Biography
Chris Bond is a creator and a character who operates within narrative scenarios designed to shift habitual response, feeling and expression. Perception, expectation and plausibility are skewed in the uncannily real worlds of Bond’s invention, where fictional artists, writers and organisations circulate, spawning documentary material that he regularly appropriates and recontextualises. In his closely-worked paintings and drawings these processes find an end in hand-made facsimiles of books, magazines, exhibition catalogues and correspondence. Within his installation practice he hijacks the conventions of museum display to convey unlikely, fantastic stories, where threatening, illusory forms creep at the edge of the real.
Bond has exhibited since 2000. He undertook a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary in 2001, and has since featured in 24 solo and 130 curated exhibitions at venues including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Gertrude Contemporary, Blindside, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Bus Projects, Heide Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Samstag Museum, Adelaide. In 2013, he was awarded the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, in 2017 the BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award and an Australia Council Art Development Grant.
He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) Honours at RMIT in 1997 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts (Visual Art) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018. He lives and works in Melbourne.
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1975 Born Melbourne
Education
2014 - 18 Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Art), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Vic.
1997 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Painting) Honours, RMIT, Melbourne, Vic.
1994 - 96 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Painting), RMIT, Melbourne, Vic.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Glimmer, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2018 Kraken, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Vic.
2017 Call, Art Basel Hong Kong, THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery, Hong Kong
2016 Tormentor, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Bundoora, Vic.
2016 A Stranger in the Mirror, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2016 Material, THIS IS NO FANTASY + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
2015 Kraken: sixty six emails, a face and a gesture, Bus Projects, Melbourne, Vic.
2015 Kraken, an encounter, VCA student gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Vic.
2014 The Language of Fracture, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2012 The Skeleton Field, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
2012 The Last Days of Painting, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.
2011 In the Shadow of Leaves, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
2010 Collected Works, Melbourne Artfair 2010, Nellie Castan Gallery, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, Vic.
2009 Watchers, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
2008 White, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
2005 Shelved, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
2004 Retrospective 2000 – 2004, Bus, Melbourne, Vic.
2004 Project Room, Melbourne Artfair 04, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, Vic.
2003 Original Title: Translated, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Vic.
2002 The Hitchcock / Feldmar Affair, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Vic.
2002 Still Life, idspace contemporary art gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
2001 Typecasting, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Fitzroy, Vic.
2000 The Cutting Room Floor, Latrobe St Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
2000 44x, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne, Vic.
Group Exhibitions
2019
Word of Mouth, undisclosed locations, Venice, Italy
Echo Chambers: Art and Endless Reflections, Deakin Downtown, Docklands, Vic.
New Directions Art Auction, Gibson’s Auctions, Armadale, Vic.
2018
SUPPORT 18, Five Walls, Footscray, Vic
Obsession: Devil in the Detail, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic.
Analogue Art in a Digital World, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Text Message, Tim Melville, Auckland, New Zealand
New Media, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
Still Life Part 1, Irene Rose Gallery, Brunswick, Vic.
Chaos and Order: 120 years of collecting at RMIT, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Sauced Material, Goulburn Art Regional Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2018, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Croydon, NSW
Double Bind, Testing Grounds, Southbank, Vic.
2017
First Site Gallery Turns 21, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Vic.
A Gathering, La Trobe University Collection at Bendigo Art Gallery
B-Side, Blindside, Melbourne, Vic.
TEXT, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
A small show of imperfect paintings, La Trobe University Faculty Gallery, Bendigo, Vic.
Drawing, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Ways of Seeing, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Book Club, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW
9 x 5 NOW, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank, Vic.
A small show of imperfect paintings, Trocadero Artspace, Footscray, Vic.
Ways of Seeing, ARTER: Space for Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Personal Structures, Open Borders, Palazzo Bembo, Venice
The National: New Australian Art Biennial 2017, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
New Directions: APCR Art Auction 2017, Mossgreen, Armadale, Vic.
Tricking the Eye: Contemporary Trompe L’oeil, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Vic
2016
Colour | Shift, Five Walls, Footscray, Vic.
R&M McGivern Prize, Artspace Realm, Ringwood, Vic.
Spring 1883, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, Vic.
2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object, Art Gallery of South Australia and Samstag Museum, Adelaide, SA.
Quiddity, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
2016 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
CLIMARTE Poster Project, Melbourne, Vic.
Art16 Artfair, London, UK
2015
Don't wait for Godot, APCR Art Auction 2015, Mossgreen, Armadale, Vic.
At this time, THIS IS NO FANTASY & Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
ALLOT, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Vic.
Darren Knight Gallery at Spring 1883, The Establishment Hotel, Sydney, NSW
The 3rd Bus Projects Editions Exhibition, Bus Projects, Collingwood, Vic.
TCB Fundraiser, TCB art inc., Melbourne, Vic.
Writing Art, Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Who is Mr Favisar?, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Vic.
West Space Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne, Vic.
Guirguis New Art Prize, Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Vic.
Field (Wooden Cypher) (with Lynette Smith), Blindside, Melbourne, Vic.
Field (Marginal Light) (with Lynette Smith), West Space, Melbourne, Vic.
2014
Taking it all away, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
ALLOT, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Vic.
Faux Novel, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Vic.
4 x 10, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Footscray, Vic.
Superfictions 1: The Art Fair Murders, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Vic.
This is no Fantasy, This is no Fantasy, Fitzroy, Vic.
The Medium is the Message, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Bundoora, Vic.
Ex libris: the book in contemporary art, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Vic.
Nocturnal Windows, Gregory Jewellers, Sydney, NSW
2013
Melbourne Now, The Ian Potter Centre NGV Australia, Melbourne, Vic.
Spring Group Show, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
Unbound, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Auckland Art Fair 2013, Auckland, New Zealand
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2013, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic.
City of Hobart Art Prize 2013, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
2012
Art Platform Los Angeles, Santa Monica, California, USA
Method (Chris Bond and Marcin Wojcik), BUS Projects, Melbourne, Vic.
2011
Disappearance (with Drew Pettifer), Kings ARI, Melbourne, Vic.
Now, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Art for Science, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Fundraising Auction, Melbourne, Vic.
Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
Disappearance (with Drew Pettifer), Kings ARI, Melbourne, Vic.
NETWORKS (cells & silos), Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, Vic.
2010
Strange Frame, Sydney Non Objective (SNO), Marrickville, NSW
Lost in Painting, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic.
Light in Winter Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne, Vic.
Nellie Castan Gallery @ The Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2009
Curtain Call, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
The Counihan Connection, Counihan Gallery In Brunswick, Vic.
Sneak Peek, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Persuasion Equation, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Vic.
Shilo Project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Vic.
2008
New 08, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Southbank, Vic.
Link, RMIT School of Art Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Vic.
Forms of Deceit (as Brant Haslough), Counihan Gallery In Brunswick, Vic.
The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Vic.
United Artists, Palais Theatre, St Kilda Vic.
2007
Small Quiet Gestures, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Vic.
The Space In Between [Book Project], VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
2006
Postscript, Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic.
19 Australian Artists, Elizabeth Holden Gallery, Warren Wilson College, North Carolina, USA
2005
Awkward Balance, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Selekta, West Space Inc, Melbourne, Vic.
Collision, Jarmbi Gallery, Upwey, Vic.
Self-made Man, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Address Book, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
A Portable Model of, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
Covered, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, Canberra, ACT.
Brainstorms: momentary psychological disturbances, GrantPirrie Gallery, Redfern, NSW.
2004
Compendium, Ikon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Burwood, Vic.
Third History, TCB inc Art, Melbourne, Vic
Cult Classic, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Vic.
Adrift, Platform 2, Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Vic.
2003
Christopher Dean, Chris Bond and Christine Morrow, Studio 11, Metro Arts , Brisbane, Qld
Red Spot Special, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
I heard it on the grapevine…, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Vic
Glacier, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Vic.
Depth of Field, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Vic.
Depth of Field, Monash Museum of Art, Clayton, Vic.
Compendium, Platform, Melbourne, Vic.
The Museum Aesthetic, Gallery 101, Melbourne, Vic.
Art and Film, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Vic.
2002
Studio Artists exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Vic.
The last show, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Fitzroy, Vic.
Artfair 2002, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Vic.
Fresh Cut, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Light Trap (collaboration with Natasha Johns-Messenger), Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Undercurrent, idspace contemporary art gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
2001
Studio Artists exhibition, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Vic.
Glacier, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Mediations, Mass Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic.
Sample, Venus & Mars/Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Vic.
2000
Square, Gallery 101, Melbourne, Vic.
Docklands, Glass Street Gallery, North Melbourne, Vic.
Melbourne ArtFair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Vic.
Stand 33 at Gallery 101, Gallery 101, Melbourne, Vic.
In the Mind’s Eye, Next Wave Festival, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Vic.
A Brush with Death, LaTrobe St Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
1999
TCB Fundraising Exhibition, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne, Vic.
Review ‘99 - Curators’ Choice, Gallery 101, Melbourne, Vic.
1997
Naked, RMIT Honours (Painting) Exhibition, Stripp Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic.
Honours year painting, Faculty Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Vic.
1996
RMIT 3rd Year Painting Graduate Show, RMIT Building 2, Melbourne, Vic.
Alphabet Soup, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Box, Next Wave Festival, RMIT Building 2, Melbourne, Vic.
Awards, Residencies
2018 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
2018 Faculty Grant, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2017 Winner of the BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award
2017 Australian Postgraduate Award, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2017 Australia Council for the Arts, Art Development Grant
2016 Finalist, Archibald Prize 2016, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2016 Australian Postgraduate Award, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2015 Faculty Grant, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2015 Australian Postgraduate Award, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2014 Australian Postgraduate Award, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2013 Winner, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize
2013 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize
2002 Arts Victoria arts development grant
2001 Studio residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Vic.
1997 Finalist, RMIT/National Gallery Trustees Award
Collections
Artbank
Archive of Humanist Art
Bendigo Art Gallery
City of Stonnington
Deakin University
Geelong Gallery
Joyce Nissan Collection
La Trobe University
Monash University
National Gallery of Victoria
RMIT
Shepparton Regional Art Gallery
Private collections nationally and internationally