Mikala Dwyer
| Name | Mikala Dwyer MFA, UNSW |
| Current Role(s) | Lecturer Painting |
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Biography
Mikala Dwyer completed her BVA at Sydney College of Art in 1983 and then moved to London where she studied at Middlesex Polytechnic. She moved back to Australia in 1986 and co-directed firstdraft Gallery and later directed Black Gallery.
She has shown in many national and international exhibitions including the 1995 Istanbul Bienale, Bonheurs des Antipodes, Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France, solo survey show Museum of Contemporary Art, solo show at chapter Arts Center Cardiff, Wales. Mikala’s work utilises and experiments with a fluid array of ideas, materials and applications. These often present themselves in large scale installations and sometimes they become paintings.
Mikala is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney, Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne, Hamish McKay Gallery, New Zealand, and Hamish Morrison Galerie in Berlin, Germany.
Recent Exhibitions
Swamp Geometry, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2008
Hanging Garden and the Additions and Substractions, Kunstraum, Potsdam, Germany, 2007
Down Under/Overkaant, Den Haag Public Sculpture Project, Nederlands, 2007
Mystic Truths, City Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007
Black Sun Blue Moon, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2007
High Tide, Zacheta National Museum, Warsaw, Poland, 2005
I Maybe We, Tepapa, National Museum New Zealand, 2005
Face Up, I Maybe You, Hamburger Banhof National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2004
Still Life, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 2004
Mikala Dwyer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2001
Research Supervision
Ben Terakes MVA, 'In and Out: Intimacy/Abjection/Catharsis.'
Emma Davidson MVA, 'Futures & Pasts: Hauntology, nostalgia & the radical
reclamation of the present.'
Carla Cescon MVA, 'From 100 days and nights in search of the Ramones
to Bury the Hatchet, notes on a participatory practice.'
Kelly Doley MVA, 'Performing the artist: the intersection between theatre and
contemporary art.'
Vicky Brown MVA, 'The Image of Sound.'
Professional Membership
Board member, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Awards & Grants
2009 Australia Council for the Arts: Fellowship
2005 Samstag Scholarship undertaken at UDK Berlin, Klasse Stan Douglas
2004Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
2000 Australia Council for the Arts: New Work Grant
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