James Tylor : CV
Education
Masters of Visual Art and Design (Photography), South Australian School of Art, 2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (Photography), Tasmanian School of Art, 2012
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography), South Australian School of Art, 2011
Exhibitions
2020
'kipli paywuta lumi' MONA FOMA, Launceston, TAS
'Void' Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT
'Economics of Water' Murray Albury Museum of Art, Albury, NSW (Solo)
'urban & ecological responses to climate change" Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, SA
'Aski Earth Terre Yarta' 7 Wentworth Selbourne, Sydney NSW (Duo)
'12 Screens, NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney', Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island & Artspace, Sydney NSW
'Relative Permanence, NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney,' Aesop, Sydney NSW
'You Are Here' Boroondara Art, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Vic
'Craftivism' Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Bega, NSW
'Love in the time of COVID-19', GAGProjects, Adelaide, SA
'Void' Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
'52 Actions', Artspace, Sydney, NSW
'Craftivism' Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick, QLD
'Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the 19th Century and Today'. George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA
'Circles to Us' Nexus Arts, Adelaide, SA
'Hoda Afshar + Others' GAG Projects, Adelaide, SA
'NIRIN NAARM 22nd Biennale of Sydney', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Vic
'Love in the time of COVID-19', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
'The Dwelling', Contour 556, Canberra, ACT
'Void' Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic
'From an Untouched Landscape', Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT
'Craftivism' University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast, QLD
'The Roots that Clutch', Photo Access, Canberra, ACT
'Cloudy - a few isolated showers, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, Vic
2019
'Australian Photography' Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, USA
'Castlemaine State Festival', Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, Vic (Duo)
'Aboriginal Diggers Vietnam Veterans Exhibition: Country Arts SA 'Tandanya National Indigenous Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA
'52 Artists 52 Actions', Artspace, Sydney, NSW
'Craftivism' Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Vic
'For Country, for Nation' , Samstag Museum, Adelaide, SA (Food & Talk)
'Celebrating Culture', Glen Eira Gallery, Caulfield North ,Vic
'Unbranded' , Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic
While You Were Sleeping, aMBUSH Gallery, Canberra, ACT
'Craftivism' Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, Vic
'Aski | Earth | Terre | Yarta', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW (Duo)
'Aboriginal Diggers Vietnam Veterans Exhibition: Country Arts SA ' Walter Nichols Gallery, Port Lincoln, SA
''Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards' MAGNT, Darwin, NT (Finalist)
'Craftivism' Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, ACT
'Economics of Water' Vivien Anderson Gallery, St Kidla, Vic (Solo)
Pro Hart Art Prize Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW (Finalist)
'15 Artists 2019' Moreton Bay Art Gallery, Caboolture, QLD (Finalist)
'Bowness Prize' Monash Gallery of Art,Melbourne ,Vic (Finalist)
'Aboriginal Diggers Vietnam Veterans Exhibition: Country Arts SA 'Yarta Purtli Art Gallery, Port August, SA
' The Forgotten War II', Flinders University, Adelaide, SA
'River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin' S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
'CODE SWITCH' Blakdot gallery, Melbourne VIC
'Bundian Way Arts Exchange', Australia National University School of Art, Canberra, ACT
'Void' Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. NSW
'Australia. A Journey Down Under' Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan, Italy
2018
'Economics of Water' Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW (Solo)
'Craftivism' Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Vic
'Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 9th", QAGOMA, Brisbane, QLD
'Obsession: Devil in the detail' Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington , Vic
'Plenty' Ace Open, Adelaide, SA
'Void' University of Technology Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
'National Works on Paper Prize' Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic (Winner)
'SALA exhibition' GAGProjects, Adelaide, SA
'Un-resettling' Melbourne Art Fair with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Vic (Solo)
'Dark Country' Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Vic (Duo)
'Spring 1883' GAGProjects, Sydney, NSW
'National Photography Prize 2018' Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, NSW (Finalist)
'Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize' Stump Hill Gallery, Fleurieu Arthouse & Signal Point Galleries, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA (Winner)
'In site: process, performance, documentation' UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD
'A Luta Continua' Moonah Arts Centre ,Hobart, Tas
'Colony: Frontier Wars' National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic
'Runes' Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Vic
'Resolution: New Indigenous Photomedia' , Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW
'Tell Exhibition' UNSW Gallery, Sydney Festival, Sydney NSW
'Our Mob' Streaky Bay Gallery, Streaky Bay, SA
'Photo50: Resolution is not the point.' London Art Fair , London, UK
'Feltspace fundraiseing auction' Feltspace, Adelaide SA
2017
'Dreem Room' Smock & GU Film House, Adelaide, SA
'Our Mob' Nautilus Arts Centre, Port Lincoln, SA
'Who Speaks for a Community' Sister Gallery, Adelaide, SA
'YARN Australia' Merring Studio, Melbourne, VIC
'Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu', 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, NSW
'Namatjira Project Auction' Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA
'Our Mob' Roxbylink Art Gallery, Roxby downs, SA
'Bowness Prize' Monash Gallery of Art,Melbourne ,Vic (Finalist)
'Kaiki & Taralyi: Tarnanthi Festival' Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institution, Adelaide,SA
'Our Mob' Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf ,SA
'Unorthodox Flow of Images' Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne ,Vic
'Tell Exhibition:Ballarat International Foto Biennale' The Mining Exchange, Ballarat, Vic
'Resolution: New Indigenous Photomedia' Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Vic
'Walma: Moon Rise' Koskela, Sydney, NSW
'Light Works' Ladies Methodist College, Melbourne, Vic
'Speaking of History' Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tas
'Blak Mirror' Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, NSW
'Our Mob' Coorong Art Gallery, Tailem Bend SA
'Resolution: New Indigenous Photomedia' Arleen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT
'Our Mob' Belalie Art Gallery,Jamestown SA
'The witching hour' Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Vic
'Ramsay Art Prize' Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (Finalist)
'Curtain Call' Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW
'Act Like A Man' GAG Projects, Adelaide SA (Solo)
'Our Mob' Signal Point Gallery ,Goolwa, SA
'The Dust Never Settles' UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD
'(Deleted Scenes) From Untouched Landscape' Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Vic (Solo)
'Countercurrents' Samstag Museum, Adelaide SA
'Transmit Politic' Australian National University, Canberra ACT
'Resolution: New Indigenous Photomedia' Perc Tucker Art Gallery, Townsville, QLD
'Our Mob' Burra regional art gallery, Burra, SA
'Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize ( Emerging Prize)' National Art School Gallery, Sydney, NSW (Finalist)
'Un-resettling' Vivien Anderson Gallery, St Kilda, Vic (Solo)
2016
'Photo Paris' Grand Palais, Paris, France
'Our Mob' Berri Regional Gallery, Berri, SA
'Silence Nature' JamFactory, Seppeltsfield, SA
'Un-resettling' European Month of Photography, Embassy of Australia, Berlin, Germany (Solo)
'New Matter: Recent forms of Photographs' Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
'Bowness Photography Prize' Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Vic (Finalist)
'Alchemical Traces' Shimmer Photography Biennial, Red poles gallery, Adelaide, SA
'Our Mob' Coorong Council Gallery, Tailem Bend,SA
'Resolution: Contemporary Indigenous photo-media of NGA' Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbuh, NSW
'Darkness on the Edge of Town' Artbank, Sydney, NSW
'Endless Circulation: TarraWarra Biennial', TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Vic
'National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award' Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT (Finalist)
'Our Mob' Walkway Gallery, Bordertown, SA
'Over The Fence' University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD
'Territorial Encounters' Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (Solo)
'Un-Resettling' Alaska Projects, Sydney, NSW (Solo)
'Our Mob' Naracoorte Art Gallery, Naracoorte, SA
'Fleurieu Art prize' Samstag Museum, Adelaide, SA (Finalist)
'Reframed' Incinerator Main Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
'Our Mob' Millicent Art Gallery, Millicent, SA
'Shadow Sites' Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Vic
'Our Mob' Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA
'Aotearoa My Hawaiki' Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Vic (Solo)
'Even Still' Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, SA
'Aotearoa My Hawaiki' Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW (Solo)
'Wyndham Art Prize' Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Vic (Finalist)
'Cultural Revelations' Trinity Grammar School, Melbourne, Vic
2015
'Cutting edge: 21st-century photography' Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC
'Via Niu Wai Niu Coconut water' Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture, QLD
'Wish You Were Here' Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide, SA
'The Alchemists' Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
'Tarnanthi Festival: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts Festival', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
'Our Mob', Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA
'Fringe Dweller' Sauerbier House Contemporary Arts Space, Port Noarlunga, SA
'Concrete', Istanbul Biannual, Istanbul, Turkey
'Victorian Aboriginal Art Awards', Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, Vic
'Salon Des Refusés', Stokes Hill Wharf Darwin, Darwin, NT
'Aotearoa My Hawaiki', Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Vic (Solo)
'Penumbral Tales', Flinder University City Gallery, Adelaide, SA
'Un-Resettling', Photo Access, Canberra, ACT (Solo)
'Erased Series (From an Untouched Landscape)', Adelaide City Council Art pod, Adelaide, SA (Solo)
'Ghostly Nature' Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, SA
'Some Australian Photographs', Paul Mc Namara Gallery, Whanganui, Aotearoa/New Zealand
'The Skin Off Our Time', Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
'These are Our Objects', Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide SA (Solo)
'Un-Resettling', Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, NT (Solo)
'DeCookolisation', Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW (Solo)
2014
'Southern Window', Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin NT (Solo)
'Our Mob contemporary', Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide SA
'135 Meridian East' Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide SA
'Archaeology of Descent', Marshall Arts, Adelaide SA
'North, South, East, West', Vivien Anderson Gallery presenting at Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne VIC
'Outlaws', Linden Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne VIC
'31st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award' Muesum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT
'On men', Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra ACT
'Victorian Indigenous Art Awards' Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat VIC
'National Work on Paper Prize' Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic
'Moriendo Renasor' SASA Gallery, Adelaide, SA
'Bay of Fires Art Prize' Gallery Parnella, St Helen, Tas
'Seen, Heard and Understood' , Prospect gallery, SA
'Concrete' Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
'Un-resettling (Place)', Constance ARI, Hobart,Tas (Solo)
'Past Illusions and Present Realities' Nexus gallery, Adelaide, SA
'Grid Festival' Coffee Pot, Adelaide, SA
Selected Exhibitions 2009 to 2013
The Analogue lab Exhibition: Alternative Photography on Paper,Glass and Metal' The Mill, Adelaide, SA
'Decoration and Design: The black object' Australian Academy of Design, Port Melbourne, Vic
'Distorted: Illusion through the camera lens' Tooth and Nail Gallery, Adelaide, SA & Constance Ari Gallery, Hobart, Tas
'Add On' Depot II Gallery,Sydney,NSW
'On What Grounds' Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute & Adelaide Town Hall,Adelaide, SA
'First Light' Canberra Contemporary Art space, Canberra, ACT
'On Men' Feltspace, Adelaide, SA
'Our Mob' Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA & Hong Kong, China
'Full circle: Visual Arts Graduate exhibition', South Australian School of Art, Adelaide, SA
'Felt Natural', Torrens River: public art project' ,Torrens River, Adelaide , SA
'Macquarie group emerging artist prize' Macquarie group building, Sydney, NSW
'Past the measuring stick' Marshall Arts Gallery, Adelaide, SA (Solo Exhibition)
'Kodak Salon' Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Vic
'Honours and Master of Fine Art and Design exhibition' Plimsoll gallery , Hobart, Tas
'Shimmer festival' Penny Hill Gallery' McLaren Vale, SA
'Black and white' Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Tas
‘UP: Experimental photography of the sky’ Tooth and Nail Gallery, Adelaide, SA
'Cliftons Art Prize' Adelaide, SA
'The Shadow Box' Liverpool St Gallery, Adelaide, SA
'Pingyao International Photography Festival' Pingyao, China
'3 found media' Liverpool St Gallery, Adelaide, SA
‘Rare: SASA Graduate Exhibition 2011’ SASA Gallery, Adelaide, SA
'120 Artist in 12 Weeks' SASA Gallery, Adelaide, SA
'Structural integrity' FELT space/Next Wave Festival ,Melbourne,Vic
'Kimberley Art Prize' Derby, WA
'Seed of change' Black Pearl Gallery, Port Adelaide, SA
'Exquisite corpse collaboration' the Reading Room, Adelaide, SA
'Indigenous art exhibition' Flinders medical centre, Adelaide, SA
'Turning point' Black Pearl Gallery, Port Adelaide, SA
'symbolic flora' Phat Café, Adelaide, SA
Food Events
2019
'Rations: Australian Army Food' For Country, for Nation, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, SA (Food & Talk)
2018
'Mai Kaurna Contemporary Food' Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 9th, QAG Cafe, Brisbane, QLD
'Mai Kaurna Contemporary Food' Plenty, Ace Open, Adelaide, SA
Exhibition Curator
2020
'kipli paywuta lumi' MONA FOMA,, Launceston, TAS
2017
'Temporary Curator' Djómi Museum, Maningrida, NT
'TALK BACK', Visual Bulk, Hobart, Tas
2013
'Distorted: Illusion through the camera lens' Tooth and Nail Gallery, Adelaide, SA & Constance Ari, Hobart, Tas
'The Analogue Lab Exhibition: Alternative Photography on Paper, Glass and Metal' The Mill, Adelaide, SA
2012
'UP: Experimental photography of the sky’ Tooth and Nail Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Workshops
2015
Narrative Witness, Indigenous Peoples: Australia-United States Writing and Photography Exchange, Iowa University, Iowa, USA
2014
Look-between Emerging Photography Workshop, Look-between Photography Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
2013
Will Wilson, Tintype photography Workshop, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide, SA
Jerry Spagnoli, Becquerel Daguerreotype Workshop, Goldstreet studios, Trentham, Vic
Prizes
2019
'Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards' MAGNT, Darwin, NT (Finalist)
'15 Artists 2019' Moreton Bay Art Gallery, Caboolture, QLD (Finalist)
Pro Hart Art Prize Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW (Finalist)
2018
'Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize' Stump Hill Gallery, Fleurieu Arthouse & Signal Point Galleries, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA (Winner)
'National Works on Paper Prize' Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic (Winner)
'National Photography Prize 2018' Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, NSW (Finalist)
2017
'Gabriele Basilico Prize in Architecture and Landscape Photography' Milano, Italy (Finalist)
'Bowness Prize' Monash Gallery of Art,Melbourne ,Vic (Finalist)
'Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize ( Emerging Prize)' National Art School Gallery, Sydney, NSW (Finalist)
'Ramsay Art Prize' Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (Finalist)
2016
'Wyndham Art Prize' Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Vic (Finalist)
'Fleurieu Art prize' Samstag Museum, Adelaide, SA (Finalist)
'33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award' MAGNT, Darwin, NT (Finalist)
'Bowness Photography Prize' Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Vic (Finalist)
2015
'Victorian Aboriginal Art Awards', Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, Vic (Finalist)
'Salon Des Refusés', Stokes Hill Wharf Darwin, Darwin, NT (Finalist)
2014
'Victorian Indigenous Art Awards' Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat VIC (Finalist)
'31st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award' MAGNT, Darwin, NT (Finalist)
'Bay of Fires Art Prize' Gallery Parnella, St Helen, Tas (Finalist)
'National Work on Paper Prize' Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic (Finalist)
2013
'Cliftons Art Prize' Adelaide, SA (Finalist)
'Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize', Sydney, NSW (Winner)
Publications:
In daily Adelaide CityMag, 'The South Australian menu has always been seasonal ' July 2019 https://citymag.indaily.com.au/
Griffith Review, 'Writing the Country' Turalyendi Yerta, Issue 63, October, 2018
Art Monthly Australasia, 'Returning the gaze: Hayley Millar-Baker and James Tylor in conversation', Issue 311, October, 2018
In daily Adelaide CityMag, 'Power, We Call This Place..' October, 2018 https://citymag.indaily.com.au/
Wrong wrong magazine,(Cenas desparecidas) de uma paisagem intocada, At Land, Portugal, no 13, 2018 http://wrongwrong.net
Art Collector What Next?, Melbourne Art Fair Special Edition 2018
Art link (Co-Editor) Indigenous: Kanarn Wangkiny_ Wanggandi Karlto_Speaking From Inside, no 2, Issue 38 2018
NGV Magazine An Un-Resesettling History, May-Jun 2018
Fineprint Magazine When Parallel Worlds (Don't) Collide, Issue 9, 2016, http://www.fineprintmagazine.com
Memo Review Un-resettling at Vivien Anderson Gallery Apr, 2017. https://memoreview.net
Art Monthly Australia Territorial Encounters, Issue 291 Aug, 2016 p22-25
Landscape Stories, Aotearoa my Hawaiki, Issue 25, http://www.landscapestories.net. Aug, 2016
Runway, Territorial Encounters, http://runway.org.au, July 2016
A*Magazine, James Tylor: Using Daguerreotypes to explore colonialism, http://www.astar.tv, July 2016
Adelaide Matters, Photo-Artist James Tylor Issue 184, Oct 2015, p25
Art Monthly Australia, Untitled, no 283, Sept 2015, p33
Artlink Indigenous, Perceiving the distant, no2 ,vol 35, June 2015, p10-13
Adelaide review, Ghost stories May 2015 p43
Visual Arts Hub Indigenous art is more contemporary than you think, http://visual.artshub.com.au, Apr 2015
Meanjin, Representing Absence, Vol 71, No1, 2015 p138-150
Photofile, Past the measuring stick, Vol 96 Mar-May 2015 p104-111
Artzone, James Tylor Hybrid cultural Identity, Vol 58 Feb-Apr 2015
Aspire magazine, Rising Up: James Tylor, Feb- Mar 2015, p43
Art Collector, Curators Radar James Tylor, no 71, Jan-Mar 2015, p126-129
Art Monthly Australia, Past the measuring stick, no274, Oct, 2014, p24-27 & 28-31
Artlink Indigenous, Moments of Intersection, no2 ,vol 34, June 2014, p64-66
Collections:
Australia
Adelaide City Council, Adelaide, SA
Artbank, Sydney, NSW
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
City of Stonnington, Melbourne, VIC
Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC
Macquarie Group, Sydney, NSW
Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne, VIC
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
PhotoAccess, Canberra, ACT
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC
University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD
Westpac Art Collection, Sydney, NSW
United States of America
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA
Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC, USA
Private collections in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, United Kingdom, USA, France and Italy