符子龙
2009 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada, exchange semester
2011 Graduated in Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts
Now Work and based in Sydney
Solo exhibitions
2018 The fruit was sweeter then, the fish were more plentiful, Alaska Projects, curated by Grace Patridge and James Nguyen
2017 My parents met at the fishmarkets, Westspace, Melbourne, (Westspace commission to make a work across all four galleries)
A shrine for the horse headed god of safe travels and a shrine for the pig headed god of celebration, Underbelly Arts Festival 2017,
National Art School
Lesser saints and the demons they carry, commission by Art Fairs Australia for Sydney Contemporary at Barangaroo, The Cutaway
2016 I pray at ashes of my grandmother and at the photo of my grandfather who I've never met. I pray for big chunks of meat, for big bowls of
alcohol and for sex. They send me demons to battle. ALASKA Projects, William street, Australia
I haven't made the work yet but I'll be there a week beforehand which should be plenty of time Canberra Contemporary Art Space,
Canberra, Australia
I'M GONNA FLY FROM SYDNEY TO MELBOURNE. I'M GONNA HAVE A BIG HORSE HAIR BRUSH AND THEN PAINT SOMETHING WHEN I
GET TO MELBOURNE Nicholas Projects, Melbourne, Australia
bull shit is more nutritious than dog shit Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2015 a pomelo, a bowl of beef noodle soup and a pair of slippers Dimensions Art Centre, Chongqing, China
It's all google translated or taken from chinese newspapers I can't read Ray Hughes Gallery, NSW
2014 Irreverants Gaffa Gallery, NSW
This is what I think about some of the time, the rest of the time I watch tv or drink beer or sometimes both Ray Hughes Gallery, NSW
2013 Lots of jasonphus. Archive Space, NSW
⼥女⼥士，先⼥生们，2008 年 H 。M 。S 。GOLDEN CENTURY 即将进 攻 BONDIBEACH 。注意安全，⼥一路顺⼥风 。 Kudos Gallery,
NSW
2011 The Pub (collaboration with Andrew Burford) Kudos Gallery, NSW
The great parade of Spirits, Demons and Pissheads of George St. on the fifth Saturday of the 12th month in the light of a three-quarter
moon COFA Space, NSW
Art Fairs
2017 Spring 1883 Art Fair, Sydney with Alaska Projects, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney with Vermilion Art, Sydney
Selected Group Shows
2018 The Burrangong Affray, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, curated by Micheal Do
Play Back Dobell Drawing Biennale, AGNSW, curated by Matt Cox
Human Jerky, Verge Gallery, Sydney
2017 Losing Farther, Losing Faster Alaska Projects, Sydney, curated by Bradley Vincent
Closing the Distance Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, curated by Sophia Cai
2016 #BFF: The Politics of Friendship Artereal Gallery, Sydney, curated by Rhianna Walcott
2015 From Old Ground Bathurst Regional Gallery, curated by Joanna Bayndrian
A robot attempts to eat a chicken nugget Firstdraft Gallery, curated by Luke Letourneau Bridges of Expansion Gaffa Gallery, NSW
2014 Small Sculptures Ray Hughes Gallery, NSW
Slow Burn Kudos Gallery, NSW
We visited in canoes, we swam in freshwater rivers and we conquered from our ships 107 Projects, NSW
2013 Investable Contemporary Art Annual Archive Space
Lifes a Beach Ray Hughes Gallery, NSW
Perspectiva 2.0 COFA Campus, NSW
Drawing Now Ivan Dougherty Gallery, NSW
Wontons and Meatpies Robin Gibson Gallery, NSW
Paper Trail Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Launch Sequence Kudos Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2012 Beautiful Soup St Heliers Street Gallery, VIC
Mind and Reality COFA Space
Familiar Unfamiliar Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW/ Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC/ c3 contemporary artspace, VIC
2011 The Final Word UNSW Square House, NSW
Art and Environment COFA Space, NSW
Kung Fu and Ray-Guns Gallery Red, NSW
Paper Trail Robin Gibson Gallery, NSW
Greatest Hits Volume 2 Verge Gallery, NSW
Selected International Shows
2018 By Hand: Rediscovering the Art of Printmaking De La Salle – College of Santi Benilde, Manila
2015 North American and Australasian Bestiary University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
AMSTERDAMS GRAFISCH ATELIER Gallery 10+10, Amsterdam
2014 Fantasy Asia Indus Valley School of Art, Pakistan
Bridges of Expansion Southern Graphics Council International 2014 San Francisco
2013 Exposición de arte en Variete Varieté Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico City
Throwdown Press Hong Kong Graphic Art Festival 2013, Hong Kong
2012 Begin with Printmaking: the Practice of Mixmedia and Transboundary Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
2011 Mind and Reality Roxaboxen Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Messages From The South Contemporary Australian Prints From COFA UNSW NTUA Gallery, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
The International Art on Paper Exhibition 2011 The Faculty of Art and Architecture, Rajamangala University of Technology Lana,
Thailand.
Art Prizes
2017 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Finalist, Artspace, Sydney
Ramsay Art Prize, Finalist, Art Gallery of South Australia
2016 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence, Finalist, winner TBA
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Highly Commended
2015 Freedman Foundation Travelling Art Scholarship, Winner
Archibald Portrait Prize AGNSW, Finalist
Sulman Prize AGNSW, Winner
2014 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Kudos Gallery, Highly Commended
Archibald Prize AGNSW, Finalist
2012 Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize, Finalist (nominated by Noel McKenna)
2011 Gallery Barry Keldoulis Award, Winner
2010 The Art Scene Award, Winner
Glebe Art Show, Works on Paper section, Winner
Residencies
2017 JOJO KOBE Screenprint Studio, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2016 C.A.P. Studio (Chiang Mai Art on Paper) Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2015 Organhaus International Artist Residency, Chongqing, China
Chongqing AIR (Artist in Residency) Chongqing, China
2010 Central Academy of Fine Arts, China, Beijing, Printmaking Residency
Murals
2015 Art Month Art Bar commission at Wellington St. Chippendale
2014 Poulet’s Backdoor Residency lol, but actually painted the door behind his house
2014 UNSWAAD ARC Mural Project, Courtyard Site
Publications
2016 Hhhhappy Magazine, artist profile October
Art Almanac, artist profile October
Canberra Times, by Peter Haynes, review of show at CCAS
Art Asia Pacific 99, New Currents Section
2015 Art Collector, 50 things collectors should know, Issue 71 2015
Broadsheet, artist profile
Countless Voices Blog, by Greta Stonehouse, artist profile
UNSW Newsroom, by Amy Coopes, artist profile,
Concrete Playground, by Elise Newtown, review of show at Ray Hughes Gallery
2014 Raven Contemporary, February, review of solo show at The Hughes Gallery, Surry Hills NSW by Chloe Wolifson
The Art Life, February, review of solo show at The Hughes Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW by Andrew Frost
ARC Framework Issue 8 Social Change, by Tahjee Moree and Olivia welch Imprint Magazine, 2014 Volume 49 Number 2, The Drawing
Issue
2013 Imprint magazine Winter 2013, Review of ‘Mirror Mirror: Throwdown Press’ Article written by David Greenhalj
Collections
Print Council of Australia (PCA)
UNSW College of Fine Arts (COFA)
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD)
Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing
Special Collections of School of the Art Institue of Chicago (SAIC)
Artists Books Library Indus Vallery School of Art and Architecture collection, Pakistan
Charles Sturt University
2011 Graduated in Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts
Now Work and based in Sydney
Solo exhibitions
2018 The fruit was sweeter then, the fish were more plentiful, Alaska Projects, curated by Grace Patridge and James Nguyen
2017 My parents met at the fishmarkets, Westspace, Melbourne, (Westspace commission to make a work across all four galleries)
A shrine for the horse headed god of safe travels and a shrine for the pig headed god of celebration, Underbelly Arts Festival 2017,
National Art School
Lesser saints and the demons they carry, commission by Art Fairs Australia for Sydney Contemporary at Barangaroo, The Cutaway
2016 I pray at ashes of my grandmother and at the photo of my grandfather who I've never met. I pray for big chunks of meat, for big bowls of
alcohol and for sex. They send me demons to battle. ALASKA Projects, William street, Australia
I haven't made the work yet but I'll be there a week beforehand which should be plenty of time Canberra Contemporary Art Space,
Canberra, Australia
I'M GONNA FLY FROM SYDNEY TO MELBOURNE. I'M GONNA HAVE A BIG HORSE HAIR BRUSH AND THEN PAINT SOMETHING WHEN I
GET TO MELBOURNE Nicholas Projects, Melbourne, Australia
bull shit is more nutritious than dog shit Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2015 a pomelo, a bowl of beef noodle soup and a pair of slippers Dimensions Art Centre, Chongqing, China
It's all google translated or taken from chinese newspapers I can't read Ray Hughes Gallery, NSW
2014 Irreverants Gaffa Gallery, NSW
This is what I think about some of the time, the rest of the time I watch tv or drink beer or sometimes both Ray Hughes Gallery, NSW
2013 Lots of jasonphus. Archive Space, NSW
⼥女⼥士，先⼥生们，2008 年 H 。M 。S 。GOLDEN CENTURY 即将进 攻 BONDIBEACH 。注意安全，⼥一路顺⼥风 。 Kudos Gallery,
NSW
2011 The Pub (collaboration with Andrew Burford) Kudos Gallery, NSW
The great parade of Spirits, Demons and Pissheads of George St. on the fifth Saturday of the 12th month in the light of a three-quarter
moon COFA Space, NSW
Art Fairs
2017 Spring 1883 Art Fair, Sydney with Alaska Projects, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney with Vermilion Art, Sydney
Selected Group Shows
2018 The Burrangong Affray, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, curated by Micheal Do
Play Back Dobell Drawing Biennale, AGNSW, curated by Matt Cox
Human Jerky, Verge Gallery, Sydney
2017 Losing Farther, Losing Faster Alaska Projects, Sydney, curated by Bradley Vincent
Closing the Distance Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, curated by Sophia Cai
2016 #BFF: The Politics of Friendship Artereal Gallery, Sydney, curated by Rhianna Walcott
2015 From Old Ground Bathurst Regional Gallery, curated by Joanna Bayndrian
A robot attempts to eat a chicken nugget Firstdraft Gallery, curated by Luke Letourneau Bridges of Expansion Gaffa Gallery, NSW
2014 Small Sculptures Ray Hughes Gallery, NSW
Slow Burn Kudos Gallery, NSW
We visited in canoes, we swam in freshwater rivers and we conquered from our ships 107 Projects, NSW
2013 Investable Contemporary Art Annual Archive Space
Lifes a Beach Ray Hughes Gallery, NSW
Perspectiva 2.0 COFA Campus, NSW
Drawing Now Ivan Dougherty Gallery, NSW
Wontons and Meatpies Robin Gibson Gallery, NSW
Paper Trail Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Launch Sequence Kudos Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2012 Beautiful Soup St Heliers Street Gallery, VIC
Mind and Reality COFA Space
Familiar Unfamiliar Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW/ Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC/ c3 contemporary artspace, VIC
2011 The Final Word UNSW Square House, NSW
Art and Environment COFA Space, NSW
Kung Fu and Ray-Guns Gallery Red, NSW
Paper Trail Robin Gibson Gallery, NSW
Greatest Hits Volume 2 Verge Gallery, NSW
Selected International Shows
2018 By Hand: Rediscovering the Art of Printmaking De La Salle – College of Santi Benilde, Manila
2015 North American and Australasian Bestiary University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
AMSTERDAMS GRAFISCH ATELIER Gallery 10+10, Amsterdam
2014 Fantasy Asia Indus Valley School of Art, Pakistan
Bridges of Expansion Southern Graphics Council International 2014 San Francisco
2013 Exposición de arte en Variete Varieté Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico City
Throwdown Press Hong Kong Graphic Art Festival 2013, Hong Kong
2012 Begin with Printmaking: the Practice of Mixmedia and Transboundary Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
2011 Mind and Reality Roxaboxen Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Messages From The South Contemporary Australian Prints From COFA UNSW NTUA Gallery, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
The International Art on Paper Exhibition 2011 The Faculty of Art and Architecture, Rajamangala University of Technology Lana,
Thailand.
Art Prizes
2017 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Finalist, Artspace, Sydney
Ramsay Art Prize, Finalist, Art Gallery of South Australia
2016 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence, Finalist, winner TBA
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Highly Commended
2015 Freedman Foundation Travelling Art Scholarship, Winner
Archibald Portrait Prize AGNSW, Finalist
Sulman Prize AGNSW, Winner
2014 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Kudos Gallery, Highly Commended
Archibald Prize AGNSW, Finalist
2012 Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize, Finalist (nominated by Noel McKenna)
2011 Gallery Barry Keldoulis Award, Winner
2010 The Art Scene Award, Winner
Glebe Art Show, Works on Paper section, Winner
Residencies
2017 JOJO KOBE Screenprint Studio, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2016 C.A.P. Studio (Chiang Mai Art on Paper) Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2015 Organhaus International Artist Residency, Chongqing, China
Chongqing AIR (Artist in Residency) Chongqing, China
2010 Central Academy of Fine Arts, China, Beijing, Printmaking Residency
Murals
2015 Art Month Art Bar commission at Wellington St. Chippendale
2014 Poulet’s Backdoor Residency lol, but actually painted the door behind his house
2014 UNSWAAD ARC Mural Project, Courtyard Site
Publications
2016 Hhhhappy Magazine, artist profile October
Art Almanac, artist profile October
Canberra Times, by Peter Haynes, review of show at CCAS
Art Asia Pacific 99, New Currents Section
2015 Art Collector, 50 things collectors should know, Issue 71 2015
Broadsheet, artist profile
Countless Voices Blog, by Greta Stonehouse, artist profile
UNSW Newsroom, by Amy Coopes, artist profile,
Concrete Playground, by Elise Newtown, review of show at Ray Hughes Gallery
2014 Raven Contemporary, February, review of solo show at The Hughes Gallery, Surry Hills NSW by Chloe Wolifson
The Art Life, February, review of solo show at The Hughes Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW by Andrew Frost
ARC Framework Issue 8 Social Change, by Tahjee Moree and Olivia welch Imprint Magazine, 2014 Volume 49 Number 2, The Drawing
Issue
2013 Imprint magazine Winter 2013, Review of ‘Mirror Mirror: Throwdown Press’ Article written by David Greenhalj
Collections
Print Council of Australia (PCA)
UNSW College of Fine Arts (COFA)
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD)
Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing
Special Collections of School of the Art Institue of Chicago (SAIC)
Artists Books Library Indus Vallery School of Art and Architecture collection, Pakistan
Charles Sturt University
