ARTIST CV

CV:  Talitha Kennedy  

talithark@gmail.com

www.talithakennedy.blogspot.com

STUDIES

2009 - 2012          
Master by Research in Visual Art, School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Darwin

1997 - 2001          
Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design (Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014       
Pervasive Flesh, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
Botany of the Heart, Nomad Art Gallery, Darwin
2013       
Hand Held Lands, Nomad Art Gallery, Darwin
2012       
Tricky Terrain, Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc (DVAA), Darwin

2011       
A homemaker’s guide to the Wilderness, Nan Giese Gallery, Charles Darwin University, Darwin

2009      
New World Romance, Box Set, 24HR Art: NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
As a bird, Darwin Experimental Art Space (DEAF) Space, Darwin

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014       
Deep Hollow (with Min Wong), Blindside, Melbourne
Something about multiphrenia (curated by Jonathan McBurnie), Drawing International Symposium, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
2014      
Not Fair, Satellite to Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
A General Map of Caves, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW
RendezVoodoo (curated by Brigid Noone), Fontanelle, Adelaide
2013      
Bah Humbug, D11 ARI, Melbourne
Envisioning Gods (curated by Siying Zhou), Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
It is what it is (curated by Tia McIntyre), Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW
ThingShow (curated by Benjamin Leslie), Fontanelle, Adelaide
2012      
End of the World, Fontanelle, Adelaide
New Territories, 24HR Art: NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
TogArt Contemporary Art Award, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin
Art on Wheels, DVAA mobile project, Darwin
Open Studios, Point B Worklodge, New York, USA
Off Cuts, Don Whyte Framing, Darwin

A Fine Line: Where craft meets art and design, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin

2011      
Up here and/or there, Yogyakarta Biennale, Indonesia
Backyard Wild, Nomad Art Gallery, Darwin

Impending Encounter (Anne Ooms, Catriona Stanton & Talitha Kennedy collaboration), 24HR Art: NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin 
Territory Time (curated by Siying Zhou), Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin
Artists @ Work: DVAA Board, Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc (DVAA), Darwin

2010    
Adaptation, Sarah Pirrie & Talitha Kennedy, Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc (DVAA), Darwin
Critical Generosity (curated by Brigid Noone), FELT Space, Adelaide

2009      
The Point: Postgraduate group show, Charles Darwin University, Darwin
Threshold People, PARALLAX: Venice Biennale 09 Invigilators, Venice, Italy

2008      
Sculpture in the Park, Civic Park, Darwin
Territory Gothic, Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc (DVAA), Darwin

2007      
Northern Exposure, Mark Misic & Talitha Kennedy, Uplands/TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
Board plus one, Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc (DVAA), Darwin
Airing Out (curated by Talitha Kennedy), Charles Darwin University Gallery, Darwin

AWARDS

2013 Arts NT Quick Response Grant
2012 Residency at Point B Worklodge, Brooklyn NY

2011 Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award

2009 - 2011 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship

2009 Australia Council and Arts NT Venue Attendant to Australian Pavilions, Venice Biennale

2008 Darwin Waterfront Public Art Commission, In flux, collaborative installation Catriona Stanton, Pamela See & Talitha Kennedy, Darwin Conference Centre, Darwin

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015   
Jonathan McBurnie, Make Believe catalogue essay
Hayley West, The dark thrill of nature-fear, visual/bind No. 01/2015, p. 32 - 36

2014
Simon Pericich, How to attempt recognition before the invention of words, Pervasive Flesh catalogue essay
Roy Ananda, RendezVoodoo catalogue essay
2012        
Louisa Rebgetz, Sketching in the Top End, 7.30 Report, ABC TV, Feb 4 2012

2011        
Sarah Scott, Impending Encounter, Artlink, Vol 30 No. 4 p. 116 
Kate Roseth, Artist Profile: Talitha Kennedy, Off the Leash, May 2011