Biography
RICKY SWALLOW
Born in San Remo, Australia, 1974
Lives & works in Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
1993 - 1997 Bachelor of Fine Art, Major: Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
SOLO SHOWS
2008
The Surburban, Oak Park, illinois, USA
2007
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Younger than Yesterday, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2006
PS1/MoMA, New York
Long Time Gone, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
The Past Sure Is Tense, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2005
This time another year, Australian Pavilion, 2005 Venice Biennale
2004
Killing Time, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Killing Time, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2003
Field Recordings, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Tomorrow in Common, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York
Wooden Problem, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
A Sculpture Now, First Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2001
For those who came in late: Matrix 191 Project, University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
2000
Plastruct, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Unplugged, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Ricky Swallow: Above Ground Sculpture, Project Room, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 16, 2000 - March 4,
2001
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Individual Ape, Hot Rod Tearoom, Oslo, Norway
1999
The Multistylus Programme, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1998
Repo Man, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997
The Lighter Side of the Dark Side, Grey Area Art Space, Inc., Melbourne, Australia
Small World, Teststrip, Auckland, New Zealand
GROUP SHOWS
2007
Effigies, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Makers and Modellers, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Sculpture, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Austrailia
Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA
Goth: Reality of the Departed World, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA
2006
Summer exhibition, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Reboot-The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2005
Getting Emotional, The Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA, Boston
2004
Strange Weather, Modern Art, London
Living Together is Easy, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan, National gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Ten Commandments, Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
2003
Still Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Variations on the Theme of Illusion, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
Guided By Heros, Curated by Raf Simons, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
The Fourth Sex, Adolescent Extremes, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
2002
Remix, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
2001
Casino 2001, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Good Work, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Swallow Swenson, Museum of Contempoary Art, Sydney, Australia
Utopia / ROR, Kiasma Museum of Contempoary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
2000
Keith Edmier, Ricky Swallow, Erick Swenson, Andrea Rosen Gallery,
New York
Uncommon World, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Brand New Master Copy, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Rent, Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
Contempora 5, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Signs Of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
Walkmen, with David Jolly and David Noonan, Synaesthesia Music Store, Melbourne
1998
Rubik 3 Video vs Watercolor, 36 Wellington St, Collingwood, Melbourne
Hobby Core, Curated by Ricky Swallow, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
All This And Heaven Too, Adelaide Biennial Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia
1997
Diorama, Curated by Charlotte Day, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne
Gathering, Curated by Ricky Swallow, Platform 2, Melbourne
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Tufnell, Rob. Ritual de lo Habitual, Ricky Swallow, Douglas Hyde Gallery Catalogue, Dublin, Ireland
Zuckerman Jacobson. Heidi, Sculptors and Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Art Press, Colorado, USA
Mesdon, Randall. Exit Magazine, vol 2, number 2, London, UK
Schmidt, Jason. Artists, Edition 7L, Paris, France
Robertson, Rowena. Poster Magazine No 14, Melbourne, Australia
Dunne, Aidan. Ricky Swallow, The Irish Times, May 30
2006
Johnson, Ken. Art in Review, Ricky Swallow, PS-1, The New York Times, February 21
2005
Higgie, Jennifer. The past sure is tense, Ricky Swallow, Venice Biennale Catalogue, Australia Council for the Arts
Day, Charlotte. Interview with Ricky Swallow, (ibid)
Nicholson, Tom. Remembering new eternal cities,(ibid)
Vance, Lesley. Interview with Ricky Swallow, North Drive Press, NDP 2, New York,
Stewart, Christabel. depth in Venice, TANK, vol 4, issue 2, London
Noraika, Chris. Ricky Swallow, Frog Magazine, Paris, France
Conway Morris, Roderick. Pushing Boundaries at Venice Biennale, International Herald Tribune, 14th June
Herbert, Martin. Bone Idol, Modern Painters, May
Dawne, Tony. The best art jamboree in the world, The Times, June 23
Brooks, Richard. A beginner’s guide to the Biennale, Culture - The Sunday Times, June 19
Wullschlaher, Jackie. Old and new in the city of pageantry, Financial Times, June 15
Sooke, Alastair. Ten Hot Biennale Artists, The Daily Telegraph,June 4
Next Big Thing-Chiselled Features, The Sunday Times Magazine, March 20
Bertoli, Damiano. The Sounds of Silence, Artlink, Vol 25, No 1,
2004
Fitzerald, Michael. Still life at high speed, Time, September 20
2003
Paton, Justin. The Was and May, Art Monthly Australia, March 2003
2002
Johnson, Ken. Art in Review, The New York Times, Friday September 20, 2002
Wallis, Simon. Remix catalogue, TATE Liverpool, Artist‚ Entries, p. 72-73
Myers, R, Terry. Wooden Problem, review, Contemporary Magazine, September 2002
2001
Kent, Rachel. Classical Contemporary, Swallow Swenson, catalogue text, MCA,Sydney, Australia
Zoo 10, 09 2001, Artist profile, p. 156,157, London
Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi. Ricky Swallow, Matrix Gallery, Berkeley 2001
Palmer, Daniel. Shadow Play, Frieze, Issue 58
Brae, Marah. The Voyeur Awakes, Art and Australia, April 2001
Paton, Justin. The Recreation Room, catalogue text, Above Ground Sculpture, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2001
2000
Koestenbaum, Wayne. Commodity Fetishism in Sculpture, Artforum, Best of 2000
Fenner, Felicity. New Life In Melbourne, Art in America, January, p. 74-77
Walaker, Jan. Monkey Business, Interview and artist pages, Hot Rod Issue 6,
Oslo, Norway
Krister, Bo. Brand New Master Copy, catalogue intro, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway
1999
Colless, Edward. The World Ends When Its Parts Wear Out, Memory Made Plastic, Ricky Swallow, 1999
Nicholson, Tom. Contempora 5 catalogue, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Palmer, Daniel. Review. Walkmen, Frieze, no 46, May 1999
1998
McDonald, Ewen. All this and Heaven Too, Art & Australia vol 36, 1998
Engberg, Juliana. No radio, Art and Text, August, October 1998
PUBLICATIONS
2007
Ricky Swallow, exhibition catalogue, Younger than Yesterday, Project space, Kunsthalle Vienna
Ricky Swallow, exhibition catalogue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006
The Past Sure Is Tense, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2005
This Time Another Year, exhibition catalogue, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Ricky Swallow, Field Recordings, Craftman House through Thames and Hudson, Victoria, Australia
2001
Above Ground Sculpture, exhibition brochure, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
For those who came in late: Matrix 191 Project, Gallery Brochure. University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
2000
Memory Made Plastic, Artist Book Published in collaboration with Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia