MONA RYDER CV
STUDIES
1991 B.A. Visual Arts, QUT, Qld
1980 Associate Diploma of Visual Arts, QUT, Kelvin Grove, Queensland
EXHIBITIONS – Selected Solo
2021 Fragile Gardens, The old Ambo, Nambour, part of the Fabric Program, Curator, Saffron Drew
2018 Lone Star, Artisan, Brisbane
2016 Dance Me to the End of Night, MAMA, Murray Art Museum, Albury
2014 Mona Ryder Prints 1970’s- 87, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
2009 Hook Line and Sinker, Alcaston Art Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Holding Zone, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney
2008 Props for Barcelona Twostep, Kick Arts Contemporary Art Space, Cairns
2008 Props for Barcelona Twostep, Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville
2007 Barcelona Twostep, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney
2004 Rawhide, Peloton, Sydney
1999 Big Small, Travelling Exhibition USQ, Singapore
1997-98 Delicious, Magazine Space, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Brisbane
1996 Have a Nice Day, Invited Artist, Gomboc Gallery, Perth
1995 Mother Other Lover, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Curator Tim Morrell
1995 Lures, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Noosa
1992 Return to Paradise, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast
1990 The Heart of the Matter, Roz MacAllen Gallery, Brisbane
1987 Mona Ryder: Recent Works, The Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1987 Passing On, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
1985-86 Mona Ryder: A Survey Travelling Exhibition, Queensland Arts Council
1986 Mona Presents Circus Follies of Exasperating Subtlety, Q.P.A.C, Brisbane.
1985 In all Directions, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
1985 Broken Records, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
1984 Mona Ryder: A Survey, University Art Museum, University of Queensland
1981 DeVere Gallery, Maroochydore, Queensland
1980 Mona Ryder, BCAE, Kelvin Grove, (now Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane)
EXHIBITIONS - Selected Group
2021 Lures, HOTA Collects, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast (opening of HOTA)
2021 The Tattooed Land, Drawn Thread, Artisan, curator Cassandra Lehmann
2020 About Face, Speak No Evil, Artisan, curator, Cassandra Lehmann
2020 Speak No Evil, About Face, Artisan, curator, Cassandra Lehamn
2019 New Woman, MOB (Museum of Brisbane), curator, Miranda Hine
2019 Connecting Thread,Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga
Curators: Lisa Jones and Mary Faith Abbortsleigh
2019 Rites of Passage, Gympie Regional Art Gallery, Gympie (13th March- 20th April) Curator, Meghan Shelton
2018 Say it with flowers, a formal Garden, Brisbane Botanical Gardens Botanica, Ephemeral Art Project,
Brisbane City Council , part of The Commonwealth Games 2018 , curator Beth Jackson
2018 Re: Watch and Wear, Jewellery exhibition, Artisan, curator Jacqueline Dyson
2017 The impression of our arteries, WAG, (Woolloongabba Art Gallery)
2017 Prick, Aria, BusyBrick, Embroidery Exhibition, curator Jacqueline Dyson
2016 Ballinale, Spacemen storage sheds, Ballina
2016 beyond the Tower, UQ Art Museum – 40 years and counting
2013 Blow Out, Kick Arts Contemporary Art Space, Cairns
2011 21 New, Banyule Arts Space, Banyule City Council, Melbourne
2008-9 Head Hunters, Redeeming the Ruin: the art of consumption, Banyule Art Space, Ivanhoe, Victoria (travelling venues, Victoria)
2008 Left Overs, A Sense of Fabrication of Things…., Shajah (United Arab Emirates) and Toowoomba
2008 5th,, 4th, 3rd Fibre Art Biennale Exhibition, From Lausanne to Beijing, Suzhou, Shanghai
2008 ‘Where are you, can you hear me?’, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney
2005 Les Animaux Sauvage, National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery, Macquarie Bank. Curator: Elena Taylor
2005 Sufferance, Artist’s Book Commission & Exhibition, State Library of Qld., Q.C. Gallery, Brisbane.
2005-07 Pricked, Regarding Retro, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, Touring Exhibition,Qld, New South Wales, Canberra
2002 Stretched ‘Grip’, NIE, Nan Yang Technical University Singapore
1986 Biennale of Sydney, Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
1985 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery NSW
1985 Queensland Works 1950-1985, University Art Museum, U.Q
Selected Awards & Grants
2020 Creative Sparks Grant, Writing Mona Ryder (a partnership between Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council
2013 Australia Council, Rome residency, July – September 2014
2007-8 Awarded a Commonwealth Post Graduate Scholarship in visual art
2002 Arts Queensland Development Grant to travel overseas (awarded 1999)
1996 Selected Artist for Maquette Stage, Brisbane City Council, Inner City Sculpture Award
1995 Arts Queensland (Project Grant) for Q.A.G., Mother Other Lover (Curator, Tim Morrell)
1993 Arts Queensland (Individual Development Grant)
1990 Caloundra Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
1987 The Andrew and Lillian Pedersen Memorial Prize, Queensland Art Gallery
1986 Gold Coast Art Prize (printmaking) Gold Coast Art Gallery, Gold Coast
1986 Visual Arts Board Studio Grant, Residency at Vence, France and travel through Italy.
Public Art Commissions
2018 Say it with flowers Botanica, Temporal Public Art Festival, Brisbane City Council curator Beth Jackson
2002 Arcadian Illusions, Cairns City Council, Water Features, City Centre, Cairns
2001 Atherton Shire Council, Atherton, Halloran’s Hill, Kinetic Sculptures, Project Manager, John Mongard
2000 Sentinels Attempting Flight, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Logan Campus, two 3 metre external sculptures
1995 Crossover Guardians, State Government & Brisbane City Council, Statement sculptures (2-10.5metre H), Thornton Street, Ferry Terminal, Kangaroo Point Boardwalk, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane
Books & Catalogues
2018-2019 Lone Star, Artisan, Cassandra Lehman
2019 Victoria Garnons Williams Rites of Passage, (group exhibition) Gympie Regional Art Gallery
2019 Miranda Hine, New Women, MOB, Museum of Brisbane,
2016 MAMA,Murray Art Museum Albury, Mona Ryder Dance me to the End of Night (Catalogue)
2015 BSR, British School at Rome, Fine Arts, 2014-15 (catalogue)
2008 5th, 4th, 3rd Fibre Art Biennale Exhibition, From Lausanne to Beijing, Suzhou, Shanghai (catalogues)
2008 Ingrid Hoffmann, Props for Barcelona Twostep, Kick Arts Contemporary Art Space, Cairns & Perc Tucker, Regional Art Gallery,Townsville (Catalogue)
2007 Tracey Clement, Barcelona Twostep, horus & Deloris, Contemporary Art Space, Sydney (catalogue)
2001 Allen, T, Cross currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Craftsman House, Fine Art Press
1996 Voight, A, New Visions, New Perspectives, Craftsman House, Fine Art Press
1995 Thorpe, Whose Who of Australian Visual Artists, Open Learning EDU Australia, OTEN and Nava
1993 Drury, N., New Sculpture: Profiles of 40 Australian Sculptors, Craftsman House, Fine Art Press
1992 Kirby, S., Sight Lines: ‘Women’s Art and Feminist Perspectives: Feminism in Australia, Craftsman House, Fine Art Press
1992 Drury, N, A Visual Sourcebook of Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Fine Art Press
1992 Drury, N.,1992, Images in Contemporary Australian Painting , Craftsman House, Fine Art Press
1990 Drury, N., New Art Six, Profiles in Contemporary Australian Art, Craftsman House, Fine Art Press
Video, CD ROM and Websites
National Gallery Australia, 2005, Mona Ryder Lecture, National Gallery Sculpture Prize
Australian National Gallery, 2000, Australian National Gallery Collection, Website
Australian Government, Australian Sculpture – Stories from Australia’s Culture and Recreation Portal,
Australian Government website www.culturalandrecreation.gov.au
Griffith University, 1999, Griffith Artworks Collection, Griffith University Website
Brisbane City Council, 1998, Tide and Time, Temporal Art Project, Brisbane City Council weibsite
University of Southern Queensland, 1997, CAUT 3D Project, CD Rom, USQ
Allen, T, 1996, Issues in Australian Art No.3, Women’s Art and Feminism 1970-1994 Video Education Australasia, Bendigo
Collections
Australian National Gallery, South Australian State Library, Parliament House Collection, British Library, London, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Canada,University of Melbourne Library, Queensland Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Q.U.T., University Art Museum, Qld, PLC, Design Centre, Croydon, Sydney, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, City Council Art Gallery, Brisbane, Western Australia Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Collection, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Qld, Banyule City Council, Victoria, Brisbane Grammar School, Qld, Qld, Kick Arts Contemporary Art Space, Cairns,
The Hardie Collection, State Library of Qld, Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery Townsville, Qld., MAMA, Murray Art Museum Albury