Solo Exhibitions

• 2020

• Centre of the Centre, UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

• 2019

• Centre of the Centre, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
  Centre of the Centre, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

• 2018

• Primary/ Secondary Score, Barangaroo & Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia

• 2017

• Dangerous On The Way, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  Mel O’Callaghan: Ensemble, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia
  En Masse, Galerie Allen, Paris, France
  L’acte Gratuit, Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney, Australia

• 2015

• Dangerous Looking Back, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2014

• Time to Act, Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon, Portugal
  Ensemble, First Street Green, New York, USA
  L’acte gratuit, Galerie Allen, Paris, France

• 2013

• Ensemble, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2012

• Move, Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon, Portugal
  Endgame, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2011

• Each Mineral Flake Of That Night Filled Mountain, Grantpirrie Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

• 2010

• Each Atom Of That Stone, Gallery Grantpirrie, Sydney, Australia

• 2008

• Topsy Turvy, Gallery Grantpirrie, Sydney, Australia

• 2007

• Landslide, Galerie Schleicher Lange, Paris, France

• 2006

• The Fall, Galerie Schleicher Lange, Paris, France

• 2005

• Somewhere, Galerie Schleicher Lange, Paris, France
  Somewhere, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

• 2004

• The Fall, Salles E.M. Sandoz M. David-Weill, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
  The Fall, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia

• 2003

• In The Half Light, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia

• 2002

• The Fly and the Mountain, The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney, Australia
  On This Day It Was Cold, Room 35 Gallery, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  We Had Walked All Day, Department of Public Works, Sydney, Australia

• 2001

• Vagari, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
  Today We Looked At Walls, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney, Australia
  Mel + Nell, Room Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

• 2000

• Nell + Mel, Städtische Galerie, Amsterdam and Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia

• 1999

• Nell + Mel, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia

• 1998

• Mel + Nell, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Lot, Cbd, Sydney, Australia

• 1997

• Illume, 1st FLOOR, Melbourne, Australia

• 1996

• Automate, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia

Selected Group Expositions

• 2019

• What Lies Within: Centre of the Centre, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines
  Some of Us, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany
  Yo-Chang Art Museum, National Taiwan University of Arts

• 2018

• Museo D’Art Contemporanea Di Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
  Vertiges, Lab-Labanque, Béthune, France
  International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Kronenberg W
  right, Sydney, Australia
  ARCO Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2017

• Lock/Route, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
  L’Eternité par les astres, Centre d’art Contemporain Les Tanneries, Amilly, France
  Prix Meurice pour l’art contemporain, Hôtel Meurice, Paris, France
  Galerie Allen, Arco Madrid, Spain
  Kronenberg W
  right, Sydney Contemporary, Australia

• 2016

• L’art de la révolte (The Art of Revolt), Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris et Malaga, Spain
  Museum as Performance, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  Nuit Blanche, Place Dauphine, Paris, France
  Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  J’ai Rêvé Le Goût De La Brique Pilée, La Borne : Centre céramique contemporaine, Henrichemont, France

• 2015

• Demain dans la bataille pense à moi, IAC Institut d’art contemporain,Villeurbanne, France
  Nature/ Revelation, The Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, Australia
  The Place of Disquiet, Third edition of A3bandas, F2 Galeria, Madrid, Spain
  Les Drapeaux, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, Paris, France
  Artissima Art Fair, Galerie Allen, Turin, Italy

• 2014

• 19th Biennale of Sydney:You Imagine What You Desire, Australia
  Festival Encontros da Imagem: Love Will Tear Us Apart, Lisbon, Portugal
  Arcadian Reverie, White Night, Melbourne, Australia,
  Sinonimos de Perfume, Galeria 102-100, Castelo Branco, Portugal
  Paperworks, Belo-Galsterer Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2013

• Natura, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
  Desire Lines, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
  The Disorder of the Present Is the Order of the Future, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2012

• Livret IV, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France

• 2011

• The Rehearsal of Repetition, Gallery Grantpirrie, Sydney Australia
  Motion/Pictures, Gallery A.S., Paramount Pictures, Sydney, Australia
  Event: New Moving Image Works, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

• 2010

• Dying in Spite of the Miraculous, Gurtrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
  La Main Numérique, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
  La Main Numérique, Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz, (FNAGP), Paris, France

• 2009

• Event: New Moving Image Works, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

• 2008

• Fantasmata, Museo Ar/ge Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
  Le Main Numérique, École Supérieure d’Art de l’Agglomération d’Annecy, France

• 2007

• Hamsterwheel, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse & Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (CASM), Barcelona, Spain
  Vergäleibhaftig, Kunstverein Konstanz & Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany
  Vergänglichkeit, Galerie Schleicher Lange, Paris, France
  Phases Of The Moon, Châtillon-sur-Marne, France
  Sommerfrische Sehnsucht Nach Dem Paradies, Kunst:raum Sylt Quelle, Germany

• 2006

• Videoformes, Prix de la Création Vidéo, Clermont Ferrand, France

• 2005

• National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
  Videobrasil 05 15°, Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
  Impakt 16th Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Edinburgh International Film Festival, 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK

• 2004

• Site (Unseen), Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
  A Cut Across, Plymsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Australia
  That Was Now, This is Then, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia

• 2003

• Printroom, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Printroom, Gurtrude Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
  Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Award, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

Prizes, Grants and Residencies

• 2019

• Aide de Projet, Fondation National des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques (FNAGP)

• 2018

• Australia Council For The Arts, Project Grant, Centre of the Centre

• 2017

• Finalist, Prix Meurice pour l’art contemporain, France
  Atelier, Nogent-sur-Marne, France - Fondation National des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques (FNAGP)
  Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist Residency, Paris, France
  Finalist, ACMI / Ian Potter Moving Image Commission
  Australia Council For The Arts, Project Grant, Centre of the Centre

• 2016

• Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist Residency, Paris, France
  Australia Council For The Arts, Project Grant, Palais de Tokyo

• 2015

• Recipient, Prix SAM pour l’Art Contemporain, France

• 2014

• Nominated for the Bernd Lohaus Prize, Belgium
  Finalist, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
  Australia Council for the Arts, Research and Development for new video piece in Borneo, Malaysia

• 2013

• Australia Council For The Arts, New Work Recipient for 19th Biennale of Sydney

• 2012

• Australia Council For The Arts, New Work Recipient, Established Artist Category

• 2011

• Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist Residency, Paris, France

• 2007

• Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist Residency, Paris, France

• 2006

• Australia Council For The Arts, New Work Recipient, Established Artist Category

• 2005

• Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist Residency, Paris, France
  National Sculpture Prize, Finalist, NGA National Gallery of Australia, Australia
  Australian Film Commission, Australia

• 2004

• Cité Internationale des Arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales Artist Residency, Paris, France

• 2001

• Centre For Contemporary Arts, Artist Residency, Prague, Czech Republic
  Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Award, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
  University of Sydney, Dean’s Honours List, Sydney, Australia

Public Commissions

• 2018

• Sydney Contemporary Commission, Carriageworks and Barangaroo, Sydney, Australia

• 2015

• The Australian Embassy, Paris, France

• 2007

• Attorney General’s Department., The Justice Precinct, Sydney, Australia

Public Collections

• FRAC Bretagne / Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bretagne, France
  National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Australia
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), USA
  Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Monash University Museum of Modern Art (MUMA), Australia
  Artbank, Australia
  Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department, Australia

Bibliography

• 2018

• Marie Chenel, Mel O’Callaghan, Artpress 2: Vertiges, Septembre 2018 p. 20-21

• 2017

• Mel O’Callaghan, Artist Monograph, Palais de Tokyo, Sam Art Projects : Paris
  Mara Hoberman, “Mel O’Callaghan - Galerie Allen / Palais de Tokyo”, Artforum, May Issue, 2017, p. 345
  Greta Völler, “Mel O’Callaghan”, NGV Magazine, Nov/Dec 2017, Issue # 7
  Melissa Loughnan, ed., Australiana to Zeitgeist (Thames & Hudson Australia, 2017), p. 21, 26 & 27
  Isabelle Bernini, “Mel O’Callaghan, Dangerous on-the-way”, Artpress, April 2017
  Valérie Duponchelle, “Les expositions à ne pas rater à Paris en 2017”, Le Figaro, January 2017, p.105 - 110
  “Palais de Tokyo : Mel O’Callaghan, Dangerous on-the-way”, La Gazette du Druout, April 2017, p. 215
  Alice Cavanagh, “Outside Herself, Mel O’Callaghan”, W Magazine, The Australian, March 2017, p. 29-30
  Sabine Rittner, “Trance, Ecstasy And Altered States Of Consciousness”, in Mel O’Callaghan, Artist Monograph
  Mel O’Callaghan, Dangerous on-the-way, Slash Paris, March 2017
  Marie-Elisabeth de la Fresnaye, “Mel O’Callaghan”, Interview, Artaissme, #15, 2017, p. 4
  Marie Cheron, “Les ateliers du Palais de Tokyo”, Lifestyle.Paris, March 2017
  Mel O’Callaghan, Palais de Tokyo, News Art Today TV, February 2017 (television)
  Mel O’Callaghan, “Dangerous on-the-way”, France Fine Art, February 2017
  L’agenda de la semaine: Lâcher prise, AD Magazine, February 2017
  “Mel O’Callaghan, “Dangerous on-the-way”, Art das KunstMagazine, February 2017
  “Mel O’Callaghan | Retour d’expérience : La transe extatique pour le plus grand nombre”, Happening, Fevrier, 2017
  Anaël Pigeat, Lucile Commeaux & Arnaud Laporte, “En toute chose”, France Culture, Fevrier, 2017
  Thierry Hay, “Notre rapport à la Nature et aux objets: En toute chose”, France Info, February 2017
  Anne-Lou Vicente, “Mel O’Callaghan”, Trois Couleurs, February 2017: Issue 148, p. 96
  “Mel O’Callaghan: En Masse at Galerie Allen”, Paris, Blouin ArtInfo, January 2017
  “Palais de Tokyo: Mel O’Callaghan, Dangerous on-the-way”, E-flux, January 2017
  Fabiola Ondzounga, “Mel O’Callaghan, Dangerous on-the-way”, Artistik Rezo, January 2017
  Eric Bietry-Rivierre & Valerie Dupenchelle, “Paris, l’art en capitale”, Le Figaro, January 2017, p. 26 - 27
  “Mel O’Callaghan”, Madame Figaro, January 2017, p. 41
  “SAM Arts Projects Palais du Tokyo : Mel O’Callaghan (lauréate du Prix SAM 2015)”, Trajectoire, January 2017

• 2016

• Philippe Dagen, “Quand l’art bat le pavé”, Le Monde, 28 April, 2016
  Orianne Hidalgo-Laurier, “Les rites de Mel O’Callaghan”, Mouvement, 25 January, 2016

• 2015

• Joao Silverio, “Memory and Resistance”, catalogue essay, Dangerous Looking Back, Belo-Galsterer Galeria
  Béatrice Cotte, “Prix Sam 2015 : Mel O’ Callaghan”, Follow Art With Me, 17 December, 2015

• 2014

• Juliana Engberg, “You are what you imagine”, catalogue essay, 19th Biennale of Sydney
  Nicole Elpnick, “My Secrect Sydney”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March, 2014

• 2013

• Love will Tear us Apart, exhibition catalogue, Encontros da Imagem, Porto, 2013, p. 142-143.
  Alda Galsterer, “Natura. Paisagem e Natureza”, catalogue essay, Natura, Museum Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal

• 2012

• Juliana Engberg, “Desire Lines”, catalogue essay, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
  Jack Cox et Alexandra Delage, “Les Languages Terrestres”, LIVRET IV, Musée de Rochechouart, France
  Andrew Stephens, “The Path less travelled”, The Age, 15 December, 2012, p. 23.
  Maura Edmond, “Desire Lines”, Time Out, December, 2012
  Leonor Nunes, “Destaque”, Journal Deletras, nº 1100, November - December, 2012, p. 28.
  Nuno Crespo, “O ar do tempo”, P2/Público Lisboa, 23 December, 2012, p. 8.
  “Miguel Branco & Mel O’Callaghan”, Agenda Cultural Lisboa, Ed. Nov., 2012.
  Anja Schneider, “The Rehearsal of Repetition”, Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney, Australia

• 2010

• Dominique Païni, “La Main Numerique”, Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz (MABA), Paris, France
  Dominique Païni, “La Main Numerique”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
  Alexie Glass Kantor, “Ever Tried, Ever Failed”, Grantpirrie Gallery, 2010
  Anja Isabel Schneider, “Mel O’Callaghan, Ever Tried, Ever Failed”, Grantpirrie, 2010

• 2009

• Blair French, “Event: New Moving Image Works”, exhibition catalogue, Artspace Sydney, 2009
  Blair French, “Event: Recalling The Cinematic”, Column publication, Sydney, 2009

• 2008

• Alison Kubler, “Topsy Turvy - Mel O’Callaghan”, Gallery Grantpirrie, Sydney, Australia

• 2007

• Bénédicte Ramade,“Les Perdreaux De L’année En Liberté”, Artclair L’Oeil, n° 595, Octobre, 2007
  Bérénice Bailly, “La Fugacite Decryptee Par Cinq Jeunes Artistes”, Le Monde, Saturday April 2007, p. 32
  Emmanuelle Lequeux, “Mel O’Callaghan”, Le Monde, 29 September, 2007

• 2005

• Alexie Glass Kantor, “Mel O’Callaghan, Space Travel”, Monument, April/May, 2005
  Jens-Emil Sennewald, “Mel O’Callaghan in the Galerie SchleicherLange”, Notiert, Kunst-Bulletin, April 2005, p. 75
  Bérénice Bailly, “Mel O’Callaghan, Somewhere”, Le Monde, Saturday 3 December 2005, p. 32
  Beatrice Gralton, National Sculpure Prize, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
  Laura Murray Cree, “Finding Nowhere, Mel O’Callaghan”, Somewhere, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
  Solange Farkas, “New Vectors”, catalogue essay, 15º Internacional Electronic Arts Biennale Videobrasil, Brasil, 2005

• 2002

• Alexi Glass Kantor, “The Fly And The Mountain - Mel O’Callaghan and Nell”, Monument, Issue 47. p.108
  Jacqueline Millner, “The Fly And The Mountain”, catalogue essay, Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia
  Jacqueline Millner, “The Fly And The Mountain”, Postwest Publication, March, 2002
  Lenny Ann Low, “The Fly And The Mountain”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 2-3 p.11, 2002
  Alex Szczepaniak, “Conversation With Mel O’Callaghan”, Look, Art Gallery of New South Wales, February, 2002

• 2001

• Victoria Hynes, “Weird Science”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22-28 June, 2001 p.22
  Courtney Kidd, “On The Cutting Edge”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June, 2001, p. 22

• 2000

• Bruce James, “Mel - New Millenium Kinetics”, The Australian Art Collector, Jul -Sept p.140, 2000
  Mark Jackson, “Awakening To The Dream”, Realtime Magazine, Aug-Sept p.48, 2000