Alison Kennedy Short CV
Formal Qualifications
Master of Fine Art, (Research), (H1) VCA (The University of Melbourne) 2020.
Master of Contemporary Art, (H1), (The University of Melbourne) 2012.
MBA (University of Western Australia), B.Arch (dist.) (RMIT) , LLB, BA (Monash University)
Selected Exhibitions
Brunswick Temporary: Hypercolour (5 May-29 May 2022)
Fremantle Art Centre: Print Award 2021 (28 May-18 July 2021)
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery: Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award (4 September-22 November 2020)
McClelland Gallery: Senini Prize Exhibition (26 August- 14 October 2019)
Kings ARI: The Blob (3-24 August 2019)
City of Toora: Toora(k), (3 November – 20 November 2018.)
Los Angeles Art Association/ Gallery 825: Multiple Feeds (28 April – June 1 2018)
Spinnerei: Leipzig Sedimente- Jubilaumsaustellung 10 (March 8- March 24 2018)
Crowther Contemporary: Melbourne, Cut & Paste (Feb1-20 2018)
Alliance Francaise: Melbourne Reprise (Nov 20- Dec 1 2017)
Spinnerei Leipzig: Ozlander (part of Lindenow festival) (Oct 6-Oct 8 2017)
Spinnerei Leipzig: Rundgang (September 16-17 2017)
Lethbridge Gallery: Lethbridge 10000 (11-19 June 2016)
Brightspace: Vale St Studios Artists (2-18th June 2016)
Chapman & Bailey: Figuration (November 2015- January 2016)
Rubicon ARI: Putting the Noth in Nothing: 20 May-6 June 2015 (solo)
Brightspace: Shakespeare Grove Artist Studio : A survey. 3-7 September 2015
Rubicon ARI: The Worldhood of the World 19 June – 6 July 2013 (solo)
Shakespeare Grove Artists Studio residency- 2013- 2016 (City of Port Phillip supported.)
C3 contemporary art space: Paintings without Heads 22 May – 9 June 2013 (solo)
The Substation: Marie Antoinette Show 12 April -8 May 2013 (solo)
Alliance Française: Une échappatoire (dans ce monde si cruel) 14 November-3 December 2012. (joint)
McLelland Art Gallery: Exhibition of Works Shortlisted for the 2012 Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award. 4 November 2012 – 13 January 2013.
Darwin Centre for Contemporary Art: Notfair Touring component –- 15 September- 13 October 2012.
Notfair: Artfair 2012- August 1-5 2012.
Awards
Fremantle Art Centre Print Award 2021 First Prize
Swan Hill Gallery Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award 2020 Finalist
Fiona Myer Award for MFA excellence, December 2019
2019 VCA Small Grant
2019 Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award finalist
Lethbridge 10000 exhibition finalist (online)May 2017
Lethbridge 10000 exhibition finalist (exhibition) May 2016
BSG Gallery: Small Works May 2016 First Prize
BSG Gallery: Clik photographic exhibition September 2015 First Prize
BSG Gallery: Small works May 2015 Second Prize
BSG Gallery: 40x40 Free is Better Prize Dec 2015
2014 City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Grant
2012 Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award Finalist
2012 VCA Faculty Scholarship
Research
Australian National Art and Technology (ANAT) DNA reference and research group residency 2021 - participant https://www.anat.org.au/program/dna-lab/ and DNA database https://dna-lab.webflow.io/
Editor A-OK – online magazine https://www.a-ok.work/
“Technology, Memory and Forgetting”, paper delivered at conference “Memory” 2-3 September 2021, organised by Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne.
Winner Monash Poetry Prize, Highly Commended Monash Poetry Prize.
Dux, International Relations. Dux, Consumer Behavior, MBA University of Western Australia.
Work Experience – details to be provided upon request.