DAVID GRIGGS

Born 1975 Sydney, Australia. Lives and works Manila, Philippines

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

The sort of black claymore paintings, PABLO Gallery, Manila

Zombie Kiss, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

New York Paris London Rome Manila City Jail, MOP Projects, Sydney

New York Paris London Rome Manila City Jail, presented in cooperation with Asialink and Australian Embassy - Manila, and Green Papaya Art Projects - Manila

All I want is peace in the Middle East, a blow-job, and a free T-shirt, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

David Griggs at IMA@TCB, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Blood on the Streets, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

Blood on the Streets, Artspace, Sydney

Exchanging Culture for Flesh, Level 2 Contemporary Project Space, Art Gallery of New South

Wales, Sydney

Bleeding Hearts Club, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

The Buko Police, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila

Destination Disaster, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Outside History, The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Sydney

Outside History, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

Radio Death Camp, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

Me Against My Brother, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Inversion of the Ideal, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz

Painting with a hammer to nail the crotch of civilization, Manila Contemporary, Manila

Bastards of Misrepresentation (doing time on Filipino time) Freies Museum, Berlin

Free Range Aesthetics: Pussyfooting Through the Detritus Mind Field of Reality, Skyline Gallery, San Francisco

Disorder Disorder Ulterior Motives in Contempororary Art, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney

Post Criminal, David Griggs + Adam Cullen, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

The Death of Death (is alive and kicking), Art Center, Manila

Twenty/20, UTS-Gallery, Sydney

CODED, Blacktown Arts Center, Sydney

Fluid Zones: Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia

Group Show, MO Space, Manila, Philippines

Under my skin, Asialink touring exhibition

Neo Goth - back in black, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Hijacked, curated by Mark McPherson, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Australian, curated by Nicholas Tsoutas, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney

Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

The Independence Project, GALERIE PETRONAS, Malaysia and Gertrude Contemporary Art

Spaces, Melbourne

God Captured Like Fossilized Dung: New Art from the Third World, Firstdraft, Sydney and Inflight, Hobart

NADA Art Fair, Uplands Gallery Booth E4, Miami

End of Year Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, Tarrawarra Biennial (curated by Victoria Lynn), Tarrawarra

Museum of Art, Healesville

Fantastic Voyage, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

Winners are Grinners (curated by Hannah Matthews), The Meat Market, Melbourne

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney

Hardwired (curated by Robert Wellington), Firstdraft, Sydney

Freedman Foundation, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney

The Centenary of Wild Beasts, MOP Projects, Sydney

Out of the Blue, MOP Projects, Sydney

Rude Shock, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney

Group Show, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

GG Allen Breaks the Window, Inflight, Hobart

Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

The Beetles, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney

Balance of Power, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA

Not All Heroes and Legends, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

The Fucken Weird Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

Anita and Beyond (curated by Lisa Havilah), Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney

Octopus 3 (curated by Charlotte Day), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

OBJECTion (curated by Tim Silver and Russell Storer), Sarah Cottier, Sydney

OBJECTion (curated by Tim Silver and Russell Storer), The Physics Room, Christchurch, New

Zealand

Black to Basics, 1st Floor, Melbourne

Black to Basics, Rubyayre, Sydney

Bootcamp, Block, Sydney

Australian Painters at the Millennium, Imperial Slacks, Sydney

Skulls and Solicitors, Gallery 4A, Sydney

Qintex, Smith and Stonely, Brisbane

Dazzle (curated by Russell Storer and Andrew Mcqualter), 1st Floor, Melbourne

Hack, Grey Matter Contemporary Art, Sydney

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney

Fibro, Australian Perspecta, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

Vietnam Voices, Casula Powerhouse Arts Center, Sydney

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, COFA Gallery, Sydney

GRANTS / AWARDS / COMMISSIONS

Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Artist Commission: Frog boy's dissertation into a new karaoke cult

Primavera Artist Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art

International Program, Overseas Travel Grant, NSW Ministry for the Arts

Freedman Foundation Travelling Art Scholarship for emerging artists

Winner of the Willoughby City Art Prize, Painting

Sir William Dobell Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts

RESIDENCIES

Green Papaya Art Projects, Philippines, Asialink Residency Program

Barcelona Studio, Australia Council for the Arts, Spain

Artspace Studio Residency, Sydney

Ateneo University Manila, Asialink Residency Program

Artspace Studios, Sydney

Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney

Mae Sot, Thai/Burma border

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

`Bastards of Misrepresentation: Doing time on Filipino time' Freies Museum, Berlin essays by Kevin

Power and Arvin Flores

`David Griggs - Zombie Kiss' catalogue, Uplands Gallery, essay by Jarrod Rawlins

`Art, Jail Style', Philippine Daily Enquirer, May 24, 2009, p. A19-20, by Gerry Lirio

`New Visions, Alternative Platforms', C Arts Asian Contemporary Art & Culture, Vol. 7, March/April, 2009 p. 46, by Eugene Tan

`Not a Dead Astronaut' Art World, Issue 4, August/September 2008, p. 88-95

`Let's All Go to Iraq', UN Magazine, Issue 2.1, March 2008, p. 46-49, by Fayen d'Evie

`Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand', edited by Art & Australia, Sydney, 2008

`Notes on a Freak Show', Melbourne Art Fair 08, catalogue essay, by Ramon E.S. Lerma

`Under my skin', Asialink touring exhibition, curated by Sarah Bond and Georgia Sedgwick, artist interview

`Blessed Grunge', Art Asia Pacific, no. 52, March/April 2007, p. 84-87, by Gina Fairley

`Seeing the world with blood in his eyes', catalogue essay for Blood on the Streets, Uplands Gallery,

by Ramon E.S. Lerma

`Exchanging Culture for Flesh', Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects, catalogue

#1.06, essay by Fergus Armstrong

`Winners are Grinners', Hijacked #9, catalogue, 60 pages, essay by Hannah Matthews

`David Griggs', Strange Cargo: Contemporary Art as a State of Encounter, exhibition catalogue, p. 34-35

Art Monthly Australia, March 2006 number 187, Art Notes NSW, p. 44

`The Buko Police', catalogue, 76 color pages, published in conjunction with The Buko Police, Green

Papaya Art Projects, Manila

`Hooded spectre of Abu Ghraib has his revenge', SMH, Rachel Roberts, April 21, p. 8

`Report from Sydney,' Commercial Venues, Art in America, Lilly Wei, December, p. 63

`Destination Disaster', Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, catalogue, 8 pages, essay by Paul Curran

Art Monthly, `Anita and Beyond', Jeremy Eccles, June, no. 160, p. 6-7

HQ, `Difficult Art', Lee Tram, March, p. 16-17

`Anita Cobby', Financial Review, John McDonald, March, p. 63-65

Octopus 3 catalogue, essay Charlotte Day, curator

Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, David Griggs - Shaun Gladwell, Kit Messham-Muir, issue 46,

p.49-50

`Uncovering Australia's art stars', Australian Art Collector, Alexie Glass, April-June, p. 71-72

`Art and Childhood, Play things-some contemporary artists and there objects,' Artlink, Russell Storer, vol. 21, no 2, p. 37-41

`Questions of curatorship: Connoisseurs or Cultists', Postwest, Russell Storer, issue 16, p. 30-31

`Hack,' Blair French, Art and Text, issue 69, May-July, p. 90

1998 Monument Architecture and Design, issue 29, p. 34

COLLECTIONS

Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

University of Queensland

Joyce Nissan Collection, Melbourne

Powerhouse Museum

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

Tamworth Regional Gallery

Private collections