Cyrus Tang
1969 Born in Hong Kong
2010 Master of Fine Arts (Research), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Golden Hour, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Lacrimae Rerum, Artereal, Sydney
Lacrimae Rerum, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
“All That Is Solid…” Artereal, Sydney
2014 Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
Art Stage Singapore
2010 Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia
Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Ruin, Linden-Centre for Contemporary Arts, Victoria, Australia
2008 Remote Nation, Seventh Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2006 Unwrapped, Westspace, Victoria, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Tarra Warra International - All That is Solid
Book Club, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
Art? Art! Art … Rosny Barn, Tasmania
Fictitious Realities, Bayside Arts and Culture Centre
Closer the Distance, Bundoora Homestead Art Center
2016 Half The Sky, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby
2015 Street Screening, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney
2014 ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Modern Ruin, Substation, Mel, Australia
Phantom Limb, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Mapping Memory, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, Australia
2013 National Art studio, Seoul, South Korea
Watagata Arts Festival, Busan, South Korea
2012 Chinese Australia, Ausin Tung Gallery
Gyeonggi International Ceramix Biennale, South Korea
2011 Illumination, Bondi Palvilion Gallery
Night Vision, Gallery 4A
2010 Alliance Francaise de Melbourne
2009 ARTchSO video Festival, Rennes, France
Melbourne Art Fair
Depot Gallery, Sydney, Australia
‘Hypnopopia' curated by Jon Cattapan, Sutton Gallery
Skup Palet, Gothenburg, Sweden
2008 Intrude: Art and Life 366, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
New Work-Material Process Practice, The Banff Centre, Canada
The Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation
2007 The Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship, VCA Gallery
Open Day, Faculty Gallery, Caulfield Campus, Monash University
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Vic, Australia
Imagery Place, Upstairs Flinders, Vic, Australia
2006 A Place in the World, the University of Adelaide, South Australia
2005 INAX Gallery, Tokoname, Japan
La Trobe University Acquisitive Ceramics Award Exhibition, Castlemaine, Australia
2004 Exploration 2004, Flinders Lane Gallery, Mel, Australia
2003 The Mary and Lou SeniniI Award 2003, McClelland Gallery, Australia
Wallara Traveling Scholarship 2003, VCA Gallery, Vic, Australia
Artist Residency
2013 HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
2012 The National Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2009 Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
2008 New Work-Material Process Practice, The Banff Centre, Canada
Grant
2017 New Work, Australia Council for the Arts
2012 Skills and Arts Development, Australian Council for the Arts
2012 Asia Link, Melbourne University
2009 New Work 2009, Australian Council for the Art
2008 Postgraduate Research Travel Grant, Monash University
2007 White Street Project, Frankston City Council
2006 NAVA Visual and Craft Artists’ Gran
Awards
2018 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Blake Prize, Finalist2017 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Finalist
2016 Highly Commended Award, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize, Finalist
Mama Art Foundation National Photography Prize
Churchie National Emerging Art Prize 2016-Finalist
2015 Olive Cotton Photographic Award-Finalist
2012 John Fries Memorial Prize-Finalist
2011 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennial, Honorable Mention, Korea
John Fries Memorial Prize-Finalist
2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award- Finalist of Emerging Artist
2008 Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship
Toyota Traveling Award, Finalist
Postgraduate Publication Award, Monash University
2007 The Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship, Finalist
2005 La Trobe University Acquisitive Ceramics Award, Finalist
2004 Theodor Urback Encouragement Award
2003 The National Gallery of Victoria-Trustee Award
The Mary and Lou Seninil Student Award, Finalist
Wallara Traveling Scholarship, Finalist
Selected Bibliography
2017. TarraWarra International review: Journey into the wreckage of the future, Robert Nelson, The Age, 19/9/17
Art Collector, Issue 79, 2017
2016 Lacrimae Rerum, Catalogue Essay, Venita Poblocki, Feb 2016
Exhibition Preview, Art Guide, Dylan Rainforth, 22 Feb 2016
2014 Vault-new art and culture, issue 7 August 2014
2013 Phantom Limb, Catalogue Essay, Lindy Lee, 10 2013
2011 Peril-Asian-Australian Arts and Culture, edition 14, Spirit World, http://peril.com.au/featured/interview-with-cyrus-tang
Gyeonggi International Ceramix Biennale 2011
The Age, 2 July 2011
Christen Cornell, Old Categories, new Frameworks: Asia-Australia, Artlink, Vol 31 no 1, 2011
2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Catalogue
2009 Art Review, The Aged, 30 Sept 2009
Ceramic Today, Schiffer Publishing, PA
2008 500 Ceramic Sculptures, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, NC, USA
Intrude: Art and Life 366, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, China
2006 Art Review, The Aged, 8 Nov 2006
Collections
Art Bank, Private Collection in Australia and Japan
2010 Master of Fine Arts (Research), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Golden Hour, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Lacrimae Rerum, Artereal, Sydney
Lacrimae Rerum, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
“All That Is Solid…” Artereal, Sydney
2014 Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
Art Stage Singapore
2010 Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia
Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Ruin, Linden-Centre for Contemporary Arts, Victoria, Australia
2008 Remote Nation, Seventh Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2006 Unwrapped, Westspace, Victoria, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Tarra Warra International - All That is Solid
Book Club, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
Art? Art! Art … Rosny Barn, Tasmania
Fictitious Realities, Bayside Arts and Culture Centre
Closer the Distance, Bundoora Homestead Art Center
2016 Half The Sky, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby
2015 Street Screening, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney
2014 ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Modern Ruin, Substation, Mel, Australia
Phantom Limb, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Mapping Memory, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, Australia
2013 National Art studio, Seoul, South Korea
Watagata Arts Festival, Busan, South Korea
2012 Chinese Australia, Ausin Tung Gallery
Gyeonggi International Ceramix Biennale, South Korea
2011 Illumination, Bondi Palvilion Gallery
Night Vision, Gallery 4A
2010 Alliance Francaise de Melbourne
2009 ARTchSO video Festival, Rennes, France
Melbourne Art Fair
Depot Gallery, Sydney, Australia
‘Hypnopopia' curated by Jon Cattapan, Sutton Gallery
Skup Palet, Gothenburg, Sweden
2008 Intrude: Art and Life 366, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
New Work-Material Process Practice, The Banff Centre, Canada
The Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation
2007 The Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship, VCA Gallery
Open Day, Faculty Gallery, Caulfield Campus, Monash University
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Vic, Australia
Imagery Place, Upstairs Flinders, Vic, Australia
2006 A Place in the World, the University of Adelaide, South Australia
2005 INAX Gallery, Tokoname, Japan
La Trobe University Acquisitive Ceramics Award Exhibition, Castlemaine, Australia
2004 Exploration 2004, Flinders Lane Gallery, Mel, Australia
2003 The Mary and Lou SeniniI Award 2003, McClelland Gallery, Australia
Wallara Traveling Scholarship 2003, VCA Gallery, Vic, Australia
Artist Residency
2013 HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
2012 The National Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2009 Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
2008 New Work-Material Process Practice, The Banff Centre, Canada
Grant
2017 New Work, Australia Council for the Arts
2012 Skills and Arts Development, Australian Council for the Arts
2012 Asia Link, Melbourne University
2009 New Work 2009, Australian Council for the Art
2008 Postgraduate Research Travel Grant, Monash University
2007 White Street Project, Frankston City Council
2006 NAVA Visual and Craft Artists’ Gran
Awards
2018 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Blake Prize, Finalist2017 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Finalist
2016 Highly Commended Award, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize, Finalist
Mama Art Foundation National Photography Prize
Churchie National Emerging Art Prize 2016-Finalist
2015 Olive Cotton Photographic Award-Finalist
2012 John Fries Memorial Prize-Finalist
2011 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennial, Honorable Mention, Korea
John Fries Memorial Prize-Finalist
2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award- Finalist of Emerging Artist
2008 Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship
Toyota Traveling Award, Finalist
Postgraduate Publication Award, Monash University
2007 The Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship, Finalist
2005 La Trobe University Acquisitive Ceramics Award, Finalist
2004 Theodor Urback Encouragement Award
2003 The National Gallery of Victoria-Trustee Award
The Mary and Lou Seninil Student Award, Finalist
Wallara Traveling Scholarship, Finalist
Selected Bibliography
2017. TarraWarra International review: Journey into the wreckage of the future, Robert Nelson, The Age, 19/9/17
Art Collector, Issue 79, 2017
2016 Lacrimae Rerum, Catalogue Essay, Venita Poblocki, Feb 2016
Exhibition Preview, Art Guide, Dylan Rainforth, 22 Feb 2016
2014 Vault-new art and culture, issue 7 August 2014
2013 Phantom Limb, Catalogue Essay, Lindy Lee, 10 2013
2011 Peril-Asian-Australian Arts and Culture, edition 14, Spirit World, http://peril.com.au/featured/interview-with-cyrus-tang
Gyeonggi International Ceramix Biennale 2011
The Age, 2 July 2011
Christen Cornell, Old Categories, new Frameworks: Asia-Australia, Artlink, Vol 31 no 1, 2011
2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Catalogue
2009 Art Review, The Aged, 30 Sept 2009
Ceramic Today, Schiffer Publishing, PA
2008 500 Ceramic Sculptures, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, NC, USA
Intrude: Art and Life 366, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, China
2006 Art Review, The Aged, 8 Nov 2006
Collections
Art Bank, Private Collection in Australia and Japan
