James Angus - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

	JAMES ANGUS Born 1970, Perth, Australia Lives New York
	EDUCATION
1998	Completed Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Yale University School of Art
1990	Completed Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Curtin University of Technology
	SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013	James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia James Angus, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA
2011-12	James Angus, Triple V, Paris, France
2010	James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008	James Angus, Triple V, Paris, France James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007	James Angus, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth curated by Rachel Kent
2006	James Angus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney curated by Rachel Kent James Angus and three Sculptures, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York
2004	Truck Corridor, Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney James Angus, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA
2002	James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000	James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia James Angus, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand James Angus, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia James Angus, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
1999	James Angus, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA
1997	James Angus, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA
1995	James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia James Angus, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
1994	James Angus, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1991	James Angus, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
	SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012	Your Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Science Fiction #3, Triple V, Paris, France. Changwon Sculpture Biennale, South Korea Sculpture Park at Frieze New York, New York.
2011	GROUPS WHO, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Out of the West: Art of Western Australia from the National Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2010 - 2011	MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2009	Cubism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2008	To make a work of timeless art: MCA Primavera Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Lucky Town, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
2007	The Freak Show, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France Group Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Strange Cargo: Contemporary art as a state of encounter, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Tweed River Regional Gallery
2006	21^st Century Modern, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Random Access, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
2005	MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Wall Power, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia C'town Bling, curator Anne Loxley, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, Australia National Sculpture Prize exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2004	Gridlock: cities, structures, spaces, curator Simon Rees, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand Contemporary Collection Benefactors: 12^th Annnual Dinner & Art Auction, CCB, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2003/04	Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, September 2003 - July 2004
2003	Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin GBE (Modern), Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York Fair Game: Art + Sport, NGV Response Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Still Life: Inaugural Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Gulliver's Travels, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Parkside, South Australia
2002	Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (the world may be) fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, curated by Richard Grayson, Sydney Gulliver's Travels, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania; Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
2000	The Age of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Never Never Land, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
1999	New Urban Sculpture, Public Art Fund, New York
1998	Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1997	Penumbrae, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Animal Instincts, Art Gallery of South Australia
1996	Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia Transformers, Auckland City Art Gallery Hans Accola, James Angus, Fischli and Weiss, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
1994	Mind over Matter, Art Gallery of Western Australia
1993	115 degrees 58 minutes East, 91 degrees 56 minutes South, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Movement and Light, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992	ARX 3 (Artists' Regional Exchange), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia PRIMAVERA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
	SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013	Nicholas Forrest, `Shows that Matter - James Angus Recreates Space at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Blouin Art Info, February 8 2013 Sharne Wolff, `James Angus', The Art Life, February 9 2013, http://theartlife.com.au/2013/james-angus/
2012	Henriette Bretton-Meyer and James Angus, 'Between science and fictions', MCA Collection Volume One, (Sydney: MCA, 2012) pp168-174
2010	`Gallery's new work has many faces', Border Mail, 27 October, 2009, p.9 Pryor, Sally, `Not just another face in the crowd', Canberra Times, 27 October, 2010, p.1 Katrina Strickland, `Mid-City Statement- The evolution of a major new sculpture,' The Australian Financial Review, Thursday 29, July, pp.44 Andrew Taylor, `Tractor as art', The Sun Herald, October 17, 2010, pp 36
2009	Bolland, Michaela, `Orange blob replaces white man on horse', The Australian, 27 October, 2009, p.6 Chapman, Christopher, `Abstraction and figuration', Portrait34, Summer ed, 2009 Strickland, Katrina, `Mid city statement: the evolution of a major new sculpture', Financial Review, 29 July, 2009, p.44 'James Angus', To make a work of timeless art-MCA Primavera Acquisitions, 08-09
2008	Art and Australia, Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, 2008, p44 Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. (ed.) 2008 Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions - Forms That Turn, exh.cat. Thames & Hudson: Australia, 2008 Scarlett, Ken, `No stopping on the freeway!', Australian Art Review, August-October, 2008, pp.34-36 Nelson, Robert, `Sport: where we all find our inner idiot', The Age, August 13, 2008, p. 16
2007	Ara Jansen, “Twisted Reality”, West Australian Newspaper, 15 December 2007 Bevan, Robert `art & events', Vogue Living Australia, January/February 2007, pp. 69 - 72 Palmer, Daniel, `Looking Back: Retrospectives', Frieze, mo. 104, December - January 2007, p. 128, p. 130
2006	Angus, James, James Angus, Art and Australia, 2006 (published to accompany the exhibition of James Angus curated by Rachel Kent at the Museum of Contemporary Art) Broadsheet interview with Linda Michael for 2006 Adelaide Biennial, Broadsheet, Vol. 35 No. 1, March - May 2006 pp. 24 - 27 Boyd, Chris `Both literal and figurative', The Weekend Australian Financial Review, September 2 - 3, 2006, pp. 32 - 33 Clement, T. `Collision Theory', in the Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, January 13-19, 2006 p. 19 Cook, Robert, `James Angus', 21^st Century Modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art catalogue, curated by Linda Michael, published by Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2006 pp. 18-19 Fortescue, Elizabeth `Off the Wall - James Angus at the Museum of Contemporary Art', Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2006, p. 63 Jinman, Richard, `It's a shift to the right for this old racer', The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, September 13, 2006, p. 13 Smee, Sebastian, “Watch out for sharp bends”, The Australian, Monday September 25, 2006 Charles Robb and Wes Hill, `James Angus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,' Eyeline, number 64, pp56-57
2005	“James Angus,” National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition (exh. cat.), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p.13 Duncan, Jenepher, “James Angus,” Wall Power (exh. cat.), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2005 (unpaginated) Engberg, Juliana, `The Body in the Box: Callum Morton and James Angus', Art and Australia, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2005, pp. 580 - 587 Gallerie d'Art & Co, “A Bocca Aperte: In Australia `'arte riesce a togliere il fiato,” 2005 Israel, Glenis artwise contemporary: visual arts 10-12, John Wiley & Sons, Qld. 2005 pp. 7 - 13 Margaret Marsh, Michele Watts and Craig Malyon A.R.T. 2 practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2005 p. 212-23 MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, exhibition catalogue, Sydney 2005 p 6, 24 Sydney Morning Herald, “Stories Revisited: The semiotics of installation,” (refers to Lenny Ann Low, August 6, 2004), ed. Matt Buchanan, January 7, 2005, p. 26 (Summer Spectrum)
2004	ArtLife, “It's a Truck!,” http://artlife.blogspot.com Monday, August 30 2004 Burns, Karen, “About Face,” Monument, no. 58, January 2004, p. 38 Crone, Bridget, “Face Up: Contemporary Australian Art in Berlin,” Art & Australia, vol. 41, no. 3, Autumn 2004, p. 386, 387 Grayson, Richard, “The Downside up Show,” Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 4, 2/2003 - 12/2004 Higson, Rosalie, “Truckload of meanings squeezed for a tease,” The Australian, August 6, 2004 Hill, Peter, “Keep on Truckin',” Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), August 14 - 15, 2004, p. 8 - 9 Hill, Peter, “Join the Red Dots,” Spectrum, Sept 25-26, 2004, p. 8 Holubizky, Ihor, Truck Corridor, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004 Low, Lenny Ann, “Sculptor becomes truckie in the name of art,” Sydney Morning Herald, August 6, 2004 Wahjudi, Claudia, “Face up - Xeitgenösshiche Kunst aus Australien,” Austellungen, Kunstforum International, Bd. 168, 01/02/2004 The Blurb, “Keep on Truckin',” http://www.theblurb.com.au/Issue44/JamesAngus.htm
2003	Angus, James, “On making Manta Ray,” Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, exhibition catalogue, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2003, p.59 Carsten Probst, “Face Up - Zeitgenössiche australische Kunst im Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin,” DeutschlandFunk - `Kultur heute', 2 October 2003 Angus, James, “Manta Ray: In search of perfect ambiguity,” Art & Australia, 40^th Anniversary Issue, Winter, vol. 40, no. 4, 2003, p. 580, 581 Apthorp, Shirley, “Urban work smashes cliches: Berlin is set to experience the cutting edge of Australian art,” The Australian, Tuesday, 30 September 2003, p. 15 B.R. “Berlin: Opération séduction, L'oeil, Dezember 2003 Berlino, A, “Face Up. L'arte australiana va forte,” Arte, December 2003 Boriani, Glenda “artsaustralia berlin 03,” tema celeste, (1), No.100, November/December 2003 Dick, T, “Right wavelength keeps career going upwards,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Friday, 8 August 2003, p.12 Duncan, Jenepher and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p. 45 - 51 Grayson, Richard, “James Angus,” Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, exhibition catalogue, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2003, p. 60, 61 Green, Stephanie, “Review: Gulliver's Travels, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts,” Object, no. 43, 2003, p. 89 Meagher, Caroline, “Bridging the Gap,” State of the Arts, October - December 2003 Rees, Simon, “Still Life: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,” Flash Art, vol. 36 no. 233, November -December 2003, p. 51 “Face Up: Contemporary Australian Art,” review, Flash Art, October 2003, vol. 36, no. 232, p. 46 Shineberg, Susan, “Triumph in the teeth of adversity,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2003 Shineberg, Susan, “In the jaws of Berlin's Great Whites, a taste of Australia,” The Age, Saturday, 4 October, 2003, p. 9 (News) Von Thomas Joerdens, “Poppig und gefährlich” Oranienburger Generalanzeiger, 7 October 2003 “Face up - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Australien,” http://www.literaturipp.com/rezensionen2003/faceUp.html McKenzie, Dr. Janet, “FACE UP,” Studio International, UK, 4 December, 2003
2002	Palmer, D. “A Surrealist Party Tape”, Critical Interventions - Biennale of Sydney 2002, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney Hynes, V and Pryor L. “James Angus - 2002 Biennale of Sydney” Sydney Morning Herald feature, May 2002 Delaney, Max, “Skeletons in the closet: from the monument to the model - sculpture in the Collection,” Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. 2002
2001	Koop, S. Monument, February/March, 2001 Newall, M. Like, February 2001
2000	Chapman, C. Eyeline, October, 2000 Hunt, D. Art/text, February, 2000 Fehrenkamp, A. Sculpture, January/February, 2000
1999	Sundell, M. Artforum, November, 1999
1998	Bonami, Francesco Unfinished History cat. Walker Art Center 1998
1997	Saltz, J. Time Out New York, October 7-14, 1997 Johnson, K. The New York Times, September 23, 1997
1996	McNeil, D. 1996 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art cat. AGSA 1996 Bogle, A. Transformers cat. Auckland Art Gallery, 1996
1993	Stringer, John `James Angus at Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth', Art & Text, #45, May 1993, p.80
1992	Michael, L. PRIMAVERA cat. MCA Sydney, 1992 Barrett-Lennard, J. Artlink, Summer 1991/2
	PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
	Newcastle Regional Art Gallery National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Monash University Gallery, Monash Austcorp, Sydney Murdoch University Art Collection, Perth Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
	PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2010	Day In Day Out, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Grow Your Own, Forrest Place, Perth
2009	Lycee Ferdinand Buisson, Voiron, France
	Geo Face Distributor, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2008	Ellipsoidal Freeway Sculpture, Eastlink Freeway, Connect East, Melbourne
2005	Wave Machine, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney
1999	New Urban Sculpture, Public Art Fund, New York
	SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2009	Australia Council Fellowship
2008	Basil Sellers Art Prize, Melbourne
2005	Short listed for National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia
2003	Studio residency, Cite des Arts, Paris
2001	Australia Council Professional Development Grant
1998	Australia Council Professional Development Grant Yale University Travelling Fellowship
1996	Fulbright Postgraduate Award
1992	Australian Network for Art and Technology Grant
	TEACHING
2008	Lecturer (design) University of Technology Sydney
2004	Lecturer (sculpture) Sydney College of the Arts Visiting fellow, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne
2003	Lecturer (sculpture) Sydney College of the Arts
2002	Lecturer (sculpture) Sydney College of the Arts
2000	Visiting artist workshop (sculpture), Curtin University of Technology
1998	Teaching assistant (sculpture), Yale University School of Art
1994	Tutor (architecture), Curtin University of Technology
1991	Tutor (sculpture), Curtin University of Technology