EDUCATION
1999 – 2000 Masters in Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
1983 – 1985 Diploma in Graphic Design, Victoria College, Melbourne
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Franchise, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
The Misery of Philosophy, Curro Y Poncho, Guadalajara, Mexico
The Philosophy of Misery, Yautepec, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 Bad Scene, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Cover Ups, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
New Work, ISCP, New York
Infinity Land, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Paradise Slaves, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
Detritus, Dudespace Gallery, Melbourne
Bring me the head of Richard Wagner, Passenger at BUS, Melbourne
No Fun, The Cage, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2004 The Other Hell, MIR 11, Melbourne
2003 The Spectre Smitten, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Dirt, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
F.T.W, 24 Seven, Melbourne
2002 Le Grand Grimoire, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
Graveyard Boys and Cemetery Girls, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne
2001 Demonaz Doom Occulta, First Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne
Thirteen, Linden Art Centre, Melbourne
2000 Metal Theory, First Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melbourne
Bad blood, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1999 The Workshop of Filthy Creation, Gossard Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne
Domestic Hardcore, Citylights 2000, Melbourne
1998 Yuk, Museum of Dirt, Melbourne
1997 Creep, Installation, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
1995 Sensorium, West space Gallery, Melbourne
1994 horor vacui, Microscope Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Endism, 24 HR Art, Darwin, Northern Territorys
Monanism, The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania
2010 Print Resolution, Centre of Contemporary Photography Booth, Melbourne Art Fair
Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Death be kind, Melbourne
Omega, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Autumn Masterpieces, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2009 Welcome to the Death Show,Parramatta Artists Studios, New South Wales
Problem Solving : Espress Yourself, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
Bad Moon Rising 4, Galerie Sans Titre, Brussels, Belgium
Uncle Chop Chop, EMBASSY, Edinburgh, UK
+/-, Monash Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield
Hell is other people, Inflight, Hobart, Tasmania
Dark Liaisons, 24 hr Art, Darwin
Enviroments, Project Space/Spare Room Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
The Last Session, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Cock and Bull, Curators: Vikki McInnes & Kate Daw, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian
College of the Arts, Melbourne
Bad Moon Rising 3, Curator: Jan Van Woensel & Jessica Silverman, Boots Contemporary,
St Louis, MA, USA
2008 Life Death Afterlife, Curator: Mark Feary, Silvershot Gallery, Melbourne
Bad Moon Rising (special), Curator: Jan Van Woensel, ISCP, New York
Neo Goth – Back in Black, Curator: Alison Kubler, University of Queensland Art Museum,
Brisbane
Revolving Doors, Curators: Jarrod & Tara Rawlins, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Relentless Optimism, Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
Lane Cormick & Tony Garifalakis, Occular Lab, Melbourne
2006 Zoo Art Fair 2006, Bureau Gallery, London, UK
Silenzi, Curators: Natalie King & Giovanna Zabotti, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy
printROOM, Curator: Karin de Jong, Bureau Gallery, Manchester, UK
Family first, Curator, Mark Feary, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2005 Family first, Curator: Mark Feary, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
The Beast with three Backs, RMIT Project space, Melbourne
Six orbits around the blue moon, Curator: Nadine Christensen, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
Drops in the ocean, Curator: Ewoud Van Rjin, Het Wilde Weten (ROOM), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Magic, Curator: Andrea Gilbert, Vamiali’s gallery, Athens, Greece
Merde on the dancefloor, Curator: Mathew Griffin. MIR 11, Melbourne
Portable model of, Curator, Tristian Koenig, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2004 Frequent See, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Wall candy, Curator: Greg Deftereos, Conical Gallery, Melbourne
Posted, MOP Gallery, Sydney
2002 1st Floor final exhibition, Curator David Rozetsky, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Dredder than dredd, Citylights, Hosier lane, Melbourne
La peau parle, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec City, Canada
Only the Lonely, Curator: Clare Firth Smith, BLOCK, Sydney
2001 Group show, Tobey Fine Art, NYC, New York, USA
2000 Spooky,Curator David O Hallaran, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
1999 SKIN,Curator Andrea Gilbert, Deste Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
The Order of Things, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Flatliners, Curator Natasha Johns Messenger, Level 11, Melbourne
1996 X3 (In Parenthesis) Gallery Odyssea Elytis, Athens
Aerphost, Australian International Art Survey, The Debtor's Prison, Dublin
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Ashley Crawford, Doomsday Prophet, Australian Art Collector Issue 52
Olivia Poloni, Omega, UN Magazine Issue 4.1
Fayen Devie, Blackout, Bad Scene – exhibition Text
Fayen Devie, End Times, Omega exhibition catalogue
2009 Mark Feary, Cover Ups – Tony Garifalakis, Art World Issue 7, Feb - March
Vikki McInnes ( Ed), Bureau, University of Melbourne Press
2008 Matthew Ladd, Bad Moon Rising, White Hot Magazine
Penny Modra, Infinity Land, Preview, The Age, February 24 2008
Alison Kubler, Ed, Neo Goth – Back in Black, Exhibition Catalogue
Rosemary Sorensen, How death becomes you, The Australian, September 1st 2008
Ashley Crawford, Gothic Candour, Art Monthly Australia, #216, 2008
Jo Higgins, 50 Most Collectible Artists, Australian Art Collector Issue 43
2007 Vikki McInnes, Near Death Happiness, Relentless Optimism catalogue
Ashley Crawford,Tony Garifalakis, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts # 65, 2007
Edward Colless, Smart Art – Tony Garifalakis, Australian Art Collector, Issue 41
2006 Rachel Howe, The Endtimes Are Always Near, Paradise Slaves flyer, December.
Ashley Crawford, Lost in Translation, Art Monthly, August 2006
Irene Gerogianni, Magic, Contemporary visual arts, Issue # 78, UK
S. Brent Plate, Blasphemy: art that offends, Black Dog Publications, UK
John Russel, Ed, Frozen Tears III, ARTicle Press, UK
Lisa Benson, Is it possible to think straight while orbiting?, Natural Selection # 5
2005 Tristian Koenig, Family First, Eyeline contemporary visual arts #58
Lyndal Walker, Exhibiting a death wish, Is Not Magazine Issue# 4
Mark Feary, As I am so thou shalt be, catalogue essay
Ted Gott, Catalogue essay, The Beast with three backs
Phip Murray, We are all going to die, UN magazine Issue# 5
Charlotte Day, A short ride in a fast machine: Gertrude contemporary art spaces
Ashley Crawford, Long live the tent embassy, The Age, July 30
Brigid Magner, Merde on the dance floor, Natural Selection, Issue#4
Tristian Koenig, A Portable Model of, Exhibition catalogue
Din Heagney, Family First, Diary of an Art Pimp, June
Bianca Hester, Beast with Three Backs, SPEECH (Internet Publication) August
Tony Garifalakis, Ruin of Empires, Artist Book,
Bela Lugosi’s Dead, The Art Life, (Internet Publication) June
2004 Ashley Crawford, Tony Garifalakis, The Other Hell, The Age, October10
Chris Lee, Death becomes them, Black Book magazine, No 34, Fall, NY, USA
2003 Ted Gott, Dirt, Exhibition catalogue
2001 Greg Deftereos, Death culture, Exhibition catalogue
Tony Garifalakis, Thirteen, Exhibition catalogue
1999 Andrea Gilbert, Tabula Nuda, Exhibition catalogue SKIN
Tony Garifalakis & Irene Hanenbergh, R.I.P. Artistbook
1997 Annie Mulroney, mnemosyne, or do humans dream in negative strips?
Eyeline contemporary visual arts, # 37
Tony Garifalakis, Glue # 6
Suzanne Spunner, Dumped by the next wave and still standing, Art monthly, July
Greg Deftereos, exhibition catalogue, mnemosyne, or do humans dream in negative sstrips?
1996 Marianne Lovett, Aerphost, CIRCA Art Magazine, #78
Greg Pryor, Sensorium, dialogue, No.5
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011 Studio Residency, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 International Export and Touring grant, Arts Victoria
2008 Studio Residency, ISCP, New York, Australia Council for the Arts
2007 Studio Residency, The Cage, Victorian college of the Arts, Melbourne
Studio Residency, Passenger at Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Studio Residency, Chiesa di San Leone XI, Venice, Italy
2004 International Export and Touring grant, Arts Victoria
2000 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, NAVA.
Arts 21 International Touring Grant, State Government of Victoria.
1997 Studio Residency, Busqueda Box Studios, Dublin, Ireland
1996 Arts 21 International Touring Grant, State Government of Victoria.
1995 Artist Grant, Australian High Commission.
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Museum of Old and New, Tasmania
UQ Art Museum, Queensland
Artbank
Private Collections in Australia, U.K, Europe and U.S.A.