David Griggs

Biography

Born Sydney, 1975.

Live and works in Melbourne and Manila

Education

2007

• Master of Fine Art (Sculpture), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

1999 

• Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

1996 

• Advanced Diploma Fine Arts, Medowbank TAFE

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

• Zombie Kiss, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• New York Paris London Rome Manila City Jail, presented in cooperation with Asialink and Australian  Embassy – Manila, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila

2008

• David Griggs at IMA@TCB, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

• All I want is peace in the Middle East, a blow-job, and a free T-shirt, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2007

• Blood on the Streets, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Blood on the Streets, Artspace, Sydney

2006

• Exchanging Culture for Flesh, Level 2 Contemporary Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2005

• The Buko Police, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila

2004

• Destination Disaster, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2003

• Outside History, The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Sydney

2002

• Outside History, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

2001

• Radio Death Camp, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

2000

• Me Against My Brother, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

1996

• Zero, 151 Gallery, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

• Fluid Zones: Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Group Show, MO Space, Manila, Philippines

2008

• Under my skin, Asialink touring exhibition
• Neo Goth – back in black, University of Queensland, Brisbane 
• Hijacked, curated by Mark McPherson, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
• Australian, curated by Nicholas Tsoutas, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
• Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2007/08

• The Independence Project, GALERIE PETRONAS, Malaysia and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2007

• NADA Art Fair, Uplands Gallery Booth E4, Miami
• End of Year Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2006

• Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, Tarrawarra Biennial (curated by Victoria Lynn), Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville
• Fantastic Voyage, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
• Winners are Grinners (curated by Hannah Mathews), The Meat Market, Melbourne

2005

• Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
• Hardwired (curated by Robert Wellington), Firstdraft Gallery, Surry Hills
• Freedman Foundation, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
• The Centenary of Wild Beasts, MOP Projects, Sydney

2004

• Out of the Blue, MOP Projects, Sydney
• Rude Shock, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney
• Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
• Group Show, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
• JJ Allen Breaks the Window, Inflight, Hobart

2003

• Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
• The Beetles, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
• Balance of Power, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA
• Not All Heroes and Legends, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
• The Fucken Weird Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Anita and Beyond (curated by Lisa Havilah), Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney

2002

• Octopus 3 (curated by Charlotte Day), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
• OBJECTion (curated by Tim Silver and Russell Storer), Sarah Cottier, Sydney

2001

• OBJECTion (curated by Tim Silver and Russell Storer), The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Black to Basics, 1st Floor, Melbourne
• Black to Basics, Rubyayre, Sydney
• Bootcamp, Block, Sydney

2000

• Australian Painters at the Millennium, Imperial Slacks, Sydney
• Skulls and Solicitors, Gallery 4A, Sydney

1999

• Ouintex, Smith and Stonley, Brisbane
• Dazzle (curated by Russell Storer and Andrew Mcqualter), 1st Floor, Melbourne
• Hack, Grey Matter Contemporary Art, Sydney
• Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
• Al Eisen Inventor, Herringbone, Sydney

1998

• The Symbol, Firstdraft, Sydney
• Fibro, Australian Perspecta, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
• Vietnam Voices, Casula Powerhouse Arts Center, Sydney

1996

• Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, COFA Gallery, Sydney

Selected Bibliography

2009

• ‘Art, Jail Style’, Philippine Daily Enquirer, May 24, 2009, p A19-20, by Gerry Lirio
• ‘New Visions, Alternative Platforms’, C Arts Asian Contemporary Art & Culture, Vol. 7, March April,2009, p.46, by Eugene Tan

2008

• ‘Let’s All Go to Iraq’, UN Magazine, Fayen d’Evie, Issue 2.1, March 2008, pp. 46-49
• ‘Notes on a Freak Show’, Melbourne Art Fair 08, catalogue essay, by Ramon E.S. Lerma
• ‘Under my skin’, Asialink touring exhibition, curated by Sarah Bond and Georgia Sedgwick, artist interview
• ‘Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand’, edited by Art & Australia, Sydney, 2008

2007

• ‘Seeing the world with blood in his eyes’, catalogue essay for Blood on the Streets, Uplands Gallery, by Ramon E.S. Lerma

2006

• Exchanging Culture for Flesh, Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects, cataloge #1.06, essay by Fergus Armstrong
• Winers are Grinners, Hijacked #9, cataloge, 60 pages, essay by Hannah Mathews
• Art Monthly Australia, March 2006 number 187, Art Notes NSW, p 44
• Sydney Morning Herald, Domain, Events, Exchanging Culture for Flesh, p.4

2005

• The Buko Police, cataloge, 76 colour pages, publised in conjuntion with The Buko Police, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila
• SMH, Hooded spectre of Abu Ghraib has his revenge, Rachel Raberts, April 21, p 8

2004

• Art in America, Report from Sydney, Commercial Venues, Lilly Wei, December, p 63
• Destination Disaster, Gertrude Contempoary Art Spaces, cataloge, 8 pages, essay by Paul Curran

2003

• Art Monthly, Anita and Beyond, Jeremy Eccles, June, No. 160, p 6, 7
• Anita and Beyond catalogue, essay Lisa Havilah, curator
• HQ, Difficult Art, Lee Tram, March, p 16, 17
• Financial Review, Anita Cobby, John McDonald, March, p 63, 65

2002

• Octopus 3 catalogue, essay Charlotte Day, curator
• SMH Metro, The Mod Squad, Lenny Ann Low, October, p 1, 4

2001

• Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, David Griggs – Shaun Gladwell, Kit Messham-Muir, issue 46, p 49, 50
• Australian Art Collector, Uncovering Australia’s art stars, Alexie Glass, April-June p 71, 72
• Artlink, Art and Childhood, Play things-some contemporary artists and there objects, Russell Storer, vol. 21. No 2, p 37, 41

2000

• Postwest, Questions of curatorship: Connoisseurs or Cultists, Russell Storer, issue 16, p 30, 31
• Art and Text, Hack, Blair French, issue 69, May-July, p 90
• SMH, An idea in need of flesh, Bruce James, April 19, p 18

1998

• 1998 Monument Architecture and Design, issue 29, p 34
• SMH, Toto I’ve a feeling we’re not on canvas anymore, Bruce James, August 4, p 13

1997

• SMH, Too much sex on TV I don’t here the TV complaining, Bruce James, May 23, p 15

Collections

• Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
• Museum of Contemporary Art, SydneyUniversity of Queensland Joyce Nissan Collection, Melbourne
• Powerhouse Museum
• Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
• Tamworth Regional Gallery
• Asialink
• Various Private Collections

Awards and Prizes

2009

• Green Papaya Art Projects,  Phillipines, Asialink Residency Program

2008

• Barcelona Studio, Australia Council for the Arts, Spain
• Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Artist Commission: Frog boy’s dissertation into a new karaoke cult

2005

• Ateneo University Manila, Asialink Residency Programe Artspace Studios, Sydney

2004 

• International Program, Overseas Travel Grant, NSW Ministry for the Arts
• Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney

2003 

• Freedman Foundation Traveling Art Scholarship for emerging artists
• Mae Sot, Thai/Burma border

2001 

• Winner of the Willoughby City Art Prize, Painting

1997 

• Sir William Dobell Scholarship, Sydney College of the Art