SUSAN JACOBS

b. 1977 Sydney/Gadigal Land, Australia. Lives and works London, UK.

EDUCATION

1999 Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Art, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Australia

1995 Bachelor of Visual Art, The University of Newcastle, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Susan Jacobs, The Renshaws @ DKG, Sydney/Gadigal land, Australia [Forthcoming]
Worlds The Renshaws, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

2022
The Ants are in the Idiom Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne/Naarm, Australia

2018
Animal Grammar Mackintosh Lane, London UK

2016
Eleanor Duffin and Susan Jacobs Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2015
Vessel for Mixing Metaphors Living Museum of the West, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2014
Force Work Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2011
Half Specific / Not Half Obvious Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2010
Hard Age New Edge Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2009
Security Illusion Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2008
Ubiquitous Slopes Utopian Slumps, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2008
Exhausted Nature collaboration with Andrew Hazewinkel, Conical Inc. Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2008
Side Effect The Narrows, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2007
For Every Solution There Is A Problem Ocular Lab, Melbourne/Naarm Australia



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Inside, Underground Bundanon Art Museum, Australia

2021
Not Painting Cøpperfield, London UK
Underpinned by the movements of freighters The Florence Trust, London UK curated by Joe Moss
The Factory Project Thameside Industrial Estate, London UK curated by Recreational Grounds x Thorp Stavri

2020
When we cannot touch art is the object that passes between us An art correspondance project, curated by Melissa Ratliff and Bree Richards

2019
Slippery Sum APT Gallery, London UK

2017
Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture Federation Square, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2016
Incerteza Viva : 32nd São Paulo Bienal curated by Jochen Volz, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo Brazil

2015
Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits curated by Lars Bang Larsen & Mario Pasi, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
The Melting Point of Reason curated by Mark Feary, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian college of the Arts, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
Witness curated by Marian Tubbs, Minerva, Sydney/Gadigal land Australia
Guiguis New Art Prize Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria Australia
Nature/Revelation The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne Australia

2014
Octopus 14: Nothing Beside Remains curated by Tara McDowell, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
Deep Time TCB Art Inc. Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2013
Melbourne Now National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
You promised me and you said a lie to me curated by Alexie Glass Kantor, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney/Gadigal land Australia

2012
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane Australia
Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art curated by Alexie Glass and Natasha Bullock, Art Gallery of South Australia
When You Drink The Water Remember The Spring Ryan Renshaw Gallery Brisbane, Australia
/Meanjin
2011
A Condition of Change with Katie Lee and Bridie Lunney, curated by Meredith Turnbull, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2010
Risk Potential with Katie Lee and Bridie Lunney, curated by Meredith Turnbull, DieEcke, Santiago, Chile
Opening Lines curated by Emily Cormack, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
NEW10 The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
The Ecologies Project curated by Dr Kyla McFarlane and Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne/Naarm Australia

2009
Broken Fall with Lou Hubbard and Katie Lee, curated by Jan Bryant, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland University of Technology and Newcall Gallery, New Zealand



SELECTED GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

2021
Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship (2020-2021)

2018
London Summer Intensive, Camden Arts Centre and Slade School of Art, London UK
Australia Council for the Arts - Development Grant
Copyright Cultural Fund - Ignite Grant

2016
ACME, London / Australia Council for the Arts International Studio Residency

2015
Creative Victoria VicArts - Development Grant

2014
Wassaic Project Artist Residency, New York, NY USA

2013
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, New Hampshire, USA

2012
QANTAS Foundation Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award
Artspace Sydney, Studio Residency

2011
Arts Victoria - Development Grant
Australia Council for the Arts - Skills and Arts Development Award for travel and research to 1970’s Land Art sites in South West desert regions of the USA

2010
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency, Melbourne/Naarm (2010-2012)

2008
Australia Council for the Arts - New Work Grant

1999
A.N.Z Bank Visual Arts Fellowship Award - The Victorian College of the Arts

1999
VCA Postgraduate Prize - Selected by Jacques Derrida (Exhibition in conjunction with Derrida’s visit to The Victorian College of the Arts)



COLLECTIONS

Australian Centre for Synchrotron Science, Clayton Australia
Monash University Art Collection, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
University of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane/Meanjin Australia
Victorian College of the Arts Collection, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
Methodist Ladies College Art Collection, Melbourne/Naarm Australia
Poster Collection, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich Switzerland
Private Collections