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Billy Bob Hawkins (b. 1992 Melbourne, Australia)
Education
2023-2024
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Class of Professor Andreas Schulze.
2018
Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours).
2013-2015
Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing and Print Media).
Exhibitions
2024
Clay Pit, Al Fresco for the Canberra Art Biennial, Canberra.
Rundgang, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf.
The Winter Semester, Cellar Door, Sydney.
The Idiot, NAP Contemporary, Mildura.
2023
Sabella, Hyacinth, CBD, Melbourne.
Harper’s Call, Haydens, Brunswick East, Melbourne.
2022
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney.
My Lunch with Sanja, Bus Projects, Collingwood, Melbourne.
2021
The Impressionists, Blindside, CBD, Melbourne.
4am Flying Arrows, Bundoorah Homestead, Bundoorah, Melbourne.
2020
Outside Painting, Hugo Michell Gallery, Beulah Park, Adelaide.
2019
First Commissions Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, South Bank, Melbourne.
Collectively, West Space, CBD, Melbourne.
Shit Show: TCB Fundraiser, TCB, Brunswick, Melbourne.
The Process of Making: West Space Fundraiser, West Space, CBD, Melbourne.
STIGMA, The Dax Centre, Parkville, Melbourne.
2018
Coming Soon 2, West Space, CBD, Melbourne.
VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, South Bank, Melbourne.
Act 1, George Paton Gallery, Parkville, Melbourne.
An Abattoir By The Sea, The Band Presents, Docklands, Melbourne.
You Make Me Sick, Second Space Projects, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Medium Rare, Johnston St Shop front, Abbotsford, Melbourne.
2017
Six o’clock Swill, The Union Hotel, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Guts Salon, 55 Claremont St, South Yarra, Melbourne.
B.U.F.F., 146 Toorak Rd West, South Yarra, Melbourne.
2015
VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Awards and Residency’s
2023
Cité internationale des arts, Paris.
2022
Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship, major prize winner.
2019
First Commissions Recipient, Victorian College of the Arts.
Graduate Residency, Drawing and Print Media Department, Victorian College of the Arts.
2018
Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts.
Lowensteins Arts Management Prize, VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts.
TBP Exhibition Prize, Proud, Victorian College of the Arts.
Collections
Artbank Collection, Australia.
Deakin University Collection, Melbourne.
The Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney.
Curated Exhibitions
2018
An Abattoir Beyond The Sea, The Band Presents, Docklands, Melbourne.
You Make Me Sick, Second Space Projects, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Medium Rare, Johnston St Shopfront, Abbotsford, Melbourne.
2017
Six o’clock Swill, The Union Hotel, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Guts Salon, 55 Claremont St, South Yarra, Melbourne.
B.U.F.F., 146 Toorak Rd West, South Yarra, Melbourne.
Relevant Experience/Appointments
2022
Founder and current Director of the Melbourne School of Contemporary Art.
Sessional Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts.
2019
Drawing and Print Media graduate tutor at the Victorian College of the Arts.
2017-2018
Volunteer at West Space gallery.