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ACADEMIC RECORD
2013 – 2017 Doctor of Philosophy (Fine art), Federation University
2001 -2002 Master of Fine Art – Victorian College of the Arts
2000 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art – Victorian College of the Arts
1989 -91 BA Fine Art Monash University (Caufield campus)
2023 Quacks in the Pavement, The Art Room Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne
The Note Takers, Five Walls, Footscray
Power On, Switchback Gallery, Churchill
Scope, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
2022 CCP Salon Show, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2021 Slow Mo, Public Spaces, Sunshine, Melbourne
2020 Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Small Mercies, Creative Spaces, West Melbourne
2019 Further Signs of Struggle, Alternating Current Art Space,
Melbourne Scope, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
In the Shadows, Victorian Archives Centre Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2017 Scope, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
The Bureau for the Organization of Origins (BOO), Blindside, Melbourne
2016 Signs of Struggle, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
CCP Salon show, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
The Farther South, 126 Columbia Road, London
Delve, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
2015 Trashlation, University of Melbourne
Group show, Anna Pappas Gallery
2014 Dirt World, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Delve, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2013 The Red and the Blue, Westspace, Melbourne
Other, Anna Pappas Gallery
2012 Arcadian Summer, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Pursuit Art Space, India Art Fair, Delhi
Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
The Other, Trocadero, Melbourne
Art + Food: Beyond the still life, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2010 Endless Days, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Bella Art Draw, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Williamstown
Constellations: a large number of small drawings, RMIT Gallery
Anna Pappas group show, Depot Gallery, Sydney
Anna Pappas Pavilion, Melbourne Art Fair
Uncertainty: Drawing, City Library, Melbourne
2009 Tree Game, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill
I walk the line: New Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Line Drawing, Mailbox 141, Melbourne
2008 National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Redeeming the Ruin – the art of consumption - Latrobe, Swan Hill, Mornington Peninsula, Shepparton and Horsham Regional Galleries
Embodied Energy, Counihan Gallery
Flux Capacitor, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
The Heyson Prize, The Hahndoorf Academy, Hahndorf, South Australia
Rembrandt’s: Nine Installations, RMIT Architecture, Knox
2007 Zonal Marx, Margret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank
Urban Arboreal, City Gallery, Melbourne
Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Art Gallery, Sydney
Artefact, City Museum, Melbourne
2006 Tree Game, Victoria Park, Melbourne
Someone shows something to someone, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
A4 Art, Westspace
2005 Drawing as finished Product, Expressions Arts & Entertainment, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Drawing from studio to situation (Untitled situation), Ocular Lab, Brunswick
2004 Re-Configured, a project by Vin Ryan, City Library, Melbourne
Why won’t you talk to me…, Platform, Spencer St, Melbourne
Combined Operations/ Joint Operations (CoJO), Conical, Fitzroy
Re-verb, Federation Square car park, as part of Next Wave Container Project
2003 The Museum Aesthetic, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Living in Liverpool/Living in Melbourne, Platform, Spencer St, Melbourne
2002 Life and it’s Marvels, Conical Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy
Unloading – Kraznopolsky Gallery, St Kilda
Only the lonely, Block Gallery, Sydney
Shape/Space/Place, Margret Lawrence Gallery, curated by Vin Ryan
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award – ANZ Bank
2001 A Project by Vin Ryan – RMIT Project Space
Context, George Paton Gallery
This thing called research, VCA gallery
2000 Paper cuts – Talk Artists Initiative, Melbourne
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award – ANZ Bank Melbourne
Journey into eccentricity, – Monsalvat
1997 Recent Works - Westspace, Footscray
Way Out West – Westspace, Footscray
ONLINE PROJECTS
2021 Art Waffla, Instgram@art_waffla
2018 – 20 Maybe Later, collaborative project with Leila Gerges and Susan Mountford, https://www.instagram.com/m_a_y_b_e_l_a_t_e_r/
2015 2 Strad, collaborative online project with Chrissie Dalziel, http://the-strad.tumblr.com/
2016 The Farther South, collaborative online project with Chrissie Dalziel, https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/thefarthersouth/
COLLECTIONS
National Library of Australia, Art Bank, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, City of Melbourne, Footscray Community Art Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital, private collections in Australia and overseas.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2019 – 22 Indigenous Art facilitator, Ravenhall and Port Phillip Prisons
1998 – 2023 Lecturer in drawing, painting & art theory at CAE, Box Hill, RMIT and NMIT TAFE and Federation University
2001– 2004 Conical Inc board member
PRIZES/GRANTS.
2021 DET International Fellowship, International Specialised Skills Institute
Art Spaces Activation Partnership, Brimbank City Council, Melbourne
2016 Best composition - Salon Art Prize, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2013 Australian Post Graduate Award, Federation University, Ballarat
2010 Rose and Kevin Sim Award, Williamstown Contemporary Art Festival
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper Acquisition
2006 St Vincent’s Hospital Artist in Residence
Banyule City Council Sculpture Commission
2004 Australian Visual Arts Benevolent Trust
2002 National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Postgraduate Award
Masters Research Scholarship – Victorian College of the Arts
2000 Maribyrnong Sport, Recreation and Culture grant
Shell Art Prize - merit award and acquisition
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Prison Arts Education: some new approaches, Vin Ryan, ISS Institute and Department of Education, 2023
2022 Outside: Inside Radio, Episode 1 season 6, KSPC 88.7 Radio, Prison Arts Collective San Diego, September 2022
2015 Traversing the Empire of Dirt, Anonda Bell, Empire of Dirt, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, Newark Campus, January 2015
2014 Vin Ryan, Dirt World, Jo Salt, Melbourne. Arts. Fashion, 8.9.14
Vin Ryan, Dirt World, Dan Rule, The Age, 3.10.14
2012 Feasting on Art: Food for the eyes, recipes for your appetite, foodrepublic.com, 14.11.12
Arcadian Summer, Kane Daniel, Art Guide Australia, October 2012
Arcadian Summer, Megan Backhouse, The Age, 13.10.12
2010 Endless Days, Dan Rule, The Age, 28.11.10
Dish the dirt, Suzanne Carbone, The Age, 26.11.10
Vin Ryan: Endless Days, Broadsheet Online, Dan Rule, 17.11.10
Radio interview with Emma Swift, FBI Radio, Sydney, 13.6.10
Melbourne Art Fair, Megan Backhouse, Australian Art Guide Sept 2010
2009 I walk the Line: New Australian Drawing, Craig Judd, Art and Australia (Spring 2009)
Tree Game, Dan Rule, The Age, 5.12.09
2008 Green with Envy, Frances Johnson, The Age, 13.6.08
Flux Capacitor, Penny Modra, The Age, 27.7.08
2007 Artefact: A Melbourne Legacy, Inga Walton, Craft Culture.org, 18.12.07
Dear You - Vin Ryan, You Magazine, Breakdown Press
Visual poetry on tree lines, Frances Johnson, The Age 31.8.07
Zonal Marx – editors review, ArtInfo.com.au. March 2007
Zonal Marx, Megan Backhouse, The Age, 3.3.07
2006 Tree Game – review by Megan Backhouse, The Age, 14.10.06
2003 Radio interview with Roger Taylor, “High and Low”, 3RRR FM 24.6.03
2001 Adrift in Melbourne: The Trans -Tasman challenge – Vin Ryan, Art New Zealand Magazine (No. 101)
2000 Talk Magazine (No. 73) - interview with Sandra Bridie
1998 Working class- review by Anita Bragge Herald Sun 27.11.98
Arts today - Radio National (interview) 24.11.98
1996 Dialogue Magazine (No. 3) – “Museum” - by Vin Ryan
Publications
Alchemy, Blurb Publishing, 2020
Maybe Later, Blurb Publishing, 2019
Nearly there/ Barely there, Blurb Publishing, 2018
Nature strip mattresses, Blurb Publishing, 2016
Signs of struggle, Blurb, 2016
Urban Animal, Blurb, 2016
Found handwritten notes, Blurb, 2016
Forty-one airplanes flew past my house, Blurb Publishing, 2016
Camp, Blurb Publishing, 2016
Sunshine trees, Blurb Publishing, 2016
Screen time, Blurb Publishing, 2016
Hard Rubbish, Bob Books, 2015
Stella and I went for a Walk, Blurb Publishing, 2015
Twenty-Six Animals Died in My House, Blurb Publishing, 2014
Other People’s Dirt, Blurb Publishing, 2014
I Walked from My House to Sunshine, Blurb Publishing, 2013