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Valentina  PALONEN     (born 1984)


VALENTINA PALONEN


BIOGRAPHY


1984 Born Athens Greece

2014- PhD candidate, RMIT University
2010- 11 Master of Fine Arts (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2008 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University, Lismore


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 Hunting the far mountain, Gould Galleries, South Yarra

Water people from the sky (atelier ouvert), Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2013 Wilding, Gould Galleries, South Yarra.

Leaf & Limb, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah.
2012 Power Things, Blindside Artist Run Space, Melbourne
Fata Morgana, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
Power Things, Blindside Artist Run Space, Melbourne.
Silent Stone Singing, Academy Gallery, Launceston
2011 Shape Shifter, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

Linden Innovators 2011, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

Stranger than Fiction (Souvenirs from the Periphery), NO NO GALLERY,

Melbourne
2010 Refuse to Surrender, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

Biomorphica, C3 Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

An Extraterrestrial Experience (curated by Michelle Gordon), C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
Heathen, Mailbox Art Space (curated by Mitchel Brannan), Melbourne
2015 The Director's Choice 2015, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
Shift,
Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Brunswick
2014 Incinerator Art Prize, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds

Sculpture14 Prize, Toyota community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne

Belle Arti-Chapman and Bailey Art Award, Chapman & Bailey, Abbotsford
2013 Blob, Strange Neighbor, Melbourne 

SEVENTH Gallery Annual Fundraiser 2013, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

West Space Annual Fundraiser 2013, West Space, Melbourne

Linden Postcards, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda
2012 West Space Annual Fundraiser 2012, West Space, Melbourne

Winter Warmers, Gould Galleries, South Yarra

Rainbow Eaters (Curated by Mitchel Brannan), West Space, Melbourne

Wild vs Man (Curated by Caroline Phillips), Goodtime Studios, Melbourne

Neon Forest, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford

Linden Postcards, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda

Entry, Brunswick Art Space, Brunswick

Rainbow Eaters (Curated by Mitchel Brannan), West Space, Melbourne

Man vs Wild (Curated by Caroline Phillips), Goodtime studios, Melbourne
2011 Masters Graduate Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank

Allsorts, Gould Galleries, Melbourne

Belle Arti- Chapman and Bailey Art Award, Chapman & Bailey, Abbotsford

Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Finalists, Margaret Lawrence

Gallery, Southbank
2010 2010 Directors Cut Exhibition, Blake Society online exhibition

Tomorrow, Michael Koro Galleries, Melbourne

Proud to be VCA, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Black & White: Shades of Grey, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne

The Feminist Salon: The Envelope, West Wing, Melbourne

New Releases, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne

Holes in the Wall, private residence (Special event), Melbourne
2009 VCA Graduate Exhibition 2009, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Proud to be VCA, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Arsennale I was Joking, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne

Revolution of Art, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay

Graduating Student Award Exhibition, Inner City Clayworkers Gallery, Sydney

Border Art Prize, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2008 12 x 12 group exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay

Transit08, Southern Cross University, Lismore.

Small Works Show, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

SCU Student Art Prize, Next Art Gallery, Lismore

Footprints, Next Art Gallery, Lismore


PROFESSIONAL & RESIDENCES

2014-15 Artist in residence, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2015 Guest artist in residence, Northcote Pottery, East Brunswick

Casting from Nature: An Introduction to Silicone Moulds & Resin Casts (workshop) Northcote Pottery Supplies
BSC Artist in REsidence, Brunswick Secondary College, Brunswick (ceramic workshop)
2014 Recasting the Mandrake: Folklore, Vegetables and Agency, Australian National University, Environmental Humanities Conference (Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions)
2013 Casting from Nature: An Introduction to Silicone Moulds & Resin Casts (workshop) Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
2012 Signs of Life: The Art of Artificial Animism (Arts Forum), University of Tasmania

Refining Ideas & Actualising Artworks (Guest Lecture), University of Tasmania

Silicone Moulds & Resin Casts (workshop) University of Tasmania

Volunteer arts worker, Arts Project Australia, Northcote


AWARDS

2016

The Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (Finalist), Brighton
2014-16 RMIT PhD Scholarship
2013 Brett Whitley Traveling Art Scholarship, Sydney (Finalist)
2012 New Work Grant (Early Career), Australia Council for the Arts

Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant, NAVA

Border Art Prize (2nd Prize)

Power Cité des Arts Residency, Paris

University of Tasmania Artist-in-Residence Program
2011 Elliott Family Ten Year Collection Acquisitive Award

Popper Family Acquisitive Award

Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (Finalist)
2010- 11 Australian Postgraduate Award
2010 City of Melbourne Art Grant (Young Artist Category)

Friends of the Victorian College of the Arts Grant
2009 Dr David Rosenthal Award
2007 National Tertiary Art Prize (Finalist)


COLLECTIONS



The University of Tasmania

Elliott Family Ten Year Collection

Popper Family Collection

Various private collections



BIBLIOGRAPHY



Valentina Palonen Signs of Life: The Art of Artificial Animism (2012)

Master of Fine Arts (Research) Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

‘Artnotes’ in Art Monthly, Dec/Jan 2012-13

Mitchel Brannan ‘Power Things’ (Exhibition catalogue) Nov-Dec 2012

Nikita Vanderbyl 'Interview: Valentina Palonen' in Lip Magazine, 2012

Plastic Fantastic & Sympathetic Magic, Pageworks of Runway Magazine,

November 2011

Birrell, Meredith. Playing More, The Art Life, 25 July 2011, URL: http://theartlife.com.au/?p=5392  

Skerlj, Laura. Stranger than Fiction (Souvenirs from the Periphery), Exhibition catalogue, No No Gallery, Melbourne, October 2011

Walter, Trent. Linden Innovators 2, Exhibition catalogue, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, June 2011

Kenny, Anusha. Valentina Palonen’s Shape Shifter, Exhibition catalogue, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, February 2011

Wallis, Philippa. Holes in the Wall, Exhibition catalogue, Special arts event curated by Theresa Harris, March 2010













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Valentina PALONEN
  

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VALENTINA PALONEN


BIOGRAPHY


1984 Born Athens Greece

2014- PhD candidate, RMIT University
2010- 11 Master of Fine Arts (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2008 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University, Lismore


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 Hunting the far mountain, Gould Galleries, South Yarra

Water people from the sky (atelier ouvert), Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2013 Wilding, Gould Galleries, South Yarra.

Leaf & Limb, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah.
2012 Power Things, Blindside Artist Run Space, Melbourne
Fata Morgana, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
Power Things, Blindside Artist Run Space, Melbourne.
Silent Stone Singing, Academy Gallery, Launceston
2011 Shape Shifter, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

Linden Innovators 2011, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

Stranger than Fiction (Souvenirs from the Periphery), NO NO GALLERY,

Melbourne
2010 Refuse to Surrender, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

Biomorphica, C3 Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

An Extraterrestrial Experience (curated by Michelle Gordon), C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
Heathen, Mailbox Art Space (curated by Mitchel Brannan), Melbourne
2015 The Director's Choice 2015, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
Shift,
Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Brunswick
2014 Incinerator Art Prize, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds

Sculpture14 Prize, Toyota community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne

Belle Arti-Chapman and Bailey Art Award, Chapman & Bailey, Abbotsford
2013 Blob, Strange Neighbor, Melbourne 

SEVENTH Gallery Annual Fundraiser 2013, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

West Space Annual Fundraiser 2013, West Space, Melbourne

Linden Postcards, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda
2012 West Space Annual Fundraiser 2012, West Space, Melbourne

Winter Warmers, Gould Galleries, South Yarra

Rainbow Eaters (Curated by Mitchel Brannan), West Space, Melbourne

Wild vs Man (Curated by Caroline Phillips), Goodtime Studios, Melbourne

Neon Forest, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford

Linden Postcards, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda

Entry, Brunswick Art Space, Brunswick

Rainbow Eaters (Curated by Mitchel Brannan), West Space, Melbourne

Man vs Wild (Curated by Caroline Phillips), Goodtime studios, Melbourne
2011 Masters Graduate Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank

Allsorts, Gould Galleries, Melbourne

Belle Arti- Chapman and Bailey Art Award, Chapman & Bailey, Abbotsford

Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Finalists, Margaret Lawrence

Gallery, Southbank
2010 2010 Directors Cut Exhibition, Blake Society online exhibition

Tomorrow, Michael Koro Galleries, Melbourne

Proud to be VCA, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Black & White: Shades of Grey, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne

The Feminist Salon: The Envelope, West Wing, Melbourne

New Releases, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne

Holes in the Wall, private residence (Special event), Melbourne
2009 VCA Graduate Exhibition 2009, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Proud to be VCA, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Arsennale I was Joking, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne

Revolution of Art, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay

Graduating Student Award Exhibition, Inner City Clayworkers Gallery, Sydney

Border Art Prize, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2008 12 x 12 group exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay

Transit08, Southern Cross University, Lismore.

Small Works Show, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

SCU Student Art Prize, Next Art Gallery, Lismore

Footprints, Next Art Gallery, Lismore


PROFESSIONAL & RESIDENCES

2014-15 Artist in residence, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2015 Guest artist in residence, Northcote Pottery, East Brunswick

Casting from Nature: An Introduction to Silicone Moulds & Resin Casts (workshop) Northcote Pottery Supplies
BSC Artist in REsidence, Brunswick Secondary College, Brunswick (ceramic workshop)
2014 Recasting the Mandrake: Folklore, Vegetables and Agency, Australian National University, Environmental Humanities Conference (Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions)
2013 Casting from Nature: An Introduction to Silicone Moulds & Resin Casts (workshop) Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
2012 Signs of Life: The Art of Artificial Animism (Arts Forum), University of Tasmania

Refining Ideas & Actualising Artworks (Guest Lecture), University of Tasmania

Silicone Moulds & Resin Casts (workshop) University of Tasmania

Volunteer arts worker, Arts Project Australia, Northcote


AWARDS

2016

The Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (Finalist), Brighton
2014-16 RMIT PhD Scholarship
2013 Brett Whitley Traveling Art Scholarship, Sydney (Finalist)
2012 New Work Grant (Early Career), Australia Council for the Arts

Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant, NAVA

Border Art Prize (2nd Prize)

Power Cité des Arts Residency, Paris

University of Tasmania Artist-in-Residence Program
2011 Elliott Family Ten Year Collection Acquisitive Award

Popper Family Acquisitive Award

Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (Finalist)
2010- 11 Australian Postgraduate Award
2010 City of Melbourne Art Grant (Young Artist Category)

Friends of the Victorian College of the Arts Grant
2009 Dr David Rosenthal Award
2007 National Tertiary Art Prize (Finalist)


COLLECTIONS



The University of Tasmania

Elliott Family Ten Year Collection

Popper Family Collection

Various private collections



BIBLIOGRAPHY



Valentina Palonen Signs of Life: The Art of Artificial Animism (2012)

Master of Fine Arts (Research) Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

‘Artnotes’ in Art Monthly, Dec/Jan 2012-13

Mitchel Brannan ‘Power Things’ (Exhibition catalogue) Nov-Dec 2012

Nikita Vanderbyl 'Interview: Valentina Palonen' in Lip Magazine, 2012

Plastic Fantastic & Sympathetic Magic, Pageworks of Runway Magazine,

November 2011

Birrell, Meredith. Playing More, The Art Life, 25 July 2011, URL: http://theartlife.com.au/?p=5392  

Skerlj, Laura. Stranger than Fiction (Souvenirs from the Periphery), Exhibition catalogue, No No Gallery, Melbourne, October 2011

Walter, Trent. Linden Innovators 2, Exhibition catalogue, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, June 2011

Kenny, Anusha. Valentina Palonen’s Shape Shifter, Exhibition catalogue, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, February 2011

Wallis, Philippa. Holes in the Wall, Exhibition catalogue, Special arts event curated by Theresa Harris, March 2010