SORCHA AVALON MACKENZIE - CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION
2021-2022 Masters of Contemporary Art - Victorian College of the Arts
2012-2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) –Victorian College of the Arts
2011 Completed International Baccalaureate at Ivanhoe Grammar School

AWARDS AND GRANTS
2023 State Library of Victoria Fellowship, Amor Residency at Baldessin Press
2022 NGVWA Award (National Gallery Victoria Womens Association Award)
2022 Cranbourne Scholarship for Visual Art
2020 Creative Victoria’s Queers in Isolation Initiative by MQFF and Victoria Together
2019 Peebles Print Prize Finalist
2017 Banyule Works On Paper Award Finalist
2014 Lionel Gell Foundation Award
2013 Stella Dilger Award for Excellence
2013 Louey and Lane Exhibition Award
2011 The Randall Marsh Art and Design Prize

RESIDENCIES
2023 Cranbourne Scholarship for Visual Art Travelling Scholarship, ZABO HOUSE, Tokyo,Japan
2018 Internazionale Scuola Di Grafica Print Residence,Venice, Italy
2017 Art Print Residence Print Studio, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Haihatus Residence Program, Joutsa, Finland
2016 3331 Arts Chiyoda AIR Program,Tokyo, Japan
2016 The Suburban Review, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Collaboration with ZABO HOUSE Print Studio, Tokyo, Japan
2015 3331 Arts, Chiyoda AIR Program,Tokyo, Japan

FILMS
2024 ‘A Space Opera Part 2’, Producer, Music Video, Melbourne, Australia.
2020 ‘Are You Still Watching’, Animation Department and City Scape Artist, Melbourne
International Film Festival Premier.

PUBLICATIONS
2020 Urban Australia and Post-Punk: Exploring Dogs in Space, David Nichols,
Sophie Perillo Co-author of Finding ‘Places to Be Bad’ in Social Media:The Case of TikTok,
Palgrave Macmillan

EXHIBITIONS

2024 'IN THE SPACE OF ELSEWHERE', SOL Gallery, Melbourne

2023 Not Fair, Melbourne
2022 VCA Graduate Show, Melbourne
2022 ‘Radical Self Care and Sustainable Artmaking, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Portals Parallels, Group Show, Campbell Arcade Melbourne
2022 Slow Burn, VCA Art Space, Melbourne
2021 ‘Cloud 9’,The Grey Space, Auckland

2020 Strength and Softness, Group Show, Platform Arts,Geelong
2020 Sensitive Sweethearts, Group Show, FortyFiveDownstairs,Melbourne
2020 Gippsland Art Aid, Group show Gippsland Art Gallery
2019 ‘Friends & Family’ Group Show, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2019 ‘INNER GARDENS’ Group Show, Neon Parlour, Melbourne
2019 ‘Peebles Print Prize Finalist Show’, Queenscliff Gallery
2019 ‘Baldessin Press: The Story’ , Group Show, Montsalvat
2019 ‘My Two Cents’, Group Show, No Vacancy
2019 ‘Love Me, Say that You Love Me’ Group Show, No Vacancy
2019 ‘LOVESICK RODEO’ Group Show, Curator and Exhibitor, AtCurrent, Melbourne
2018 ‘Paintings Inspired By The Colour Blue’ Group Show,Analogue Academy, Geelong
2018 ‘RENEWED’ Group Show, At Current,
2018 BLOOM Fundraising Group Show, Curator and Exhibitor, AtCurrent
2018 Impressions Group Show, Australian Print Workshop,Melbourne
2018 SG Venezia Annual Group Exhibition, International School of Graphics,Venice, Italy
2018 ‘TROUBLE IN PARADISE’ Solo Show, Off the Kerb Gallery, Melbourne
2018 ‘IMPETUS’, Group Show, At Current Gallery, Melbourne
2018 ‘Colour Me Once’, Group Show, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2018 The Other Art Fair, Presented by Saatchi Art, Sydney
2018 ‘Through Haze’ Solo Show, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2017 ‘Linden Postcard Show’, Domain House, Melbourne
2017 ‘Hear Me Out,’ Group Charity Show, Anxiety Recovery Center Victoria
2017 Banyule Works on Paper Award, Melbourne
2017 Haihatus Resident Artist Group Show, Finland
2016 Emerging Art Australia Group Show, Inner Space Gallery, Melbourne
2016 ‘NETWORKSII’ Solo Show with Phoebe Beard,Yonder Art Space ,Melbourne
2016 ‘NETWORKS I’ Solo Show with Phoebe Beard, Alternating Current Gallery
2016 Group Show, Beth Hulme Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 ‘BETWIXT’ Solo Show, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2016 ‘Painting’ 2016 Group Show, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2015 ‘Fragment’ Solo Show, 3331 Arts Chiyoda,Tokyo
2015 ‘Through Haze’ Solo Show, Brunswick Street Gallery
2015 Emerging Art Australia, Group Show, Hogan Gallery
2014 IMC Satellite International and Interpretation Exhibition, 3331 Arts Chiyoda,Japan
2014 Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Show
2014 ‘Drawn Drawn’, George Patton USMU gallery
2014 ‘Labyrinthine’, Louey And Lane Gallery Solo Show
2014 ‘Proud ’ Annual Prize Show, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA

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