 'Humour is a lifesaving device', The Age, Melbourne 9 May 1995
Chris Gregory, Caution this is not a lifesaving device (catalogue), Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 1995
Joanne Finkelstein, ‘Bad toys r us’ Art Monthly Australia, # 77, March 1995
Marcus O’Donnell, Melbourne Star Observer, Melbourne, 3 Febuary 1995
Robert Nelson, The Age, Melbourne, 25 January 1995
Marie Sierra-Hughes, Herald Sun, Melbourne, 21 Dec 1994
Natalie King, bad toys (catalogue), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1994
Rachel Gibson, The Age, Melbourne, 16 Dec 1994
Marie Sierra-Hughes, Herald Sun, Melbourne, 14 Dec 1994
Anne Marsh, Herald Sun, Melbourne, 20 Sept 1994
Chris Gregory, Detoxification Zone (catalogue), The Basement Project, Melbourne, 1994
Patricia Piccinini, Plastiche (catalogue), The Basement Project, Melbourne, 1994
Christopher Heathcote, 'Press the pedal for inflating love hearts’, The Age, Melbourne 4 May 1994
Helen Stuckey, Souvenir, 'Agenda', #36 May 1994
Sonia Harford, The Age, Melbourne 9 April 1994
Chris Gregory, Souvenir (catalogue), The Basement Project, Melbourne, 1994
Natalie King, Disparities (catalogue), The University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne, 1993
Jason Smith, The Forests of Ourselves (catalogue), An independent project associated with the Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, 1993
Hilary Ericksen, Objects of Desire (catalogue), Panorama Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1992