CV

Education:

2012    Candidate in Phd in Fine Art, Monash University

2005    Honours in Fine Art (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts (V.C.A.)

2004    Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), V.C.A.

1998    Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and English double major, University of Melbourne

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2012 

I can’t stop living, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, curated by Jacqueline Doughty, Fitzroy

2011 

Refuse to Lose, curated by David O’Halloran, Walker st Gallery, Dandenong

ACCA pop-up program, 3 day performance titled “Nanna, I am still searching…” at the Venice Biennale Vernissage, 2011, curated by Juliana Engberg

2010 

The Poverty Show, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

I thought I was wrong, but it turned out I was wrong…,month-long performance, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

2009 

The Happy Artist, Tolarno Galleries, Exhibition Street, Melbourne

2008 

The Shortest Straw, Apartment, St Kilda Road, Melbourne

2006 

Anastasia Klose - The Best of..., Spacement Gallery, Watson Place, Melbourne

Selected Group exhibitions:

2012 

Aiva Festival: Angelholm International Video Art Festival, Angelholm, Sweden, curated by Rob Garrett

Contemporary Australia: Women, curated by Julie Ewington,Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane

2011 

The Kiss, performance, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, curated by Julie Collins, Lorne

Selectively Revealed,26 October – 11 December 2011 - Aram Art Gallery, Seoul
.18 February – 13 May 2012 - National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
 4 June – 21 July 2012 – Chulalongkorn University Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand. Organized by Asialink and Experimenta, and curated by Sarah Bond and Clare Needham

Telepathy and Love, Spanish Apartment Barcelona, and Westspace, Melbourne

2010 

Art in the 21^st Century – the first decade, Gallery Of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane

Mortality, ACCA (as part of the Melbourne Festival), Melbourne curated by Juliana Engberg

TWMA Contemporary, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville

Gestures and Procedures, ACCA, Melbourne, curated by Juliana Engberg

Art#1, Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, Shepparton, curated by Juliana Engberg

Duettos, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, curated by Dom de Clario

Feminism Never Happened, IMA, Brisbane, curated by Robert Leonard

2009 

Why we do the things we do, PICA, curated by Jacqueline Dougherty

I’m worst at what I do best, Parramatta Artist Studios, curated by Tom Polo

2008 

Flux Capacitor, curated by Rosemary Forde, Meredith Turnbull and Jess Johnson, Utopian Slumps, Collingwood, Melbourne

New Millenium, curated by Steven Alderton, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW

The 2008 Sydney Biennale, online venue, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

2007 

New07,curated by Juliana Engberg, ACCA, Melbourne

Thanks Duchamp!!, collaboration with Elizabeth Presa, Cite International Des Arts gallery, Paris

Awards:

2007 

Winner of the $15000 Prometheus Visual Art Award

Shortlisted for Georges Mora fellowship

Selected Bibliography

Books:

21st Century: Art in the First Decade, edited by Miranda Wallace, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art (2010)

Contemporary Australia - Women, 'Anastasia Klose' by Emily Gray, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, p. 100-103 (2011)

TV:

2011 Anastasia Klose is profiled in ‘Art Nation’, ABC 1.

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3270488.htm

2009 Anastasia Klose featured on ‘Artscape’ television program, episode 1 ‘Starry Starry Night’, presented by Andrew Frost, ABC 1, April

Newspapers, Magazines:

2012 

Ashleigh Wilson, “Women explore the themes of life in contemporary Australia”, The Australian, April 23

2011

Gina McColl, “Blowing Venice out of the Water”, The Age, p.15, May 10, 2011

Gabriella Coslovich, “Goma’s star continues to burn brightly”, The Age, http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/gomas-star-continues-to-burn-brightly-20110103-19dq5.html

2010 

Dylan Rainforth, ‘Visual Art’ column, The Age, December 7^th

Christopher Allen,The Australian, “Don’t try this at home”, September 11

Anne Kirker, “Feminism Never Happened”, Artlink, volume 30, no 2

Tim Lloyd, “Klose Encounters”, The Advertiser, July 19

Larrissa Hjorth, “Photoshifting: Art Practice, Camera Phones and Social Media: The ramifications of new media” Photofile magazine, issue 89.

2009

Alexie Glass, “Extimacy: A new generation of Feminism”, Art and Australia, Volume 47, Spring

Andrew Frost, “Being a success is overrated – we should strive harder to fail”, Sydney Morning Herald, July 22

Kitty Hauser, ‘Public Works-Anastasia Klose, ‘Je suis une artiste Aussie!’, The Weekend Australian, Review, April 11-12

Robert Nelson, ‘Twin Gardens of Artistic Eden depart at bitter bight’, The Age, 1^st April

Natalie King, "Natalie King - Critics Choice", Australian Art Collector, Issue 48, April – June 2009, p.  164

Juliana Engberg, “Uneasy Pieces”, Art World, Issue 7, February/March, p.60

2008

Dylan Rainforth, The Age, M Magazine, 5th October, 2008

2007

Melissa Hart, ‘Art Notes’, in Art Monthly Australia, Issue 201, July, 2007

Lucy Elliot, 'Art Matters - New 07', Melbourne Community Voice, May 5

Larissa Dubecki, 'Dying for your art, The Age, May 3, p.18

Robert Nelson, 'Pessimism is the new black as artists shrink, erase and shatter expectations - New 07', The Age, 11 April, p. 17

Sebastian Smee, 'Come feel the disdain', The Australian, 22 March (http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21423531-16947,00.html)

Harbent Gill, 'Klose encounters of the absurd kind', Herald-Sun, 23 March

Anastasia Klose, ‘New 07 interviewed’, Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture Broadsheet, p.19 (Anastasia Klose is also on the front cover), volume 36, no. 1, March

John Bailey, ‘Nothing to Hide’, The Age Sunday “M” magazine, March 18^th, p. 31

Anne Lim, ‘Hello’, Weekend Australian Magazine, March 10 – 11

2006 

Simon Gregg, ‘Melburnin’ -Top 10 exhibitions of 2006’, Trouble magazine, December 2006, p. 9

Edward Colless; 'Undiscovered – Our Rising Art Stars – Anastasia Klose ', Australian Art Collector, April 2006, p.130

Meghan Backhouse; Around The Galleries, The Age, Saturday 26th February,2006

Public Collections:

University of Queensland. The Prometheus Foundation. 

Anastasia Klose’s art is also held in numerous private collections around Australia.