SIMONE DOUGLAS
EDUCATION
MFA. College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia.
G. D.P.A.S. College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia.
BVA. Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2016 Blind, Featured Artist. Pingyao International Festival of Photography, Pingyao, China.
2015 Return, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY, USA.
2014 Sun to Sun, Simone Douglas & Christopher Bucklow. Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2013 External Return. Featured Artist. Pingyao International Festival of Photography.
2011 Ever, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Promise. Featured Artist. Pingyao International Festival of Photography.
2007 Vanishing Point, Vassie Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2006 Sky of the Skies, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Flight of the Eye, PII Contemporary Art Space, Philadelphia, USA.
2002-03 Blind, CoFA Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2000 Stasis (Blind), First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1998 Passage, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1996 An Uncertain Exchange, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Simone Douglas, Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1994 Aberrations. Curator Ruth Charity, The Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Antipodean emanations: cameraless photographs from Australia and New Zealand. Curated by Stella Loftus-Hills Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia. Presented by MGA in association with Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Serial Structures: The Object in Performance, JHB Gallery, The Photography Show, Presented by AIPAD, NYC, USA
From the Studio, Curated by Don Porcaro, Gallery MC, NYC, USA
2017 Sites of Knowledge, Curated by Melissa Bianca Amore & William Stover. Jane Lombard Gallery. NYC. USA.
Contemporary Female Photo-Artists, Curated by Barbara Douse. Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2016 Emanations, The Art of the Cameraless Photograph, Curator Geoffery Batchenovett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.
2015 Reinventing the Helm: Self-Styled Nautical Activists Pirate the Canon of Maritime Art, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY, USA.
2014 Sequester, Curator Chris Hanrahan, Australian Consulate. Washington D.C. USA.
2013 RE: Conceptualising Vision, Elam Project Space, Auckland, New Zealand.
2012 Light Works, Curator, Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
2011 Photography & Place. Australian landscape photography 1970’s
Until Now, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Under the Willow, Curator Virginia Wilson, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
RE: Conceptualizing Vision, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2010 Stand in Landscape, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China.
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (Finalist), Gold Coast Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Australia.
2007 Light, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Stocking, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2006-07 Zero, Curator Di Halstead, Traveling Exhibition: Te Manawa, Palmerston North, The Suter, Nelson Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill, New Zealand.
2006 Beautiful Decay, Curator Matt Glenn. Loose Projects, Sydney, Australia.
2005 Highlights from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
2004 Sight Seeing, Curated by Sioux Garside, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China.
Sight Seeing, Curated by Sioux Garside, SCA Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2003 First Impressions, Curated by Dr. Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, Ian Potter Centre, The National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne, Australia.
2002 Vanishing Point, Curator Ryzard Dabek, Blau Grau, Sydney, Australia.
2000 Minimal, Curator Alasdair Foster (Director), The Australian Centre For Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Harmonia, Curator Ryzard Dabek, Next Wave Festival, West Space, Melbourne, Australia.
Triggered, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Silver, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Trigger, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1999 Every (other) day, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1998 Exhibition, Curator Melissa Chui, 4AGallery, Sydney.
1996 Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! Curator Linda Michael, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Portrait of my Mother, Curated by Vivienne Esders, Galerie Matisse, Institute Français, London, United Kingdom.
1994-95 Recent Acquisitions for the Photography Collection, Curator Mark Haworth-Booth, The Victoria and Albert Museum. London, United Kingdom.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
New South Wales Department of Education, Sydney, Australia
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
SELECTED CURATORIAL
2016 International Guest Curator for Home, The Auckland Festival of Photography, The Silos, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 Exquisite Corpse, a visual research project, The Kellen Gallery, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC, USA
2007 Exquisite Corpse, a visual research project, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003 Set, First Draft Gallery, Sydney
2000 – 01 Conjecture C, Sydney, Australia, Koln, Germany
2000 Landmarks for the 21st Century, Olympic Arts Festival Exhibition, The Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
1999 Picture Sydney; Landmarks of a New Generation, The Australian Museum. Sydney, Australia
SELECTED LECTURES, CONFERENCES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Forthcoming
2018 Anywhere Elsewhere, John L.Tishman Auditorium, The University Center and Theresa Lang Student Center, The New School University
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2018 Ice Boat S.T.E.M is nothing without S.T.E.A.M. The New School Minute, John L.Tishman Auditorium, The University Center, The New School University
2016 Artist Talk. Montclair State University, NJ, USA
Home, Art Gallery of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Radio interview Radio NZ, Program. Interviewed by Kim Hill. June 7. New Zealand
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201803343/simone-douglas-photographing
Featured Artist Talk Pingyao International Festival of Photography, Pingyao, China
Blind Artist Talk Pingyao International Festival of Photography, Pingyao, China
Ice Boat, Parsons School of Design. The New School
Co-Convenors; Douglas S, Lowry, ANYWHERE AND ELSEWHERE. Art at the Outermost
Limits of Location-Specifity. Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC, USA
2015 Panelist. RAPID RESPONSE TEAM, Rapid Response, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists. Sydney. Australia
Promise. AJC Architects Annual Artist Talk, Sydney, Australia
2014 Simone Douglas in conversation with Barbara Dowse, Sun to Sun. Simone Douglas &
Chris Bucklow, Sun to Sun. Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia
External Return, Pingyao International Festival of Photography, Pingyao, China
Co-Convenors; Douglas S, Lowry, ANYWHERE. Art at the Outermost
Limits of Location-Specifity. Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC, USA
Panelist. “The Art of Experimental Thinking, Saturday Sessions #4”: The Art of Experimental Thinking., PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, Sydney. Australia.
2012 Simone Douglas, Jim Ramer. New York Photo Festival, NY, USA. Co-facilitator with Prof. Dr Uta Brandes for Gender Play Inaugural conference of iGDN
2011 The Photographic Universe. Parsons The New School for Design. Paper: The Universe Returned. In conversation with Michael T Jones, Google.
http://photographicuniverse.parsons.edu/
Simone Douglas, Arthur Ou, Jim Ramer. New York Photo Festival, NY, USA
The Universe Returned. Artist talk. The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Art Chat. Simone Douglas with Tom Robertson. Video recording. The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Artist talk, Ever, Art Month Sydney, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010 What is a Critique? Symposium. Platypus Affiliated Society, New School Union of Political Science Students, and Parsons Fine Arts Department. Panelists; Tom Butter, Simone Douglas, James Elkind, Gregg Horowitz, J. M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Chris Cutrone.
Exquisite Corpse and the IPO Project, Co-authored with Benjamin Bacon and Jim Ramer. Claiming Creativity Conference. Columbia College of the Arts and the European League of the Institutes of the Arts
Exquisite Corpse and the IPO Project. A Visual Research Collaboration between Parsons School of Design & Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia
Tsinghua University, China
2009 Exquisite Corpse. Parsons School of Design, New School University, NYC, USA
2008 Sky of the Skies. Parsons School of Design, New School University, NYC, USA
2007 Collaborations. Parsons School of Design, New School University, NYC, USA
Promise, The Degraded Sublime. University of Sydney, Australia
Promise. The Sydney Gallery School, Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE, Sydney, Australia
2006 An Uncertain Exchange, The Contemporary Sublime. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Collaborative Process. Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand
An Uncertain Exchange, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand
In Conversation: Simone Douglas. Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003 Conjecture C project. Köln International School of Design, University of Applied Sciences, Köln, Germany
2002 Blind, Köln International School of Design, University of Applied Sciences, Köln, Germany
2000 Material, Immaterial, The Edge of Vision, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
1999 Silence and Excess. Occlusions and the Edge of Vision. Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney. Australia
1998 Afterimage. Blue as the Event. The National Art School, Sydney, Australia
1997 Shadow and Light. Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
Aberrations. Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia
Aberrations. National Art School, Sydney, Australia
1996 An Uncertain Exchange. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Flight of the Eye. Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery, Campbelltown, Australia
SELECTED MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS
2018 Ed, Douglas S, Lowry, S, Anywhere VII, Conveyor, 2018
https://issuu.com/projectanywhere/docs/pa_v.ii_2018
https://issuu.com/projectanywhere/docs/anywhere_v1_pages
2017 Sachs, Zachary, Sites of Knowledge, ARTFORUM Critics Picks.
https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=69327
Sites of Knowledge at Jane Lombard Gallery, New York BLOUINARTINFO, June 16, 2017.
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2275454/sites-of-knowledge-at-jane-lombard-gallery-new-york
Sites of Knowledge at Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, United States
http://changenews.tk/news/‘Sites-of-Knowledge’-at-Jane-Lombard-Gallery,-New-York
2016 Bryt, Anthony. Feature Interview with Simone Douglas, Metro Magazine, Australia
http://www.metromag.co.nz/city-life/check- months-auckland- festival-photography/
Batchen, Geoffrey, Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Del, Monico Books/Prestel, Munich-London-New York
Ed, Douglas S, Lowry, S, Anywhere VI, Conveyor.
Ed. Douglas S, Lowry, ANYWHERE AND ELSEWHERE. Art at the Outermost Limits of Location-Specifity. Conveyor.
Douglas,S, Return, ed. Dr Douglas S, Lowry, ANYWHERE AND ELSEWHERE, Conveyor,
Dr Foster, A, Disquietude: Landscape and the Australian Imagination, Auckland Festival of
Photography, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand.
2015 Grisham, Sasha, Australian Art: A History, pub. The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne University Publishing, 2015, Melbourne.
Promise. Interview ABC National Radio, Adelaide, Australia.
Promise. Interview ABC Regional Radio. Broken Hill. Australia.
Eternal Return (Sun to Sun) & Promise. Interview. 2SER Radio, Sydney, Australia.
2014 Dr Foster, A, Disquietude: Landscape and the Australian Imagination, Auckland Festival of Photography, Columbia International Festival of Photography. Bogota, Colombia.
Promise. Interview. ABC Regional Radio. Broken Hill. Australia.
Simone Douglas & Chris Bucklow. Interviewed by Barbara Dowse, Sun to Sun, Artereal.,
http://artereal.com.au/home/sun-to- sun
Sun to Sun., Time Out. Sydney., 2014/Oct
http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/art/events/40451/sun-to- sun
Wolff,S. Sun to Sun, Art Life, 2014/Sep
http://theartlife.com.au/2014/sun-to- sun/
Eveson, Imogen, Sun to Sun at Artereal Gallery, Broadsheet, 2014/Sep
Walcott, Rhianna, External Return, Artereal blogspot, 2014/Sep
http://arterealgalleryblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/simone-douglas- exhibits-work- at-pingyao.html
Zhou, Amelia, Christopher Bucklow and Simone Douglas: Sun to Sun, Concrete Playground, 2014/Aug
http://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/christopher-bucklow- and-simone-douglas-sun- tosun/
Hanrahan,C & Croggan, N. Sequester, Sequester.
2013 Rachel Bentley (producer). ArtExpress, TVS. Three part Documentary series. Featured Artists: Simone Douglas, Ben Qulity & Paul Riggio. Documentary series commissioned by the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia.
AETHER-ART: Simone Douglas at Artereal and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
http://aether-art.blogspot.com/2011/03/simone- douglas-at-artereal-and- agnsw
Walcott, Rhianna, Simone Douglas: Eve” http://www.rococoproductions.com/500/500037.html. Web
Douglas, S, The Universe Returned. Conveyor Magazine, NY, April.
Douglas, S. Tell the World I’m Coming Home. OUTPOST. Kid Zoom at Cockatoo Island
2010 Marsh, Anne (essays), Zimmer, Jenny (ed). Look: Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980, Macmillian Press, London, United Kingdom
2009 Ed.Ou, Arthur. Blind Spot. Photo-Based Art Inc., Issue 40, Hackensack, NJ, United States
2007 Annear, Judy (ed), Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney Australia
Perriz, Ingrid, Australian Artists in the United States of America, Art & Australia, Vol. 44 Winter No. 4. pp. 600–605. Paddington, Australia.
Kirkner, Anne, Zero, Photofile, Winter, Australian Centre for Photography. Paddington, Australia
2006 Erlhoff, Michael. Sky of the Skies, pub. Artereal. Sydney, Australia.
Halstead. D and Tuato’o Ross Cathy, Blind Visions, Zero, New Zealand.
Key Note Essay, Lionel B, Zero
Halstead.D, Tuato’o Ross. C , The indexical, Zero, New Zealand
Douse, Barbara, Light, Artereal Gallery, April, Sydney, Australia
Clement, Tracey, Sky of the Skies, Sydney Morning Herald, March Sydney, Australia
Douglas, S, Quiet Passage, Breathing Space, Artereal Gallery, Sydney.
Garside, Sioux (ed), Sightseeing, CoFA, University of New South Wales Kensington, Australia.
Maral, Louise (ed.), Sightseeing in Beijing–Sydney, The University of Sydney News, Sydney, Australia
Glenn, Matt, Beautiful Decay, SCA Fold, Sydney, Australia
2005 Erlhoff, Michael, et all, Blind Visions. pub. Birkhäuser Architecture, Basel, Switzerland, Boston, Massachusetts. Berlin, Germany
Douglas, S, Mediations, Mediations I-XII
2004 Sightseeing, pub. University of Sydney and China Academy of Arts, Beijing, China
International Edition, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Volume 36, No. 16
Douglas, S, Marking Time, Set.
2003 Crombie, Isobel, First Impressions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (Exhibition Catalogue). First Impressions, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Day, Charlotte, First Impressions: Contemporary Australian Photograms, Photofile, The Australian Centre for Photography, June, Paddington, Australia
2000 Harmonia, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
Silver, pub. by IDG Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Smee, Sebastian. Bare essentials, Sydney Morning Herald, 28/4/00, Sydney, Australia
McFarlane, Robert. Stripping down to the bare minimum, Sydney Morning Herald, October 5 2000. Sydney, Australia
Douglas, S, Picture Sydney; Landmarks of a New Generation, pub. Australian Museum. pp 3–7. Keynote essay & Photo Editor.
1999 Peterson, Tanya. An Uncertain Exchange
1998 Our Mothers, pub. Tabori & Chang Inc. New York, NY
Chui, Melissa, Passage: Douglas, S. & Schumack, K pub. 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Cavernett, Wendy. Aberrant Art, (not only) black + white, no. 31, pub. Studio Magazines Pty Ltd, Darling Point, Australia.
Alexander, George. Up from the darkroom, Photofile. August, p. 3, Australian Centre for Photography. Paddington, Australia
Michael, Linda, Introduction, Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Alexander, George, Freeze + Die + Revive, Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! pub. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Jolly, Martin, Photography’s Afterlife, Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! Pub. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Cavernett, Wendy, Simone Douglas at the MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
http://www.thei.aust.com/isite/igmcaphotorv.html.Web
Cavernett, Wendy, Simone Douglas An Uncertain Exchange
http://www.thei.aust.com/isite/igmcaphotorv.html.Web
1995 Peter Ride. Aberrations, Photofile. July/August, The Australian Centre for Photography, Issue #45. Paddington, Australia,
Titterington, Chris. Simone Douglas, Aberrations, Creative Camera, Dec/Jan issue, Cornerhouse publications, United Kingdom
Recent Acquisitions, The Victoria and Albert Museum. London, United Kingdom
1994 Charity, Ruth. Simone Douglas: Aberrations, pub. The Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED GRANTS:
2015-16 Parsons School of Design, The New School. School Based Fund Grant. AMT
2013-14 Parsons School of Design, The New School. School Based Fund Grant. AMT
2015-16 Faculty research fund grant for Ice Boat. Parsons School of Design, The New School
2015 Faculty research fund grant for Promise. Parsons School of Design, The New School
2014 Faculty research fund grant for Promise. Parsons School of Design, The New School
2013 Faculty research fund grant for Promise. Parsons School of Design, The New School
AMT faculty grant for China Project. Parsons School of Design, The New School
2012 AMT faculty grant for China Project. Parsons School of Design, The New School
2011 AMT faculty grant for Sight = Site China Project. Parsons School of Design, The New School
AMT faculty grant for Stand In Landscape, Pingyao Festival of Photography, China. Parsons School of Design, The New School
AMT faculty grant for Noir Festival exhibition. Parsons School of Design, The New School.
2009 AMT faculty grant for IPO and Exquisite Corpse Project. Parsons School of Design, The New School
AMT faculty grant for ICERI conference. Parsons School of Design, The New School
AMT faculty grant for HICAH conference. Parsons School of Design, The New School
2006 – 08 International Program Development Fund, University of Sydney
2004 International Program Development Fund, University of Sydney
2001 Australia Council Special Project Grant (for First Draft Gallery)
NSW Ministry for the Arts (for First Draft Gallery)
2000 Australia Council Special Project Grant (for First Draft Gallery)
NSW Ministry for the Arts (for First Draft Gallery)
1999 Australia Council Special Project Grant (for First Draft Gallery)
NSW Ministry for the Arts (for First Draft Gallery).
1996 New Work Grant. British United Provident Association