V I V I E N N E S H A R K L e W I T T

Born Sale, Victoria, Australia 1.9.1956
Diploma of Fine Art, Tasmanian CAE, School of Art Hobart, 1978
Post-Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, Alexander Mackie CAE, Sydney, 1981

Solo Exhibitions

Vivienne Shark-Lewitt, Comedies and Proverbs, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Misc. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Disorientalism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Pardon my sarong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Sorority Virtues, Anna Schwartz Gallery at Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

Works on Paper, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

The Egg & I, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Works on Paper, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

See Here Now, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne

It's A Beautiful Day New Painting in Australia 2, Art Gallery of New South Wales July-Oct, touring exhibition

Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Telstra Exchange Building, Melbourne
Take my wife, Ist Floor, Melbourne

Cartoons & Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art Gallery

Bus Stop Art, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts

Imagining the Real, Parliament House, Canberra
Lovers, Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Melbourne

Double Vision, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Loti & Victor Smorgon Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The Nude 1992, Sara Weis Award, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne

Rivers in Australian Art, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne

Aus Australien, (Edition Rene Block, Berlin, 1988), NGV, Melbourne

From the Southern Cross: 7th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales

The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, AGNSW, Sydney (touring Germany)

Origins, Originality + Beyond, 6th Biennale of Sydney, AGNSW

Australian Visions, Solomon R. Guggenhheim Museum, New York USA
Meaning & Excellence, ANZART in Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland

Le Reve et Le Reel, Musee d'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris, Paris
Australian Perspecta 1983, AGNSW, Sydney
The End of Civilization Part II: Love Among the Ruins, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

New Painting, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Artists Books/Bookworks, EAF, Adelaide; Franklin Furnace, New York

Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Baillieu Myer Collection, Melbourne
B.P. Collection, Melbourne
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Australia Bank Collection,
National Gallery of Victoria (ICI Collection)
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Smorgon Collection, MCA Sydney
St.Kilda Collection, Melbourne
University of Melbourne
University of Queensland
Vizard Collection, Melbourne

Bibliography

Hannah Fink, “Vivienne Shark LeWitt,” See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, editors Chris MacAuliffe and Sue Harvey, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Victoria, p. 126, 127

Andrew Frost, “It's A Beautiful Day: New Painting in Australia 2,” Australian Art Collector (NSW Previews), Issue 23, Jan - Mar 2003

Anne Loxley, “All ages show leaves one lusting after virtuosity,” Sydney Morning Herald - Metropolitan, Wednesday, November 27, 2002, p.16

It's A Beautiful Day: New Painting in Australia 2, Ian Potter Museum of Art & Art Gallery of New South, touring exhibition 2002 - 2003, p. 14,15

Bruce Hainley, Spellbound review, Artforum, January 2000
Juliana Engberg, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Signs of Life catalogue, MIB 1999
Anna Clabburn, Whimsy in the White Cube, Catalogue, Geelong Art Gallery 1998
Juliana Engberg, review, Art & Text, Aug - Oct 1997
Deborah Hart Imagining the Real: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions from the Parliament House Art Collections, exh. cat., 1996
Edward Colless, `Love's Limbo: Vivienne Shark LeWitt,' The Error of My Ways, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1995

Naomi Cass, catalogue essay, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Roslyn Oxley Gallery9, 1995

Felicity Fenner, “Galleries,” Sydney Morning Herald, Friday June 30, 1995
Robyn McKenzie, Vivienne Shark LeWitt Works on Paper, Roslyn Oxley Gallery9, 1994
D. Williams and C. Simpson, Art Now, Contemporary Art Post 1970, McGraw-Hill, 1994
Susan McCulloch, Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, 1994
Robert Rooney, `The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize',The Weekend Australian, 5/3/94
Robyn McKenzie, `What Girls Like', Art & Text, September 1993
Eve Sullivan, `Wit as Diversion/Subversion', Art Monthly, August 1992
Mark Pennings, `Vivienne Shark LeWitt', Agenda May 1991

Jo Saurin, “Portfolio's key is confidence,” Sydney Morning Herald, Friday December 7, 1990, p. 14 (Arts)
Frances Lindsay, Australian Contemporary Painting Craftsman Press, 1990
Edward Colless, `Love's Limbo: Paintings of Vivienne Shark LeWitt', Art & Text 29 1988
Bruce Adams, “Melbourne art keeps its cool,” Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May 1987

Robyn McKenzie, The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta Catalogue AGNSW 1987
Cathy Lumby & David Messer, `Personal Icons', Follow Me December1986
Patricia Simons, `6th Biennale of Sydney', Burlington Magazine. London September1986
Peter Cripps, Interviews With Artists, Institute of Modern Art , Brisbane 1986

Return to Sender exh. cat., Tasmanian School of Art, Mt. Nelson Campus, University of Tasmania, p. 10 - 15
Paul Taylor, `Civilization and its Discontents', Flash Art January1985, p. 67- 69
Robin Barden, `Love & Fear, Vivienne Shark LeWitt', Tension 6 1985
Terence Maloon, “LeWitt and Arkely show why young artists still dare to be different,” Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday May 12, 1984, p. 46

Jenny Watson, "Urgent Images", Art & Text 14, Winter 1984
Memory Holloway, `Art Attack', Harpers Bazaar Australia, September 1984
Judy Annear, `Us in the U.S.', Vogue Australia, August 1984
Judy Annear `The Allegory of Vivienne Shark LeWitt',On The Beach Winter 1984
J.Engberg `Australian Visual Artists at The Edinburgh Festival 1984' Studio International 197,1984
Bernice Murphy `Recent Painting in Australia', Flash Art January 1983, p. 56-59
The International Trans-Avantgarde (Ed. A.Bonita Oliva) Milan 1983
Robin Barden `The End of Civilization', Tension 2 1983
Anne Dagbert, `Australian Perspecta', Art Press Paris October 1983

By the artist
Catalogue essay, Caroline Williams, Viva Australia: Out of my mind, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 2000
Cartoon illustrations, Like, Art Magazine, #1 October 1996, #2 March 1997, and # 3 Winter 1997, Melbourne.
Art School Artfan, Summer 1996/97, Melbourne
Catalogue essay "Exactly." (curated by VSLW), 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne June 1996
`Paul Taylor 1957-1992', Obituary, Art & Text 44, January 1993
Artist's pages, Pataphysics Issue F 1990, Melbourne
Catalogue essay, Other People, (co-curator) ACCA, Melbourne 1985
Cover illustration, Art & Text Winter 1984
`In The Desert', Stuff, August1983
`Tattslotto', Stuff, February1983
`The End of Civilization Part II: Love Among the Ruins', Art & Text, Winter 1983
`Why Egyptian Mods etc.', Art &Text, Spring 1981

Awards

VACB Project Grant

VAB Travel Grant