RUSHDI ANWAR
Born in Halabja, Kurdistan, lives and works in between Melbourne, Australia and Chiang Mai, Thailand.
EDUCATION
2016 Doctorate of Philosophy Art (PhD), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Master of Fine Art – MFA, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Diploma of Graphic Design, Enmore Design Centre, Sydney Institute- Sydney, Australia
1992 Diploma of Civil Engineering and Draftsmanship, Institute of Kirkuk, Kirkuk, Kurdistan
SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 "We have found in the ashes what we have lost in the fire", MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2018 "The Patterns of Displacement",Incinerator Gallery,Melbourne, Australia
2017 "The Notion of Place and Displacement", MARC Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 "Reframe “Home” with Patterns of Displacement", 2017 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2017 "The Patterns of Displacement in Context of Home", Emerge in Yarra Festival 2017, Multicultural Arts Victoria,Australia
2016 "Materiality and Form", RMIT School of Art Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2015 "Hanging Issues", 2015 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, The Atrium Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2015 "Irhal (Expel)";, 2015 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, No Vacancy Project Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 "Landlock" Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2012 "Hanging Issues" , Ne Na Contemporary Art Space / Baan Monfai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2011 "Poetic reading for material transformation", Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
2011 "Aesthetics of change", Schrinerhalle Gallery, Zug, Switzerland
2010 "Narrative of change through materials", First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 Pollock Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 ASPIC-Le Menilmuche, Paris, France
2004 Slemani Museum Gallery, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
2003 "Searching for Home In the Face of Exile", TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997 Gallery of Meads Youth Center, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1996 Museum Hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1990 Gallery of Kerkwk Technology Institute, Kerkwk, Kurdistan
1989 Museum Hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
Collaborations EXHIBITIONS
2018 Project:"What’s Left Behind", the 21st Biennale of Sydney,Museum of Contemporary Art Australia - MCA, Sydney, Australia
2018 Keynote Performance: "What’s Left Behind", Art & Artists:
Public Galleries Summit 2018, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
2017 "The Invisible" Project Exhibition, UTS ART Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 "Wrapped in Culture”, Collaboration Project Exhibition, NeNa Contemporary Art Space/Baan Monfai Culture Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014 The After State, Collaboration Project Exhibition, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Material Perception (Part 2), First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Material Perception (Part 1), D11 Artist-Led Exhibition Space, Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 13th Havana Biennial 2019, "LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LO POSIBLE", Project: "Intercambio", The Casa de Asia Museum, Havana, Cuba
2019 "The National 2019: New Australian Art", the Second of Three Biennial Surveys, ART GALLERY OF NSW (AGNSW), Sydney, Australia
2019 "52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS", Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2019 "Road Through Kurdistan", P21 Gallery, London, UK
2019 "No Colour; Short Meditations in Black", CHAUFFEUR Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019 "Transition", LIGHTSCAPES / Rodda Lane ,RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2019 "1st International Fine Arts Exchange Exhibition", Da Nang Fine Arts Museum , Da Nang, Vietnam
2019 "Elementary Complexity", CMU Art Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2019 "These Words", KINGS Artist Run, Melbourne, Australia
2019 "SO : Collaborative Project", CMU Art Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2018 The 12th Gwangju Biennale: "Imagined Borders", Gwangju, Republic of KOREA
2018 "Temporary Certainty", 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
2018 ARTBAR November 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia - MCA, Sydney, Australia
2018 10th Years Anniversary, Seascape Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2018 Project:"What’s Left Behind", the 21st Biennale of Sydney,Museum of Contemporary Art Australia - MCA, Sydney, Australia
2018 "Hyphenated", The Substations Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 "The Trace", Wellington St Projects, Sydney, Australia
2018 "in conTEXT", Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2018 50 MINUTES ...Video Art: A Group Show of 8 Kurdish Artists, Citadel Cultural Centre, Erbil, Kurdistan
2018 "Cultural Crossroads", Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, USA
2018 RMUTL International Art Workshop, Rajamangala University Lanna, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2018 13Th International Visual Arts and Workshop Exhibition, PohChang Academy of Arts, Bangkok, Thailand
2017 OCTOPUS 17: Forever Transformed, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Melbourne Festival "An unorthodox flow of images", Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Melbourne, Australia
2017 "The Invisible" Project Exhibition, UTS ART Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017 MoreArt 2017: Where Have We Come To?, Brunswick Town HaLl, Melbourne, Australia
2017 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2017, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Darebin Art Prize 2017, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2017 SWELL Sculpture Festival, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia
2017 JAALA Biennale, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan
2017 12Th International Arts and Workshop Exhibition, Rajamangala University, Pathum Thani, Thailand
2017 12Th International Visual Arts and Workshop Exhibition, PohChang Academy of Arts, Bangkok, Thailand
2017 “Let's CrossThe Sea”, BlackCat Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 “BOO”, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 The Installation Zone, The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair 2016, Toronto, Canada
2016 Pinpoint-Banyule Contemporary Art Fair, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2016 “Play2” Blindside Projects, Satellite Projects, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2016 20th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Kawasaki,Japan
2015 Darebin Art Prize 2015,Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2015 "Art For Social Change", 2015 Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery,Melbourne, Australia
2015 "In Space", The 2015 Banyule Award for Works on Paper,Hatch Contemporary Arts Space,Melbourne, Australia
2015 "Lost in Translocation", Project Space Spare Room, RMIT University,Melbourne, Australia
2014 "Moreland Summer Show 2014", Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
2014 "4A A4",4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
2014 19th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki,Japan
2014 3rd International Emerging Artist Award (IEAA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2014 "Superfictions 1: The Art Fair Murders", Kings Artist Run Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 "WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE FESTIVAL", RMIT School of Art, RMIT University,Melbourne, Australia
2014 Australian War Memorial, Gallery:Permanent Display, Canberra, Australia
2014 "Chaos" Yesterday and today exhibition, Dark Horse Experiment Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Burapha Arts Exhibition Connect: Expand and “3 X 3” Project, The National Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok,Thailand
2013 "Landlock" Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2013 "ANL Maritime Art Prize Exhibition", The Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne, Australia
2012 18th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo,Japan
2012 Future Visions at the Australia festival, Divonne-les Bains, Grilly, France
2012 Matter and Space", Ne Na Contemporary Art Space / Baan Monfai, Chiang Mai,Thailand
2011 When the Image Takes Form", Mølla Kulturhus på Grim, Norway
2011 Untitled", Sardam Gallery, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
2010 Siemens - RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards, RMIT Galler, Melbourne, Australia
2010 17th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
2010 Survival of a culture: Kurds in Australia", Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Master of Fine Art, Graduate Show, The Gossard Building, RMIT University,Melbourne, Australia
2010 RMIT School of Art Gallery, "Place", RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2010 ANL Maritime Art Prize & Exhibition, The Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, "Is What Is", Melbourne, Australia
2010 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Brunswick Art Space, "Marking Time", Melbourne, Australia
2010 Darebin Art Show, Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Collingwood Gallery, "From The Jungle To The Desert ...", Melbourne, Australia
2009 Space Gallery, " POST ", Melbourne, Australia
2009 NG Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2009 Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Pollock Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Pigment Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 16th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008 The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne, Australia
2008 Pollock Gallery, Melbourne- Australia
2008 New Art Works Gallery, Canberra- Australia
2007 6th Lessedra international mini print, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
2007 Pollock Gallery, Melbourne- Australia
2007 Art 4 Aid, Victoria Art Society Gallery, Melbourne- Australia
2007 Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2006 TAH Exhibition, Sydney Antique Centre Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 New Faces-New Works, Pollock Gallery, Melbourne- Australia
2004 14th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Scarborough civic centre &art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 The White man, Slemani Museum Gallery, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
2003 Nude Exhibition, TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002 International Faces Festival, Billas- Finland
2002 Contemporary Kurdish Art, Synergy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002 TAP Gallery, Freedom Show, Sydney, Australia
2002 Australian Kurdish Cultural Center, Sydney, Australia
02-00 Six exhibitions, Lavender Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000 Town Hall Parramatta, Sydney, Australia
1999 Town Hall Parramatta, Sydney, Australia
1996 Gallery of Meads Youth Center, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1996 ANFAL poster show, Kerkuk Cultural Hall, Kurdistan
1996 HALABJA Festival, Kurdistan
1995 Arbela Gallery , Hawller, Kurdistan
1995 Zamwa Gallery, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1995 Fine Arts Cultural Festival, Cultural hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1995 Galileo Poster, Cultural hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1994 Fine Arts Cultural Festival, Cultural hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1994 Fine Arts and Drama Festival, Medya Hall, Hawller, Kurdistan
1994 Slemani Youth Exhibition, Graz town hall, Graz, Austria
1994 Surkyw Hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1994 Halabja and Korew, Museum Hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1994 HALABJA Festival, Hallabja, Kurdistan
1994 Krlepwr, Surkyw Hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1993 HALABJA Festival, Hallabja, Kurdistan
1992 Gallery of Kerkwk Technology Institute, Kerkwk, Kurdistan
Grants, Residency & AWARDS
2018 Project funding grant, Arts projects for individuals and groups grant, the Australia Council for the Arts
2017 Art Residency Program, Project Time- Artist in Residence, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Art Residency Program, Rajamangala University of Technology(RMUTT), Pathumthani, Thailand
2016 Project funding grant, Arts projects for individuals and groups grant, the Australia Council for the Arts
2016 Project funding grant,Creative Victoria's VicArts Grants program
2016 Award A Space In The Installation Zone, The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair 2016, Toronto, Canada
2015 Finalist, Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery,Melbourne, Australia
2015 Finalist, The 2015 Banyule Award for Works on Paper,Hatch Contemporary Arts Space,Melbourne, Australia
2015 Finalist, Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Art Residency, Ne' Na Contemporary Art Space/ Baan Monfai Culture Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014 Project funding grant, Artist In Residency Program 2014-15, The Australia-Thailand Institute, Australian Government
2014 Golden 15 Finalists, 3rd International Emerging Artist Award (IEAA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2013 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australian Government
2013 Art Residency, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2012 Project funding grant, The Australia-Thailand Institute, Department of Foreign Affairs, Australian
2012 Project funding grant, Victorian Multicultural Commission, Melbourne
2012 Project funding grant, RMIT Link Arts; Culture, Melbourne
2012 Art Residency, Ne' Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2011 ArtStart grant, the Australia Council for the Arts
2011 Project funding grant, The Ministry of Arts and Culture, Kurdistan Regional Government
2011 Vice Chancellor’s List Award for Masters in Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
2010 Siemens Awards Finalist, Fine Art Scholarship Awards, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Finalist, ANL - Maritime Art Award, Melbourne
2010 Project funding grant, RMIT Link Arts and Culture, Melbourne
2009 MFA Award, Master of Fine Art, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
2007 Highly Recommended, Art 4 Aid, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
2019 Da Nang Fine Arts Museum, public Collection, Da Nang, Vietnam
2013 Australian War Memorial, Contemporary Collection, Canberra, Australia
2013 Faculty of Fine Art and Applied Arts, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
2010 The Kurdistan Regional Government, The Ministry of Arts & Culture, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
AND Privit Collections , Kurdistan and Australia.
CURATORIAL PRACTICE
2015 WRAPPED IN CULTURE PROJECT
Community art project and exhibition
Collaboration and Curated by: Rushdi Anwar and Melanie Jayne Taylor
Recipients of Australia-Thailand Institute's- Artist-in-Residency Program 2014-2015
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government
Ne Na Contemporary Art Space/ Monfai Cultural Centre
Chiang Mai - Thailand
THE HUA KRATHI PROJECT
7 - 23 March 2013
Co-organized by: Rushdi Anwar, Melanie Jayne
Curated by: Rushdi Anwar, Melanie Jayne Taylor, Shukit Panmongkol
14 Thai Artists
Locations:
-RMIT University School of Art Gallery
-Screen Space
-A pop up Gallery, Federation Square
-Public Program, the Edge Federation Square
MATTER AND SPACE
February 2012
Curated by: Rushdi Anwar
15 International Artists
Ne Na Contemporary Art Space
Monfai Cultural Centre / Living Museum
Chiang Mai – Thailand
UNTITLED, 2011
Curated by: Rushdi Anwar
13 International Artists
Sardam Gallery
Slemani, Kurdistan
PUBLICATIONS and MEDIA
2019 Beers, Kurt. “100 Sculptors of Tomorrow”. Farnborough: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019.
2019 "52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS", , Thames & Hudson Australia
2019 "The National 2019: New Australian Art", Exhibition catalogue, Sydney, Australia
2018 The 21st Biennale of Sydney, "Superposition : equilibrium & engagement"; Exhibition catalogue, Australia
2018 The 12th Gwangju Biennale, "Imagined Borders"; Exhibition catalogue, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
2017 Garland magazine, “Hanging issues:
Collaboration between photography and Lana paper making”, Issue 6: Village Nation-@Thailand, Link
2016 journal: Anthropology of the Middle East, “Hope and Sorrow of Displacement”, by Mediya Rangi, Vol. 10, No. 2, winter 2016 Link
2015 Peril Magazine: Featured "The Ashes of War"; by Nikki Lam, Edition 21, August, 2015, Australia, Link
2015 The Saturday Paper, Portrait, "Healing wounds" by Jennifer Down, May 16, 2015, Australia, Link
2015 Heidelberg Leader, Newspaper, October 13, 2015, Melbourne, Australia
2015 "Art For Social Change", Exhibition catalogue, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 "In Space", Exhibition catalogue, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2015 SBS Radio (Kurdish Program) Australia, Interview,8 May 2015, Australia, Link
2015 "Lost in Translocation", Exhibition catalogue, Project Space Spare Room, RMIT University,Melbourne, Australia
2014 SBS Radio (Kurdish Program) Australia, Interview,13 Jun 2014, Australia, Link
2014 Dsetur, Interview By: Zana Mohamad, Kurdistan, No; 71, April 16th
2013 ARTIST PROFILE Magazine, Preview; Rushdi Anwar , Issue 25 November 2013-14, Australia, Link
2013 SBS Radio (Kurdish Program) Australia, Interview,8 Sep 2013, Australia, Link
2013 Canberra Times,"Memorial collection takes a Kurdish turn" by Sally Pryor, August 23, 2013, Australia, Link
2013 "LANDLOCK", Exhibition catalogue, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2013 City News,"Chemical massacre transformed into art" by Helen Musa, August 22, 2013, Australia, Link
2013 89.3FM 2GLF Broadcaster, Interview; 'Landloch Exhibition', April 3, 2013, Australia, Link
2013 ABC Radio Australia, Interview; 'Hua Krathi' brings Thai artists to Melbourne, March 7, 2013 , Australia, Link
2012 Melbourne Leader, Interview with SUSAN WINDMILLER “discusses life's influences”, February
2012, Australia, Link
2012 Melbourne Leader January 2, 2012, Australia, Link
2011 Edeb u Huner, Kurdistani Nwe, Kurdistan, No; 755, November 3th
2011 GALI KURDISTAN TV satellite, (Interview) Art program "barnamai WENA", October 25th, Link
2011 Edeb u Huner, Kurdistani Nwe, Kurdistan, No; 5543, July 28th
2011 GALI KURDISTAN TV satellite, (Interview) Art program “Aweze” , May 18th
2011 KNN TV satellite, (Interview) Art program “Sako” , May 26th
2011 KURDISTA TV satellite, (Interview) program “Roj Bash” , May 24th
2011 Edeb u Huner, Kurdistani Nwe, Kurdistan, No; 5432, March 17th
2011 Neue Zuger Zeitung, Zug - Switzerland, No; 59, March 11th
2010 KURDSAT TV, (Interview) Art program , December 10th
2010 Survival of a culture: Kurds in Australia, Immigration Museum, Melbourne,September
2009 KURDSAT TV. Documentary Art Program, October 14th
2009 KWRDISTAN RAPORT, Kurdistan, No; 697, September 7th
2009 KURDSAT TV, New Day program, January
2009 Shewakari Art Magazin, Kurdistan, Issue 25
2008 AYNDE Magazine, Kurdistan, Issue 79
2006 HOGU DONGAH, Korean newspaper, Sydney, No: 3494, March 10th
2005 KWRDISTANY NWE, Kurdistan, No; 3714, April 2nd
2004 Edeb u Huner, Kurdistan, No: 3389, June 10th
2004 Edeb u Huner, Kurdistan, No: 3383, June 6th
2004 Edeb u Huner, Kurdistan, No: 3371, May 5th
2004 KURDSAT TV, art program, April
2004 AZADY TV, art Program, April
2004 KURDISTAN TV, art program, April
2004 PUK TV, April
2004 AYNDE Magazine, Kurdistan, Issue 55
2004 AL FURAT, Sydney, Australia, issue 22, March 18th
2003 SBS Radio, Kurdish program, Sydney Australia.
2002 VOA Radio, USA, Kurdish program
2002 AL ITTIHAD, Kurdistan, No: 492, September 27th
2002 X KULTURAL ART Magazine, Sydeny, Australia, Volume: 2- issue: 14 May
1997 Alay Azady, Kurdistan, issue 226, March 10th
1997 AL ITTIHAD, Kurdistan, No: 206, February 22nd
1996 PUK TV, Kurdistan, Art program