Tony Garifalakis

Biography

Born Melbourne, lives Melbourne

Education

1999 - 2000

• Masters in Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne

1983 - 1985

• Diploma in Graphic Design, Victoria College, Melbourne

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

• cover ups, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Infinity Land, Hell Gallery, Richmond

2006

• Paradise Slaves, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• NO FUN, The Cage, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne
• Detritus, Dudespace Gallery, Melbourne

2004

• The Other Hell, MIR 11, Melbourne

2003

• The Spectre Smitten, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
• Dirt, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
• F.T.W. 24 Seven, Melbourne

2002

• Le Grand Grimoire, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
• Graveyard Boys and Cemetery Girls, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne

2001

• Demonaz Doom Occulta, First Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne
• Thirteen, Linden Art Centre, Melbourne

2000

• Metal Theory, First Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melbourne
• Bad Blood, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

1999

• The Workshop of Filthy Creation, Gossard Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne
• Domestic Hardcore, Citylights 2000, Melbourne

1998

• Yuk, Museum of Dirt, Melbourne

1997

• Creep, Installation, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Melbourne

1995

• Sensorium, West space Gallery, Melbourne

1994

• Horor Vacui, Microscope Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

• Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2007

• Lane Cormick & Tony Garifalakis, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
• End of Year Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Relentless Optimism (curated by Mark Feary), Carlton Hotel and Studios, Melbourne

2006

• Silenzi (curated by Natalie King & Giovanna Zabotti), Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy
• PrintROOM (curated by Karin de Jong), Bureau Gallery, Manchester, UK
• Family First (curated by Mark Feary), The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand

2005

• Family First (curated by Mark Feary), VCA Gallery, Melbourne
• The Beast With Three Backs, RMIT Project space, Melbourne
• Six Orbits Around the Blue Moon (curated by Nadine Christensen), Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Drops in the Ocean (curated by Ewoud Van Rjin), Het Wilde Weten (ROOM), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Magic (curated by Andrea Gilbert), Vamiali’s Gallery, Athens, Greece
• Merde on the Dancefloor (curated by Mathew Griffin). MIR 11, Melbourne
• Portable Model of (curated by Tristian Koenig), Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

2004

• Frequent See, Bus Gallery, Melbourne

2003

• Wall Candy (curated by Greg Deftereos), Conical Gallery, Melbourne
• Posted, MOP Gallery, Sydney

2002

• 1st Floor Final Exhibition (curated by David Rozetsky), 1st Floor, Melbourne
• Dredder than Dredd, Citylights, Hosier Lane, Melbourne
• La Peau Parle, Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec City, Canada
• Only the Lonely (curated by Clare Firth Smith), BLOCK, Sydney

2001

• Group Show, Tobey Fine Art, NYC, New York, USA

2000

• Spooky (curated by David O Hallaran), Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne

1999

• SKIN (curated by Andrea Gilbert), Deste Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
• The Order of Things, Artspace, Sydney
• Flatliners curated by Natasha Johns Messenger), Level 11, Melbourne

1998

• Mnemosyne, or Do Humans Dream in Negative Strips?, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

1996

• X3 (In Parenthesis), Gallery Odyssea Elytis, Athens
• Aerphost, Australian International Art Survey, The Debtor's Prison, Dublin, Ireland

Publications

2005

• Tony Garifalakis, Ruin of Empires, artist book.

Bibliography

2007

• Edward Colless, 'Tony Garifalakis', Australian Art Collector 41.
• Vicki McInnes, 'Tony Garifalakis: Near Death Happiness', Relentless Optimism (cat.), ed. M. Feary (Melbourne).

2006

• Irene Gerogianni, 'Magic', Contemporary Visual Arts 78 (UK).
• S. Brent Plate, Blasphemy: Art that Offends, Black Dog Publications:UK.
• John Russel, ed, Frozen Tears III, ARTicle Press: UK.
• Lisa Benson, 'Is It Possible to Think Straight While Orbiting?', Natural Selection 5.
• Rachel Howe, 'The Endtimes Are Always Near', catalogue essay, Uplands Gallery: Melbourne.

2005

• Tristian Koenig, 'Family First', Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts 58.
• Lyndal Walker, 'Exhibiting a Death Wish', Is Not Magazine 4 (Melbourne).
• Mark Feary, 'As I Am So Thou Shalt Be', catalogue essay.
• Ted Gott, 'The Beast with Three Backs', catalogue essay.
• Phip Murray, 'We Are All Going to Die', UN Magazine 5.
• Charlotte Day, 'A Short Ride in a Fast Machine', catalogue essay, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces: Melbourne.
• Ashley Crawford, 'Long Live the Tent Embassy', The Age, July 30.
• Brigid Magner, 'Merde on the Dance Floor', Natural Selection 4.
• Tristian Koenig, 'A Portable Model of', exhibition catalogue.
• Din Heagney, 'Family First', Diary of an Art Pimp (June).
• Bianca Hester, 'Beast with Three Backs', SPEECH (August), http://speech2012.blogspot.com/2005/08/beast-with-three-backs_16.html.
• 'Bela Lugosi’s Dead', The Art Life (June), http://artlife.blogspot.com/2005/06/bela-lugosis-dead.html.

2004

• Ashley Crawford, 'Tony Garifalakis: The Other Hell', The Age, Oct. 10.
• Chris Lee, 'Death Becomes Them', Black Book Magazine 34 (Fall)(New York).

2003

• Ted Gott, 'Dirt', exhibition catalogue.

2001

• Greg Deftereos, 'Death Culture', exhibition catalogue.
• Tony Garifalakis, 'Thirteen', exhibition catalogue.

1999

• Andrea Gilbert, 'Tabula Nuda', SKIN, exhibition catalogue.
• Tony Garifalakis & Irene Hanenbergh, R.I.P. artists' book.

1997

• Annie Mulroney, 'Mnemosyne, or Do Humans Dream in Negative Strips?', Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts37.
• 'Tony Garifalakis', Glue 6.
• Suzanne Spunner, 'Dumped by the Next Wave and Still Standing', Art Monthly (July).
• Greg Deftereos, 'Mnemosyne, or Do Humans Dream in Negative Strips?', exhibition catalogue.

1996

• Marianne Lovett, 'Aerphost', CIRCA Art Magazine 78.
• Greg Pryor, 'Sensorium', Dialogue 5.

Collections

• National Gallery of Victoria
• Monash UNiversity Museum of Art, Melbourne

Awards and Prizes

2008