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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 nowSamstag 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

Doing Feminism, Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia,
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.
– Eugenia Raskopoulos my body against your body catalogue essay Donna West Brett
Vestiges of the Tongue Eugenia Raskopoulos Monograph Power Publications & Formist 2019
– What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives Edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly, Power Publications 2018
– Anne Marsh Photo/Video Language and the Feminine in Selected Works by Eugenia Raskopoulos 2015
– Anne Marsh Performance_Ritual_Document Macmillan Art Publishing 2014
– Visual Anxiety Huang Du catalogue for PHOTOESPANA 2012
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-Wendy Walker – Mirror Mirror Then and Now Art & Australia 48 No.1 2010 p.153
– Jose Da Silva -How Do We Know That The Dead Return- catalogue – 2010
– Dr Ann Finegan –Eugenia Raskopoulos – eyeline #69 p.43-46
-Dr Ann Stephen – Mirror Mirror catalogue 2009.
– Victoria Lynn – writing towards disappearance catalogue 2009
– Dr Ann Finegan A quarter century sampler: Artspace 24/25
– realtime 89 Feb-March 2009 p.43-44
-Terry Whitebeach – Parallel- Art Monthly Australia March 2009 p.6-8
– Victoria Lynn – Video Logic Catalogue 2008
– 3 Projects – Fiona Fioley, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Joanne Saad, Casula Powerhouse, 2006
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THERMOMETRO Thessaloniki, Greece21 February 2000 p.62
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TILERAMA 18-24 March 2000, Thessaloniki Greece.
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