Born 1979 (Hong Kong). Lives and works in Melbourne.

EDUCATION

2008 - 2005              Masters of Fine Arts, Monash University.
2004                           Bachelor of Fine Arts – Honours (First Class Honours), Monash University.

Performance and Printed Works

2010-2006                Y.Pages, Melbourne Yellow Pages Print Directory.
2009                           Slightly Permanent (collaboration with Amy Marjoram),                                     Shifted, Richmond.
2008                           Art & Life (self-published manuscript).
2006                         School Debate: “That Actions Speak Louder than                                     Words in the Mind of a Conceptualist”
                                    Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)                                     Conference, Monash University.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

2010                       Libris Artist Book Award, Mackay, Queensland.
2008                       Objects in Space, (Next Wave Festival), Melbourne.
                                Things in a Room, Kings ARI, Melbourne.
                                Pretext, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne.
2007                    Nonchalantly Unimpressed, Victoria Park Gallery,                                  Melbourne.
                                An Edge Meets An Edge, Spectrum Project Space, Perth.
                                Curious Forms, La Trobe University Museum, Bundoora.
2006                       Working Out, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne.
2005                       CCAS Art Award, Canberra Contemporary Art Space,                                  Canberra.
                                Magnetism – Suspension/ Asian Traffic, Zendai Museum                                 of Modern Art, Shanghai.
2004                       A – Z, West Space, Melbourne.
                                 Asian Traffic, Asia Australia Arts Centre, Sydney.
                                 Multiple Miscellaneous Alliances, Clubs Project Inc,                                 Melbourne.

Published Writing
2008                 “PJ Hickman: Making a Name” (review), Eyeline  , no 67.

2007                 “Work Wanted,” Artlink, vol 27 no 4.
                           “Histories: Trocadero,” Making Space: Artist Run Initiatives                             in Victoria, ed. Din Heagney, VIA-N, funded by Arts Victoria                             and the Australia Council.

Awards & Commissions
2008                   Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant, NAVA.
2005                   Cultural Development Grant, Maribyrnong City Council,                              Victoria
                             Australia Post Graduate Award, Monash University, Victoria
2002                   SBS Federation Square Art Award, SBS, Melbourne

Bibliography
2008                    Kate Just, “Parasite Specific,” Objects in Space (exh. cat).
2007                   “The Value of Experience,” The West Australian, 29th April.
                              Amy Marjoram, “Nonchalantly Unimpressed” (exh. cat).
2004                    Felicity Fenner, “Shifting Gears: Asian Traffic,” Artlink, vol                              24 no 4.

Associated Activities/Work

2010                  Volunteer assistant on upcoming Harrell Fletcher project at National Gallery of Victoria
2010-2007        Founder and Co-Director of Shifted, Richmond
2007                  Contributor to IGBK Project Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, Berlin
2007- 2005      Committee Member Trocadero Art Space, Footscray