November 15 – December 20, 2008
Australian artist Jemima Wyman’s installation Putting On draws on the style of such subcultures as street gangs and liberation armies. She displays her novel uniforms balaclavas (the head gear or ski mask often associated with terrorists or robbers) with fake eyes and plaid flannel shirts embroidered with facemask logos against a patterned, digitally collaged wallpaper mural. Playing on the idea of urban camouflage, her garments suggest the masking of individual identity. A video appropriating training films for hand-to-hand combat has the grainy look of a hand-held night vision camera. Wyman’s video, the wallpaper and her soft sculptures resembling bodies create a psychedelic arena for decorative display and voyeurism.
Jemima Wyman was born in Sydney in 1977 and currently lives and works in Brisbane. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology (2001). In 2005 Wyman received the prestigious Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship enabling her to enroll at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia where she earned an MFA (2007).
Jemima Wyman creates highly patterned paintings, sculpture, collage and video that utilize non-traditional materials and techniques to investigate the clothing and masks worn by protesters including paisley bandanas, keffiyehs and camouflage.
Wyman was born in Sydney in 1977 and earned a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology (2001) and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2007). She has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2008 & 2013); Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2010 & 2012); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2009); and had work included in the Liverpool Biennial (2012) and the 17th Sydney Bienniale (2010). Wyman lives and works in Los Angeles.
Born 1977, Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
1997
BVA, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
2001
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
2007
MFA, California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013
Jemima Wyman, Steve Turner Contemporary (upcoming)
2012
Piecing Together Core Concerns, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2010
The Will to Deceive, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2009
The Declaration of Resemblance and Fluid Insurgents, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008
Putting On, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Combat Drag: Lessons in Unlimited Expansion, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
More Jungle then Paradise, IMA (TCB Space), Brisbane, Australia
2007
The Difficult Word Is Born At Last, A402 Gallery, California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles
2006
Whak’emall, 507 Rose, Los Angeles
Off Their Heads! Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Pets or Meat, D301 Gallery, California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles
2005
Catastrophe Theory: Earthquake Girl and other Stories, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2004
Minnie Peep, 18th St. Arts Center, Los Angeles
2003
See-Saw, The Farm, Brisbane, Australia (catalogue)
2002
Chroming, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2000
Lightweight Poncho, Palace Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (catalogue)
1999
Pink Bits, Palace Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Chockablock, University Art Museum, Cal State University, Long Beach
2012
Collective Coverings, Communal Skin, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2011
Inner Voices, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Museum, Brisbane
The Open Day Book Exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles
2010
The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney Biennale
2009
GPS, Cypress Collage Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Total Nowhere Emotional Expansion, Brisbane Powerhouse
2008
The Art Resort, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Pap Spears, Karen 19, Gold Coast, Australia
2007
IDAP, Yokohama Art Centre, Japan (catalogue)
The Juice is Loose, 507Rose, Los Angeles
2006
2006 IDA, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing
2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, ACMI, Melbourne (catalogue)
Someone Shows Something to Someone, CCAS, Canberra (catalogue)
OUT of THE INTERNET (MAAP), State Library of Queensland
Rectangular Ghost, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2005
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (catalogue)
Twofold, Westbeth Gallery Kozuka, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
2005
Prime, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Not Worried, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
2004
Talking about Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (catalogue)
2003
Colour, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Sub-Topic, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay, Australia
2002
Unit 197, Gamma Space, Melbourne (catalogue)
The Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2001
QUT Alumni Exhibition, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Virtually Furniture, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
2000
Next Gen, Metro Arts, Brisbane (catalogue)
(painting), Monash University Gallery, Melbourne (catalogue)
1999
Colourfield, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
1998
Griller Girls. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Fragility, Smith & Stoneley on Stratton, Brisbane
1997
After Image, Development Space Metro Arts, Brisbane
Selected Live Performances and Screenings
2012
Engagement Party, MOCA, Los Angeles
2011
Social Clothing Experiments, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
2010
Outside the Box, Bongout Gallery, Berlin
The Fish Bowl, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
Whak’emall, San Pablo Arts Distrit, Oakland
Short Play, Thousand Pound Bend, Melbourne
2008
Drift, Volta, New York
2007
4th Monkey Town Semiennial, Monkey Town, New York
Pillow Talk Foreplay with Blue Skies and Scissors, 29025 Eveningside
Greatest Hits and Previously Unreleased Tracks, IMA, Brisbane
2006
You/Me (Puppet Cabaret), CalArts, Los Angeles
[PAM] Cinema-scope program, Scope Miami, Miami
Chromophonozone, Don’t Tell Mama, Brisbane
Cat Theory, Director’s Lounge, Berlin
2005
Video works 2001–2003, Art LA, Los Angeles
2004
Love it or Leave! Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles
Video Works 2000–2004, Project Artaud, San Francisco
Homegirl, 18th St Arts Center, Los Angeles
2003
Body Double, (Participant Prime Two event) Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Awards, Grants and Residences
2011
Arts Queensland, Career Development Grant
2010
QANTAS Foundation Art Award, Australia
Elam International Residency Program University of Auckland, New Zealand
2005
Creative Sparks Grant, Brisbane City Council & Arts Queensland
2004
The Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, Los Angeles Studio Residency, Australia Council for the Arts
2001
Graduate Award (Honours), Software Engineering Australia
2000
Melville Haysom Scholarship, Queensland Art Gallery
Selected Bibliography
2011
Kim, S. Looking Back/Looking Forward, Frieze Magazine, Issue 136: Jan-Feb, p. 90
2009
Dick, L. Jemima Wyman: Incognito, Eyeline, Issue 69: p. 29-33
2007
King, S.S. Santa Fe Summer Preview, Art in America, No. 6: June/July
Stratton, Shannon. CamLab, ArtUS, Issue 18: May–June, p. 44
2006
Mayer, Anna. Jemima Wyman: Whack’emall, Eyeline, Issue 61: Spring, p. 55
Mackinlay, Dan. Under the City’s Skin, RealTime, Issue 75: October-November, p. 7
2005
Fitzgerald, Michael. Finding Their Inner Spring, Time Magazine (Australia), October 3, p. 70–72
Jackson, Beth. A Sensorial Abstraction, Eyeline, Issue 57: Winter, p. 22–26
Butler, Rex. Smart Art, Australian Art Collector, Issue 33: July–September, p. 128
Stevens, Grant. Video National//Queensland, Photofile, Issue 74: Winter Flash Art News.
2005
Samstag Scholarships, Flash Art, Issue No. 240: January–February
2004
Brand, Sally. You Know What They Say, UN. Magazine, Issue 2: p. 55-56
2003
Webb, Mark. What the? See-Saw? The Farm, January 31
2002
Butler, R. Surface Tension, Australian Art Collector, Issue 21: July–September, p. 144
2001
Webb, Mark. The Body, The Imago, and The Intermezzo, Eyeline, No. 45: Autumn/Winter, p. 32-35 (and cover)
2000
Kubler, Alison. (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real, Art Monthly, No. 130: June
