JUZ KITSON YOU THE INDIVIDUAL ARE IDENTICAL WITH THE ULTIMATE PRINCIPLE OF THINGS
Cover: Juz Kitson Native; that which is subtle essence 2017 Jingdezhen porcelain, marino wool, marine ply and treated pine 80 x 146 x 20cm $14,000
JUZ KITSON YOU THE INDIVIDUAL ARE IDENTICAL WITH THE ULTIMATE PRINCIPLE OF THINGS 26 April – 14 May 2017 Opening 6 – 8pm Wednesday 26 April 2017
Juz Kitson You are that; union after desire 2017 Jingdezhen porcelain, rabbit pelt, marine ply and treated pine 110 x 50 x 48cm $19,000
Juz Kitson Order is personified 2017 Jingdezhen porcelain, stoneware, rabbit and fox pelt, goat hide, marine ply and treated pine 120 x 45 x 47cm $19,000
Opposite: Juz Kitson All that exists 2017 Jingdezhen porcelain, glass, marino wool and fox pelt, polyester string, marine ply and treated pine 110 x 50 x 48cm $19,000
Opposite: Juz Kitson Primitive drive; content with its transitory nature 2017 Jingdezhen porcelain, fox pelt and goat hide, marine ply and treated pine 104 x 50 x 28cm $14,000
JUZ KITSON Born 1987 Sydney Currently based in Australia and Jingdezhen China Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours 2009 The National Art School, Sydney (NAS)
OLSEN Gallery, Sydney GAGPROJECTS/ Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
Solo Exhibitions 2016 2015 2014 2012 2011 2010
You are here; right here, right now. Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Changing Skin, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Still Life: sleep of non-being. GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide Desire and the Other. Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne London Art Fair Project Space, COMODAA, London Viral Sanctuary, It’s beautiful and deadly, Zero Art Centre, 798 Art District, Beijing Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions 2016
2015
2014
Spring1883, GAGPROJECTS, Melbourne Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Australian Art, Magic Object, SAMSTAG Museum Road Trip Show, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Spring 1883, GAGPROJECTS/ Greenaway Art Gallery, Sydney The Spectrum Files, SPIRAL, Tokyo Water and Clay Around the World. The first International Ceramics Exhibition, Qingdao Sculpture Museum, China Drawn to Form, Blacktown Arts Centre Turn Turn Turn curated by Glen Barkley, National Art School Gallery Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School Gallery ArtDubai, GAGPROJECTS/ Greenaway Art Gallery Platform Australia, Art Stage Singapore, GAGPROJECTS Art Dubai, GAGPROJECTS Revelations, RMIT University Melbourne
2013
2012 2011
2010 2009
Start, International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics, Today Art Museum, Beijing John Fries Memorial Art Prize for Emerging Artists Finalist exhibition. Natura Morte, Orange Regional Art Gallery Primavera. Museum of Contemporary Art. Sydney Spring Group Show, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne Enucleo, 146 ArtsSpace Hobart and Sawtooth ARI Launceston Instinct. GAG Projects, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide Human Experience, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Young Guns, COMODAA, Notting Hill, London Underfoot. Overhead – Studies in Nature, (group show) Australian Centre for Craft and Design RBS Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Royal Bank of Scotland Open fields. (Forum of creative research, experimentation and practice, group show) Serial Space Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney Young Guns, An International survey of Contemporary Ceramics, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University
Collections MONA - Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania ArtBank Collection Shepparton Art Museum RMIT University Collection Melbourne Bathurst Regional Art Gallery collection Private collections nationally and internationally Awards, Grants, Residencies 2016 2015
2014 2013
Arts projects for individuals, Australia Council for the Arts. NSW Artist Grant, NAVA Artist in Residence, Australian National University, Canberra Artist in Residence, Watson Art Centre, Canberra Jingdezhen, China – Five-month residency Hill End Residency, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Bryants Butchery Residency Hill End, NAS New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts NSW Artist Grant, NAVA, Arts NSW Gosford Regional Art Gallery Award, Winner Ceramic category Jingdezhen, China- Four month residency
2012
2011
2010 2009
2008 2005
Hill End Residency, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and supported by ArtsNSW Gold Coast City Art Gallery Award, Finalist Gosford Regional Art Gallery Award, Highly Commended Jingdezhen, China. Three-month residency Tsinghua University Academy of Arts and Design Beijing and National Art School Residency for Emerging Artist from NSW, supported by ArtsNSW (Three month residency) Bryants Butchery Residency Hill End, NAS Bundanon Residency, Arthur Boyd Trust, NSW Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, NAS Pethebridge Award (Financial assistance), NAS Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Regional Gallery, Finalist Waverly Youth Art Award Waverly Youth Art Award, Environment Award The Theo Batten Youth Art Award, (Financial support for further creative studies), Manly Art Gallery
Curated exhibitions 2014
Hercules & Aphrodite presents. Co-curated with Phil James featuring works by NELL, David Griggs, Justin Balmain, Kate Scardifield, Tim Bruniges and Heath Franco. Sydney
Collaborations 2013 2010
MCA ArtBar - Performance collaboration with Sands through the Hourglass Being Born Again couture fashion show, Sydney
Publications 2016
2015
Adelaide Biennial, Breaks Records, Appoints 2018 Curator Acquires New Work, The Adelaide Review, John Dexter, 16 May Wayward Wizardry, The Australian, Christopher Allen, 9 April Juz Kitson’s sculpture in the Redlands Prize has plenty of bite, The Daily telegraph, 31 March National Art School showcases ceramics by Rushforth, Choung et al, The Australian, 11 July
2014 2013 2012 2012
A Fine Balance by Prue Gibson, Australian Art Collector Magazine, Profile Article, April/June 68 Issue, p. 130-137 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Catalogue, 2013 The Lovely Bones by Madeleine Hinchy, Vogue Living Magazine, (feature profile Arts and Events) p. 95-96 July/Aug Review Juz Kitson’s Desire and the Other at Nellie Castan Gallery’ http://everguide.com.au/exhibitions/reviews/juz-kitsons- desire-and-theother-nellie-castan-gallery.aspx, Everguide, Melbourne China Ceramic Artist magazine, (profile of images from Zero Art Centre Show 798 Art District Beijing) 2012 p. 58-61 Prue Gibson, The Wonder of Juz Kitson’s curiosities - Prue Gibson investigates the allure of the unnatural in nature, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, issue 50, April 2011 p. 21-26 The Despicable and the Other Abject in Art by Orly Nezer, Ceramics Art and Perception, 2011, p. 95-99 - Joseph Brennan Uncomfortable Territories, Australian Art Review Issue 26 March-April 2011 p. 70- 72 Lynne Dwyer, Juz Kitson, Open Gallery, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 6-7 2010, p. 13
JUZ KITSON YOU THE INDIVIDUAL ARE IDENTICAL WITH THE ULTIMATE PRINCIPLE OF THINGS 26 April – 14 May 2017 Opening 6 – 8pm Wednesday 26 April 2017