Kenzee Patterson Biography
1984
Born Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
2005
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class 1), Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), University of Sydney.
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018
MFA exhibition, HDR Examination Exhibition, SCA Galleries, Sydney
2017
Kenzee Patterson and Mitchel Cumming, # A dolphin in bronze / A dolphin out of bronze #, Knulp Sydney and Artistic Bokeh, Vienna
2016
A tree branches, so does a river, Lismore Regional Gallery
Constant Negative, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2014
Kenzee Patterson - &c, Bus Projects, Melbourne
rta, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2013
The World is Flat - Vincent O'Connor and Kenzee Patterson, Breezeblock, Sydney
2012
Not only biologically sound and environmentally safe, but also socially and aesthetically acceptable, SLOT Gallery, Sydney
2011
The Camden Valley Way, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2010
Prospect Hill, Blacktown Arts Centre
Old Toll Plaza, MOP, Chippendale, Sydney
2009
o.n.o, firstdraft, Surry Hills, Sydney
2008
Keys Cut, Locksmith Project Space, Alexandria, Sydney (with Samuel Villalobos)
Focus, Chalk Horse, Surry Hills, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, Sydney
Jack's Reloaded: Material as Memory, Melbourne Design Week, Jack's Magazine, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, VIC
ENTER, Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne, VIC
2017
A working model of the world, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Centre, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York
Birmingham Street Studios Take Over The Old Clare Hotel, The Old Clare Hotel, Sydney
A working model of the world, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
Intrinsic Properties/Inherent Vice, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, curated by Holly Williams
An elegy to apertures, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, curated by Isobel Parker Philip
Formally Yours, The Operative, Sydney
Creative Accounting (touring) Western Plains Cultural Centre, New South Wales; Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
2016
Contour 556, Lake Burley Griffin Foreshore, Canberra
SPRING 1883, Room 224, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
Creative Accounting, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney; Manningham Art Gallery, Victoria; UQ Art Museum, Queensland
2015
Right Here Right Now, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Sydney, Australia
2014
Different Strokes, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Bergie Seltzer, Firstdraft, Sydney
For Lease: Re-interpreting Place, Breezeblock, Sydney
Nocturnal Windows, Gregory Jewellers, Sydney
2013
Book of Flowers, 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney
Never Eat Soggy Weet-Bix, TCB art Inc. Melbourne
2012
The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Griffith University Art Gallery, Queensland
2011
Hidden Definition, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Creative Accounting, UTS Gallery, Sydney
2010
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Woollahra Council Chambers, Sydney
RBS Emerging Artists Award Exhibition, RBS Tower, Sydney
Robert Kinmont, Kenzee Patterson, Charlie Sofo, Ronnie van Hout, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
No Right Turn, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
Bizarre members of a fabulous clan, No Vacancy, Melbourne
2009
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship Exhibition, SCA, Sydney
2008
Bent Western, Blacktown Arts Centre
2007
Underscore, Juno Gallery, Berlin
2006
The IRIS Award, Perth Centre for Photography
Antipodes, Point Éphémère, Paris
700IS Reindeerland Experimental film and video festival, Egilsstadir, Iceland
Work in Progress, Blacktown Arts Centre
Overt Compensation: Reloaded, The Depot Gallery, Sydney
2005
Design Festa, Tokyo
What The World Needs Now IV, Phatspace Gallery, Sydney
Meat Meet, The Butcher Shop Gallery, Sydney
Satellite of Love: I Like to Watch Things on TV, Phatspace Gallery, Sydney, and Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Fatigue Performance Evenings, Knot Gallery, Sydney
Utility: Function?, SCA Gallery, Sydney
L’Ovest, firstdraft, Surry Hills, Sydney
2003
Play it Again Sam, Phatspace Gallery, Sydney
De-Coding (Sub) Cultures, Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown
PROJECTS
2007- Present
Founding Director, Locksmith Project Space, Alexandria, Sydney
2008- Present
Founding Editor, Locksmith Project, serial published by Locksmith Project Space
2004
Curator, L’Ovest, firstdraft, Surry Hills, Sydney
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship, SCA, University of Sydney
Marketing Grant for NSW Artists, National Association for the Visual Arts
2007
RUN_WAY Young and Emerging Professional Development Initiative, Australia Council for the Arts Inter-Arts Office
Professional Development Travel Grant, Australian Network for Art and Technology
Marketing Grant for NSW Artists, National Association for the Visual Arts
2006
Short-listed for the IRIS Award, Perth Centre for Photography
2005
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship, SCA, University of Sydney
The Dyason Bequest, The Art Gallery of New South Wales
RESIDENCIES
2010
Visual Arts Studio Residency Program, Blacktown Arts Centre
2007
Transit Lounge Residency, Josetti Höfe, Berlin
2006
International Exchange Program, L’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHY
de Almeida, P, Review, Art Monthly, No.243, September 2011
Antipodes, exhibition catalogue, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, 2006
Dean, Christopher, The Revenge of the West, essay accompanying the exhibition L’Ovest, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, June 2004.
Duke, Sydney: Hunt & Welch, i. 2, July 2007, pp. 60-61.
De-Coding (Sub) Cultures: An Exploration of New Media Arts in Western Sydney, exhibition catalogue, Blacktown Arts Centre 2003, pp. 20-21.
exhibition catalogue, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, June 2005
Fraser, Marita, Spatial Interventions or how I learned to stop worrying and just love the space, runway, i. 12, Summer 2008-09, pp. 19-21
Gibb, Susan, Framing the Australian Ugliness: A Reflection on the work of Kenzee Patterson, Das Super Paper, Issue 28, September 2013
Hartigan, Patrick, A Working Model of the World, The Saturday Paper, 1 July 2017
Judd, Craig, Bent Western, Sydney, Art Monthly Australia, i. 211, July 2008, pp. 35-38.
Locksmith Project, i. 1, June 2009, pp. 56-58.
Melick, T. & Ruhle, I. Career change?, un Magazine – issue 4.1, pp. 34-37
Miles, Melissa, Reviews, eyeline, n. 58 Spring 2005, p. 45.
Millner, Jacqueline, Satellite of Love (I like to watch things on tv), in Satellite of Love
Routledge, Elise, Still running: Sydney ARIs, un.magazine, i. 2.2, November 2008, pp. 28-29
Runway, Surry Hills: The Invisible Inc., i. 7, May 2006, pp. 24-25
Runway, Surry Hills: The Invisible Inc., i. 6, October 2005, pp. 60-65
Schulte-Fischedick, Valeria, Utopia lounge, Art & Australia, v. 45, n. 1 Spring 2007, pp. 46-47
Sturrock, Will, Kenzee’s World, Das SUPERPAPER, i. 8, 2009, pp. 5-10
Wolifson, Chloe, Constant Negative, ArtAsiaPacific, July 2016, http://www.artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/ConstantNegative
Zeichner, Eleanor, On Loops, catalogue essay, Constant Negative, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, 2016
COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Australia
Private collections
http://www.kenzeepatterson.com