FORD, JUAN CV

Juan Ford

Web: www.juanford.com
Email: mail@juanford.com

Born Melbourne 1973
1999 – 2001 Master of Arts (Fine Art) by Research, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
1995 – 1998 Bachelor of Fine Art (painting), RMIT - 1st class honours

AWARDS AND PRIZES
2008 Kings School Art Prize, finalist
2007 National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland, Finalist
2006 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award – Open Award
2004 Australia Council Studio Residency in Rome
2004 Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Prize Winner
2004 ABN Amro Emerging Artist Prize: People's Choice Award
2004 Holding Redlich People's Choice Award, Salon des Refuses
2003 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize Winner
2002 Australia Council New Work Grant
2001 Whyalla Art Prize Winner
1998 Victorian Campus Art Prize (Award for Critical Merit)
1996 RMIT Union Arts Grant Recipient

COLLECTIONS

Artbank
Campbelltown Art Gallery (NSW)
City of Whyalla (SA)
Geelong Art Gallery (VIC)
Gold Coast City Art Gallery (QLD)
La Trobe University (VIC)
Monash University Museum of Art (VIC)
RMIT University (VIC)
RMIT Union Arts (VIC)
Trinity College, University of Melbourne (VIC)
TXU
Victorian Energy Ombudsman
Private collections nationally and internationally

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2008 ‘Gravity’, Dianne Tanzer Gallery
2007 ‘Inverted World’, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2007 ‘100,000 Lux’ Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2006 ‘Revelation’, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2006 ‘More is Less’, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2006 ‘More is Less’, Dudespace, Melbourne
2005 'Solo', Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2004 'The Golden Mile', Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2003 'Songs from the Penumbra', Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002 'Night and Day', Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002 ‘Clone’ Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2001 'AΩ' West Space Inc., Melbourne
2001 'Protect me From what I Want', Mass Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Artbox Installation, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1999 'The Way it Is' , TCB art Inc., Melbourne
1998 'Periphery', First Site Gallery, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2008

‘Neo-Goth: Back in Black’, curated by Alison Kubler, University of Queensland Art Museum, South Brisbane, Qld
‘When You Think About Art’, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne Vic
T 'The Space in Between', Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic, Curated by Tara Gilbee
'Eye to I', Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool Vic, curated by Geoff Wallis
'Sullivan & Strumpf Group Show 2008', Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2007

'The Far Side of the Moon', McLelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne, Curated by Robert Lindsay
The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic City of Perth Art Award, Perth Town Hall, Perth W.A.
University of Queensland National Artist’s Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, South Brisbane, Qld
Eye to I, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic, curated by Geoff Wallis
The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Curated by Jane Watters
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Curated by Imants Tillers
Apropos – Human Rights in Art, Bus 117, for the 2007 Human Rights and Film Festival, Melbourne, curated by Romy Sedman
Sullivan & Strumpf Group Show 2007, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
A4 Art, Westspace, Melbourne
Prometheus Art Prize, All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac Queensland
The Space in Between, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, & Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic, Curated by Tara Gilbee
Royal Rumble 2, Kings ARI, Melbourne, curated by Kings ARI board
The Savage Club Painting Prize, The Melbourne Savage Club, Melbourne
Behind You, Underground – RMIT Union Collection Retrospective, First Site, Melbourne

2006

Overlap, The Sainsbury Gallery, The British School at Rome, Italy, curated by Jacopo Benci
Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW, curated by Alan Sisley
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Gallery, Sydney NSW
A4 Art – Reunion, Westspace, curated by board of Westspace
The Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
A portable model of…, La Trobe Regional Gallery, curated by Tristian Koenig
Where the Beep Hell are Ya?, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne

2005

The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic
Salon des Refuses, National Trust S.H. Ervin gallery, The Observatory, Sydney
The year in Art, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Observatory, Sydney, Curated by Jane Watters
A portable model of…, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, curated by Tristian Koenig
This Urban World, Devonport Regional Gallery, curated by Troy Ruffels
Selekta, Westspace, curated by board of Westspace
ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize, ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne
Australian Icons Framed, National Trust fundraiser, Hotel Sofitel Wentworth, Sydney
Exposure, Trocadero Artspace, curated by Michael Brennan
Why are you showing here?, Trocadero Artspace, curated by Keith Wong and Craig Cole
'Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life', Monash University Gallery, curated by Charlotte Hallows

2004

Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Vic
'Address Book', Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Curated by Tristian Koenig and Lisa Sullivan
'Salon des Refuses', National Trust S.H. Ervin gallery, The Observatory, Sydney
2004 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize, ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne
'Australian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century', Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne
'Australian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century', Immigration Museum, Melbourne
'Imaging the Apple', touring exhibition through Victoria, NSW, Queensland - metropolitan and regional institutional galleries.(2003-2005) Curated by John R. Neeson

2003

'SBS/Federation Square Contemporary Art Prize' Federation Square, Melbourne
'Nth Art', Nth Art, London, UK, curated by David Ralph and Lorin Davies
'Melbourne X' Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra ACT, Curated by Gary Willis
'Melbourne X' Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney NSW, Curated by Gary Willis
'Glacier: Contemporary Painting', touring exhibition through Victoria, NSW, Queensland - metropolitan and regional institutional galleries (2003-2004). Curated by Suzanne Davies
'Headspace', National Neuroscience Faculty, University of Melbourne, Curated by Kellyann Geurts
'The Arthur Guy memorial Painting Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic
'Posted', Curated by Anton Marin and Tristan Koenig, MOP Projects, Sydney NSW
'The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic
'Conrad Jupiters Art Prize', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
'The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship', Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney
'Royal Rumble', Kings Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2002

Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Vic Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne

2001

'The Siemens Art Prize’, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
‘Melbourne x 8’, Gallery 482, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
‘Look See: Five Contemporary Painters’, Curated by Sarah Bond and Natasha Bullock, Monash University Gallery, Clayton
‘Glacier: Contemporary Painting’ Curated by Suzanne Davies, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
‘The Mediated Portrait/Image in Painting and Drawing’, Curated by David Harley, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, South Australia
‘The Space in Between’ Curated by Tara Gilbee, Platform, Melbourne
‘Eat My Art’, Curated by Michelle Ussher and Nick McHugh, TCB art Inc., Melbourne

2000

Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland Inaugural Exhibition, Dickerson-Scott, Melbourne
‘…A Brush With Death’, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

1999

RMIT Fine Art at Yuan-Ze University, Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan
Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne
Project One – collaboration with Kristian Haggblom, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
‘Artzine’, Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne
‘The New Collectables’, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
‘2 Years of Span’, Span Galleries, Melbourne
1998

RMIT Fine Art at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
The Victorian Campus Art Prize, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
RMIT Honours Graduate Show, 101 Collins Street Annex, Melbourne
1997

‘Love Arm Live’, performance with Japanese artist Ujino, Melbourne Fringe Festival ‘Contingency’, Span Galleries, Melbourne


EXHIBITIONS CURATED


2000 ‘…A Brush With Death’, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

PORTRAIT COMMISIONS

2008 Sydney University Deputy Vice-chancellor, Professor Andrew Coats
2008 Monash University Chancellor, Jerry Ellis
2007 Monash University Vice-chancellor, Professor Richard Larkins OA
2007 RMIT University Vice-chancellor, Professor Ruth Dunkin
2005 University of Melbourne Chancellor, Professor Fay Marles AM

PRIZES JUDGED:

2007 Siemens Art Prize, Melbourne. One of a panel of 5 judges.
2007 VUT Art Prize. One of 2 judges
2006 VUT Art Prize. One of 2 judges

OTHER ACADEMIC:
Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, 2006 – 2007.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Atkinson, Paul. A Brush With Death’ ex. cat. La Trobe Street Gallery, March 2000
Bond, Chris ‘A Short History of the Reconciliation of Opposites in the Paintings of Juan Ford’, ex. cat. ‘Protect Me From What I Want’ February 2001
Britton, Stephanie Artrave - Awards section - Artlink Volume 24, Number 2, 2004
Bullock, Natasha ‘Moving Through Space’ ex. Cat ‘Look See: Five Contemporary Painters’ March 2001
Cass, Naomi, Artnotes Victoria, Art Monthly Australia, June 2004 Number 170
Clark, Julie 'Clone paintings' - ex. Cat, ‘Clone’ February 2002
Clements, Justin100,000 Lux, - ex. Cat, 100,000 Lux, April 2007
Clements, Justin ’Revelations of the Insensible: The paintings of Juan Ford'
Clements, Justin Eyeline - Contemporary Visual arts, no. 53, March 2004
Clements, Justin 'Songs From the Penumbra', catalogue essay, ex. Cat 'Songs From the Penumbra', July 2003
Crawford, Ashley 'Terror Australis’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 44, April-June 2008
Crawford, Ashley ‘The Goth Within’, Ex cat. ‘Neo Goth: Back in Black’, July 2008
Crawford, Ashley ‘The Suburban Vernacular’, from Nathan Taylor catalogue, Mossgreen Gallery 2007
Gregg, Simon ‘Melburnin’, Trouble, Issue 29, October 2006
Gregg, Simon ‘Art Soul’, interview in Large Magazine, August 2001
Kidd, Courtney ‘Artnotes, Art Monthly, April 2007
Kubler, Alison ‘As Black as Stone’, Ex cat. ‘Neo Goth: Back in Black’, July 2008
Kubler, Alison 'Queensland Painters: A New Breed’, Art and Australia Vol 45, No 1, 2007
Kubler, Alison Sebastian’ ex,cat. Gold Coast City Art Gallery, May 2000
Kubler, Alison ‘(You make me feel) Mighty real’, Art Monthly 130, June 2000
Lloyd, Tony ‘The Way It Is’ ex,cat. TCB art Inc. Melbourne, September 1999
Loughrey, Felicity 'Attack of the Clones', Black and White Magazine, Issue 61, June/July 2002
Martin-Chew, Louise ‘Neo-Goth Shadow Looms Large’, Ex cat. ‘Neo Goth: Back in Black’, July 2008
Portus, Martin 'Melbourne X' review, Eyeline 51, winter 2003
Preston, Edwina 'Revelation’ - ex. Cat, ‘Revelation’ September 2006
Rainbird, Stephen, ‘More is Less’ catalogue essay, ex. Cat ‘More is Less’ July 2006
Sellars, Simon Interview in online arts and culture journal issue 2
Slade, Lisa ‘The Thrall of the Skull’, Ex cat. ‘Neo Goth: Back in Black’, July 2008
Strachan, Lucinda Melbourne Magazine, August Issue 2003
Trotter, Penny ‘ The Theatrics of Cloning’: The recent paintings of Juan Ford’, Artlink, Vol 22, No 1, March 2002
Walwicz, Ania Literary response to “Mediations” on July 2001
Williams, Linda Reflection and Reconstruction: New Directions in Australian Painting’, ex. Cat ‘Glacier’, September 2001

SELECTED NEWSPAPER ARICLES/REVIEWS:

Anderson, Patricia 'Faces in a Crowd', The Weekend Australian, April 2004
Angeloro, Dominique 'He's the One, Officer - Review, "Abstraction"', Sydney Morning Herald, September 2004
Backhouse, Megan 'Revelation’, Art Around the Galleries, The Age, 30 September 2006
Backhouse, Megan 'The Space in Between Book Project', Art Around the Galleries, The Age, 26 July 2007
Backhouse, Megan 'Beyond the Cold detail of the Lens', The Age, April 2005
Backhouse, Megan 'Singing in a world of their own', The Age, July 2003
Backhouse, Megan 'Juan Ford: the people's choice', The Age, May 2004
Backhouse, Megan feature article The Age, May 2004
Coslovich, Gabriella ‘City’s Arty Image the In Thing, but Arists on the Way Out’, The Age, 7 September 2006
Coslovich, Gabriella ‘RMIT Turns Cool’, The Age, September 2001
Coslovich, Gabriella ‘Down an Alley, Filled with Art’, The Age, November 2001
Coslovich, Gabriella ‘Double Trouble in a Virtual World’, The Age, February 2002
Crisp, Lynda 'Exposure to the Learning Curve’, Australian Financial Review, 4 August 2005
Evans, Holly. Diary, The Age, August 2004
Hansen, David. ‘Signs of the Times’, Sightlines, The Age ,13 October 2006
Hawley, Jane. ‘Idol Chatter’ The Age, Good Weekend, June 2005
Iaccarino, Clara. “100,000 Lux’, Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum section, 6 April 2007
Lobley, Katrina. ‘Sullivan & Strumpf’, Events Section, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 February 2007
Low, Lenny Ann. Sydney Morning Herald, September 2004
Mahar, Jessica. ‘A Proud Night for our Art Credentials’, Cambelltown - Macarthur Advertiser, November 8, 2006
McDonald, John ‘Out of Art’s Boiler Room’, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, October 2005
McDonald, John'Mystique: in love with the Archibald', Australian Financial Review, 1 April 2004
McDonald, John‘Hanging Offences’, Sydney Morning Herald, May 2005
Makin, Jeff ‘Heavyweights on Hand’, Herald-Sun, February 2000
Makin, Jeff ‘Much to be Big-Headed About’ Herald-Sun, October 2004
Myer, Rod ‘ABN Amro gets the hang of being young at Art’, The Age, August 17, 2005
Nelson, Robert. ‘Relics Reveal More than Meets the Eye’, The Age, 13 December 2006
Nelson, Robert. "Prize Show Offers Fascinating Tour of New Directions', The Age, September 2002
Nelson, Robert. ‘Are You Experienced’, The Age, March 2001
Nelson, Robert ‘Subversive Work at Play in Ironic Ode to Grecian Urn’ The Age, February 2002
Nelson, Robert. ‘The ’Death of Painting’ a little premature’, The Age, September 2001
Safe, Georgina. ‘Auction Offers Art at Cutting-Edge Prices’ (Interview), The Australian, December 2000
Timms, Peter ‘Clever, Complex Ride Through Hearts’ Desires’ The Age, March 2001
'Juan takes Top Prize', Gold Coast Weekender, December 2003

SELECTED VISITING ARTIST LECTURES:

August 2008 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
August 2008 Monash University, Melbourne
October 2007 University of Queensland Museum of Art
July 2007 University of Melbourne, Department of Conservation.
March 2006 Sainsbury Lecture Hall, The British School at Rome, Italy
November 2005 University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
Queensland University of Technology Gallery, Brisbane
Mar - Apr 2004 National Gallery of Victoria, 2 Lectures and discussions on own work and influence of Caravaggio during exhibition 'Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His world"
May 2002 RMIT Gallery, 'Painting on the Richter Scale' - Lecture and forum on the work of Gerhard Richter
May 2002 National Gallery of Victoria, Lecture and discussion on the work of Gerhard Richter
March 2002 Victoria University, presentation and lecture on own work
February2002 National Gallery of Victoria, Lecture and discussion on the work of Gerhard Richter
September 2001 RMIT Gallery, presentation and lecture on own work for 'Glacier' exhibition
March 2001 Monash University Gallery, presentation and lecture on own work for 'Look See: Five Contemporary Painters' exhibition
1999 - 2005 RMIT University, Melbourne, various presentations and lectures on own work to undergraduate and postgraduate students