James Angus - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

	JAMES ANGUS Born 1970, Australia 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
2008	Triple V, Dijon, France 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 Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA
2002	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
1999	Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA
1997	Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA
1995	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
1994	200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1991	Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
	SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008	To make a work of timeless art: MCA Primavera Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney [upcoming] 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, 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
	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
	PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2008	National Portrait Galley, Canberra ConnectEast, Melbourne
2003	Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney
1999	Public Art Fund, New York
	SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
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
	SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
	Ara Jansen, “Twisted Reality”, West Australian Newspaper, 15 December 2007. Charles Robb and Wes Hill, `James Angus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,' Eyeline, number 64, pp56-57 “James Angus,” National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition (exh. cat.), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p.13 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 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) ArtLife, “It's a Truck!,” http://artlife.blogspot.com Monday, August 30 2004 Carsten Probst, “Face Up - Zeitgenössiche australische Kunst im Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin,” DeutschlandFunk - `Kultur heute', 2 October 2003, 5.35pm 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 Art and Australia, Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, 2008, p44 B.R. “Berlin: Opération séduction, L'oeil, Dezember 2003 Broadsheet interview with Linda Michael for 2006 Adelaide Biennial, Broadsheet, Vol. 35 No. 1, March - May 2006 pp. 24 - 27 Barrett-Lennard, J. Artlink, Summer 1991/2 Berlino, A, “Face Up. L'arte australiana va forte,” Arte, December 2003 Bevan, Robert `art & events', Vogue Living Australia, January/February 2007, pp. 69 - 72 Bogle, A. Transformers cat. Auckland Art Gallery, 1996 Bonami, Francesco Unfinished History cat. Walker Art Center 1998 Boriani, Glenda “artsaustralia berlin 03,” tema celeste, (1), No.100, November/December 2003 Boyd, Chris `Both literal and figurative', The Weekend Australian Financial Review, September 2 - 3, 2006, pp. 32 - 33 Burns, Karen, “About Face,” Monument, no. 58, January 2004, p. 38 Chapman, C. Eyeline, October, 2000 Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. (ed.) 2008 Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions - Forms That Turn, exh.cat. Thames & Hudson: Australia, 2008 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 Crone, Bridget, “Face Up: Contemporary Australian Art in Berlin,” Art & Australia, vol. 41, no. 3, Autumn 2004, p. 386, 387 Delaney, Max, “Skeletons in the closet: from the monument to the model - sculpture in the Collection,” Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Dick, T, “Right wavelength keeps career going upwards,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Friday, 8 August 2003, p.12 Duncan, Jenepher, “James Angus,” Wall Power (exh. cat.), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2005 (unpaginated) Duncan, Jenepher and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p. 45 - 51 Engberg, Juliana, `The Body in the Box: Callum Morton and James Angus', Art and Australia, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2005, pp. 580 - 587 “Face Up: Contemporary Australian Art,” review, Flash Art, October 2003, vol. 36, no. 232, p. 46 “Face up - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Australien,” http://www.literaturipp.com/rezensionen2003/faceUp.html Fortescue, Elizabeth `Off the Wall - James Angus at the Museum of Contemporary Art', Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2006, p. 63 Gallerie d'Art & Co, “A Bocca Aperte: In Australia `'arte riesce a togliere il fiato,” 2005 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 Grayson, Richard, “The Downside up Show,” Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 4, 2/2003 - 12/2004 Green, Stephanie, “Review: Gulliver's Travels, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts,” Object, no. 43, 2003, p. 89 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 Hunt, D. Art/text, February, 2000 Johnson, K. The New York Times, September 23, 1997 Fehrenkamp, A. Sculpture, January/February, 2000 Hynes, V and Pryor L. “James Angus - 2002 Biennale of Sydney” Sydney Morning Herald feature, May 2002 Israel, Glenis artwise contemporary: visual arts 10-12, John Wiley & Sons, Qld. 2005 pp. 7 - 13 Jinman, Richard, `It's a shift to the right for this old racer', The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, September 13, 2006, p. 13 Koop, S. Monument, February/March, 2001 Low, Lenny Ann, “Sculptor becomes truckie in the name of art,” Sydney Morning Herald, August 6, 2004 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 McKenzie, Dr. Janet, “FACE UP,” Studio International, UK, 4 December McNeil, D. 1996 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art cat. AGSA 1996 Meagher, Caroline, “Bridging the Gap,” State of the Arts, October - December 2003 Michael, L. PRIMAVERA cat. MCA Sydney, 1992 Nelson, Robert, `Sport: where we all find our inner idiot', The Age, August 13, 2008, p. 16 Newall, M. Like, February 2001 Palmer, D. “A Surrealist Party Tape”, Critical Interventions - Biennale of Sydney 2002, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney Palmer, Daniel, `Looking Back: Retrospectives', Frieze, mo. 104, December - January 2007, p. 128, p. 130 Rees, Simon, “Still Life: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,” Flash Art, vol. 36 no. 233, November -December 2003, p. 51 Saltz, J. Time Out New York, October 7-14, 1997 Scarlett, Ken, `No stopping on the freeway!', Australian Art Review, August-October, 2008, pp.34-36 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) Smee, Sebastian, “Watch out for sharp bends”, The Australian, Monday September 25, 2006 Stringer, John `James Angus at Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth', Art & Text, #45, May 1993, p.80 Sundell, M. Artforum, November, 1999 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) The Blurb, “Keep on Truckin',” http://www.theblurb.com.au/Issue44/JamesAngus.htm Wahjudi, Claudia, “Face up - Xeitgenösshiche Kunst aus Australien,” Austellungen, Kunstforum International, Bd. 168, 01/02/2004 Von Thomas Joerdens, “Poppig und gefährlich,” Oranienburger Generalanzeiger, 7 October 2003
	PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
	Austcorp, Sydney 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 Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago