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Luke Conroy, 1990 (TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA)

Visual Artist // Sociologist // Educator
Currently based in The Netherlands

EDUCATION

2014 Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning (Visual Art/Media), Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

2013 Honours in Sociology, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

2010-2012 Bachelor of Arts, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2022 Venice Biennale 2022 - Exhibition Invigilator at The Australian Pavilion, Australian Council For The Arts.
2015-2018 Visual Art and Media Production Teacher, Don College, Devonport, Australia

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (SOLO)

2024 [Upcoming] News From Home – Kaohsiung, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

2022 We Are Here, Creative Communities - Euro-Mediterranean co-creation, five artworks in public space, Stigliano, Italy

2022 News From Home - Plovdiv, public space, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2021 Talk To Me Audiotour, De Heygraeff, Woudenberg, The Netherlands

2020 Tasman, Concordia, Enschede, The Netherlands

2021 Talk To Me – Pampus Island, ARMADILLO Gallery for Sound Art (Online), Leipzig, Germany

2019 News from Home – Petrozavodsk, Vykhod Media Centre, Petrozavodsk, Russia

2019 Phantasm, Hošek Contemporary,Berlin, Germany

2019 News from Home – Wedding, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (GROUP)

2023 Public Space, FMR – Festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces, Linz, Austria

2022 Open Sites, Exhibition in Public Space by Het CultuurCentrum Het Perron in Ypres, Belgium

2022 Sound Walk DIHAN – Does It Have A Name Centre for Performing Art Groningen, Groningen, NL

2022 The Armory Show curated by Danvas, NY, United States
2022 NYC NFT, The Boiler, New York, United States
2021 NYC NFT, The Elm Foundation, NY, United States
2021 CADAF Digital Art Fair, exhibited by BrawHaus

2021 Soundwalk Lindenauer Hafen, curated by Antje Görner (TAKT Berlin), Leipzig, Germany
2021 THE CITY: Artistic Image & Social Practice in times of global change - supported by TheGoethe-Institut, EUNIC, the Consulate General of the Netherlands
2020 Talk To Me, Het Klimaatmuseum gaat voorPampus, Fort Island Pampus, The Netherlands
2020 Talk To Me Het Klimaatmuseum, Vibe Of The Earth, Bergen, The Netherlands
2020 Phantasm, Allée Rentrée, B93, Enschede, The Netherlands
2019 Phantasm, Netherlands Film Festival, Nicolaïkerk, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2019 News From Home – Reykjavik, Ice Fold at SÍM gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

2019 Selection for One-Off Moving Image Festival, Valencia, Spain and Gol, Norway

2018 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, Group Exhibition, The Family Photo , Video

2017 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, Group Exhibition, The (Re)Living City, Video

2016 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, Group Exhibition, Pull It Down And Put Big W There, Video

2013 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, Group Exhibition, Untitled, Photograph

PUBLIC ART:

2023 (Upcoming) Dialog City Hybrid Festival, Mondoví, Italy
2022 Euro-Mediterranean co-creation, artwork series in public space, Stigliano, Basilicata, Italy

2022 Installation Solidarity Sky, Open Sites, public art exhibition, Ieper, Belgium

2022 Solidarity Sky, Open Sites, CultuurCentrum Het, Perron, Ypres, Belgium
2021 News From Home – Saint Andreu, Sounds of Our Cities, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Talk To Me – De Heygraeff Audiotour, a public sound installation, The Netherlands.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

2020 Solidarity Sky, Online community art project

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2024 Upcoming, Xi·Art Museum, Lucitopia Town, Fuzhou City, China

2024 Upcoming, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

2023 Upcoming Dialog City Art For Public Residency, Turin and Mondoví, Italy

2023 LINZ FMR, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria

2023 Tender Absence, Glocal Class for digital performance, Virtual Residency, Germany

2022 Euro-Mediterranean co-creation, artwork in public space, Stigliano, Basilicata, Italy

2022 Context AiR, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2021 Virtual Residency 'VITAA - The City', with The Goethe-Institut, EUNIC and St, Petersburg Art Residency.

2021 Re-creatie Reinaerde by Mondriaan Fund and the Creative Industries Fund NL. Woudenberg, The Netherlands

2020 Sounds of Our Cities (Collaboration with City of Roeselare + Idensitat + Dear Hunter + Aalborg Universitet), Barcelona, Spain

2020 Artist Residency at ARE Enschede, The Netherlands

2020 Online residency at Offcity, Pardubice, Czech republic

2019 SÍM residency, Reykjavík, Iceland

2019 TAKT Studios residency, Berlin, Germany

2019 Hošek Contemporary residency, Berlin, Germany

2019 Frosterus residency, Kattilakoski Culture Cooperative, Kärsämäki, Finland

2019 Karelian art residence, Petrozavodsk, Russia

2019 Riddergrade residency, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark

2019 Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany

WORKSHOPS + TALKS

2023 Workshop My (virtual) island home, Tender Absence, online

2022 Performance Tree No. 140, Purpose Reporting, Thrive Institute, ABN AMRO Hoofdkantoor, Amsterdam, NL

2021 Presentation, Sounds of Our Cities conference about art, Stockholm, Sweden

2021 Online presentation, The City, Goethe-Institut, EUNIC and SPAR, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2021 Online Artist Talk for ARMADILLO Gallery for Sound Art, Leipzig, Germany

2021 ‘Becoming other-than-human’ workshop at Jan Ligthartschool, The Netherlands.

2020 Lecture on News From Home project, EINA University School of Design and Art, Barcelona, Spain

2020 'What has the nature to say' at Klimaatmuseum on Pampus Island, The Netherlands

2020 City Walk and Collages, Tour of city for school children, based on the project News From Home, Viborg, Denmark

2020 News From Home- Wedding tour, part of the Takt art program, Berlin, Germany

GRANTS/AWARDS

2023 Stroom Den Haag, grant towards public art installation as part of FMR – Festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces, Linz, Austria

2022 Winner Media Arts Film Scholarship 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany

2022 Stroom Den Haag, grant towards public art installation Solidarity Sky, NL

2022 Municipality of Plovdiv, grant towards public art project, Bulgaria

2021 The Social Art Award 2021, Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, Germany

2021 Stroom Den Haag grant towards exhibition Sounds of Our Cities, Barcelona, Spain

2021 Creative Europe grant towards exhibition Sounds of Our Cities, Barcelona, Spain

2021 The Consulate General of the Netherlands, grant towards Naked Windows, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2021 Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie grant towards Re-Creatie Reinarde residency, The Netherlands

2020 Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands, grant towards ‘TASMAN’ at Concordia, The Netherlands

2020 Vita Brown Bursary, Arts Tasmania

2020 CultuurSchakel, The Netherlands, grant towards project Solidarity Sky

2020 Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands, PROMISE grant towards project Solidarity Sky

2020 Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands, publication newspaper News from Home

2019 Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands, grant exhibition of ‘News From Home’ in Russia

2019 Takt grant towards residency at TAKT Studios in Berlin, Germany

2019 Arts Tasmania, Individuals and Groups grant towards exhibition of ‘News From Home’ in Russia

2019 Arts Tasmania, ArtsBridge Grant towards undertaking a residency in Berlin

2019 Devonport City Council, Financial Assistance Scheme towards Hošek Contemporary residency

2019 European Cultural Foundation STEP grant towards undertaking a residency at Kunsthal Viborg, Denmark

SCREENINGS

2023 (Upcoming) Unfolding, Premiere, International Film Festival Karlsruhe, Germany

2022 Naked Windows (VR), Official selection Terni Film Festival, Italy

2021 Naked Windows, Future Vision Festival, Tokyo/Amsterdam [exhibition, TV broadcast + online]
2021 Naked Windows, ANNY, New York, USA
2021 Naked Windows, The 17th International Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece
2019 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey Tourfilm Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2018 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Studio Loos, The Hague, The Netherlands
2018 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Foca Film Days, Izmir, Turkey
2018 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Zero Plus, International Film Festival, Tyumen, Russia
2018 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, 3331 Arts, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

PRESS

2022 'Graffiti masters paint the wall of TVC-Plovdiv', BNT News (National Television News), Bulgaria

2022 News From Home - Plovdiv, article in Marica newspaper (Bulgaria)

2021 Talk To Me - De Heygraeff Audiotour, newspaper, article in ‘Let op Woudenberg’ (The Netherlands)

2020 Publication News from Home (The Netherlands)

2020 Solidarity Sky, news article The Mercury (Australia)

2020 Solidarity Sky, news article The Advocate (Australia)

2020 Solidarity Sky, news article Den Haag Online (The Netherlands)

2020 Solidarity Sky, news article Dagblad070 Online (The Netherlands)

2020 Solidarity Sky, news article Dutchculture Online (The Netherlands)

2019 Feature Article/Image, Viborg Folkeblad, postcards from Viborg' - Denmark

2019 News Television, САМПО ТВ 360, (English translation: Duet "News from Home") - Russia