b. 1986
Rockhampton, Queensland.
Education ~ ~ ~
2021 Master of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Honours Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Visual Art (with Distinction), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Solo Exhibitions ~ ~ ~
2020 Networked, Outer Space, Brisbane
Night Works, The Wandering Room, Melbourne
2013 Concrete Joke, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Poor Traits + Other Quantities, REARVIEW, Melbourne
2011 GHOSTHOUSE, Boxcopy, Brisbane
2009 Trench Mouth, No Frills*, Brisbane
In all wholeness, Ali Bahali knows the cause of your disorders and the purpose behind all things: a collective meditation on the order of stuff,
Firstdraft, Sydney
Group Exhibitions ~ ~ ~
2021 Light Box, Good Grief Studios, MONA FOMA, Hobart
2017 Negative Volumes: Danger Magic, Liquid Architecture, Firstdraft
See How You Go, Down Under Space, Sydney
PLAY, Blindside, Melbourne
2015 Experimenta: Recharge, Tele Visions, The Block, QUT, Brisbane
Island Salon, Underbelly Arts Festival, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
Experimenta: Recharge, Tele Visions, The-Lock Up, Newcastle
Experimenta: Recharge, Tele Visions, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, Adelaide
2014 Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Aphids, Federation Square, Melbourne
Zonk Vision: Pocket Holiday, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space, Canberra
Experimenta: Recharge, Tele Visions, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Zonk Vision: Right Side of the Tracks, Knight St Art Space, Melbourne
Housewarming, Bus Projects, Melbourne2012 Immediacy, Fleet Lane, Brisbane
2012 Siege Mentality, OtherFilm Festival 2012, Maritime Museum, Brisbane
Artists’ Proof #1, MUMA, Monash University, Melbourne
Reign of Error, Firstdraft, Sydney
Going South, Screen Space, Melbourne
Time Machine, Serial Space, Sydney
The Impossibility of Possibility, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Psycho Subtropics, Serial Space, OtherFilm, Sydney
2011 Understanding Infinity, Kings ARI, Melbourne
Skype Show, Accidentally Annie Street Space, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Festival of The New Primitive, Spec, Brisbane
Encode, Level ARI, Brisbane
Optica12, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
2010 Broadcast, Level, Brisbane
Psycho Subtropics, OtherFilm, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
Next Wave Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2009 Home Loan, Queen Victoria Building, Brisbane
Recession Art + Other Strategies, inbetweenspaces, Brisbane
Fresh Cut 2009, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Visual Dust, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
House Party, Accidentally Annie Street Space, Brisbane
Performances ~ ~ ~
2020 HuRU-hARa, Asia TOPA, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2017 An Evening of Musik: 5, curated by John Nixon, West Space, Melbourne
An Evening of Musik: 1, curated by John Nixon, West Space, Melbourne
2016 A-97, Next Wave, ACMI, Melbourne
2015 Lynch By Night, Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane
2013 Reinventing The Wheel: The Readymade Century, Monash Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Weird Science, ARTBAR, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Incubate Festival, Paradox, Tilburg
Cafe OTO, London
Audacious Art Space, Sheffield
SHHH Festival, Bristol Art House, Bristol
Australian Open, KRAAK, KC Belgie, Hasselt
Occii, Amsterdam
Instants Chavires, Paris
Urban Spree, Berlin
2011 Overground: International Jazz Festival, Melbourne City Hall, Melbourne
Cells Button, House of Natural Fibre Festival, Yogyakarta
Nu-Substance, Bandung
2010 Gross Bodies of Light, Spec, MAAP, Brisbane
Psycho Subtropics, OtherFilm, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
Miscellaneous, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
2008 Bastard Experimental Music Festival, The Globe, Brisbane
Eat Your Children, Audiopollen Social Club, Brisbane
2007 Hum and Scene, Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane
iTouch, Metro Arts Queensland, Brisbane
2006 Fortitude Rising Festival, Brisbane
Battle of the Fi’s, Straight Out Of Brisbane Festival, Brisbane
Transmute, The Block, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Screenings ~ ~ ~
2021 React Video, Moontown TV, Season 1, Episode 1, Sydney
A Garden Dissolves Into Black Silk, Lisa Lerkenfeldt & Sarah Byrne, OK LÀ, Quebec
A Garden Dissolves Into Black Silk, Lisa Lerkenfeldt & Sarah Byrne, Sonosphere, Memphis
A Garden Dissolves Into Black Silk, Lisa Lerkenfeldt & Sarah Byrne, Gray Area, San Francisco
React Video, Light Box, Good Grief Studios, MONA FOMA, Hobart
The Thornbill, Light Box, Good Grief Studios, MONA FOMA, Hobart
2014 Sails On The Bay, Zonk Vision: Pocket Holiday, Spectacle Theatre, Brooklyn, New York
Sails On The Bay, Zonk Vision: Pocket Holiday, Babycastles, Manhattan, New York
Filmography ~ ~ ~
2018 The Thornbill, dir. Christopher Dellaca, sound recordist
Forums ~ ~ ~
2018 Conversing the Other, led by Dr Courtney Coombs, Testing Grounds, Melbourne
2013 Image World, Diagram, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2009 No Forum*- led by Jemima Wyman, Joe Breikers, Sarah Byrne, No Frills*, Brisbane
Text ~ ~ ~
2020 Alex Cuffe: Love Is the Length of Her Hair, catalogue essay, TCB, Melbourne
Awards ~ ~ ~
2021 Mary Oliphant Prize, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2012 Soundclash recipient, Australia Council Music Board
International Pathways Grant recipient, Australia Council for the Arts
2008 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Queensland University of Technology