LARESA KOSLOFF


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	New Diagonal Production still: Alex Martinis Roe 2007 Laresa Kosloff (b.1974) lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Her work incorporates a range of approaches to making including Super 8 film, choreographed video works, hand drawn animation, installation, drawing and performance. Recent artworks explore the figure in relation to form; slapstick meets high-end abstraction. Kosloff is interested in how movement, gesture and abstraction translate into significance. Central interests include the body in relation to systems aspiring to purity, including abstraction, geometry, architecture, sport and the trained body. Kosloff uses humour and the absurd to manipulate and expose mythologies of autonomy, for example, central to her choreographed video works is an interest in the subtle and ongoing influence of aspects of modernism, imbedded in our relationship to formal, cultural and historical narratives. Kosloff has participated in a number of group exhibitions including U-Turn, Glendale Art College, Los Angeles (2007), New ’06, A.C.C.A, Melbourne (2006), Make it Modern, Deloitte, Melbourne (2005), Truth Universally Acknowledged, A.C.C.A, Melbourne (2005), The Moon Will Save Our Ass, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester U.K (2004), the sneeze 80 X 80, Gazon Rouge gallery, Athens (2004), Plasticine Park, Melbourne International Arts Festival, A.C.M.I (2003), Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, Beijing, China (2002), and (the world may be) Fantastic, 13th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, (2002). She has held individual exhibitions at Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Ocular Lab, Melbourne; TCB, Melbourne; Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne; Westspace, Melbourne; and Grey Area Art Space Inc. Melbourne. She is currently completing a PhD at R.M.I.T University, and teaches in the School of Art, R.M.I.T University, Melbourne. Laresa Kosloff laresakosloff@gmail.com Born 1974, Melbourne, Australia Education 2008 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, PhD candidate 2005 - 2007 Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Master of Fine Art (upgraded to PhD) 1992 - 1995 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours Solo exhibitions 2007 New Diagonal, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, Australia Sculpture, Apartment gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2004 Deep & Shallow, Studio 13, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia 2003 Wherever you are... Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia 2002 Feeling for You, TCB gallery, Melbourne, Australia Giant, Westspace gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2001 Snap happy, Penthouse & Pavement gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Stock Exchange, Grey Area Art Space Inc. Melbourne, Australia Museum of Dirt, curated by Phil Edwards, abandoned house, Melbourne, Australia 1997 Sticks, Grey Area Art Space Inc. Melbourne, Australia Selected group exhibitions 2007 U-Turn, curated by Kate Shaw and Larissa Hjorth, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles an edge meets an edge, curated by Imogen Beynon & Tamsin Green, Edith Cowan University, WA Gang Green Garden Artists Party, curated by Daniel Du Bern, private residence, Wellington, New Zealand 2006 NEW ’06, curated by Juliana Engberg, A.C.C.A, Melbourne, Australia The Velodrome Project, (with Alicia Frankovich), Brunswick Cycling Velodrome, Melbourne, Australia 2005 Make it Modern, curated by Juliana Engberg, Deloitte office, Melbourne, Australia Truth Universally Acknowledged, curated by Rebecca Coates, A.C.C.A, Melbourne, Australia Fellow Anthropoid, curated by Phillip Watkins, CAST gallery, Hobart, Australia Marking time, Scott Donovan gallery, Sydney, Australia Writing a song is easy, (with Lee Walton), CLUBSproject inc, Melbourne, Australia 2004 Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia Drawn Out, curated by Renai Grace, Blindside gallery, Melbourne, Australia Videola, curated by Brendan Lee, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia The Moon Will Save Our Ass, curated by Dave Griffiths, Castlefield gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom the sneeze 80X80, curated by Peter Lloyd Lewis and Natasha Makowski, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece Projekt NZ, curated by Brendan Lee, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand 2003 Plastecine Park (with Lucy Guerin Inc.) Melbourne International Festival, A.C.M.I, Melbourne, Australia Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne 2002 M.A.A.P Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, curated by Experimenta, Beijing, China Picsel+, curated by David Cushway, G39 gallery, National Museum and Gallery, Wales, United Kingdom Vidarte, curated by Hillary Blackman, Postal Palace, Mexico City, Mexico (The world may be) Fantastic, 13th Biennial of Sydney, video program curated by Emil Goh, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2001 Blinc, curated by Anthony Shapland, G39 gallery, Wales, United Kingdom 2000 Brand New/Master Copy, curated by Ricky Swallow, UKS gallery, Oslo, Norway 1999 Made to Move, Rubik #7, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia Parable, curated by Phil Edwards, Stripp gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Video versus Watercolour, Rubik #3, Wellington St. Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia 1997 Going Nowhere, curated by Julia Gorman, Grey Area Art Space Inc. Melbourne, Australia Awards/ Grants/ Residencies 2004 Australian Post Graduate Award Run_Way emerging artists travel grant, Australia Council for the Arts 2002 Australia Council Studio, New York Studio residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Nikon Summer Salon, best video/new media work 1999 Fringe Festival Architecture Award, best work, Melbourne, Australia Selected bibliography 2006 Robert Nelson, Breathing life into space, The Age, April 12, Metro, p.21 Liza Vasiliou, Spirit & Muscle, in NEW ’06, catalogue essay, A.C.C.A, Melbourne, p.10 - 15 Edward Colless, Inside the fantasy world of the young and edgy, The Age, April 3 Luke Benedictus, A shot of the new, The Age, March 26, Preview, p.6 2005 Juliana Engberg, Make it Modern, catalogue essay, A.C.C.A, Melbourne, Australia Philip Watkins, Fellow Anthropoid, catalogue essay, CAST gallery, Hobart, Australia Rebecca Coates, Louise Adler, Truth Universally Acknowledged, catalogue essays, A.C.C.A, Melbourne Robert Nelson, Shifts of pride and perspective, The Age, September 21, Metro, p.18 Jo Higgins, You can’t handle the truth, State of the Arts, August 1, www.stateart.com.au Andrew Frost, The next generation, Australian Art Collector, Issue #28 Top Ten Video Artists, Photofile, Issue #74, p.64 2004 Renai Grace, Drawn Out, Blindside gallery, www.blindside.org.au Lily Hibberd, Making a knob of oneself, UN magazine, issue #2, p.9 – 11, www.projekt.com.au Barbara Bolt, Video hard sell, Real Time magazine, issue #59, p.33 2003 Michael Fitzgerald, Moving on the edge, TIME magazine, October 27, p.62-64 Advancing the Guarde Melbourne magazine, issue #013, p.62-64 Hillary Crampton, Art that really moves, The Age, October 17, A3, p.6 Robert Nelson, Thanks for the memories, The Age, July 23, A3, p,12 Screen Life, interview with Brendan Lee, Public Hangings Arts television program, 2003 2002 Robert Nelson, Bird’s-eye look at the other world of trees, The Age, July 23, Arts, p.16 Kim Machan, ed. MAAP Multi media Art Asia Pacific, exhibition catalogue Projekt #2, video catalogue curated by Brendan Lee, www.projekt.com.au Related activities 2007 - current Lecturer, Master of Fine Art (Coursework) RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 2002 - current Lecturer, Undergraduate Program, Fine Arts Department, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 2002 - 2007 Lecturer, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2004 - 2007 CLUBSProject inc. committee member, Melbourne, Australia 2003 - 2005 Studio artist representative, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Board, Melbourne, Australia 2001 - 2002 Coordinator at Penthouse & Pavement gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1996 - 1999 Founding member of Grey Area Art Space Inc. Melbourne, Australia