CRAIG EASTON 克雷格 伊斯顿 个人简历
Born: Dunedin, New Zealand
Lives Shanghai, Melbourne, Dunedin
Solo Exhibitions: 个展
2017
2016
Black Nothing Paintings, Pushan Gallery, Shenyang, China
Difficult Garden, 22 Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Means of Production, UNI_lab, Shanghai, China
Not Quitting / Not Sticking (with Joyce Huang), ipluso Cube, Shanghai
Screens, Frames, Mirrors & Pathways, ACAF Art Centre, Shanghai
2015
2014
Difficult Paintings, The Ancient Bookshop, Suzhou, China
Build, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
A Strange Arrangement, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Concrete Abstractions, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
50 Variations, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Concentrated Abstraction, East China Normal University, Shanghai
Formwork, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Chinese Garden, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne 2009
Collapse, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Container, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Finish, Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane
2005
2003
2002
Essential, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Loose, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Slide, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Damage, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Easy, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
Crush, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2001
2000
Smooth, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Slow, Photospace, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, Canberra
Still, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
Loaded, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
28. 3. 2000, Gossard Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
1999
Strange Place (with Natasha Johns- Messenger), Level 11, Melbourne
Open Plan, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1998
1997
1996
Questions of Minimal Importance, West Space, Melbourne
Pure, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
The Whole Deal, Stop 22, Melbourne
Pop Monsters, First Site, RMIT University, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions: 入选群展
2018
Abstraction 18, Five Walls, Melbourne
Black & White and Red Allover, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
2017
The First International Art and Culture Festival of BBG Mei Xi New World, Changsha, China
B-Side, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia
Phantasm, Chun Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Rainbow Art Project Outdoor Launch Exhibition (Listening to the Rain), Jurong Lake, Nanjing
Roots: Lakeside Cross-Media International Art Exhibition, Dianshan Lake Museum Project, Shanghai
Put it above the Table, GoGo Group, Nanjing
Time Frame: The Taylor Jones Collection, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
Borderless, Shanghai Wutong Art Museum, Shanghai
A Small Show of Imperfect Paintings, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne; Phyllis Palmer Gallery, LaTrobe University, Bendigo
9 x 5 Now, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
She Wu Shan Go Go, Nanjing Open Air Art Residency Program (Mirror Garden), Gypsum & Mine Factory, Nanjing
Anything Could Happen: New Art & Fashion from Dunedin NZ, Yu Yuan Gallery, Shanghai
Group Formalism, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
2016
1000/2000s SOAP, Blindside, Melbourne
A Revival of Stones, Foundation Art Museum, Suzhou, China
The Paul Guest Prize for Drawing, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo,
Contemporary Australian Drawing 6, Bury Art Museum, United Kingdom
The Space Power of the Space, Dong Hua University, Shanghai, China
Black Box, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
Between You and Them, ACAF Art Centre, Shanghai, China Perimeter, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
2015
Reduced: Minimalist & Reductive Works from the LA Trobe University Art
Contemporary Australian Drawing, SACI, Florence, Italy
Collection, LUMA/ La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Infinitesimal (Space), Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
2014
Faux Novel, Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne
The Museum of Abject Sentimentality, School of Art Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne Tangible, Trocadero, Melbourne
Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
Split – Level, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
2013
SNO 100, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
SNO 99, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing, New York Studio School
Gallery, New York, USA
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2012
Re: Stretcher, Trocadero, Melbourne
Herbst.Zeit.Lose, Gesellschaft fur Kunst und Gestaltung e. V. Bonn, Germany
Frames of Reference, Langford 120, Melbourne
Drawing Folio 2, Block Projects, Melbourne
2011
2010
ENP Monochromes, Everything Nothing Projects, Canberra
Accrochage, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Strange Frame, SNO, Sydney
Lost in Painting, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong,
Paul Guest Presents, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Nellie Castan Gallery at the Depot, Depot Gallery, Sydney
2009
2008
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Drawing Folio, Block Projects, Melbourne
Gegenstandslos, GKG, Bonn, Germany
The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Macarthur Cook Art Prize, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne
Back to Front, 64 Zero 3, Christchurch, New Zealand
2007
2007 Stan and Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Surfers Paradise Constructive Propositions, Peloton, Sydney
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize for Painting, Savage Club, Melbourne
Location, Location, Location, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2006
2005
Respirator, Conical, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Lexicon, City Library Gallery, Melbourne
Group Action 2, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Recent Acquisitions, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Awkward Balance, Blindside, Melbourne
Transmission, 64 Zero 3, Christchurch, New Zealand
Contemporary Abstraction: 4 Melbourne Painters, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Liquid Properties, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2004
2003
No Matter, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
No Matter, rm 103 , Auckland, New Zealand
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Compendium, Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Glacier: Contemporary Painting: Touring Benalla Regional Art Gallery,
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, QUT Art Museum, Bond University Art Gallery
Six Artists from NZ: Abstraction and Time, Connie Dietzchold Gallery, Sydney
The Museum Aesthetic, Gallery 101, Melbourne
X Melbourne, Canberra Contemporary Art Space & Sydney College of the Arts
Compendium, Platform Artists Space, Melbourne
2002
2001
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong
Figure Out, Mass, Melbourne
Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Aestheticform, Idspace, Melbourne
Only the Lonely, Block Gallery, Sydney
South Sur, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Abstract Painting Salon 2002, Stephen Mclaughlan, Melbourne
One Metre x One Metre, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
The White Show, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
8 X Melbourne, Gallery 482, Brisbane
Glacier: Contemporary Painting, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
Look See: Five Contemporary Painters, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
2000
1999
A Brush with Death, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
Opening Exhibition, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
RMIT Fine Art at Yuan-Ze University, Yuan Ze Center for Humanities & Arts, Taiwan
Hi / Lo Exotico, Centro Alzate-Avendano, Bogota, Colombia
Artzine, Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne
Real Abstraction, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne Stop 22 ‘s Greatest Hits, Stop 22, Melbourne
1998
Finale, Renard Wardell, Melbourne
Overview, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Drawing, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
RMIT at Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Hi / Lo Exotico, Australian – Colombian Exchange, Stop 22, Melbourne Parking, Level 11, Melbourne
1997
1996
Naked, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
Graduate Painting Show, RMIT Studios, Melbourne
Times Five, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
Chinoiseries, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Education: 教育经历
2011-2014
PhD, VCA, University of Melbourne, Australia:
A Strange Arrangement: Constructing Contemporary Reductive Abstract Painting Through The Ancient Chinese Garden (2014). See University of Melbourne digital repository: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/42162
1998-2000
1994-1997
1981-1983
Master of Arts by Research, RMIT University
Bachelor of Fine Art Honours, RMIT University, Australia
Bachelor of Arts (History), University of Otago, NZ
Awards: 获得奖项
2006
2011-2014
2012
2011-2013
2001
1998-1999
Australia Council for the Arts, Development Grant
Melbourne Research Scholarship, VCA, University of Melbourne
AIR residency East China Normal University, Shanghai
Halo Architectural Commission, Fitzroy St, Melbourne
Savage Club Invitation Prize for Painting – 2nd Placing
Visiting Artist, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, Canberra
Australian Postgraduate Award
Collections: 被搜藏经历
National Gallery of Victoria; Federal Court of Australia; Artbank; National Australia Bank (UK and Australia);
RMIT University Collection; La Trobe University Art Collection; East China Normal University,
TRU Energy; Justin Art House Museum; Siemens Australia. Private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, China
Selected Writing: 文章选集
Art & Design & Abstraction & Chinese Gardens &, Art + Design Symposia, Cambridge Scholars Press 2017
Not the Same / Not Different: Anything Could Happen. New Art & Fashion from Dunedin at Yu Yuan, Catalogue essay 2017
Zhou Jian, Past/Present & Present/Past (Preface), Chinese Photographers Press 2017
Jiang Zhenggen’s Uncertain Path, Yuan D Yi D Art Centre, Catalogue essay 2016
Reductive art. What’s it good for? LUMA Reduced: Minimalist and Reductive Works from the LA Trobe University Art Collection, Catalogue essay 2015
Difficult Paintings Catalogue essay 2015
Susan Jacobs Hard Age New Edge Review 2010, artinfo.com
James & Eleanor Avery Malleus Maleficarum Review 2010, artinfo.com
Lisa Andrew White Line Green Way Review 2009, artinfo.com
Justin Andrews Analogue Shift Review 2009, artinfo.com
Geoff Newton Review 2009, artinfo.com
Mixed Business Catalogue essay, 2005
Natasha Johns-Messenger, Here Review, Eyeline No. 2002
Michael Pogia Branding Catalogue essay 1999
Wendy Hutchison Catalogue essay 1999
Curatorial: 策展经历
Advisory Panel, Five Walls, Melbourne 2018 – 2015
Academic Director, Uncertain Path, Jiang Zhenggen at Yuan D Yi D Art Centre, Shanghai, December 2016
Strange Frame, Sydney Non- Objective, September 2010
Establishment of Level 11 with architects Ashton Raggatt McDougal. Curatorial projects including Flatliners June 1999 , X December 1998, Making Space July 1998
Selected Bibliography: 入选编撰
Jeremy Gales, Group Formalism, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, ex-cat 2017
Greg Missingham, Opaque Bian Wen: Now & Then, Here and There, 22 Gallery, ex-cat 2016
Oriental Cable Network ‘Art Life’, Difficult Garden, 17 Sept 2016, Youku video broadcast
Gui Huabin, A Revival of Stone, Foundation Museum of Art, ex-cat 2016
Martin Patrick, The Means of Production, UNI_lab, ex-cat 2016
Jeremy Gales & Craig Easton, Screens, Frames, Mirrors & Pathways, ACAF, ex- cat 2016
Li Haifeng & Gu Chenzhua, The Space Power of the Space, Dong Hua University, ex-cat 2016
Li Ting, The Garden through an Australian Painterʼs Eye, Suzhou Evening Paper, 3 July 2015, B12
Michael Brennan, Craig Easton, Reduced: Minimalist ad Reductive Works from the La Trobe
University Art Collection, ex- cat, LUMA/ La Trobe University Museum of Art 2015
Sasha Grishin, Different ideas, different mediums, The Canberra Times, Oct 24, 2014
Dan Rule, Around the Galleries, The Age, Life & Style, p.5, August 17, 2013
Harriet Edquist & Elizabeth Grierson, A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind: A Guide to the Art and Architecture of RMIT University, 2012, p.140
Martin Patrick, Collapse Implosion, Possibility- Film at 11, ex- cat, 2009
Mark Pennings, Finish – review, Eyeline 65, p.59, February 2008
Stephen Haley, Unfinished & uncontained, ex-cat, 2007
Adrien Allen, Weep Holes, ex-cat, November 2006
Andrew Paul Woods, Off the Wall, Presto No.77, October 2005, p.22 – 23
Asim Memishi, Awkward Balance, ex-cat August 2005
Kit Wise, Contemporary Abstraction: Four Melbourne Painters , ex-cat, April 2005
Ashley Crawford, Craig Easton: Loose, The Age Preview, p.30, April 17, 2005
Robert Nelson, Slipping into Abstraction, The Age Metro, p.8, April 15, 2005
Chris Beck, A Fix on Abstract, The Age Review, April 3, p.7 April 17, 05
David Thomas, Changing Times in Painting, ex- cat, May 2003
Martina Copley, The Museum Aesthetic, ex- cat, 2003
Gary Willis, X Melbourne, ex- cat, 2002
Sasha Grishin , Clever works in a cool show . The Canberra Times, p. 14, October 31, 2001
David Thomas Smooth, ex- cat, August 2001
Linda Williams, Glacier, ex- cat, September 2001
Linda Williams, Still – review, Like Art Magazine No. 14, pp 44 – 45, Autumn 2001
Natasha Bullock, Look See: Five Contemporary Painters, ex-cat, March 2001
Sasha Grishin, Flirting with aloofness and spiritualism. The Canberra Times, p.16, May 31, 2000
David Cross, Loaded, ex-cat, May 2000
Fiona Donald, Strange Place – review, Like Art Magazine No. 11, pp 56 – 57, March 2000
Sasha Grishin, A taste of good things to come. The Canberra Times, p.14, December 1,1999
David Cross, Questions of Minimal Importance, West Space, ex-cat 1998
