EXHIBITIONS
Selected solo Exhibitions
2024 Construct, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne
2021 Dribble, Leak, Suck, Slip, Peel, Pick, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne
2021 Hello. You’ve made it, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
2018 Pearls, School House Studio, Melbourne
Departed Acts, performance as part Bus Projects Departed Acts, Gertrude Contemporary,
Yours Internally, (with Grant Stevens), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Um...no, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne
You, Me, They, We, Public art work commission, Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library
2015 Hello, you’ve made it, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne
2015 We told ourselves we needed separate beds to sleep, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2013 I don’t know, really I don’t, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
2012 I (who), What (what), [hello], Rae and Bennett, Melbourne
2011 Encounter with the Uncanny, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale
This is before that, (With Sanja Pahoki), Sarah Scout, Melbourne
Holding On/Looking Down, (With Hanna Tai), Light Projects, Melbourne
Sunny day, sunny day, how I wish for a sunny day, White Street Project Space, Frankston
Used Hours/Wasted Hours/Reclaimed Hours (January), White Street Project Space, Frankston
2010 Still Counting (Don’t Forget Me Again), Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
If I take the time will I get it back?, Sarah Scout, Melbourne
2009 On Photography and Death, Conical, Melbourne
2008 17th of December, 1987, West Space, Melbourne
Manila Bites, Green Papaya Arts Project, Manila, Philippines
2007 Self portrait as canvas, PR Gallery, Swinburne University, Melbourne
2006 Ascension, Studio 12 Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2005 failure: a celebration, Alliance Française, Melbourne
Gradient Globes, (With Lani Seligman), Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Time Flies Like Clocks, Fruit Flies Like Bananas, Kings Artist Run Space, Melbourne
We’re happy and we’re small, 24seven, Melbourne
2003 In the beginning was the word (unless there was someone else speaking the word in which case they were in the beginning), Kings Gallery, Melbourne
Enter Via The Train Line, Site specific gallery installation, Hope St, Melbourne
Selected group Exhibitions
2023 Melbourne Now, National gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Doubt Again, Realm Artspace, Maroondah
2022 National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury
2021 Not for the sake of something more, Sarah Scout presents, Melbourne
2020 Niche Fetisch#2, Niche Fetisch, Melbourne
Hope in the Dark, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2019 I Don’t Rhyme Right Now, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne
Manifesto, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2018 A Vacant Space, Artbank, Sydney
Looking but not seeing, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
2016 What happens now, curated by Natalie King as part of the Visual Art program of the Melbourne Festival, Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Is/Is not, West Space, Melbourne
2015 Some of them get the first look, Kings ARI, Melbourne
The Door in the Wall, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
Written in Light, Geelong Gallery, Geelong
The Image Becomes the Archive as part of S.O.A.P, Archiving and Fragmentation in the Digital Age, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2014 The Big East (BIGGERER), Site responsive exhibition, various locations, Melbourne
Vertigo, Galeri Soemardja, Indonesia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tapei, POSCO Art Gallery Seoul
Dudproject#1, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2013 Unsettled Sculpture (curated by Melissa Keys), Sarah Scout, Melbourne
Does it Matter?, Kings ARI, Melbourne
Substation 12, Substation, Melbourne
The Big East, Site responsive exhibition, various locations, Melbourne
2012 Dudspace Christmas Special, Dudspace, Melbourne
Fifteen Melbourne Artists, Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Titled, Knight Street Art Space, Melbourne
Neon Salon, Dudspace, Melbourne
Killing two birds with two stones, Lowrise, Melbourne
Immanent Landscape, Japan Australia Foundation, Sydney
Neon Salon, Dudspace, Melbourne
2011 Here comes the tender (Whoopee we’re all going to die), Pallas Project, Dublin
Hevy, Conical, Melbourne
Immanent Landscape, KurumuyaMuseum, Japan
Ultra Neon, Light Projects, Melbourne
Better than art, Curated by Amy Marjoram, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2010 Delineated, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
Unseen Forces, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Immanent Landscape, Westspace, Melbourne
A quarter turn on every screw, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2009 And the difference is, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2008 Team Australia, Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
And the difference is, NUS Museum, Singapore
Octopus 8 The softness in the rock: Hope in disappointing times, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
I might be wrong, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Forms of Deceit, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Polar, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne
Inches Per Second, Raw Gallery, Brisbane
The Space In-between, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne
Rich Text, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Artist Who Sometimes Use Words, Upstairs Flinders, Melbourne
Nothing Rhymes with Failure, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
Always On My Mind, TCB, Melbourne
A Bridge Too Far, Alliance Française, Melbourne
40 Degrees, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
To Near To Far, CareOf, Milan, Italy
2006 Gertrude Studios 2006, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourn
One for the “Other”, TCB, Melbourne
Doubt, Conical, Melbourne
Border Crossings, Containers Project as part of Next Wave Festival
2005 A Portable Model Of…, , La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
The Air Between Us, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
[07/00], EmergeD, Edinburgh, Scotland
VideoloveHateVideo, Arts Aporia, Osaka, Japan
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
What If, Wedding Circle, Sydney
A Portable Model Of…, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania
Wizards of Oz, Vancouver, Canada
2004 3015 Australia, 3015 association d’art contemporain, Paris, France
VideoLoveHateVideo, Phatspace, Sydney
Surface: Subject to change, Shed 14, Melbourne
Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
Matchbox, Platform, Melbourne
Exploration Five, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Photography, Span Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Common Vernacular, Conical Gallery, Melbourne
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 Built Photography, Museum of Australian photography, (curated in with Izabela Pluta)
2021 Not for the sake of something more, as part of Photo 2021 International Photography Festival
2018 Looking but not seeing, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
2016 Is/Is not, West Space, Melbourne
2014 The Big East (BIGGERER), Site responsive exhibition, various locations, Melbourne
2013 The Big East, Site responsive exhibition, various locations, Melbourne
2011 Hevy, Conical, Melbourne (curated in conjunction with Lani Seligman)
2007 Polar, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne (curated in conjunction with Lani Seligman)
2006 Doubt, Conical, Melbourne (curated in with Lani Seligman)
COMMISSIONED WORKS
2017 You, Me, They, We, commissioned for Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library
2016 Upon this troubled sea I rest my head, commissioned as part of the Melbourne Biennial Lab
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 Creative Victoria Presentation Grant
2016 NETS Victoria Research and Development Grant
2012 Arts Victoria Cultural Exchange
2011 Arts Victoria Presentation Grant
2010 City ofMelbourne Arts Grant
2008 City of Melbourne Arts Grant
2007 Arts Victoria Presentation Grant
RESIDENCIES
2012 Apexart New York City Fellow, New York
2010 RMIT Summer Print Residency Recipient
2005 - 07 Gertrude Contemporary Art Space Studio Artist
2004 Recipient of Bundanon Residency
EDUCATION
2010-2014 Monash University, PhD
2001-2004 Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
1993-1995 Latrobe University Bachelor of Arts (History)
Kiron is currently a lecturer in the Photography department at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
Kiron is represented by Sarah Scout Melbourne www.sarahscoutpresents.com