Grant Stevens

Grant Stevens was featured in Light from Light and MAAP in Singapore 2004: GRAVITY (gravity and zero-gravity).

Born in 1980, lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Graduated in 2002 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours, First Class) and in 2007 awarded PhD, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Grant Stevens applies the history of film and video language to explore popular culture and entertainment. He has exhibited at The Art Gallery of New South Wales; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; The Queensland Art Gallery along with galleries in Germany, Singapore, Rome and Shenzen. His work was included in over 30 exhibitions in Australia and internationally since 2005.

Awards & Residencies

  • 2010 – The International Art Residency, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
  • 2009 – The John Coburn Emerging Artist Award, 58th Blake Prize, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2009 – Fraser Residency, Queen Street Studio, Chippendale, Sydney
  • 2008 – New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
  • 2008 – Spirit of Youth Award (SOYA), Qantas
  • 2007 – Australia Council Studio, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2006 – Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (exhbited artist)
  • 2005The Artworkers Award, Artworkers Alliance, Queensland

Solo Exhibitions

2010

  • Horizons, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
  • Burst, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

2009

  • Fazed, Starkwhite, Auckland
  • Wobbly, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney

2008

  • Really Really, Contemporary Centre for Photography, Melbourne
  • No Bad Days, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

2007

  • Education, Education, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
  • Cliché and Collusion, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Utah, United States of America
  • Going Steady, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
  • The Switch, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome

2006

  • New Ideas for Cake, The Block, Brisbane
  • Cut to the Cheese: Selected Works, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane The Switch, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore

2005

  • I Like Ike, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
  • Like Two Ships, Elastic residence, London
  • When There’s Love, Metro Arts, Brisbane Like Two Ships, Kings ARI, Melbourne

2004

  • Some Want It All, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
  • Dazed and Praised, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane

Group Exhibitions

2011

  • Let the Healing Begin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
  • Light from Light, National Library of China, Beijing, Hangzhou Public Library, Hangzhou, and State Library of Queensland, Brisbane (touring exhibition)
  • New Age: New Media, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, Yuanboyuan Jinan International Art Exhibition Centre, Jinan, Art Hangzhou Expo, Hangzhou, Sichuan Fine Art Academy Art Gallery, Chongqing (touring exhibition)
  • VideoRow, The Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
  • Illuminations and bad faith, curated by Todd McMillan, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney

2010

  • Big Tree Foot: The 5th OCAT International Art Residency Exhibition, J & Z Gallery, Shenzhen, China
  • Songzhuan Art Festival (Australian) diversity, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing
  • Hobart City Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
  • Kaldor Public Arts Projects ‘Move: The Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

2009

  • In Order Out, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
  • LANGUE FROID – COLD LANGUAGE/COLD TONGUE, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
  • Volume II, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
  • QUEENSLAND ART 2009, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
  • Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion, Brisbane Festival.
  • 58th Blake Prize, National Art School, Sydney (touring exhibition)
  • Light Sensitive Material: works from the Verghis Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
  • Word, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney.
  • Some Text Missing at CAST, Hobart
  • New Acquisitions 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • The more you ignore me, the closer I get, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
  • Lean Towards Indifference!, Metro Arts, Brisbane
  • Speaking in Tongues, Nature Morte Berlin, Germany
  • Play, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, USA, curated by Avantika Bawa

2008

  • Artisti, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome
  • Ornament is a Crime, Gallery 1927, Los Angeles
  • TYPECAST, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
  • The Dating Show, Institute of Modern Art @ TCB, Brisbane
  • GIFTED, DELL Gallery, Brisbane
  • AS IF THIS LAND WERE YOURS, 29025 Eveningside Dr, Los Angeles
  • neo goth: back in black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

2007

  • I Want To Believe, Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane
  • Bad Brains, a little blah blah, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • The Leisure Class, the Australian Cinematique, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art
  • Clip Art, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
  • 2007 Projekt Video Art Archive, Geraldton Regional Arts Centre, Western Australia
  • New Deities: the Cult of Celebrity, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
  • Flim Flam, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
  • heads, Utopia Art Gallery, Sydney
  • Experimenta Vanishing Point, Ipswich Art Gallery

2006

  • Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (installation with Slave collective)
  • low, MOP, Sydney
  • Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery

2005

  • Prime05: New Art From Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
  • BEOGRAD NEKAD I SAD, Prodajna Galerija, Beograd, Serbia Terminus Projects, Various train station platforms, Sydney There are no coincidences, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
  • 2005 ARC Biennial, Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane

2004

  • 2004, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Octopus 5, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Zeitgeist, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney
  • Gravity, MAAP Festival, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2003

  • OK Video: The Jakarta Video Art Festival, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta
  • Fresh Cut, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Collections

  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • Artbank
  • Artworkers, Brisbane
  • Downlands College, Toowoomba
  • Various private collections