WARDLE, DARREN
Born 1969, Melbourne
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2010 Australia Council For the Arts Established Artist - New Work Grant
2009 Arts Victoria: International Program – Export and Touring Fund
2007 Australia Council For the Arts – Studio Residency, New York, USA
2006 Arts Victoria: International Program – Export and Touring Fund
2006 NSW Ministry for the Arts – Gunnery Studio Residency Program, Artspace, Sydney
2004 Australia Council for the Arts: Los Angeles Studio Residency
2002 Arts Victoria: International Program – Export and Touring Fund
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
BHP Billiton
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Hotel Tolarno, Melbourne
La Trobe University Collection, Melbourne
Lyon House Museum, Melbourne
Michael and Janet Buxton Contemporary Art Collection, Melbourne
National Australia Bank
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, Melbourne
RMIT University Collection, Melbourne
Private collections in Australia and overseas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne
2011 Korean International Art Fair, Nellie Castan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Lost Weekend, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2010 Wet-Look Capital Style, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2010 Ghost Resort, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Design Anxiety, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Collateral, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne,
2008 Modular Liberties, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2008 Soft Target, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Space Junk, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Silent Majority, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Fever, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
2004 Random Land, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Three Painters, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2003 lo-cal, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
2002 Melbourne Art Fair, Meltdown, Nellie Castan Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2001 Urbane Profane, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Lava, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Bust & Boom, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Travelling Time, Stop 22, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 SSFA12, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2011 New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
2011 So Contemporary, Jackson See Collection: A Snapshot, Praxis Art Space, Singapore
2011 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2011 SSFA11, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2010 Vision, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Diane Soumilas
2010 The Possibility of a Painting, The Chelsea Hotel, New York, USA
2010 Sites of Memory: Architecture and Remembering, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, USA
2010 SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2009 Chromophobia, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Auckland Art Fair, Nellie Castan Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2009 The Possibility of a Painting, Chelsea Hotel, New York, USA
2009 Vision, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2009 NADA fair, Miami, Florida, USA
2009 SSFA09, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2009 Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2008 Singular, Luxe Gallery, New York, USA
2008 CIGE Fair, Luxe Gallery, World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
2008 SSFA08, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2007 U-Turn, Curated by Kate Shaw & Larissa Hjorth, Glendale College Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2007 Living Elvis, Curated by Suzanne Davies, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
2007 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2007 Places, Curated by Stephan Stoyanov, Luxe Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Lexicon, Curated by Martina Copley, Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne
2006 Melbourne Reign, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
2005 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Surfers Paradise
2005 LAX art, presented by Lauri Firstenberg, MC Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2005 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2005 Selektor, West Space, Melbourne
2005 Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize for Painting, Melbourne Savage Club, Melbourne
2005 Empire Style, Art2102, Los Angeles, California, USA
2005 City of Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla Arts Council, Whyalla
2004 Recent Acquisitions, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2004 Stux Summer Review, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Stay Inside, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2004 Surface Tension, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2004 The Armory Show 2004, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Compendium, Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
2004 Stop & Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Flora Nova, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2003 Red Spot, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Home Loan, Caroline Springs, Melbourne
2003 Glacier, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
2003 Glacier, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
2003 Compendium, Curated by Martina Copley, Platform 1, Melbourne
2002 Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, USA
2002 Suburban Echo, McClelland Regional Gallery, Langwarrin
2002 The Homefront, Curated by Lisa Byrne, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2002 White & Black, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Glacier, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
2001 Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne
2001 Eat My Art, TCB INC. ART, Melbourne
2001 Here, There, Elsewhere: Suburban Themes, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Touching at the Parabolica, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
2000 Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2000 In the Mind’s Eye, Curated by Tara Gilbee, Next Wave Festival: Linden Gallery, Melbourne
2000 A Brush with Death, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne
1999 Flatliners, Level 11, Melbourne
1999 Stop 22’s Greatest Hits, Stop 22, Melbourne
1998 Finale, Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
1998 Kultural Kommuting, Galerie Treppenhaus, Erlangen, Berlin
1998 Kulural Kommuting, Public Office, Fringe Festival Visual Arts Award, Melbourne
1998 Kultural Kommuting, Platform 1, Melbourne
1997 Naked, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Feeling Machines, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham Community Centre, Melbourne
1997 Ex Libris, Curated by Richard Holt, St Kilda Writer’s Festival: St Kilda Library, Melbourne
1996 Lightrail: collaborative installation with Rabindra Naidoo and Peter Zellner, Platform 1, Melbourne
1996 Superstar, Billboard Show, Melbourne
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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MacAdam, Barbara. ‘Darren Wardle @ Stephan Stoyanov’, ARTnews Volume 109 #1 Jan 2010, p 117
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Dr Stephen Haley, ‘Flow Slow’, Catalogue Essay: Modular Liberties, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
Makin, Jeff. ‘Darren Wardle: Soft Target’, Herald Sun, 24 Nov 24 2008, p 65
Tracey Clement, ‘The Dystopian Prism’, Australian Art Collector # 46, Oct-Dec 2008, pp.178 - 183
Crawford, Ashley. ‘Around the Galleries: Darren Wardle: Soft Target’, The Age, 8 Nov 2008, p 11
Gibson, Prue. ‘Double Vision’, Vogue Australia, April 2008, p 120-121
Crawford, Ashley. ‘U-Turn’, catalogue essay, Sept 1 –Oct 5, Glendale College Gallery, Los Angeles USA, 2007
Bevan, Robert. ‘House Painters’, Vogue Living, Jan/Feb 2007, p 69 - 72
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Slome, Manon. ‘Endgames? The Urban Landscapes of Darren Wardle’, Catalogue Essay, Silent Majority, Sept 14 – Oct 14, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York USA, 2006
Crawford, Ashley. ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Catalogue Essay, Melbourne Reign, 16 May – 3 Jun 2006 Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
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COMMISSIONS
2001 Ansett Australia
1999 The Age, Melbourne
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2001 Glacier, Curated by Darren Wardle & Suzanne Davies, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne (Touring)