VIN RYAN

ACADEMIC RECORD
2001 -2002 Master of Fine Art - Victorian College of the Arts
2000 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art - Victorian College of the Arts
1989 -91 BA Fine Art Monash University (Caufield campus)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 "Endless Days", Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2009 "Tree Game - a drawing project by Vin Ryan", Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2006 "Tree Game", Victoria Park, Melbourne
2004 "Re-Configured", a project by Vin Ryan, City Library, Melbourne
"Why won't you talk to me…", Platform, Spencer St, Melbourne
2002 "Life and it's Marvels", Conical Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy
2001 A project by Vin Ryan - RMIT Project Space
2000 "Paper cuts" - Talk Artists Initiative, Melbourne
1997 Recent Works - Westspace, Footscray

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
"National Works on Paper Prize", Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Bella Art Draw, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Anna Pappas group show, Depot Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney
Anna Pappas group show, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
'Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize', Williamstown
"Constellations: A large number of small drawings", RMIT Gallery
"Uncertainty: Drawing", City Library, Melbourne
2009
"I walk the line: New Australian Drawing", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,
"Line Drawing", Mailbox 141, Melbourne
2008
"National Works on Paper Prize", Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
"Redeeming the Ruin - the art of consumption" - Latrobe, Swan Hill, Mornington Peninsula, Shepparton and Horsham Regional Galleries
"Embodied Energy", Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
"Flux Capacitor", Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
"The Heyson Prize", The Hahndoorf Academy, Hahndorf, South Australia
"Rembrandt's: Nine Installations", RMIT Architecture, Knox
2007
"Zonal Marx", Margret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Southbank
"Urban Arboreal", City Gallery, Melbourne
"Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award", Hazelhurst Art Gallery, Sydney
"Artefact", City Museum, Melbourne
2006
"Someone shows something to someone", Canberra Contemporary Art Space
A4 Art, Westspace
2005
"Drawing as finished product" Expressions Arts & Entertainment, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
"Drawing from studio to situation (Untitled situation)" Ocular Lab, Brunswick
2004
"Combined Operations/ Joint Operations(CoJO)", Conical, Fitzroy
"Re-verb", Federation Square car park, Melbourne, as part of Next Wave Container project
2003
"The Museum Aesthetic", Gallery 101, Melbourne
"Living in Liverpool/Living in Melbourne" Platform, Spencer St, Melbourne
2002
"Unloading" - Kraznopolsky Gallery, St Kilda
"Only the lonely" Block Gallery, Sydney
"Shape/space/place", Margret Lawrence Gallery VCA, curated by Vin Ryan
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award - ANZ Bank

COLLECTIONS
Art Bank, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, City of Melbourne, City of Maribyrnong, St Vincent's Hospital, private collections in Australia and New Zealand

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2002 - 2004 Conical Inc board member
2000 - 2007 Lecturer in drawing, painting & art theory at CAE, Box Hill and NMIT TAFE

PRIZES/GRANTS
2010 Rose and Kim Sim Award (Williamstown Contemporary Art Festival)
Mornington Peninsula National Works on Paper aquisition
2006 St Vincent's Hospital Artist in Residence
Banyule City Council Sculpture Commission
2004 Australian Visual Arts Benevolent Trust
2002 National Gallery of Victoria Women's Association Postgraduate Award Masters Research Scholarship - Victorian College of the Arts
2000 Maribyrnong Sport, Recreation and Culture grant
Shell Art Prize - merit award and acquisition

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Endless Days, Dan Rule, The Age, 28.11.10
"Dish the dirt", Suzanne Carbone, The Age, 26.11.10
Vin Ryan: Endless Days', Broadsheet Online, Dan Rule, 17.11.10
Radio interview with Emma Swift, Arts and Culture FBI Radio, Sydney, 13.6.10
"Melbourne Art Fair 2010", Megan Backhouse, Art Gallery Guide Australia Sept/Oct 2010
2009
I walk the Line: New Australian Drawing, Craig Judd, Art and Australia (Spring 2009)
"Tree Game", Dan Rule, The Age, 5.12.09
2008
"Green with Envy" , Frances Johnson, The Age, 13.6.08
'Flux Capacitor', Penny Modra, The Age, 27.7.08
2007
"Artefact: A Melbourne Legacy", Inga Walton, Craft Culture.org, 18.12.07
"Dear You" - Vin Ryan, You Magazine, Breakdown Press
"Visual poetry on tree lines", Frances Johnson, The Age 31.8.07
Zonal Marx - editors review, ArtInfo.com.au. March 2007
Zonal Marx, Megan Backhouse, The Age, 3.3.07
2006 Tree Game - review by Megan Backhouse, The Age, 14.10.06
2003 Radio interview with Roger Taylor, "High and Low" 3RRR FM 24.6.03 2001
"Adrift in Melbourne: The Trans -Tasman challenge" - Vin Ryan, Art New Zealand Magazine (No. 101)
2000 "Talk" Magazine (No. 73) - interview with Sandra Bridie
1998 "Working class"- review by Anita Bragge Herald Sun 27.11.98
Arts today - Radio National (interview) 24.11.98
1996 Dialogue Magazine (No. 3) - "Museum" - article by Vin Ryan