BIOGRAPHY
Born Melbourne 1973
Education:
1999 - 2001 Master of Arts (Fine Art) by Research, RMIT, Melbourne, Australi
1995 - 1998 Bachelor of Fine Art (painting), RMIT - 1st class honours
Awards Received:
2010 Australia Council New Work Grant
2006 Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, winner Open Prize
2004 Australia Council Studio Residency in Rome
2004 Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Prize Winner
2004 ABN Amro Emerging Artist Prize: People's Choice Award
2004 Holding Redlich People's Choice Award, Salon des Refuses
2003 Conrad Jupiters Contemporary Art Prize Winner
2002 Australia Council New Work Grant
2001 Whyalla Art Prize Winner
1998 Victorian Campus Art Prize Winner (Award for Critical Merit)
1996 RMIT Union Arts Grant Recipient
Residencies:
2011 Art OMI residency, Omi International Arts Centre, Columbia County, New York State, USA.
2010 Bundanon Studio Residency, Nowra NSW
2010 Art Vault Residency, Mildura VIC
2006 Australia Council Studio Residency in Rome
Selected Commissions:
Light Play, National Gallery of Victoria - Kid's Corner
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010 'The Day the Machine Started', Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair
2009 'Figuration Overhaul" Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2009 'Simple Intervention', Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2009 'The Phrenologist's Deception', 24 Hr Art - NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, NT
2009 'Simple Intervention', Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2008 'Gravity', Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2007 'Inverted World', Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane
2007 '100,000 Lux', Sullivan Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2006 'Revelation', Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2006 'More is Less', Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane
2005 'Solo', Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2004 'The Golden Mile', Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2003 'Songs from the Penumbra', Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002 'Night and Day', Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002 'Clone' Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2001 'Alpha/Omega' West Space Inc., Melbourne
2001 'Protect me From what I Want', Mass Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Artbox Installation, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1999 'The Way it Is' , TCB art Inc., Melbourne
1998 'Periphery', First Site Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
Singapore Art Fair, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art
Wattle, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
High Definition - New Realist Painting, Paradise Hills, Melbourne
High Definition - New Realist Painting, Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Present Tense, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Curated by Michael Desmond
Outside In, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne
The Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Shilo Project, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, curated by Chris McAuliffe
Imaging the Apple, Curated by Elizabeth Gower and John R Neeson, AC Institute (Direct Chapel), New York
Understory, Devonport Regional Gallery, curated by Troy Ruffels
The Outsider, Trocadero, Curated by Michael Brennan
2009
'Murray Darling Palimpsest', Mildura Arts Festival 2009, Wentworth Gaol Project, NSW. Curated by Kristian Haggblom
'Sir John Sulman Award', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
'Doug Moran National Portrait Prize', Sate Library of NSW, Sydney
'The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic
The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by Chris McAuliffe
The Skin Show, Shifted, Melbourne, Curated by Michael Brennan<br>
'A Natural World', Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Dianne Soumilas
'Now and Then', Campbelltown Art Gallery, Sydney NSW
2008
'Contemporary Australia: Optimism', Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
'Neo-Goth: Back in Black', curated by Alison Kubler, University of Queensland Art Museum, South Brisbane, Qld
'A Strange Façade', (Juan Ford, Hannah Bertram and Siri Hayes) at Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale. curated by Claire Watson
'When You Think About Art', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne Vic
'The Space in Between', Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic, Curated by Tara Gilbee
'Eye to I', Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool Vic, curated by Geoff Wallis
Sullivan & Strumpf Group Show 2008, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
'King's School Art Prize 2008'(invitational), King's School Sydney
2007
'The Far Side of the Moon', McLelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne, Curated by Robert Lindsay
'The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic
'City of Perth Art Award', Perth Town Hall, Perth W.A.
'University of Queensland National Artist's Self-Portrait Prize', University of Queensland Art Museum, South Brisbane, Qld
'Eye to I', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic, curated by Geoff Wallis
'The Year in Art', S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Curated by Jane Watters
'The Redlands Westpac Art Prize', Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Curated by Imants Tillers
'Apropos - Human Rights in Art', Bus 117, for the 2007 Human Rights and Film Festival, Melbourne, curated by Romy Sedman
'Sullivan & Strumpf Group Show', Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
'A4 Art', Westspace, Melbourne
'Prometheus Art Prize', All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac Queensland
'The Space in Between', VCA Gallery, Melbourne, & Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic, Curated by Tara Gilbee
'Royal Rumble 2', Kings ARI, Melbourne, curated by Kings ARI board
'The Savage Club Painting Prize', The Melbourne Savage Club, Melbourne
'Behind You, Underground - RMIT Union Collection Retrospective', First Site, Melbourne
2006
'Overlap 2', curated by Jacopo Benci, British School at Rome, Italy
'Fisher's Ghost Art Award', Campbelltown Art Gallery, Sydney NSW
'The Sunshine Coast Art Prize', Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
'Flaming Youth', Orange Regional Gallery, Curated by Alan Sisley
'A portable model of...', La Trobe Regional Gallery, curated by Tristian Koenig
'Where the Beep Hell are Ya', Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
2005
'The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic
'Salon des Refuses', National Trust S.H. Ervin gallery, The Observatory, Sydney
'The year in Art', National Trust S.H. Ervin gallery, The Observatory, Sydney, Curated by Jane Watters
'A portable model of...', La Trobe Regional Gallery, curated by Tristian Koenig
'This Urban World', Devonport Regional Gallery, curated by Troy Ruffels
'Selekta', Westspace, curated by board of Westspace
'ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize', ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne
'Australian Icons Framed', National Trust fundraiser, Hotel Sofitel Wentworth, Sydney
'Exposure', Trocadero Artspace, curated by Michael Brennan
'Why are you showing here?', Trocadero Artspace, curated by Keith Wong and Craig Cole
2004
'Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life', Monash University Gallery, curated by Charlotte Hallows
'2004 Fletcher Jones Art Prize', Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Vic
'Address Book', Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Curated by Tristian Koenig and Lisa Sullivan
'Salon des Refuses', National Trust S.H. Ervin gallery, The Observatory, Sydney
'2004 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair', Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
'ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize', ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne
'Australian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century', Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne
'Australian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century', Immigration Museum, Melbourne
'Imaging the Apple', touring exhibition through Victoria, NSW, Queensland - metropolitan
and regional institutional galleries.(2003-2005) Curated by John R. Neeson
2003
'SBS/Federation Square Contemporary Art Prize' Federation Square, Melbourne
'Nth Art', Nth Art, London, UK, curated by David Ralph and Lorin Davies
'Melbourne X' Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra ACT, Curated by Gary Willis
'Melbourne X' Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney NSW, Curated by Gary Willis
'Glacier: Contemporary Painting', touring exhibition through Victoria, NSW, Queensland - metropolitan
and regional institutional galleries (2003-2004). Curated by Suzanne Davies
'Headspace', National Neuroscience Faculty, University of Melbourne, Curated by Kellyann Geurts
'The Arthur Guy memorial Painting Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic
'Posted', Curated by Anton Marin and Tristan Koenig, MOP Projects, Sydney NSW
'The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic
'Conrad Jupiters Art Prize', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
'The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship', Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney NSW
'Royal Rumble', Kings Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2002
'Geelong Contemporary Art Prize', Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Vic
'Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair', Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
2001
'The Siemens Art Prize', RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
'Melbourne x 8', Gallery 482, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
'Look See: Five Contemporary Painters', Curated by Sarah Bond and Natasha Bullock, Monash University Gallery, Clayton
'Glacier: Contemporary Painting' Curated by Suzanne Davies, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
'The Mediated Portrait/Image in Painting and Drawing', Curated by David Harley, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
'2001 Whyalla Art Prize', Whyalla, South Australia
'The Space in Between' Curated by Tara Gilbee, Platform, Melbourne
'Eat My Art', Curated by Michelle Ussher and Nick McHugh, TCB art Inc., Melbourne
2000
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
Inaugural Exhibition, Dickerson-Scott, Melbourne
'...A Brush With Death', La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1999
'RMIT Fine Art at Yuan-Ze University', Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan
'Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize', Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne
Project One - collaboration with Kristian Haggblom, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
'Artzine', Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne
'The New Collectables', First Site Gallery, Melbourne
'2 Years of Span', Span Galleries, Melbourne
1998
'RMIT Fine Art at the Hong Kong Arts Centre', Hong Kong
'The Victorian Campus Art Prize', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
'RMIT Honours Graduate Show', 101 Collins Street Annex, Melbourne
1997
'Love Arm Live', performance with Japanese artist Ujino, Melbourne Fringe Festival
'Contingency', Span Galleries, Melbourne
Selected Portrait Commissions
2008 Sydney University Deputy Vice-chancellor, Professor Andrew Coats
2008 Monash University Chancellor, Jerry Ellis
2007 Monash University Vice-chancellor, Professor Richard Larkins AO
2007 RMIT University Vice-chancellor, Professor Ruth Dunkin
2005 University of Melbourne Chancellor, Professor Fay Marles AM
Prizes Judged:
2007 Siemens Art Prize, Melbourne. One of a panel of 5 judges.
2007 VUT Art Prize. One of 2 judges
2006 VUT Art Prize. One of 2 judges
Exhibitions Curated:
2000 '...A Brush With Death", La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Bibliography:
Atkinson, Paul
- '...A Brush With Death' ex. cat. La Trobe Street Gallery, March 2000
- Bond, Chris 'A Short History of the Reconciliation of Opposites in the Paintings of Juan Ford',
- ex. cat. 'Protect Me From What I Want' February 2001
Britton, Stephanie
- Artrave - Awards section - Artlink Volume 24, Number 2, 2004
- Bullock, Natasha
- 'Moving Through Space' ex. Cat 'Look See: Five Contemporary Painters' March 2001
Cass, Naomi
- Artnotes Victoria, Art Monthly Australia, June 2004 Number 170
Clark, Julie
- 'Clone paintings' - ex. Cat, 'Clone' February 2002
- Clements, Justin
- '100,000 Lux', - ex. Cat, 100,000 Lux, April 2007
- 'Revelations of the Insensible: The paintings of Juan Ford',
- Eyeline - Contemporary Visual arts, no. 53, March 2004
- 'Songs From the Penumbra', catalogue essay, ex. Cat 'Songs From the Penumbra', July 2003
Crawford, Ashley
- 'Terror Australis', Australian Art Collector, Issue 44, April-June 2008
- 'The Goth Within', Ex cat. 'Neo Goth: Back in Black', July 2008
- 'The Suburban Vernacular', from Nathan Taylor catalogue, Mossgreen Gallery 2007
Gregg, Simon
- 'Melburnin', Trouble, Issue 29, October 2006
- 'Art Soul', interview in Large Magazine, August 2001
- Kubler, Alison
- 'As Black as Stone', Ex cat. 'Neo Goth: Back in Black', July 2008
- 'Queensland Painters: A New Breed', Art and Australia Vol 45, No 1, 2007
- 'Sebastian' ex,cat. Gold Coast City Art Gallery, May 2000
- '(You make me feel) Mighty real', Art Monthly 130, June 2000
Hampson, Jane
- Juan Ford: A Phrenologist's Deceptions. Australian Art Review, Issue 18, February - April 1009
Lloyd, Tony
- 'The Way It Is' ex,cat. TCB art Inc. Melbourne, September 1999
Loughrey, Felicity
- 'Attack of the Clones', Black and White Magazine, Issue 61, June/July 2002
Martin-Chew, Louise
- 'Neo-Goth Shadow Looms Large', Ex cat. 'Neo Goth: Back in Black', July 2008
Parker, Francis
- 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism. The Salon Project' Queensland Art Gallery, Catalogue 2008
Portus, Martin
- 'Melbourne X' review, Eyeline 51, winter 2003
Rainbird, Stephen
- 'More is Less' catalogue essay, ex. Cat 'More is Less' July 2006
Sellars, Simon
- Interview in online arts and culture journal www.sleepybrain.net, issue 2
Slade, Lisa
- 'The Thrall of the Skull', Ex cat. 'Neo Goth: Back in Black', July 2008
Strachan, Lucinda
- Melbourne Magazine, August Issue 2003
Thompson, Nicholas
- 'Negotiating Art and its Public: Optimism at the GoMA', Art Monthly Australia, May 2009
Trotter, Penny
- ' The Theatrics of Cloning': The recent paintings of Juan Ford', Artlink, Vol 22, No 1, March 2002
Walwicz, Ania
- Literary response to "Mediations" on www.massgallery.com.au, July 2001
Williams, Linda
- 'Reflection and Reconstruction: New Directions in Australian Painting', ex. Cat 'Glacier', September 2001
Selected Newspaper Articles/Reviews:
Anderson, Patricia
- 'Faces in a Crowd', The Weekend Australian, April 2004
Angeloro, Dominique
- 'He's the One, Officer - Review, "Abstraction"', Sydney Morning Herald, September 2004
Backhouse, Megan
- 'Revelation', Art Around the Galleries, The Age, 30 September 2006
- 'The Space in Between Book Project', Art Around the Galleries, The Age, 26 July 2007
- 'Beyond the Cold detail of the Lens', The Age, April 2005
- 'Singing in a world of their own', The Age, July 2003
- 'Juan Ford: the people's choice', The Age, May 2004
- feature article The Age, May 2004
Coslovich, Gabriella
- 'City's Arty Image the In Thing, but Arists on the Way Out', The Age, 7 September 2006
- 'RMIT Turns Cool', The Age, September 2001
- 'Down an Alley, Filled with Art', The Age, November 2001
- 'Double Trouble in a Virtual World', The Age, February 2002
Crisp, Lyndall
- 'Exposure to the Learning Curve', Australian Financial Review, 4 August 2005
Duncan, Sarah
- "By Gum", Brisbane News, November 25, 2010
Evans, Holly
- Diary, The Age, August 2004
Hansen, David
- 'Signs of the Times', Sightlines, The Age ,13 October 2006
Hawley, Janet
- ' Idol Chatter' The Age, Good Weekend, June 2005</li
Laccarino, Clara
- "100,000 Lux', Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum section, 6 April 2007
Lobley, Katrina
- 'Simple Interference', Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum section, March 14-15 2009
'Sullivan & Strumpf', Events Section, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 February 2007
Low, Lenny Ann
- Sydney Morning Herald, September 2004
Mahar, Jessica
- 'A Proud Night for our Art Credentials', Cambelltown - Macarthur Advertiser, November 8, 2006
McDonald, John
- 'Out of Art's Boiler Room', Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, October 2005
- 'Mystique: in love with the Archibald', Australian Financial Review, April 2004
- 'Hanging Offences', Sydney Morning Herald, May 2005
Makin, Jeff
- 'Much to be Big-Headed About' Herald-Sun, October 2004</li
Myer, Rod
- 'ABN Amro gets the hang of being young at Art', The Age, August 17, 2005
Nelson, Robert
- Nelson, Robert 'Relics Reveal More than Meets the Eye', The Age, 13 December 2006
- 'Prize Show Offers Fascinating Tour of New Directions', The Age, September 2002
- 'Are You Experienced', The Age, March 2001
- 'Subversive Work at Play in Ironic Ode to Grecian Urn' The Age, February 2002
- The 'Death of Painting' a little premature', The Age, September 2001
Safe, Georgina
- 'Auction Offers Art at Cutting-Edge Prices' (Interview), The Australian, December 2000
Timms, Peter
- 'Clever, Complex Ride Through Hearts' Desires' The Age, March 2001
Juan takes Top Prize', Gold Coast Weekender, December 2003
Selected Collections:
Artbank, Campbelltown Art Gallery, City of Whyalla (SA), Geelong Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, La Trobe University (Vic), Monash University (VIC), RMIT University, RMIT Union Arts, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, TXU, Victorian Energy Ombudsman, UNiversity of Sydney (NSW), Westin Hotel, Sydney, Private collections nationally and internationally