olga bennett 



Olga Bennett

EDUCATION

2022 _ Master of Fine Art by Research, Monash University
2017 _ Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Victorian College of Art, University of Melbourne
2016 _ Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of Art, University of Melbourne

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2022 _ Monash Graduate Research Completion Award
2021 _ Masterclass with Tai Shani, CAMP, France
2019 _ Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery — finalist
2019 _ Artist residency at Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2019 _ KINGS Artist Run emerging writers program 
2018 _ John and Mary Kerley Studio Research Travelling Scholarship recipient
2017 _ Lowensteins Arts Management Award winner
2017 _ Bowness Prize – finalist
2017 _ Footscray Art Prize – finalist
2015 _ Evans Family award for photography winner
2015 _ CCP Salon award, Centre for Contemporary Photography — winner
2015 _ Majlis Travelling Scholarship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery — finalist
2015 _ University of Melbourne Student Union Arts Grant recipient
2014 _ CCP Salon award, Centre for Contemporary Photography — winner
2014 _ Proud student award, Maragaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne — winner

SOLO AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS

2022 _ Fraying, dissipation, divination, and talking to moths, Monash University, Melbourne
2019 _  ruin melted under, with Christopher Weir, CAVES, Melbourne
2018 _ Untitled_ccp_archive.jpg, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2018 _ P34_Brancusi_in_Guggenheim_clonestamp…jpg (variant)C3 Contemporary, Melbourne
2017 _ The right eyes, BUS Projects, Melbourne
2015 _ Naturally Occurring, with Mikaela Fisher, C3 Contemporary, Melbourne
2014 _ Yoko Ozawa and Olga Bennett, Gallery Kiitos, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 _  The image, Blindside, Melbourne curated by Olivia Poloni

2020 _  No Righteous Left Among The Living, COMA Gallery, Sydney
2020 _  Sounds of Pacing, Conners Conners, Melbourne
2020 _  10 days 100 artists, online, Blindside, Melbourne
2020 _  Index, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne — curated by Daniel Price

2019 _ Friends and Family, Diane Singer, Melbourne
2019 _ CAVES Fundraiser, CAVES Gallery, Melbourne
2019 _ m_othering, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne – curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk and Antonia Sellbach
2019 _ Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship finalists exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

2018 _ Still Life Part I, Irene Rose Gallery, Melbourne – curated by Adam Stone
2018 _ The Art of Collecting, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2017 _ CAVES Fundraiser, CAVES Gallery, Melbourne
2017 _ The man with three names, LON Gallery, Melbourne – curated by Meredith Stone
2017 _ VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2017 _ Bowness prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2017 _ Objective Memory, KINGS artist-run, Melbourne – curated by Katie Ryan
2017 _ CAVES offsite @ Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Establishment, Sydney

2017 _ The 5th Bus Projects Editions, BUS Projects, Melbourne
2017 _ Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2017 _ Footscray Art Prize, Footscray Art Center, Melbourne
2017 _ The Witching Hour, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2017 _ CAVES offsite @ THE SUBSTATION, Substation Gallery, Melbourne

2016 _ Faux Studio, C3 Contemporary, Melbourne – curated by Jon Butt
2016 _ The Union Collection: Recent Acquisitions 2012-2016, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2016 _ Transference, BUS Projects, Melbourne – curated by Madé Spencer-Castle
2016 _ Concrete Agenda, C3 Contemporary, Melbourne – curated by Tai Snaith
2016 _ CLUSTER Magazine pop-up show, Fitzroy, Melbourne

2015 _ CAVES SUMMER 2015/2016, CAVES Gallery, Melbourne
2015 _ CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2015 _ VCA Graduation Show, Melbourne
2015 _ Habitat: VCA – CalArts exchange, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne – curated by Sanja Pahoki
2015 _ Habitat: VCA – CalArts exchange, CalArts Main Galery, Los Angeles
2015 _ Proud, Maragaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2015 _ Majlis Travelling Scholarship, Maragaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2015 _ WOR(L)DS, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2015 _ Conflict of Interests, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne

2014 _ CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2014 _ Proud, Maragaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2014 _ Compromise, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne

2013 _ CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2013 _ IPF Photo Prize, Independent Photography Festival at Magic Johnston, Melbourne

2012 _ Komorebi, Mr. Kitly Gallery, Melbourne
2012 _ Place of Assembly, Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne

2010 _ Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2010 _ New North Photography Prize, New North Gallery, Melbourne
2010 _ Unsensored, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne

WRITING / PUBLICATIONS / CONFERENCES

Other Body Knowledge, with Jane Trengove, ARTLINK, 2022 — upcoming in August
Memory Conference, CoVA, Univesrity of Melbourne, 2021
In the direction of a hum, in Otherwise Possibilities by Astrid Lorange and  Free Association, 2020
Image Collective, self published collaborative publication, 2020
Cecilia Vicuña’s poetic action, review for Art + Australia online, 2020
Katie West: Clearing, review for Un Projects, 2019
You have her hands and you have her love, exhibition text for Lara Chamas at KINGS Artist Run, 2019
Lucida Journal, Issue 1, 2015: Habitat
Environments, monograph, self published, edition of 150, 2011

BIBLIOGRAPHY / PRESS

Conversation with Olivia Poloni, Interval, 2020
Interview, Varia Karipoff, Art Guide, September–October issue, 2019
m_othering perceptual ars poetica, Abbra Kotlarczyk, exhibition essay, 2019
Un Projects, Review of CAVES OFF SITE at the SUBSTATION, Laura Couttie, 25 May 2017
The Age: Our pick of what’s showing at the galleries, Dan Rule, 30th January 2016
Conversations with Creative Women (Volume Two), Tess McCabe, 2013
OEN, the189.com, 2013
Environments, book review, Oyster Magazine blog, oystermag.com, 2011
Environments – Artists in Their Work Space, book review, Mara Coson, Broadsheet, broadsheet.com.au, 2011
Environments, book review, Stephanie Lyall, The Thousands, thethousands.com.au, 2011
Environments, book review, Lucy Feagins, The Design Files, thedesignfiles.net, 2011
Where it gets made, interview and feature, Frankie, Issue 41, pp 76-81, 2011
Environments, interview, Extracurricular magazine, Issue 5, pp38-39, 2011
Extracurricular magazine, Issue 3, p27, 2010

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021 – 23 Emerging Writers Program Coordinator & Programming Committee member, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne
2020 – 23 Exhibitions Assistant and Gallery Supervisor, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
2019 – 20 Sessional Lecturer in Photography, Deakin University
2018 _ Research assistant, Art + Australia journal, Melbourne
2015 – 2017 _ Photographer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2014 – 2015 _ Volunteer, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2014 – 2015 _ Volunteer, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne