SYLVESTER, DARREN
Born 1974, Sydney
2010 Master of Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne
1996 Bachelor of Fine Art Photography, Graphic Design, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
AWARDS & PRIZES
2011 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, winner
2010 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (Adobe Honourable Mention), Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2010 Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant
2010 Arts Victoria Cultural Exchange
2006 ABN AMRO Emerging Artists Award, Sydney, finalist
2005 ABN AMRO Emerging Artists Award, Sydney, finalist
2004 Australia Council, Skills and Arts Development Grant, Greene Street Studio, New York, New York, USA
2004 Arts Victoria, Arts Development/Creation
2001 Australian Film Commission, Script Development & Assistance funding for the screenplay, Tanhiro
2001 Arts Victoria Cultural Development Fund; The Ian Potter Foundation, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust
1999 Arts Victoria, Arts Development/Creation
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australia Council for the Arts
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
City of Port Phillip, Melbourne
Daniel & Danielle Besen Collection
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Melbourne University, Baillieu Library, Melbourne
Murdoch University Collection, Perth
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Sir Elton John Collection
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Private collections throughout Australia and overseas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Darren Sylvester, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2010 Darren Sylvester – Take Me To You, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore
2010 Darren Sylvester - Large Format Works, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2009 Darren Sylvester, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2008 Darren Sylvester Our Future Was Ours, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2008 Darren Sylvester, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2007 Darren Sylvester, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
2006 I Want To Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2006 Our Future Was Ours, Johnston Gallery, Perth
2005 Recent Work, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
2005 We Can Love Since We Know We Can Lose Love, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2004 Don’t Lose Yourself In Tomorrow, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
2003 If All We Have Is Each Other, That’s OK, William Mora Galleries Melbourne & Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2001 A Life Falls Apart Without Order, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
2001 We Can Do Anything, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2000 God Only Knows What I’d Be Without You, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1999 London Paris Tokyo New York, SPAN Galleries, Melbourne
1999 On the Phone...ABC Multimedia. http://arts.abc.net.au/sylvester
1998 Life Together, Main Gallery, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
1997 Arriving. Departing, Helen Schutt Access Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1995 Minor Words, Separovich Gallery, Wagga Wagga
1995 Points of Light, Hired Conference Room, Wagga Wagga
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 SSFA12, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2011 What’s in a Face? Aspects of portrait photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2011 SUBTEXT: Artists and Writing, West Space, Melbourne
2011 Black Box<>White Cube—Aspects of Performance in Contemporary Australian Art, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
2011 Jospehine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
2011 SSFA11, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2011 Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2010 Power Chicks and Men Who Sew, Deloitte, Sydney
2010 Mortality, Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2010 ARTHK2010, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2010 SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2009 SSFA09, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2009 Horror - Come Darkness, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2009 Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion, Brisbane Festival, www.brisbanefestival.com.au
2008 Wonderlust, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2008 One of Us Cannot Be Wrong, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2008 Silverstein Photography Annual, Silverstein Photography, New York, New York, USA
2008 FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery, McClelland
2008 Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008 The Dating Show, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008 Neo Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2008 Music Makes the People Come Together, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie
2008 Under Stars, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney
2008 SSFA08, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2008 Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Rooftop Cinema, Melbourne. Curator Helen Frajman
2008 Décor, Glen Eira City Council Art Gallery, Glen Eira
2007 Motion Pictures, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2007 Old Skool (Never Lose That Feeling), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2007 SSFA07, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2007 Old Skool is the New Skool, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2007 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2007 Perfect For Every Occasion: Photography Today, Heide Musuem of Art, Melbourne
2007 Albury City National Photography Prize, Albury
2007 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast
2007 The One and the Many, DELL Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2007 The Roving Eye, Gallery 1601, Washington DC, USA
2007 Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2006 NEW06, Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2006 Special Reconnaissance, Gigantic Artspace, New York, New York USA
2006 Supernatural Artificial, Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Singapore
2006 The Roving Eye, Gigantic Artspace, New York, New York, Sydney
2006 Light Sensitive, Contemporary Australian Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2006 Selecta, Westspace, Melbourne
2006 Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
2006 Someone shows something to someone, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2005 Remote Control: Artists Making Moving Pictures, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2005 Supernatural Artificial, Chulalangkorn Art Centre in Bangkok, Thailand
2005 Loaded, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2005 Awkward Silences, Linden Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2005 Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2005 Six Orbits Around the Blue Moon, Hamilton University, Hamilton, New Zealand
2005 Make It Modern, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Melbourne
2005 Johnston Gallery Launch Johnston Gallery, Perth
2005 Recent Acquisitions – City of Port Phillip, Linden Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2004 Supernatural Artificial, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Urban/Exurban, TarraWarra Museum of Art, TarraWarra
2004 Gold Coast City Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast
2003 Photographica Australis, National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
2003 Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2003 City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart Town Hall, Hobart
2003 Bloom, Perceiving Independence, SPAN Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Stellar, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Auction, Melbourne
2002 Bittersweet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2002 Photographica Australis, Sala De Exposiciones Del Canal De Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
2002 Happiness, PICA Perth, Curator Charlotte Day
2002 Photograph and a Painting, Project Space, Christchurch, New Zealand
2001 Fresh From Paris, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2001 Happiness, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2001 Our Perfect Dream, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
2001 City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart Town Hall, Hobart
2001 Photograph and a Slogan, Rubyayre, Sydney. Curator, Nicholas Chambers
2000 Our Perfect Dream, 1st Floor, Melbourne. Curator, Sylvia Kranawetvogl
2000 William Mora Gallery Opening, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1999 Circuit, Regional Arts Victoria, Melbourne, Curator, Mardi Foster
1999 Bill Posters Will Not Be Prosecuted, Federation Square Hoardings Project, Melbourne
1999 Smoke Free, Citylights. Melbourne
1998 Respond Red or Blue, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
MUSIC
2009 Self title album Darren Sylvester, 39 minutes (Unstable Ape/ Remote Control Records)
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