Katie Paine is an artist and writer living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. She has exhibited at CAVES, TCB, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Kings ARI, La Trobe Art Institute, George Paton Gallery, Irene Rose, SEVENTH Gallery and Bus Projects. She writes fiction and criticism for publications such as Performance Review, Vault Magazine, Art + Australia, un Magazine, Running Dog, Runway Journal and Art Almanac and a variety of art galleries. She is currently completing her Masters in Fine Art (By Research) at the Victorian College of the Arts and has a particular interest in hauntology, semiotics and the archive.

Katie would like to acknowledge that the land that she works on is unceded, and acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which she works, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education:
2020-2022: Masters of Fine Art (By Research)- Victorian College of the Arts
2011-2013: RMIT University- Bachelor of Fine Art. (With Distinction)

Solo Exhibitions and Collaborative Projects:
November 2022: Masters Graduate Exhibition, Fiona Sydney Meyer GalleryOctober 2022: Phantom Interlocutors, Blindside ARI
March 2022: A Lonely Circumnavigation, VCA Art Space
April 2021: On the Myopic Gaze of a Surrogate Eye, VCA Octagon
January 2020: The Second Charade, SEVENTH Gallery
March 2019: At the End of a Passage from Which No Exit is Possible, with Henry Law at Kings ARI
July 2018: something that, perhaps, sits outside of speech, Irene Rose Gallery
May 2017: Chronophobia, c3 Contemporary Art Space
September 2016: Future Devonian Archive, Rubicon ARI
March 2016: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away, George Paton Gallery

Group Exhibitions:
April 2022: PLATFORM FOR SHARED PRAXIS #04, curated by Jesse Hogan, Caves Gallery
April 2022: Venus in Tullamarine, Curated by Cameron Hurst, George Paton Gallery
February 2022: Vernissage, Void Gallery
July 2021: Pre-Moderna, TCB Gallery
September 2020: Zero O’ Clock, Curated by Sophia Cai, Centre for Visual Art
April 2020: Vol One- Plough a Lone Furrow, Quivering in Quarantine
September 2019: Perspectives on Distance, Nagano Sky Arts Festival, Japan. Curated by Jesse Hogan.
August 2019: Relics of Survival, Bus Projects. Curated by Zoe Bastin and Kari McInneny McRae
July 2018: The Grammar of The Glitch, Latrobe Art Institute. Curated by Kent Wilson
October 2017: [Message Read] Blindside ARI [with Nick Modzrewski and Nabilah Nordin]
September 2017: Documents of the Future, Channels Festival, ACMI- Curated by Anita Spooner
October 2016: From the Archive, George Paton Gallery curated by Stephanie Berlangieri and Hanann Al Daqqa
October 2016: An Excavation, c3 Contemporary Art Space

Special Projects:
September 2021: Mentor, SIGNAL Arts Screen Commission
Jan-Dec 2021: VCA Arts Access Participant with Benjamin Armstrong
June 2020: Interview for Out of Bounds with Caoife Power, Bus Projects Radio
June 2020: Interview for QiQ Gallery Podcast
June 2020: An Unsound Mimicry, Residency with Metro Arts, Brisbane
March 2018: Published *dumb brun(ette) Vol 1 with Bus Projects At Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV
June 2016: Writers in Residence Program, Next Wave Festival

Performance:
August 2022: Reading for “Swimming Backwards Underwater” with Kari McInneny McRae and Caoife Power at Seventh Gallery
September 2019: disseminating information that was hard to comprehend- Kings ARI FLASH Night
August 2019: Bundoora Homestead, for Jon Butt’s Collider
August 2019: Relics of Survival, Bus Projects
September 2017: Documents of the Future, Channels Festival, ACMI- Curated by Anita Spooner

Curatorial:
September 2018: No Safe Place to Rest Your Eyes, c3 Contemporary Art Space
June 2017: A Joke Without Laughter, c3 Contemporary Art Space
March 2017: Inherent Vice, Nicholas Projects

Writing (Selected Publications):      
August 2022: Review of Veronica Franco V Instagram, Gertrude Glasshouse
August 2022: OBJECT Profile, Angela Valamanesh, Vault Magazine
February 2022: Vivienne Binns: On and Through the Surface, Vault Magazine
July 2020: An Arcane Vernacular, Art + Australia Issue 52: Event Horizon
June 2020: The Summoning of a Polyphonic Apparition, Running Dog
April 2020: An Abhorrent Pair, Runway Journal Issue 40, Love       
August 2019: The Image has an Illness, for Aaron Rees- Incinerator Gallery
August 2019: A Chorus to Span Generations, Art + Australia
July 2019: The Beloved Image is But a Spectre, for Grace Wood, Cool Change Contemporary
June 2018: The Images that Deceived Us, for Emanuel Rodriguez Chaves, Bus Projects
April 2018: Illicit Love, Co-authored with Diego Ramirez, Latrobe Art Institute
July 2017: Review, Georgina Cue- Stages, Un Magazine
June 2017: A Catastrophe that Never Comes, for Amalia Lindo, c3 Contemporary Art Space
July 2016: Exhaustibition: Performing Wellness in the Arts, Art + Australia
June 2016: Chiharu Shiota- Absence, Art Almanac

Relevant Work:

2022 - Present: Committee Member, Kings ARI
2016- 2020:  Gallery Manager, c3 Contemporary Art Space
2016-2017:  Program Coordinator, CRITICAL Arts Writing Program, RMIT University
2013-2016: Arts Officer, RMIT Link Arts and Culture

Awards and Grants:

November 2022: Faculty of Fine Arts and Music Completion Scholarship, University of Melbourne
July 2022: Graduate Faculty Research Grant, University of Melbourne

Keynote presentations/ panel discussions for RMIT University, Midsumma Festival, LaTrobe Art Institute, La Trobe University, c3 Contemporary Art Space and Seventh Gallery

Conference Presentations:

January 2022: Phantom Interlocutors, Graduate Symposium, University of Melbourne
January 2021: A cave is an abyss, penumbral and incandescent, Graduate Symposium, University of Melbourne
November 2020: Dark Eden: The Sixth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture- UNSW
December 2017: Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction conference, Monash University