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ARTIST CV

Solo Exhibitions & Projects

2023 Prolific Friend – Activation of Light Industry Studio, Sunshine Coast, Australia.

2023 Intimate Organisms – Solo exhibition, Outer Space Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.

2020 Founded arts initiative APIQ (Art Projects with Integrity Qld) – Sunshine Coast, Australia.
2020 Apexing & Oasis – Online video diptych commissioned by Boxcopy, Brisbane, Australia.

2020 Experiments with Integrity – Social art project and viewing for Seedpod Residency, Old Courthouse Lock-up, Sunshine Coast, Australia.
2019 The Revolting Meme Campaign - Creative workshops & performances, Outer Space Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2019 Reconfiguring the Meme Machine - MELBOURNE - Solo exhibition, BLINDSIDE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2018 Reconfiguring the Meme Machine - Solo exhibition, SomoS Arts Space, Berlin.
2014 5 Dollar Identity - Solo exhibition, ACCA Upstarts (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne, Australia.
2014 Exhausted Ideals - Solo exhibition, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Australia.
2013 Lessons in Value - Solo exhibition within Spinnerei Rundgang, Leipzig, Germany.
2012 The Better Self - Solo exhibition, Bruce ARI, Melbourne, Australia.

Group Exhibitions & Collaborative Projects

2024 Way Beyond - Australian Walking Artists group exhibition - Articulate Project Space, Sydney, Australia.

2022 Mullin’s Conceptual Photography Prize - Finalists Exhibition at Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, Australia.

2022 Touring exhibition of the 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards - The Court House Gallery, Cairns, Australia.

2021 Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards – Finalists Exhibition at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia.
2021 Topography for Reflection – Collaboration with Katie Harris-MacLeod for Floating Land Festival, SunshineCoast, Australia.

2020 2020 Survival Kit – Curator and artist. Boxed limited edition series of works by APIQ artists, Sunshine Coast, Australia.

2017 A Century of Superfictions - RMIT University Honours Graduation Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia.
2016 BLINDSIDE Festival: On the Verge - Coordinator & Co-curator of 11 day arts festival, Melbourne, Australia.
2015 Flesh Express - Curator of group exhibition, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2015 The Sweet Life - Exhibiting artist in group exhibition, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2013 Summer Show - LIA Programme residency exhibition, Leipzig, Germany.
2013 Goodbye Bruce Show - Group exhibition, Bruce ARI, Melbourne, Australia.
2013 At One with Weyba - Collaboration with Johannes Laumer, as part of the Floating Land Festival, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
2012 The Arts on Weyba - Arts Festival Director & Curator, Noosa, Queensland, Australia.
2012 Interventions Rejecting the Spectrum - Curatorial collaboration with Grayden Shelley, Level 6 Curtin House, Melbourne, Australia.
2012 It’s Not You, It’s Me - Group exhibition with Coalesce initiative, Eckersley’s Open Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2011 The Seven Signs of Aging - Group exhibition with Coalesce initiative, Eckersley’s Open Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2010 New, Used & Abused - Group exhibition with Coalesce initiative, Loft Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2010 The Baby Makers - Curator and exhibiting artist, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

Residencies, Grants & Awards

2023 ProjectWLD recipient – ArtsCoast, Sunshine Coast Council.

2022 Residency at the State Library of Queensland, The Edge Fabrication Lab, Australia.

2021 New Media Award – Queensland Regional Art Awards, Flying Arts Alliance, Australia.

2021 RADF recipient – Noosa Council.

2020 TEDx speaker - Art: Creating unique spaces for social transformation - ted.com/talks/bianca_tainsh.
2020 stART funding recipient - artsQueensland.
2020 RADF & Major Grant recipient - Sunshine Coast Council.
2020 ART X ACTIVISM panelist – Horizon Festival – facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3044498482330587

2020 Seedpod Pilot Residency recipient - Live art development residency with Punctum and Horizon Festival, Sunshine Coast, Australia.
2018 SomoS Arts Space residency - Three-month live-in artist residency, Berlin, Germany.
2016 Open Engagement Conference for Socially-engaged Art Tour - VCA funded trip to Open Engagement, Oakland, U.S.A.
2015 Arts Residency and Research Tour - New York, U.S.A.
2014 People's Choice Award - Ecoflicks Environmental Short Films Festival, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
2014 ArtStart Career Development Funding recipient - Australia Council for the Arts
2013 LIA (Leipzig International Artists) residency - Three-month live-in artist residency, Leipzig, Germany.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Honours 1st Class - RMIT University, Australia 2017

Graduate Certificate in Arts & Community Practice - Victorian College of the Arts - Centre for Cultural Partnerships, Australia 2016

Graduate Certificate in Arts & Community Engagement - Victorian College of the Arts - Centre for Cultural Partnerships, Australia 2015

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Painting - RMIT University, Australia 2009-2011

Diploma of Visual Arts - Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE, Australia 2006-2007

Publications & Publicity

Bianca Tainsh: Intimate Organisms by Amy Jane Collins, 25 Oct 2023 - https://www.lemonadeletters.com.au/reviews/bianca-tainsh-intimate-organisms

SEEDPOD WRAP UP- Horizon Festival - https://www.horizonfestival.com.au/news/seedpod-wrap

MEET OUR SEEDPOD ARTIST // BIANCA TAINSH - Horizon Festival - https://www.horizonfestival.com.au/news/meet-our-seedpod-artist-bianca-tainsh