Paula Mahoney

EDUCATION 
2017 PhD (Fine Art), Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
2024 Karaoke Queens, Bakehouse Studios Billboard, Richmond, VIC 
2022 This Landscape Holds Grief, Museum of Australian Photography 
2022 I Thought We’d Been Through This, Qbank Gallery, Queenstown, TAS 
2020 Blush Response, Fletcher Arts, South Yarra, VIC 
2019 Rocking Reflections, Richmond Town Hall, Richmond, VIC  
2018 Rocking Reflections, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds, VIC  
2018 Rocking Reflections, Bakehouse Studios Billboard, Richmond, VIC  
2018 Rocking Reflections, Rokeby Studios, Collingwood, VIC  
2018 Death Suits Me Fine, Death and Dying Festival, Carlton, VIC 
2017 Death Suits Me Fine, Neospace, Collingwood, VIC 
2014 Just a Touch of Death, Glen Eira Town Hall, Caulfield, VIC 
2012 Just a Touch of Death, Richmond Town Hall, Richmond, VIC 
2012 Just a Touch of Death, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, QLD  
2011 Killing Everyone I Know, Index Space, Sydney, NSW 
2008 Killing Everyone I Know, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford, VIC  
2007 Half Cocked, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, QLD 
2006 The Last Stand, a r e a Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy, VIC 
2006 Whiteout, Fitzroy Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC 
2005 Red Cell, HoGan Gallery, Collingwood, VIC 
2004 Domestik, a r e a Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy, VIC 
2003 half asleep half awake, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2024 Denouement, Void Melbourne, VIC 
2024 Edge of Elsewhere, PHOTO 2024, VIC 
2023 Gallery and Guest artists, Void Melbourne, VIC 
2023 Photo Plexism, Void Melbourne, VIC 
2022 Australia from Three Angles, Fletcher Arts, South Yarra, VIC 
2018 Urban Campfires, Neighbour Justice Centre, Collingwood, VIC 
2017 Icon, Richmond Town Hall, Richmond, VIC 
2015 Horror Show, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, VIC 
2015 Horror Show, Strange Neighbour, Fitzroy, VIC 
2013 The Simple Truth, Cube 37, Frankston, VIC 
2011 The rest is silence, Death Be Kind, The Alderman, Brunswick, VIC 
2011 Blake Prize: Director’s Cut 2011, www.blakeprize.com.au/galleries/directors-cut  
2009 The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD 
2009 Testing Ground, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne, VIC 
2006 Smith St Photography Prize, HoGan Gallery, VIC 
2004 Neoteric Atmosphere, The Foundry, Fitzroy, VIC 
2003 VCA Graduate Exhibition, VCA Gallery, Southbank, VIC 

SELECTED AWARDS & PRIZES 
2023 Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize 
2023 Finalist, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, VIC 
2022 Recipient of the Wai Tang Commissioning Award, Museum of Australian Photography 
2022 Finalist, Ulrick & Schubert Photography Award, QLD 
2022 Finalist, Sunshine Art Coast Prize, Caloundra, QLD 
2022 Finalist, Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, Wahroonga, NSW 
2021 Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize 
2021 Finalist, Olive Cotton Award 
2020 Finalist, Percival Photographic Portrait Prize 
2020 Finalist, The Alice Prize 
2019 Finalist, Pro Hart Outback Art Prize 
2019 Finalist, Olive Cotton Award 
2018 Finalist, Duo Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize 
2016 Finalist, Duo Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize 
2015 Finalist, Ulrick & Schubert Photography Award 
2012 Finalist, Ulrick & Schubert Photography Award 
2011 Highly Commended, Olive Cotton Award 
2008 Highly Commended, Olive Cotton Award 

SELECTED RESIDENCIES & GRANTS 
2025 City of Yarra, Arts and Culture, VIC  
2023 Broken Hill Arts Exchange, NSW 
2022 Regional Arts Victoria, Sustaining Creative Workers Initiative 
2022 Qbank Gallery Artist Residency, Queenstown, TAS 
2020 National Assistance Program for the Arts, The Myer Foundation 
2019 Analogue Extreme: a travelling artists' residency in Mauritania, organised by Waaw, Senegal 
2018 Watch this Space Artist in Residency, Alice Springs, NT 
2018 City of Yarra, Community Small Project Grant 

COLLECTIONS 
Museum of Australian Photography 
Tweed River Art Gallery Collection  
Daryl Hewson Collection 
Private Collections 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 
2020 Annemarie Kiely, Fletcher Art, Vogue Living Jan / Feb, p.56-58  
Melissa Pesa, www.art-almanac.com.au/2015/04/horror-show, April 29th, 2015  
Excerpt Magazine online, www.excerptmagazine.com/blog/month=november-2013 
Paul Adair, Essay: exhibition catalogue, Just a Touch of Death, Queensland Centre for Photography, 2012 
Keely Macarow, “Murder is something that happens to other people.” Essay for exhibition catalogue, Killing Everyone I Know, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford, Monash Uni: Melbourne, August 2008 
Maurice Ortega, Essay: exhibition catalogue, Half Cocked, Queensland Centre for Photography, 2007 
half asleep, half awake, Manifesto, Melbourne, Issue 3 2004 
Wendy Walker, ‘Drill Hall, Driveway, Open Sandwich, inFLEXion’, The Advertiser, Adelaide, March 2002

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