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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.
Laresa Kosloff
laresakosloff@gmail.com
Born 1974, Melbourne, AustraliaEducation
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, HonoursSolo exhibitions
2009 Sensible world, curated by Reuben Keehan, Artspace, Sydney
2008 Relative straightness, Neon Parc gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Jogathon, Conical Inc. Melbourne
Solidarity for a metaphysic, ACCA @ Mirka, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2007 New Diagonal, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
Sculpture, Apartment gallery, Melbourne
2004 Deep & Shallow, Studio 13, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2003 Wherever you are... Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2002 Feeling for You, TCB gallery, Melbourne
Giant, Westspace gallery, Melbourne
2001 Snap happy, Penthouse & Pavement gallery, Melbourne
1998 Stock Exchange, Grey Area Art Space Inc. Melbourne
Museum of Dirt, curated by Phil Edwards, abandoned house, Melbourne
1997 Sticks, Grey Area Art Space Inc. Melbourne
Selected group exhibitions
2009 Still Vast Reserves, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Alexie Glass, Emily Cormack, Magazinno D’Arte Moderna, Rome
New World Records, curated by Nick Mangan and Helen Johnson, Sutton gallery, Melbourne
GAMESnogames, curated by Christoph Dalhausen & Susannah Cremer-Bernbach, GKG gallery, Bonn
2008 Ecstatic City Multiplex Program, curated by Chris Doyle, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Art of the Bicycle, curated by Brad Haylock, Don’t Come gallery, Melbourne
If you build it they will come, G39 Gallery, Wales, U.K
Looking Out curated by Chris Hanrahan, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney
What Is, video screenings curated by Kim Donaldson, Sub Urban Video Lounge, Rotterdam,
the Netherlands, and Directors Lounge, Berlin
2007 U-Turn, curated by Kate Shaw and Larissa Hjorth, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles
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
The Velodrome Project, (with Alicia Frankovich), Brunswick Cycling Velodrome, Melbourne
2005 Make it Modern, curated by Juliana Engberg, Deloitte office, Melbourne
Truth Universally Acknowledged, curated by Rebecca Coates, A.C.C.A, Melbourne
Fellow Anthropoid, curated by Phillip Watkins, CAST gallery, Hobart
Marking time, Scott Donovan gallery, Sydney
Writing a song is easy, (with Lee Walton), CLUBSproject inc, Melbourne
2004 Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Drawn Out, curated by Renai Grace, Blindside gallery, Melbourne
Videola, curated by Brendan Lee, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
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
Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
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
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
Parable, curated by Phil Edwards, Stripp gallery, Melbourne
1998 Video versus Watercolour, Rubik #3, Wellington St. Collingwood, Melbourne
1997 Going Nowhere, curated by Julia Gorman, Grey Area Art Space Inc. Melbourne
Awards/ Grants/ Residencies
2008 New Work, Australia Council for the Arts
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
Selected bibliography
2009 Jacqueline Millner, A return to vulnerability, Realtime magazine (review), Issue #91, p. 50
2008 Ross Moore, Sporting chance, review, The Age newspaper, October 31, p. 21
Fiona Scott-Norman, Performance Art, interview, The Age, June 6, E.G Culture, p. 9
Looking Out, exhibition catalogue, Macquarie University, Sydney, p. 36 - 41
Kit Wise, Emerging Artists, Frieze Magazine, Issue #112, p.139
2007 Larissa Hjorth & Kate Shaw, U-Turn catalogue essay, p.34.
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 - 2008 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