Maria Kozic
MARIA KOZIC |
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| 1957 |
Born Melbourne, Australia |
| 1978 |
Diploma of Art, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1980 |
Post Graduate Diploma, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1999 |
Currently lives and works in New York |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 1999 |
Calendar Girl, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1996 |
The End, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Australian Contemporary Art Fair 5, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne |
| 1994 |
Pulse Mk2, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne I, Woman, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1993 |
Birth of Blue Boy, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong; regional tour (1993 - 1994) |
| 1992 |
MKART, Contemporary Art Archive, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Double Trouble, Ian Potter Gallery, Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Birth of Blue Boy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| 1991 |
T.I.T.S., City Gallery, Melbourne Pulse, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1990 |
Two Faced, City Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1989 |
Help, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1988 |
Maria Kozic, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1987 |
Two New Works, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1986 |
This Is It, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1984 |
Monsters From the Id, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1983 |
The Kozic Collection, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney The Kozic Collection, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart |
| 1982 |
Animal Vegetable Mineral, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1981 |
Maria Kozic, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne |
| 1979 |
I Was a Teenage Pyjama, Oz Print Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1978 |
Kangaroo and His Pals, Organ Factory, Melbourne |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 1998 |
Cartooning and Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art Gallery and touring regionally |
| 1997 |
Multiplication: the multiple object in art, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1996 |
Compost, Norwood, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Australia: Familiar & Strange, Seoul Art Centre, Korea Blue Boy, SoHo Festival, New York Cherry Twins, Festival of Sydney, Sydney |
| 1995 |
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Penisular Regional Gallery, Mornington |
| 1994 |
John McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Creative and Inventive: Australian Women’s Art in the N.G.V., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1993 |
Wit’s End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
| 1992 |
Fuel, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne SKIN, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide The Phallus and its Functions, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize, McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin Works on Paper, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1991 |
The Graphic of Contemporary Comics, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Artists Make Books, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Freedom from Choice, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne Perspecta 1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Melbourne Fuel, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Early and Recent Work by 8 Contemporary Artists, City Gallery, Melbourne The Hypothesis of Imitation, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane Opening Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| 1990 |
Art with Text, Monash University Gallery, Monash University Greenpeace Artists' Benefit, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Add Magic, touring on-site billboard project in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Wollongong, Newcastle, Hobart & Melbourne (organised by Australian Centre for Photography) On Kawara - Today & Selected Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, (Biennale of Sydney satellite exhibition) Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney For Real Now, (multi-site outdoor art exhibition) Hoorn, Holland Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne |
| 1989 |
The Moet and Chandon Art Prize Touring Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; and touring State galleries The Intimate Object, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne The Bicentennial Print Folio Touring Exhibition, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; touring state galleries Contemporary Drawing, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong; Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, Shepparton Heidelberg and Heritage, Linden Gallery, Melbourne 9 x 5 - Wilderness Society exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1988 |
1968-1988 Selected Works, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Sighting References, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne The Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art: Selected Works, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne A Horse Show, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne The Cocktail Party, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1987 |
Chaos, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Innocence and Danger, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne 3rd Sculpture Triennial, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Sighting References, Wellington National Gallery, New Zealand; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1986 |
Fears and Scruples, University Gallery, University of Melbourne Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice |
| 1985 |
Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Image Codes, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Pleasure of the Gaze, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth |
| 1984 |
Animal Imagery in Art, Victorian regional galleries tour The Romance Show, Lake Macquarie Gallery, Newcastle Fashion 84, Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne |
| 1983 |
From Another Continent - Australia, ARC Museum of Modern Art, Paris Australian Perspecta 83, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney A Melbourne Mood, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Pirates & Mutineers, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Against the Wall - the Mitchell Endowment, University Gallery, University of Melbourne Australian Art in Amsterdam, Galerie Biederberg/Muller, Amsterdam Vox Pop, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1982 |
Popism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne New Painting, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney New Directions, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Ten Year Survey - The Phillip Morris Arts Grant, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Art in the Mechanical Age of Reproduction, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Installations - 3 Aspects, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide The First Ten Years - the Phillip Institute of Technology, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne Fashion 82, Seaview Ballroom, Melbourne |
| 1981 |
4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Line & Feline, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1980 |
Post-Graduate Exhibition, Pitspace Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1978 |
Australian Print Council touring exhibition 3rd Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne |
COMMISSIONS |
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| 1996 |
Autopsy, a play by theArena Theatre Company, Melbourne - set design by Maria Kozic |
| 1992 |
Blue Boy, Public Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| 1988 |
Bicentennial Print Commission |
| 1987 |
Installation for Bicentennial Commission Travelling Pavilion |
| 1982 |
Christmas Tree, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
PRIZES AND AWARDS |
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| 1994 |
Fellowship, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council |
| 1994 |
First Prize, Alice Springs, Digital Art Prize |
| 1992 |
First Prize, Melbourne Savage Club Invitational Art Prize |
COLLECTIONS |
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National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Artbank Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Monash University, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery Geelong Art Gallery Private Collections |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Critical Writings Blue Boy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1992 Annear, Judy (Ed) Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995 Brophy, Philip “A Face Without a Place”, Art & Text No. 16, Melbourne, 1985 Brophy, Philip “Art History - Pop History - Cinema History”, Maria Kozic's Western Spaghetti: Venice Biennale '86, catalogue essay, 1987 Brophy, Philip Art Dumb, catalogue essay, 1983 Brophy, Philip Monsters from the Id, catalogue essay, 1984 Cramer, Sue “MK Art”, MK Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1993 Duvall, Danielle Pages from Maria Kozic's book, Art & Text Monograph series #2, Ed. Paul Foss & Juan Davila, Sydney, 1987 Gates, Merryn “Take a Peek”, Australian Perspecta 1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1991 Martin, Adrian “Production for Use: Maria Kozic’s Semiotic Shuffle”, MK Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1993 Martin, Adrian “Scenes”, Art & Text No. 6, Melbourne, 1982 Martin, Adrian “The Desire of Maria Kozic”, Art & Text No.2, Melbourne, 1981 Martin, Adrian “Who Wants to Know? The Art of Maria Kozic”, Tension #13, Melbourne, 1988 Taylor, Paul (Ed) “Maria Kozic Spots the Difference” (excerpt), Art & Text/ZG, No 15, Melbourne, 1984 Webb, Penny “Two Faced”, Agenda 13/14, Melbourne, October 1990 Interviews/Articles Barden, Robin “Kozic”, Virgin Press #19, Melbourne, November 1982 Blakeney, Barry “Is It Tart?” People, August 29th 1989 Brown, Jenny “Shocking Slice Of Art's Seamy Side” Daily Telegraph, Melbourne, 28 July 1989 Camens, Jane “In Pursuit of Plainer Pleasures”, CLEO, Sydney, July 1979 Cochrane, Peter "The Talk of the Harbour; Maria's Shocking Boy Toy, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October 1992 Coomber, Scott “The Big Boob Cover Up”, People, November 1991 Gambotto, Antonella "The Bitch is Back", Mode, December-January 1993/4 Hawker, Phillipa “An Artist with Simple Mystery”, The Age, Melbourne, 4 October 1982 Langley, Kim “Framed”, Vogue Australia, May 1992 Lumby, Cathy “What is it?”, Follow Me, Sydney, August 1986 Martin, Adrian “Maria Kozic is Bitch”, Art & Australia, Vol. 29, #1, Sydney, 1991 McCullough, Susan “Pumpkin Seed Dresses and Five Metre High Giraffes”, The Australian, Sydney, 17 October 1982 McGillick, Paul “What is This Thing Called Pop?”, Vogue, Sydney, February 1983 Prior, Fiona “Botticelli Meets the Brandy Bunch”, Stiletto, April/May 1986 Wertheim, Margaret “The Shape of Things to Come”, Pol, August 1983 Wilmoth, Peter “Northcote Nightmare”, The Age, Melbourne, 29 September 1990 Artist's Publications Maria Kozic's Western Spaghetti: Venice Biennale '86, catalogue, 1986 Things No. 1, March 1988 Things No. 2, June 1988 Things No. 3, September 1988 Things No. 4, September 1989 Dynomite No. 1, March 1991 Artist's Films One Tail for Two Dogs, Super 8, 1981 Manless, Super 8, 1981 Snap Crackle Die, Super 8/video 1988 |
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FILM SCREENINGS |
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| 1981 |
Organ Factory, Melbourne |
| 1982 |
Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne “The Super 8 Phenomenon” Australian Film Institute 3rd Sydney Super 8 Festival, Sydney “Artists' Films” Australian National Gallery, Melbourne “Popism” National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne “Film Work” Backstage Theatre, Hobart |
| 1983 |
Houdini Cinema, Zurich “Continuum 83” Tokyo “Filmmakers’ Visions” Auckland & Wellington Art Galleries, New Zealand “Anzart” Hobart “Artspace Film Screenings” Artspace, Sydney “Super 8/Video Overload” Glass House Cinema, Melbourne “Recent Films by Australian Artists” Australian National Gallery, Canberra |
| 1985 |
“Perspecta 85” Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney Fringe Festival, Melbourne |
| 1986 |
Leicester International Super 8 Festival, Leicester Glass House Cinema, Melbourne Fringe Film Festival, Melbourne |
| 1989 |
State Film Centre, Melbourne |
| 1992 |
Melbourne Cinamateque, Melbourne Fatal visions Film Festival, Sydney |
OTHER ACTIVITIES |
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From 1978 onwards involved with performance, music, film, video and installations Set designer of Autopsy, Arena Theatre Company, 1996 Director of MK Productions since 1986 Director of HUMONGOUS Publications since 1988 Formed MARIA KOZIC AND THE MK SOUND in 1990 - released 4 tracks on THE PRESENT COMPILATION CD, February 1991 Released “Viral Pulse”, in 1992. Solo CD Album of Maria Kozic and MK Sound, PRESENT RECORD |