a tourist on the borders of life and art

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MICHAEL MENEGHETTI

2006 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts

From Melbourne, Australia. Lives in Tainan, Taiwan.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2015
September	Impact 9 China Academy of Art, Hangzhou CHINA
2014
November	City of Melbourne SIGNAL Melbourne AU
August	Arte Publiku Festival, Dili EAST TIMOR
February	City of Yarra Youth Services Artist in Residence, Fitzroy AU
2012
August	Fremantle Arts Centre AU
2011
March	‘R3: Bass Coast Year 1 Project’ Visionary Images Studio, Wonthaggi AU

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
April	‘Scartato’ Illuminations, Sunshine AU
2015
September	‘PERFORMPRINT’ Impact 9, China Art Academy Hangzhou CHINA
April	‘Scartato’ Art in Public Places, Brooklyn AU
2014
August	‘PERFORMPRINT: Bearings Beauty and Irrelevance’ Meet the Public Festival Blindside Melbourne AU
March	‘PERFORMPRINT’ Festival of Live Art, Artshouse Meat Market AU
2013
November	‘Chiamata del selvaggio’ Frankston Art Centre AU
October	‘Acqua Tinta Foca’ Qview, Albury AU
July	‘La Foca–A transhuman pinniped’s call of the wild’ Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy AU
May	‘Studi Rurali’ Chin Chin’s Wall of Art, Melbourne AU
2012
September	‘PERFORMPRINT’ Fremantle Arts Centre AU
2010
December	‘Soccer Boys’ Propaganda Window Melbourne AU
2006
May	‘Gunslinger and Whore’ (performer/video artist) Victoria Park Gallery Abbotsford AU

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
November	‘Kunst Film Fest – Artist as Protagonist’ Centrum, Berlin, GERMANY
June	‘Crossing Atmospheres-Screen Series 2016’ Blindside Gallery, Melbourne AU
May	‘Out of the Matrix’ RMIT Gallery, Melbourne AU
March	‘The Unstable Image’ SASA Gallery, Adelaide AU
2015
September	‘Video Contemporary’, Sydney Contemporary AU
September	‘Video Visions’ ACMI – Channels Video Art Festival Melbourne AU
July	‘Vessel’ Artbox Truck, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy AU
Jan	‘Video Jam’ Ferdydurke Melbourne AU
2014
November	‘Welcome Home’ Spazio Nour, Milan ITALY
October	‘One Night Stand’ Coalescence ARI, Donkey Wheel House Melbourne AU
September	‘Bearings Beauty and Irrelevance’ Fremantle Arts Centre Print Awards, Fremantle AU
August	‘Animatism’ Arte Publiku, Dili East Timor
July	‘Animatism’ Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy AU
July	‘Performprint’ Emerge Festival, Fitzroy Town Hall, Fitzroy AU
June	‘Play Me’ QUAD Southgate AU ‘Welcome Home’ NISM North Melbourne AU
2013
May	‘One Hundred and Twenty Seconds’ Artbox/Federation Square Big Screen AU
2011
November	‘Home is where the art is’ Lighthouse Annual Art Auction, Christine Abrahams Gallery Richmond AU
May	‘Better than Art’ Kings ARI, Melbourne AU
2009
May	Objeckt (New Sculpture)’ Michael Koro Galleries Melbourne AU
2008
May	‘Nightclub Project 1: Pure Pleasure’ Next Wave Festival, The Men’s Gallery Melbourne AU
May	‘Serial Blogger’ Arts House Meat Market North Melbourne AU
2007
March	‘We are the Web’ Seventh Gallery Fitzroy AU
2004
May	‘Scratch Video Project’- Next Wave Festival Unpopular Culture Kings ARI Melbourne AU
2003
May	‘Hatched 03-Healthway National Graduate Show’ Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts AU
January	‘Unsigned Artists, curated by Matthew Collings and PAV modern’ Niagara Galleries Richmond AU

CURATOR

2015
September	‘Proxemics’ (with Melissa Edwards) Channels Video Art Festival/Excerpt Magazine
2014
July	‘Video Art Italia’ Nite Art Festival (with C.A.R.M.A and Francesca Valdinoci) Excerpt Magazine/Federation Square/Loop Bar/Ferdydurke Melbourne AU
June	‘Video Shrines’ (with Amy Marjoram), Excerpt Magazine/Artbox/Federation Square Melbourne AU
2013
November	‘Embedded’ Strange Neighbour/Excerpt Magazine/Artbox (with Amy Marjoram) Fitzroy AU
July	‘Herself’ Nite Art Festival, Artbox/Federation Square Melbourne AU

2012-2008	Senior Curator for Propaganda Window, Melbourne AU
2010
May	‘Heterodoxia: the Rodeo Project’ 2010 Next Wave Festival 1000£ Bend Melbourne AU
March	‘Heterodoxia: Kyabram Rodeo’ Kyabram AU
2008
August	‘Resist.Collaborate.Destroy.’ Michael Koro Galleries, Melbourne AU
2004
May	‘Scratch Video Project’ Next Wave Festival Kings ARI Melbourne VIC