Curriculum Vitae - Art Kitty Owens
Education
2000 Post Graduate Diploma, Museum Studies, Deakin University
1997 BA (Fine Art) Honours, First Class, RMIT
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Party in the Lilac Room, installation Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens
2013 The Little Ones, installation Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens
2012 Fever: Artists books 1993-2012, the Niches, City Library Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Artists in Residence Showcase, Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens
2011 Potato Revolution, Williamsburg Art and Historical Centre, Brooklyn, NY
2010 The Womens’ Salon; Place and Identity, The Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2009 Moreland Sculpture Show, Coburg
2008 The Humble Spud, Marrickville City Council & At theVanishing Point Gallery, Sydney
2008 Current Sculpture Challenge, Current Sculpture Biennial, Wangaratta
2007 In My Backyard, Red Earth Gallery, Mooroolbark
2007 Moreland Sculpture Show, Coburg
2006 Moreland Sculpture Show, Coburg
2005 Current, North Eastern Victoria Sculpture Event, Wangaratta
1998-2002 Hi/Lo Exotico, Stop 22 Gallery, St. Kilda This exhibition then toured to Colombia, and then to Canberra Contemporary Art Space in 2002
1998 Miniatures, Roar Studios, Fitzroy
1997 Private Archives, Personal Encyclopaedias and Secret Collections, The Linden, St Kilda
1997 RMIT Graduating and Honours Printmaking Exhibition, 101 Collins Street Annexe
1994 Box, Book and Glove, RMIT Union Arts Exhibition Space, Melbourne
1994 Freemantle Print Award, artists’ book section, Freemantle Arts Centre, Freemantle
1992 The Deans Drawing Show RMIT
Commissions
2012 Requiem charcoal drawing and installation, for the exhibition Coming Home, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, about the site's history as a military rehabilitation hospital for sufferers of 'shell shock'.
2005 Autumn in the Grape Arbour Site specific participatory ceramic project with pre-schoolers, Coburg Children’s Centre
1998 The Book of Smoke, for the City of Moonee Valley, Up in Smoke installation exhibition, site specific to the Walter Burley Griffen Incinerator in Essendon
Prizes
2009 Acquisitive prize, Moreland Sculpture Show (with Mary Zbierski West)
Ghost Chinese Market Garden
2007 Ephemeral prize, Moreland Sculpture Show (with Mary Zbierski West) Turn, Turn, Turn
Publications
Coming Home exhibition provides moving insight into Bundoora Homestead's war history
Coming Home exhib7.30 Report ABC 20 November
Collections
La Salle University(Singapore), Moreland City Council, RMIT University School of Business, private collections.
