JAMES DODD
Born South Australia 1977
Lives and works in Adelaide
EDUCATION
2008 Master of Visual Arts, University of South Australia
1999 Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours, University of South Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Paradisiac, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Sunset Dreaming, CACSA Project Space, Adelaide
2008 Blue Dwelling, Balfours Pie Factory, Adelaide
2007 SPEAKEASY, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2007 WERD, Inflight Gallery, Hobart
2006 James Dodd, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Mo Destiny, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
2005 Something Metal Inside of Me, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
2005 Of Legend and Murder, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Of Legend and Murder, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2004 Scab, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
2004 Public Property, The Farm, Brisbane
2003 Occupied Territory, GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Cryptophilistinism, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2009 Road Movies, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide
2008 Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008 New: Selected Recent Acquisitions, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
2008 Palmageddon, Felt space, Adelaide
2008 Underbelly, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Cans Festival, London
2008 Amaze Festival, St Niklaas, Belgium
2007 Rich Text, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Urban Skins, Leongatha Regional Gallery
2005 Blacklab Gallery, Digmeout, Osaka, Japan
2005 Half Life, Kings ARI, Melbourne & Inflight, Hobart
2005 Paper Politics, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle
2004 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2004 Eureka Revisited, Travelling exhibition, Ballart Fine Art Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra & State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2004 Hang 12, Clean Ocean Fundraiser, Melbourne, Sorrento, Sydney
2004 City Views, Museum of Brisbane
2004 Australia’s 50 most uncollectible artists, Next Wave print project
2004 The Revenge Show, Downtown, Adelaide
2003 Feedback, Monash Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2003 Neocontre, SOOB Central, Brisbane
2002 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2002 Die Cast, High St Project, Christchurch, New Zealand
2002 Fantasia, 220 Hindley St, Adeliade
2001 Gleam, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2001 Cool in the face of certain disaster, CACSA Project Space, Adelaide
2001 Office of Utopic Procedures, Westspace, Melbourne
2000 endzone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2000 Gleam, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2000 Wide Eyed, Contemporary Art Centre of S.A., Adelaide
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2008 National Travel Award for Post Graduate Research, University of South Australia
Arts South Australia Development and Presentation Grant
Helpmann Academy Presentation Grant
2007 Arts South Australia Professional Development Grant
2003 Gunnery Residency, Sydney
Pat Corrigan Artists Grant
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 Council Member, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Visual Arts Awards judging panel member, Adelaide Fringe Festival
Helpmann Academy Mentor
Guest Editor, Filter Magazine, ANAT
Panel Speaker, Artists Week, Adelaide Festival
2007 Council Member, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2006 Board Member & Administrator, Kings ARI, Melbourne
Panel Speaker, ARI Workshops, Artist’s Week, Adelaide Festival
Forums Coordinator, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2005 Panel Speaker, Melbourne Stencil Festival
Board Member, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2004 Guest speaker, National Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2003 Co-founder, Early Artist run space, Melbourne
2002 Curator, Die Cast, High St Project, Christchurch, New Zealand
Council Member, Contemporary Art Centre of S.A.
2001 Curator, Cool in the face of certain disaster, CACSA, Adelaide
Co-founder and curator, shop_70, Artist run space, Adelaide
2000 Council Member, Contemporary Art Centre of S.A.
COLLECTIONS
University of Queensland Art Museum
National Gallery of Australia
Australian National Maritime Museum
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2007 Uncommissioned Art, Christine Dew, Melbourne University Publishing
J Arts, JJJ radio
2006 Street Art Uncut, Matthew Lunn, Craftsman House
Sellebrity of Infamy, Nylon, January 06
2005 Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne, Jake Smallman, Mark Batty Publisher
Rash (film), Nicholas Hansen, Mutiny Media
Thrash and Treasure, Not Only Black & White, September 05
Of Legend & Murder, Nicholas Thompson, Machine (cover & article), 1.1
James Dodd, Lisa Greenaway, www.theprogram.net.au,
2005 The Deep End, Radio National
2004 You are here, Tristan Manco & Matthew Fox, Maisonneuve, Issue 10
Street Logos, Tristan Manco, Thames and Hudson
Stencil Pirates, Josh MacPhee, Publishers Group West
Gang art stirs emotions, Carla Caruso, The Advertiser, August 10
Place Made – Fifth Australian Print Symposium, Cliff Burt, Artlink, vol 24, 2
Interview with James Dodd, Local Art, Issue 11, May
Mondo Thingo , ABC TV
2003 Smart Art, Australian Art Collector, Mark Gomes, October
Walk the Blanks, The Sydney Morning Herald, Alexa Moses, September 20
In the Frame, The Sun Herald, Tim Benzie, September 14
Pop art ethos comeback, The Age, James Norman, July 1
War, terror and refugees linked to art, The Age, Megan Backhouse,
The Morning Show, Channel 9
2002 Eyeline, Chris Chapman, no 50
Attention Please, Harper’s Bazaar, Lucinda Strahan, November
Powder Burns, Not Only Black & White, Pat Nourse, Issue 63
2002 Art for a post-critical era, Australian Art Collector, No. 22
You Gots to Chill, Chris Chapman, Broadsheet, vol 31, no 1
Beau Geste, Jim Moss, Broadsheet, vol 31, no 1
2001 It’s hip to be flat, Emma Bugden, Log Illustrated, no 14, Spring
Hip Hop Poets/ Paint it Black, Chris Chapman, Braodsheet, vol 30, no 1
2000 gleam…, Maria Bilske, Eyeline, Summer
In the eye of the beholder, Wendy Walker, The Advertiser, October 27
Cabbalism in three easy lessons, John Neylon, The Adelaide Review, 209