EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
| 1959 | Born Czech Republic |
| 1959 | Moved to Greece with parents |
| 1963 | Emigrated to Australia with parents |
| 1980-1987 | Moved to Perth |
| 1987 | Moved back to Sydney |
EDUCATION
| 2011 | PhD, College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1993 | Master of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1986 | Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine, USA |
| 1983 | Post-Graduate Art & Design Curtin University, Perth |
| 1979 | Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney |
EMPLOYMENT
| 1988-2005 | Lecturer 0.5 (promoted to Senior Lecturer 1999) in School Contemporary Art, University Western Sydney |
| 2003-2008 | Appointed to Casula Powerhouse Board |
| 2001-03 | Appointed to The Visual Arts and Craft Committee of the Arts Advisory Council of the NSW Ministry for the Arts |
| 1993-97 | Artspace Board Member, Sydney. |
| 1987 | Part-time lecturer in Photography, Curtin University, Perth. |
| 1985 | Casual lecturer in Photography, WAIT. Casual lecturer in Photography, Perth Technical College. |
| 1984 | Part- time lecturer in Photography, WAIT Perth. |
| 1982 | Fractional lecturer in Photography, Perth Technical College. |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 | the shadow of language Arc One Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2019 | my body against your body KRONENBERG MAIS WRIGHT, Sydney |
| 2017 | Eugenia Raskopoulos, Kronenberg Wright Artists Projects, Sydney |
| 2014 | Under My Skin WILLIAM WRIGHT. ARTISTS PROJECTS, Sydney Vestiges 2010-2014, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2013 | Read your lips The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney |
| 2012 | Vestiges, WILLIAM WRIGHT. ARTISTS PROJECTS, Sydney footnotes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 2009 | writing Towards Disappearance, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2008 | words are not hard – Intrude 366, Project Zendai MoMA, Shanghai |
| 2006 | in a Word, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne words are not hard, Casula Powerhouse, NSW |
| 2005 | there are no words, Artspace, Sydney |
| 2003 | Ostinato, Arc One at Span, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Ostinato, Stills Gallery, Sydney Untitled Arc One @ Span, Melbourne |
| 2001 | turn on the tongue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne |
| 2000 | turn on the tongue, Artspace, Sydney with(out) voice Photosynkyria 2000, AAS Gallery Thessaloniki Untitled 00, Gallery 4A Sydney |
| 1998 | with(out) voice Stills Gallery, Sydney |
| 1996 | re-departing Queensland University of Technology The Palace Gallery, Brisbane QLD |
| 1995 | re-departing Performance Space, Sydney |
| 1994 | Dangling Virgins, ACCA, Melbourne |
| 1993 | Dangling Virgins, Australian Centre For Photography, Sydney |
| 1991 | Goddess /mother /daughter W.I.N.D.O.W. Sydney |
| 1987 | Untitled, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA |
| 1984 | Social Gardens, Darklight Photography Gallery Fremantle WA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 | Know my Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia |
| 2020 | Shadow Catchers Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Curator Isobel Parker Philip The body Language, ITS LIQUID International Art Exhibition, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and The Room, Contemporary Art Space, Venice, Italy |
| 2019 | Hands Across the Pacific, Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China The National, Carriageworks, Sydney Ok Democracy : we need to talk, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown |
| 2017 | 2018 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Artbank, Sydney Red, Green, Blue, A History of Australian Video Art Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Curator Matthew Perkins Let’s Talk About Text, Artbank, Sydney, Curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham & Miriam Kelly |
| 2016 | Group Exhibition Kronenberg Wright Artists Projects TarraWarra Biennial, Endless Circulation, Curators Victoria Lynn & Helen Hughes, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville Victoria Incandescence Grace Crossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga, NSW |
| 2015 | Lines of Force…Space +Displacement Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Curator Nicholas Tsoutas CEMENTA 15 Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos NSW Performance Presence / Video Time Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Curator Anne Marsh |
| 2014 | dLux Program The Concourse, Chatswood i colori WILLIAM WRIGHT. ARTISTS PROJECTS, Sydney |
| 2013 | remix. post. connect The University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize 2013:. UQ Art Museum, Brisbane Curator Samantha Littley LP the times they are a changing! Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth |
| 2012 | Image Anxiety PhotoEspana Madrid´s International Photography & Visual Arts Festival, Curator Huang Du Light Works National Gallery of Victoria, Curator Isobel Crombie The Chinese Horoscope Show Curator Erica van Zon Enjoy Public Art Gallery Wellington New Zealand |
| 2011 | MUTE Eugenia Raskopoulos & Shen Shaomin, Art Bridge Gallery at 798, Beijing China Curator Nicholas Tsoutas Immovable Feast, WILLIAM WRIGHT//ARTIST’S PROJECTS, Sydney |
| 2010 | Ghost Show Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Sydney. Curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham |
| 2010 | Nightshifters Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney Curator Bec Dean How do we know that the dead return Gertrude Contemporary Art Space Exhibition, Melbourne. Curator Jose da Silva, Body Capital, LOOPSPACE Gallery, Newcastle Curator Ann Finnegan, Here there and now, Art Platform, Art Beijing Art Fair, China Curator Jayne Dyer, Mirror Mirror Then and now, Tin Sheds, Sydney, Curator Ann Stephen Mirror Mirror Then and now, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide. |
| 2009 | Cold Tongue, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney. Curator William Wright Mirror Mirror Then and now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD. Curator Ann Stephen Parallel, Gippsland Gallery. Curator, Brigita Ozolin, |
| 2008 | Video Logic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Curator, Russell Storer Parallel, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania. Curator Brigita Ozolin Antipodes Area 405 Baltimore, USA. Curator, Timothy Nohe |
| 2007 | Nightcomers Project, 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul |
| 2006 | We are all Australians too, Casula Powerhouse, Curator, Nicholas Tsoutas |
| 2005 | Winter Arc One, Melbourne,VIC minimal approach … concrete tendencies – Tin Sheds, The University of Shangri –La Collective The Australian Embassy Manila, Phillipines. |
| 2004 | Multiples – Galerie Rivolta Espace, Geneve Switzerland. Collection Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece. Shangri –La Collective Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane QLD. Shangri –La Collective Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW. |
| 2003 | Shangri –La Collective Artspace, Sydney. Anita and Beyond Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, Boofheads and Scrubbers Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, NSW |
| 2003 | Boxes Multiple Box Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney |
| 2003 | Zero Light ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra ACT |
| 2002 | Flag Art Festival, 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan Nanjicheon Park (World Cup Park). One Fine Day Block Gallery, Sydney. |
| 2001 | Pinhole to Pixel Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney NSW. |
| 2000 | Trios Photographes Australiens Geneve Rivolta Gallery Geneva,Switzerland. Minimal Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney NSW. Olympia, Olympia Post Master Gallery, Melbourne VIC |
| 1999 | SILVER:25th Anniversary Exhibition Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. 8 x 8 Roar Studios Melbourne, VIC. |
| 1998 | After the Masters Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney NSW Co-Existence AAAR! – Australian Artists Against Racism Hogarth Galleries, Sydney NSW Constructed in the Field of the Other Artspace, Sydney |
| 1997 | Galerie Dusseldorf 21 Years On Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA Fragments Lunami Gallery Tokyo, Japan Power to Move Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1995 | Topos Artspace Sydney NSW |
| 1994 | Pitch Performance Space Sydney. Knowing the Sensorium Institute of Modern Art Brisbane ,Qld. Shifting Edges Casula Powerhouse Casula NSW |
| 1993 | Sweet Dreams Australian Perspecta 1993. A Satellite Exhibition. Clarendon Homes ‘The Balmoral’ Homeworld 11 Prospect NSW. |
| 1992 | Australian Made Prague University College of Applied Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1991 | Inherent Identity, Performance Space, Sydney. Second Language, Curator Nicholas Tsoutas, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD. Dissonance West, Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Emu Plains, NSW |
| 1988 | Ironworks 88, Santa Fe Center of Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. |
| 1987 | Invisible Cities, Praxis, Fremantle, WA. Among the Souvenirs, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA. The National 1988 Women’s Art Award, The Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD |
| 1986 | Western Australian Photographers 4, The Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth, WA America’s Cup Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA. |
| 1985 | On the Beach, Darklight Photography Gallery, Fremantle, WA Parasols, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA. |
| 1984/85 | Young Contemporary Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney |
| 1983 | The Great Curve, Praxis, Fremantle, WA. |
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank Collection
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Bodo University, Norway
Malmo University, Sweden
Groningen Hochschule University, Netherlands
UQ Museum, The University of Queensland
Griffith Artworks, Queensland
State Library of Western Australia – Alexander Building
Polariod Corporation Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Private Collections in Australia, China, Greece, Switzerland and USA
AWARDS/GRANTS
| 2017 | 2018 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship, finalist, Artbank, Sydney |
| 2016 | Arts Projects Grants (Individuals & Groups) Australia Council for Arts Residency Art Columbia College Chicago |
| 2012 | WINNER -Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award |
| 2011 | Artist in Residence, Redgate Studios Beijing, China |
| 2010 | Albury City National Photography Prize – Finalist |
| 2007 | New Work Grant (established): Visual Arts/Craft Fund Board of Australia Council Albury City National Photography Prize – Finalist |
| 2006 | Scholarship Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 2006 | Conrad Jupiters Art Prize – Finalist |
| 2006 | Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award Finalist and Acquisition award |
| 2004 | Arts New South Wales, Western Sydney Fellowship New Work (Established) Visual Art/Craft Strategy Funding –Visual Arts/Craft Fund Board of the Australia Council |
| 2003 | Artist in Residence, Art Gallery of NSW Studio, Paris, France |
| 2002 | City of Hobart Art Prize Finalist |
| 2002 | Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award – Finalist |
| 2000 | Project Grant: New Work – The Visual Arts/Craft Fund Board of the Australia Council. Honourable Mention Photosynkyria 2000 Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece National Association for the Visual Arts – Marketing Grant |
| 1999 | University Western Sydney Women’s Research Scheme Grant |
| 1998 | Sydney Olympics Public Art Program -invited to a short list for the Hellenic Tribute. |
| 1998 | Pluto Press Publisher Commission Book Cover. Foreign Dialogues by Mary Zournazi |
| 1997 | British School of Art Residency, Rome, Italy Sydney City Council Commission – Market Street Priority Design Project Stage 1 Sydney City Council Commission – Art Banner to mark the First Visit of The Ecumenical Patriarch, His Holiness Bartholomew I To Sydney |
| 1996 | Project Grant: New Work – The Visual Arts/Craft Fund Board, Australia Council |
| 1995 | National Association for the Visual Arts – Marketing Grant Pat Corrigan Grant. |
| 1993 | National Association for the Visual Arts – Marketing Grant Liverpool City Council Commission for Public Art on Macquarie Street Liverpool Development Grant- The Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council. |
| 1985 | Travel Grant, WA Arts Council.(travel to the USA) |
| 1983 | 1st prize in the Avon Valley Photography Competition, York Winter Festival, WA |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Anne Marsh, The Miegunyah Press. (coming out November 2021)
– The shadow of language catalogue essay Fiona McGregor 2021
– Shadow Catchers 2020 catalogue essay, Echoes and reflections: Eugenia Raskopoulos’ Diglossia Coby Edgar.
– Artist Profile 2020 Issue 52.In a Given Moment Eugenia Raskopoulos, Michael Do.
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–Vestiges of the Tongue Eugenia Raskopoulos Monograph Power Publications & Formist 2019
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