C.V
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
2019 Interview/image, WeddingWeiser [online] 'Wedding Stories: Art Exhibition' - Germany