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Terry Matassoni

SELECTED WORKS

 Terry Matassoni

Solo Exhibitions

2008'Recent Paintings and Gouaches' , Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2007'Multitude and Solitude', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006‘Five cities’, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
2005‘Master’s Examination Exhibition’, Artists studio, Melbourne
2004’Crossings’, Fremantle Art Centre, Perth.
‘In the frame’, BMGART, Adelaide
2003‘A walk into town’, Stonington Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
2001‘Recent work’, Mira Fine Art, Melbourne
1999‘Works on Paper’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
1998‘New Lifestyle’, BMGART, Adelaide
‘It is a nice space’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1997‘The Apartment Dwellers’, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1996‘A View from My Window’, BMGART, Adelaide
1995‘Trouble in the 90s’, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1994‘The Inner City’, Recent Gouaches, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
1992‘Recent Work’, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1991‘Recent Works’, Irving Galleries, Sydney
‘Selected Works 1986-1991’, Swan Hill Regional Gallery of Contemporary Art, Swan Hill
1990‘Works on Paper’, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1989‘Paintings and Works on Paper’, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1986‘Paintings and Gouaches’, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1984‘Recent Paintings’, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2007'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005‘One Square Foot’, Melbourne Art Rooms, Port Melbourne
‘Toxic Dump Show’, Gallery 25, Mildura
‘The Sea’, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
‘Works on Paper 1’, Gallery 25, Mildura
‘New Prints’, Lancaster Studio Gallery, Brooklyn
‘Site’, Highlights from the Deakin University Collection, Warrnambool Art Gallery
2004‘Between a rock and a hard place’, Lancaster Studio Gallery, Brooklyn
‘Blacker than Black’, Gallery New Quay, Melbourne
‘Recent Acquisitions’, Deakin University Art Collection
Stonington Museum of Art, Deakin University
2003‘The Shell’, Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia
‘Works on Paper’, Brett Ballard Gallery, Sydney
Finalist ‘Dobell Prize for Drawing’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Geelong Print Prize’, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
2002‘POST 1970s’, from the permanent collection, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2001‘Kunst for born og unge’, Horsens Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
‘Muka’, International exhibition of Youth prints made at the Muka Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand, travelling Europe in 2001, 2002
‘Rena Ellen Jones memorial print award 2001’, Warrnambool Art Gallery
2000‘Selected Works by Gallery Artists’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
‘Interpretation’, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
‘Thinking Aloud’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
‘Affordable Treasures’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
1999‘Exchanging Places’, Ray Hughes Gallery in residence at the George Gallery, Melbourne
‘We are Australian’, The George Adams Gallery, Melbourne (in association with the Melbourne International Festival)
1998‘Geelong Contemporary Art Prize’, Geelong Art Gallery (by selection)
‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
‘Selected Works by Invited Artists’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
‘Works on Paper and Original Fine Art Prints’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
‘Inkpots to Internet-Nucleus to Diversity’, Former Student Art Exhibition, The Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Latrobe University, Bendigo
1997‘Summer Show’, BMG Art, Adelaide
‘Preview 1997’, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
‘Highlights from the Collection’, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill
‘Visy Board Art Prize’, “The Orangery”, Richmond Grove Winery, Tanunda, South Australia
‘Nillumbik Art Award Exhibition’, The Nillumbik Shire Council, Eltham
‘Muka International Youth Print Exhibition’, Gallery 101, Melbourne
‘Figures from Life’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1996The Art of Collecting 2’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
ACAF5 Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1995’Youth Prints’, Auckland Museum; travelled throughout New Zealand
‘Recent Lithographs and Commissioned Youth Prints’, Muka Studios, Auckland
1994‘ACAF4 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
‘Selections from the Collection’, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
‘Castlemaine Drawing Prize’, Castlemaine Art Gallery
1992‘Miniatures: Small Works by Selected Gallery Artists’, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
‘Selected Works from the Margaret Stewart Endowment’, National Gallery of Victoria
1991‘National Swan Hill Print & Drawing Show’, Swan Hill Regional Gallery of Contemporary Art, Swan Hill
‘Raising the Furies: Elements of Disquiet in Figurative Painting 1985 – 1990’, toured Regional Galleries - Wodonga, Wangaratta, Benalla and Shepparton (curated by Stephen Cox)
‘Eighth Ansett Hamilton Art Award’, City of Hamilton Art Gallery (Acquired)
‘Australian Drawing – Contemporary’, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
‘Australian Water Colours and Gouaches’, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
‘ACAF2 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1990‘The City: A Very Different Place’, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
1989‘Popular Front, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art’, Melbourne
‘Swan Hill Print and Drawing Show, Swan Hill Regional Gallery of ‘Contemporary Art’, Swan Hill (Acquired)
‘Heidelberg and Heritage - Two Visions of Australians 100 Years Apart’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
‘Freestyle Australian Art 1960s – Now’, National Gallery of Victoria
1988‘Exquisite Corpse’, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
‘Selected Finalists: Faber Castell Drawing Award’, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
‘A Horse Show: The Horse in Contemporary Australian Art’, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
1987‘Selected Contemporary Drawings’, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
1985‘Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship’, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne (Received Honourable Mention)
1980‘The Paris Prize’, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne

Bibliography

Staff reporter, ‘In the Frame’ exhibition featured ABC Stateline Program, 25 June 2004
Staff reporter, reproduced inside back cover, ‘The Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Catalogue
‘Australian Contemporary Art Fair 5’, Lyall Burton Gallery exhibition catalogue 1996
‘Australian Contemporary Art Fair 4’, Lyall Burton Gallery exhibition catalogue 1994
Amour, M.; 'The enduring legacy at Heide', National Gallery Magazine, October Issue, 1989
Blensdorf, J.; ‘Galleries’, The Age, 19 October 1990
Breen, M.; 'Our resident artist', Broadmeadows Observer, August 1984
Carringan, J.; 'All about horses', Arts and Entertainment, The Jewish News, 1988
Catalano, G.; 'Memorable exhibition one of the best', The Age, 8 October 1986
Clabburn, A.; ‘The Apartment Dwellers’, Lyall Burton Gallery, Burnewang House Pty. Ltd, catalogue essay 1997
Cossli, M.; 'Le Situazioni Metropolitane di Terry Matassoni', ‘The Inner City’, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, catalogue essay 1994
Cox, S.; ‘Raising the furies: Elements of disquiet in Figurative Painting 1985-90’, catalogue essay 1990
Dutkiewicz Adam, ‘Spotlight in the inner urban light’, The Adelaide Advertiser, 25 June 2004.
Field Caroline,Terry Matassoni, ‘In the Frame’, exhibition essay, BMG Art Adelaide 2004.
Franchini, A.; 'Il percorso mostre', L'Adige, 30 August 1994
Fraser, A.; ‘Trouble in the 90’s’, 1995, catalogue essay
Fraser, A. & Gleeson, P.; ‘Places for people - urban spaces in Victoria’, Victorian State Urban Arts Unit, April 1986
Germaine, M.; Artists & Galleries of Australia, 3rd Ed., Craftsman House 1990
Germaine, M.; Who’s who of Australian Visual Artists, 2nd Ed.,Thorpe/Reed 1995
Academic Publishing Hall, B.; Popular Front, catalogue essay 1992
Heathcote, C.: Evocative Urban painter, Catalogue essay, A Walk into town exhibition, Deakin University Publishing
The Galleries Book: A guide to public galleries of Victoria (Illustrated), Wileman Publications, 1992
‘Horses in Art’, Good Weekend Magazine, 1 November, 1988
Jelbart M.; ‘See It’, The Herald Sun, 4 October 1995
Kaptein H.; ‘Swan Hill National Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards’, Swan Hill Regional Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2000, catalogue introduction
Kronenberg, S.; Artnotes Victoria, Art Monthly, November 1995
Lynn, E.; 'Blame it on the lemmings’, The Weekend Australian, 3-4 September 1989
Makin, J.; 'Choice Views', Herald Sun, 7 April 2003
Makin, J.; 'Choice Views', Herald Sun, 25 June 2001
Makin, J.; ‘Choice Views’, Herald Sun, 6 September 1999
Matassoni, T.; ‘Artist Profiles’, Art Almanac, September 1999
Matassoni, T.; ‘Artist Profiles’ Art Almanac, October 1986
McCulloch, Ann: The Geography of Visual and Poetic Space: The Melancholic Gaze from the inside and from the outside.
McCulloch, A. & S.; The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 3rd Ed., 1994, Allen & Unwin
McCulloch, A.; 'The Paris and others', The Herald, 2 October 1980
Millar, R.; 'Driving art into the bush', Wednesday Magazine, The Herald, 1 March 1989 p12
Millar, R.; 'Alice in the sky with ripcords', The Herald, 9 March 1986
Millington, B.; 'Flowery tribute to a high flyer', The Age, 1 September 1988
'Mural improves their dreary surrounds’, The Age, October 1984
‘Muri antichi, arte eterna’, Alto Adige, 24 August 1994
Nicholls L.; ‘In a new light’ (illustrated and text), The Art Collection of Trinity College, The University of Melbourne
Nelson, R.; 'Not every picture tells a story of belonging to a place', Saturday Arts, The Age, 30 June 2001
Nelson, R.; ‘The enigma of urban life’, Today Arts, The Age, 8 September 1999
Neylon, J : The Adelaide review, 3 July 2004
Overton, N.; 'The Big Rush', The Australian Jewish News, Vol. 55 No. 27, 3 March 1989
Robinson, E.; ‘Art from the Streets’, State of the Art, Issue 14, 1995
Robinson, E.; ‘Recent Work’, Art Almanac, March 1989
Rooney, R.; ‘Melbourne Art’, The Australian, 6 October 1995
Rooney, R.; 'Crime does not paint', The Weekend Australian, 3- 4 February 1990
Rooney, R.; 'That essential power of silence', The Weekend Australian, 4-5 March 1989
Rooney, R.; 'An unbridled path to Dada', The Australian, 3 December 1988
Rooney, R.; 'Good ideas come to Paris', The Age, 1 October 1980
Saurin, J.; 'Ambiguities of Power', The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 April 1991
Smith, Dr E.; ‘A time for change’, Swan Hill National Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2000, catalogue essay
Smith, E.; 'Terry Matassoni: painter of city and dreams', The Swan Hill Guardian, July 1991
Stone, D.; 'Putting greasepaint on artists' palettes', The Sunday Age, 16 April 1992
Talbot, J.; ‘Transporting Art’, catalogue essay, 1992
Terry, M.; ‘Selected Contemporary Drawings’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, catalogue essay, 1987
‘The Apartment Dwellers’ in See This, The City Weekly, 2-8 October 1997
‘Trouble in the 90’s’, The Australian Diary, 1996
Stateline, ABC, Adelaide. 25 June 2004

Collections

Accenture, Melbourne
American Consulate, Florence, Italy
Artbank, Sydney
Australian Alliance Insurance, Victoria
Banyule City Council, Victoria
Caulfield Grammar,
City of Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria
Deakin University Art Collection, Victoria
E.R. White Club Collection, Trinity College, Melbourne University, Victoria
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital Collection, Victoria
Kangan Batman TAFE, Victoria
Latrobe University Collection, Victoria
Melbourne Convention Centre, Victoria
Monash Medical Centre, Victoria
Monash University Collection, Victoria
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria; Museum of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
Northern Territory University
Philips Fox Collection
Santos Mining Collection, South Australia
Smorgon Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Victorian College of the Arts
Victorian Racing Club, Flemington, Victoria

Commissions

Including residencies

2003 Artist in Residence, Caulfield Grammar, Wheelers Hill campus
1997
Poster, Burnewang Food and Wine Festival
1994
Melbourne Theatre Company, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1994Artists in Schools Program, Preston Special Development School
1994 Youth Prints, Muka Studios, Auckland, New Zealand
1993 Artist in Residence, St Jeans Baptiste College, New York, USA 
1993 Diamond Valley Invitation Art Award 
1992  Commissioned to paint a tram, Ministry for the Arts, Transporting Arts Programme sponsored by Vic Health
1991 Commissioned to design image for the Melbourne Theatre Company’s Money and Friends, written by David Williamson
1989 Victorian Racing Club, New Pavilion, Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne 

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