Paula Mahoney

EDUCATION

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

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 This Landscape Hold s Grief, Monash Gallery of Art 

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, Richmond, VIC

2018  Rocking Reflections, Rokeby Studios, Collingwood, VIC

2018  DeathSuits 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

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, www.blakeprize.com.au/galleries/directors-cut

2009  The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD

2009  Testing Ground, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne, 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, MGA 

2022  Finalist, Ulrick & Schubert Photography Award 

2022  Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize

2021  Finalist, Grace Cossington Smith Art  Award 

2021  Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize

2021  Finalist, Olive Cotton Award

2020  Finalist, Percival PhotographicPortrait 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

2008  Finalist, Ulrick & Schubert Photography Award

2008  Finalist, Arte Laguna, Venice

SELECTED RESIDENCIES & GRANTS 

2022 Wai Tang Commissioning Award, MGA

2022 Regional Arts Victoria, Sustaining Creative Workers Initiative 

2022 Qbank Gallery Artist Residency, Queenstown, TAS 

2020 Myers Foundation, National Assistance Program for the Arts

2019  Analogue Extreme: a travelling artists' residency in Mauritania,organised by Waaw, Senegal

2018  Watch this Space Artist in Residency, Alice Springs

2018  City of Yarra, Community Small Project Grant

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2020 Annemarie Kiely, Fletcher Art, Vogue Living Jan /Feb, p.56-58

2015 Melissa Pesa, www.art-almanac.com.au/2015/04/horror-show, April 29th 

2013  www.excerptmagazine.com/blog/month=november-2013

2012 Paul Adair, Essay, Just a Touch of Death, Queensland Centre for Photography

2008 Keely Macarow, “Murder is something that happens to other people.” Essay, Killing Everyone I Know, c3 Contemporary Art Space,Abbotsford Convent Foundation, Monash University: Melbourne, 6-24 August

2007 Maurice Ortega, Essay, Half Cocked, www.qcp.org.au/exhibitions/previous/album-59/29

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Australian Photography 

Daryl Hewson Collection

Tweed River Art Gallery Collection

Private Collections

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