FORD, JUAN
Web: www.juanford.com
Born 1973, Melbourne
2001 Master of Arts (Fine Art) by Research, RMIT University, Melbourne
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2012 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist
2012 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist
2011 OMI International Arts Centre Residency, New York, New York, USA
2010 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, People's Choice Award
2010 New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2010 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist
2010 Bundanon Studio Residency, Nowra
2010 Art Vault Residency, Mildura
2009 The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist
2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist
2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, finalist
2007 City of Perth Art Award, Perth Town Hall, Perth, finalist
2007 University of Queensland National Artist’s Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, finalist
2007 The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, finalist
2006 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Open Award winner
2006 The Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra
2005 The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, finalist
2005 ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize, ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne, finalist
2004 Australia Council Studio Residency, Rome
, Italy
2004 Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, winner
2004 ABN Amro Emerging Artist Prize, Sydney, People's Choice Award
2004 Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Holding Redlich People's Choice Award
2003 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize Winner, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast
2003 The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, finalist
2003 The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, finalist
2002 Australia Council New Work Grant
2002 The Siemens Art Prize, RMIT Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, finalist
2001 Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, winner
2000 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, finalist
1998 Victorian Campus Art Prize, Melbourne, Award for Critical Merit
1996 RMIT Union Arts Grant Recipient
, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
City of Whyalla, Whyalla
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
RMIT University & RMIT Union Arts, Melbourne
Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Westin Hotel, Sydney
Private collections in Australia and overseas
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2010 Westin Hotel, Sydney
2008 Sydney University, Sydney
2008 Monash University; RMIT University, Melbourne
2007 Monash University; RMIT University, Melbourne
2005 University of Melbourne, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Juan Ford: The Instant, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2011 Make Nature Better, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2010 The Day the Machine Started, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Simple Interference, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2009 Juan Ford: Works from 2001 - 2006, 24HR Art, Northern Territory Contemporary Art Centre, Darwin
2008 A Phrenologist's Deceptions, 24hr Art, Northern Territory Contemporary Art Centre, Darwin
2008 Gravity, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Inverted World, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2007 100,000 Lux, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2006 Revelation, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2006 More is Less, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2006 More is Less, Dudespace, Melbourne
2005 Solo, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2004 The Golden Mile, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Songs from the Penumbra, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Night and Day, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Clone Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2001 AΩ; West Space Inc., Melbourne
2001 Protect me From what I Want, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Artbox Installation, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1999 The Way it Is, TCB art Inc., Melbourne
1998 Periphery, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012 Lie of the Land: New Australian Landscapes, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA
StartFragment- EndFragment- 2012 SSFA12, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2011 Trans, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
2011 SSFA11, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2011 Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2010 Outside In, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne
2010 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2010 Present Tense, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2010 Understory, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport
2010 Wynne Prize, finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2010 Imaging the Apple, AC Institute (Direct Chapel), New York, New York, USA
2010 The Shilo Project, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2010 SSFA2010, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2009 Murray Darling Palimpsest, Mildura Arts Festival 2009, Wentworth Gaol, Mildura
2009 The Space in Between - Book Project, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
2009 The Skin Show, Shifted Visual Art Space, Melbourne
2009 The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2009 Now & Then, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2009 A Natural World, Glen Eira City Gallery, Glen Eira
2009 SSFA09, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2008 Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008 Neo-Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2008 A Strange Façade, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Gippsland
2008 A4 Art, Westspace, Melbourne
2008 When You Think About Art, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2008 The Space in Between, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2008 Eye to I, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
2008 SSFA08, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2007 The Far Side of the Moon, McLelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne
2007 City of Perth Art Award, Perth Town Hall, Perth
2007 University of Queensland National Artist’s Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2007 Eye to I, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
2007 The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2007 The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2007 Apropos – Human Rights in Art, Bus 117, for the 2007 Human Rights and Film Festival, Melbourne
2007 SSFA07, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2007 A4 Art, Westspace, Melbourne
2007 Prometheus Art Prize, All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac, Gold Coast
2007 The Space in Between, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, & Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2007 Royal Rumble 2, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2007 Behind You, Underground – RMIT Union Collection Retrospective, First Site, Melbourne
2006 Overlap, The Sainsbury Gallery, The British School at Rome, Italy
2006 Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
2006 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Gallery, Sydney
2006 A4 Art – Reunion, Westspace, Melbourne
2006 The Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra
2006 A portable model of…, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Where the Beep Hell are Ya?, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
2005 The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2005 Salon des Refuses, National Trust S.H. Ervin gallery, The Observatory, Sydney
2005 The year in Art, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Observatory, Sydney
2005 A portable model of…, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2005 This Urban World, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport
2005 Selekta, Westspace, Melbourne
2005 ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize, ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne
2005 Australian Icons Framed, National Trust fundraiser, Hotel Sofitel Wentworth, Sydney
2005 Exposure, Trocadero Artspace, Melbourne
2005 Why are you showing here?, Trocadero Artspace, Melbourne
2005 Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
2004 Address Book, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Salon des Refuses, National Trust S.H. Ervin gallery, The Observatory, Sydney
2004 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
2004 ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize, ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne
2004 Australian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Imaging the Apple, touring exhibition through Victoria, NSW, Queensland - metropolitan and regional institutional galleries (2003-2005)
2003 SBS/Federation Square Contemporary Art Prize Federation Square, Melbourne
2003 Nth Art, Nth Art, London, UK
2003 Melbourne X Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2003 Melbourne X Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney
2003 Glacier: Contemporary Painting, touring exhibition through Victoria Queensland - metropolitan and regional institutional galleries (2003-2004)
2003 Headspace, National Neuroscience Faculty, University of Melbourne
2003 The Arthur Guy memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2003 Posted, MOP Projects, Sydney
2003 The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2003 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast
2003 The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
2003 Royal Rumble, Kings Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2002 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Vic Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
2001 The Siemens Art Prize, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
2001 Melbourne x 8, Gallery 482, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2001 Look See: Five Contemporary Painters, Monash University Gallery, Clayton
2001 Glacier: Contemporary Painting, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
2001 The Mediated Portrait/Image in Painting and Drawing, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
2001 2001 Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla
2001 The Space in Between, Platform, Melbourne
2001 Eat My Art, TCB art Inc., Melbourne
2000 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland Inaugural Exhibition, Dickerson-Scott, Melbourne
2000 ‘…A Brush With Death’, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1999 RMIT Fine Art at Yuan-Ze University, Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan
1999 Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne
1999 Project One, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Artzine, Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne
1999 The New Collectable, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
1999 2 Years of Span, Span Galleries, Melbourne
1998 RMIT Fine Art at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1998 The Victorian Campus Art Prize, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1998 RMIT Honours Graduate Show, 101 Collins Street Annex, Melbourne
1997 Love Arm Live, performance with Japanese artist Ujino, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
1997 Contingency, Span Galleries, Melbourne
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2000 …A Brush With Death, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
PORTRAIT COMMISIONS
2010 Westin Hotel, Sydney
2008 Sydney University Deputy Vice-chancellor, Professor Andrew Coats
2008 Monash University Chancellor, Jerry Ellis
2007 Monash University Vice-chancellor, Professor Richard Larkins OA
2007 RMIT University Vice-chancellor, Professor Ruth Dunkin
2005 University of Melbourne Chancellor, Professor Fay Marles AM
PRIZES JUDGED
2007 Siemens Art Prize, Melbourne. One of a panel of 5 judges.
2007 VUT Art Prize. One of 2 judges
2006 VUT Art Prize. One of 2 judges
OTHER ACADEMIC
Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, 2006 – 2007
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hampson, Jane. 'Juan Ford: A Phrenologist's Deceptions'. Australian Art Review, Issue 18, February - April 2009
Crawford, Ashley. ‘The Goth Within’, Ex cat. ‘Neo Goth: Back in Black’, July 2008
Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Neo-Goth Shadow Looms Large’, Ex cat. ‘Neo Goth: Back in Black’, July 2008
Crawford, Ashley.'Terror Australis’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 44, April-June 2008
Slade, Lisa. ‘The Thrall of the Skull’, Ex cat. ‘Neo Goth: Back in Black’, July 2008
Kubler, Alison. ‘As Black as Stone’, Ex cat. ‘Neo Goth: Back in Black’, July 2008
Clements, Justin. '100,000 Lux', - ex. 'Cat, 100,000 Lux', April 2007
Crawford, Ashley. ‘The Suburban Vernacular’, from Nathan Taylor catalogue, Mossgreen Gallery 2007
Kidd, Courtney. ‘Artnotes', Art Monthly, April 2007
Kubler, Alison. 'Queensland Painters: A New Breed’, Art and Australia Vol 45, No 1, 2007
Backhouse, Megan. 'The Space in Between Book Project', Art Around the Galleries, The Age, 26 July, 2007
Iaccarino, Clara. “100,000 Lux’, Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum section, 6 April, 2007
Lobley, Katrina. ‘Sullivan & Strumpf’, Events Section, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 February, 2007
Gregg, Simon. ‘Melburnin’, Trouble, Issue 29, October 2006
Mahar, Jessica. ‘A Proud Night for our Art Credentials’, Cambelltown - Macarthur Advertiser, November 8, 2006
Preston, Edwina. 'Revelation’ - ex. Cat, ‘Revelation’ September 2006
Rainbird, Stephen. ‘More is Less’ catalogue essay, ex. Cat ‘More is Less’ July 2006
Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘City’s Arty Image the In Thing, but Arists on the Way Out’, The Age, 7 September 2006
Hansen, David. ‘Signs of the Times’, Sightlines, The Age ,13 October 2006
Backhouse, Megan. 'Revelation’, Art Around the Galleries, The Age, 30 September, 2006
Nelson, Robert. ‘Relics Reveal More than Meets the Eye’, The Age, 13 December, 2006
Backhouse, Megan. 'Beyond the Cold detail of the Lens', The Age, April 2005
Crisp, Lynda. 'Exposure to the Learning Curve’, Australian Financial Review, 4 August, 2005
Hawley, Jane. ‘Idol Chatter’ The Age, Good Weekend, June 2005
McDonald, John. ‘Out of Art’s Boiler Room’, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, October 2005
Myer, Rod. ‘ABN Amro gets the hang of being young at Art’, The Age, August 17, 2005
Britton, Stephanie. 'Artrave' - Awards section - Artlink Volume 24, Number 2, 2004
Cass, Naomi. 'Artnotes Victoria', Art Monthly Australia, no. 170, June 2004
Clements, Justin. 'Eyeline' - Contemporary Visual arts, no. 53, March 2004
Anderson, Patricia. 'Faces in a Crowd', The Weekend Australian, April 2004
Angeloro, Dominique. 'He's the One, Officer - Review, "Abstraction"', Sydney Morning Herald, September 2004
Backhouse, Megan. 'Juan Ford: the people's choice', The Age, May 2004
Backhouse, Megan. feature article The Age, May 2004
Evans, Holly. 'Diary', The Age, August 2004
Low, Lenny Ann. Sydney Morning Herald, September 2004
McDonald, John. 'Mystique: in love with the Archibald', Australian Financial Review, 1 April 2004
Makin, Jeff. ‘Much to be Big-Headed About’ Herald-Sun, October 2004
Clements, Justin 'Songs From the Penumbra', catalogue essay, ex. Cat 'Songs From the Penumbra', July 2003
Portus, Martin. 'Melbourne X' review, Eyeline 51, winter 2003
Clark, Julie. 'Clone paintings' - ex. Cat, ‘Clone’ February 2002
Strachan, Lucinda. Melbourne Magazine, August Issue 2003
Backhouse, Megan 'Singing in a world of their own', The Age, July 2003
'Juan takes Top Prize', Gold Coast Weekender, December 2003
Loughrey, Felicity. 'Attack of the Clones', Black and White Magazine, Issue 61, June/July 2002
Trotter, Penny. ‘The Theatrics of Cloning’: The recent paintings of Juan Ford’, Artlink, Vol 22, No 1, March 2002
Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘Double Trouble in a Virtual World’, The Age, February 2002
Nelson, Robert. "Prize Show Offers Fascinating Tour of New Directions', The Age, September 2002
Nelson, Robert. ‘Subversive Work at Play in Ironic Ode to Grecian Urn’ The Age, February 2002
Bond, Chris. ‘A Short History of the Reconciliation of Opposites in the Paintings of Juan Ford’,
ex. cat. 'Protect Me From What I Want' February 2001
Gregg, Simon. ‘Art Soul’, interview in Large Magazine, August 2001
Walwicz, Ania. Literary response to “Mediations” on July 2001
Williams, Linda. 'Reflection and Reconstruction: New Directions in Australian Painting’, ex. Cat ‘Glacier’, September 2001
Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘RMIT Turns Cool’, The Age, September 2001
Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘Down an Alley, Filled with Art’, The Age, November 2001
Bullock, Natasha. ‘Moving Through Space’ ex. Cat ‘Look See: Five Contemporary Painters’
March 2001
Nelson, Robert. ‘Are You Experienced’, The Age, March 2001
Nelson, Robert. ‘The ’Death of Painting’ a little premature’, The Age, September 2001
Timms, Peter ‘Clever, Complex Ride Through Hearts’ Desires’ The Age, March 2001
Atkinson, Paul. 'A Brush With Death’ ex. cat. La Trobe Street Gallery, March 2000
Clements, Justin. ’Revelations of the Insensible: The paintings of Juan Ford'
Kubler, Alison. Sebastian’ ex,cat. Gold Coast City Art Gallery, May 2000
Makin, Jeff. ‘Heavyweights on Hand’, Herald-Sun, February 2000
Kubler, Alison. ‘(You make me feel) Mighty real’, Art Monthly 130, June 2000
Safe, Georgina. ‘Auction Offers Art at Cutting-Edge Prices’ (Interview), The Australian, December 2000
Lloyd, Tony. ‘The Way It Is’ ex,cat. TCB art Inc. Melbourne, September 1999
Sellars, Simon. Interview in Online Arts and Culture Journal issue 2
SELECTED VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
August 2008 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
August 2008 Monash University, Melbourne
October 2007 University of Queensland Museum of Art, Brisbane
July 2007 Department of Conservation, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
March 2006 Sainsbury Lecture Hall, The British School at Rome, Italy
November 2005 University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba;
Queensland University of Technology Gallery, Brisbane
Mar - Apr 2004 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2 Lectures and discussions on own work and influence of Caravaggio during exhibition 'Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His world"
May 2002 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 'Painting on the Richter Scale' - Lecture and forum on the work of Gerhard Richter
May 2002 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Lecture and discussion on the work of Gerhard Richter
March 2002 Victoria University, Melbourne, presentation and lecture on own work
February2002 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Lecture and discussion on the work of Gerhard Richter
September 2001 RMIT Gallery, presentation and lecture on own work for 'Glacier' exhibition
March 2001 Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, presentation and lecture on own work for 'Look See: Five Contemporary Painters' exhibition
1999 - 2005 RMIT University, Melbourne, various presentations and lectures on own work to undergraduate and postgraduate students