STUDIES:
1982
BA Bachelor of Fine Art, Degree
School of Art, Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology
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GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1982 –83 A Girl for all Seasons, film and art
performance by Diane Mantzaris, alongside various musicians/artists (INX,
Sacred Cowboys, Birthday Party, Nick Cave, John Campbell, Steve Cox) various Melbourne
music and experimental art venues
1987 Modern Legends 200 Gertrude Street
Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria (CG Lithographs solo show)
1988 The
First International Symposium of Electronic Art Jarsburg Congress Centre,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
1988-1990 Encounters1 College Gallery, SA
School of Art, South Australia. (curated by Stephanie Britton) with artists Banduk
Marika and Kate Breaky (toured SA Regional Galleries, Tasmania, Queensland)
1989 Bharat Bhavan International Biennal of
Prints Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal, India
1990 Tokyo Connection Australian artists
exhibition and symposium in Tokyo, Heinekan Village, Harajiku, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Crime and Punishment Solo Show Grahame Galleries, Brisbane,
Australia
1990 Impressions in Print, Toowoomba Art
Gallery, QLD Touring Qld Regional Galleries.
1991 CIPE’
91 Union of Artists and Writers from Cuba (UNEAC) Cuba
1991 ‘Windows (on the World’ Prints and Constructions.) One Person
show. Powell Street Graphics Gallery.) Melbourne Victoria.
1991 The Great Australian Science Show Mantzaris and Stelarc, World Congress Centre,
Melbourne, Victoria
1991 Recent Acquisitions: Diane Mantzaris Gallery 2, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1991 Technology Assisted Art Monash
University Studios Collingwood, Victoria
1991-92 Reference
Points: A New Perspective Gallery
4, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1992 Unfamiliar Territory The Adelaide Biennale,
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
1992 Electric
Visions One Person Show, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, Australia
1992 Savage Art Prize Melbourne International
festival, Melbourne, Australia
1992 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize (Awarded) Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Construction Assemblage exhibition, Surfers
Paradise, Queensland
1992-95 My Head is a Map Curated by Roger
Butler. Australian National Gallery, ACT, Touring Nationally coinciding with
The Second Australian Print Symposium: artist
talk/paper by Diane Mantzaris: My Electric Visions, Australian National
Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1992-93 6 x 6 (Six Contemporary Australian
Printmakers) Curated by Anne Kirker
(Australia) and Somporn Rodboon (Thailand)
Silpakorn University Bangkok, Khon Khaen and Chiang Mai University Galleries
THAILAND, and concluding at the Queensland Art Gallery
1992 Diversity- Australia’s greatest printmakers Curated by Sharon Maslem, Access Contemporary Art gallery, NSW (touring
nationally)
1993 Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection Ground floor Raynor Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1993 Secrets from Siam, work
from Bangkok, One Person Show Verity Street Gallery. Melbourne, Australia
1994 Clashing Fragments Curated by Sara
Lindsay, University of Tasmania, touring regional galleries nationally
Australia
1992 Diane Mantzaris New works, Michael
Wardell Gallery, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne Australia
1994 A.C.A.F.4 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art
Fair, Michael Wardell Gallery selection Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne, Australia
1995 Technothelylogia Women and Technology Monash University
Gallery curated by Zara Stanhope, Melbourne, Australia
1995 NON: artists against nuclear testing
Greenpeace Artists Fundraiser, Ether Ohnetitel Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1997 Photography in Print Michael Wardell
at 2a Waltham Street Richmond Group Show, Melbourne Australia
1997 Landline to the Past Diane Mantzaris
Michael Wardell at 2a Waltham Street Melbourne Australia
1999 Hana: prints in glass. Front and
chef windows of Japanese udon and sushi bar, Melbourne, Australia
2000-04 Two
Public Artworks - Freeway Interventions
Accelerated Billboard with
Print installation:
1/ ‘Working
Class Heroes’ (billboard print and 9 piece art installation on the heroism
and struggle of the working class, Westgate freeway, relocated 14 times, shelved
after 4 yrs)
2/ ‘House in the Sky-The
Great Australian delusion’ Melways Ref:40 D12 (Steel
fabricated house suspension with lighting
over major freeway interchange in Melbourne,
Australia) In association with BM architects, Pride of Place program (Victorian
State Government) and Images of the West (Western Metropolitan Region Councils)
2002 Mythologies, (series Time Immemorial) Ho HA Gallery Exhibition and Collaboration between 6 female artists, 3 in
Athens and 3 Greek artists from Melbourne, Co-ordinated by host gallery
director and artist Dora Haralambaki
2003 Mythologies: (series Time
Immemorial) Span Gallery,
Melbourne Australia
2006-07 Marks and Motifs Print Council of
Australia touring exhibition curated by Stephen Rainbird Touring Nationally
Australia.
2010-11 The Human Oddity series, various venues, Online viewing
2011 Save Art from RMIT, Diane
Mantzaris and Steve Cox, Occupy RMIT and Melbourne, exhibition at RMIT
grounds 1000 people.
2011 Exposure 2011 international photography exhibition,
celebrating the power of the image. New York, USA
2011 Errorartist, art performance for Who wants to be a *errorist film ‘Launch at Revolt, Melbourne, Australia
2011-2012 Fountain of Eve, fountain series, Online
viewing
2012 The Human Clay, Diane Mantzaris and Guest artist Vasan Sitthiket , Number 1 Gallery Bangkok. Thailand
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY See Australian
National Gallery, Canberra
http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/catalogues/bibliography/624564/mantzaris-diane-diane-mantzaris-cv.aspx
AWARDS
1985 Project Grant, Visual Arts/ Craft Board of
the Australia Council (Computer Generated Lithographs)
1987 Overseas Studio, Residency in the Australia
Council Studio, Tokyo Japan
1990 Australian Network for Art and Technology
Research and Development Grant
1992-1993 Asialink residency at Silpakorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand
1996 Development grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board
of the Australia Council
2002 City of Melbourne and Multicultural Arts
Victoria, Ho HA Gallery Athens, residency and collaboration and exhibition in
Athens,Greece
COLLECTIONS National
Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery
Australian National Gallery
Art
Gallery of South Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
State Library of
Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum/ Art Gallery, Launceston
University of Tasmania,
Launceston
Shepparton Art Gallery, Warnabambool Art Gallery,
Ballaarat Fine Art
Gallery,
Naracoote Art Gallery SA,
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery,
University
of Central Queensland
Queensland, University of Technology
University Art
Museum, Queensland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Flinders University SA
Gordon
Technical College, Victoria
Macrobertson Girls High School, Victoria
Ruyton
Girls School, Victoria
Norwood Secondary College, Victoria
Fintona Girls
College, Victoria
St Kilda Council, Victoria
Print Council of Australia
Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology
BHP,
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Parliament House
Collection, Canberra
Monash University
The Melbourne Club
Janet Holmes a Court
Collection
Artbank,
Gramercy Ventures,
Corporate and Private Collections,
Australia, India, Cuba, Japan, USA, Greece, Thailand.