BIO
Tammy Honey is an Australian artist who makes work about memory and place that oscillate between meta and social issues represented through painting, video art, and installation. Within this structure, she works in a method of long-term, ongoing series of works that address a particular thematic situated by works through collecting and translating data within her practice.
She has exhibited and screened in numerous countries and venues including the TATE Modern, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, SCOPE Art Fair, and the Dundee Arts Centre, UK. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania and is represented in collections such as the ASAC collection, Venice Biennale, ERGAS Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Gippsland Art Gallery, and private in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Iceland, England, and Indonesia.
Honey is represented by Studio Gallery Group in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, Australia.
EDUCATION
2004 Bachelor of Fine Art, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, University of Tasmania
1996 Diploma of Art and Design, Central Metropolitan College of TAFE, Perth Campus, Western Australia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2023 Mapping Place, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2022 96: Tammy Honey, FAC Artist in Residence, virtual gallery
2021 Baby, I'm Your Man, Digital Facade, Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria
2019 Aesthetic Disruption, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Spidergirl, Venice Contemporary Art Fair, Venice, Italy
2018 Spidergirl, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Tammy Honey: iLandscape 2007-2018, Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
2018 iLandscape, Cube 37, Frankston Art Centre, Victoria,
2018 iLandscape, Dark Space, Sawtooth ARI, Tasmania
2003 Manchurian Remix, CAST Gallery, Level 2 screening room, Hobart, Tasmania
2001 Tall Stories, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Victoria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2024 FEMME: Women in Art, Studio Gallery, Sydney, Brisbane
2024 Brisbane Art Fair, Brisbane, Queensland
2024 The Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Sydney Art Fair, Sydney, New South Wales
2022 Digital Aesthetic, Box Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2022 G Biennale 22 Metaverse, online, Melbourne, Victoria
2021 Christmas Exhibition, Small Works by the [MARS] Artists, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2021 Carried Landscapes, curated by Kim Collmer, Q18 Galerie, Quarter am Hafen, Cologne, Germany
2020 Black Garden, Cinemalab, Colombia, Geelong International Film Festival GIFF20
2019 Black Garden, Venice Production Bridge, 76th Venice International Film Festival, Venice, Italy
2019 Black Garden, Palais, Marche du Film, 72nd Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France
2019 Museum of Platitudes and Aphorisms - #4, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Super Awful Meta War Machines, curated by Shaun Wilson, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Creativity Persists, Seattle Centre on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
2017 Artefacts From 21st Century Humans, curated by Shaun Wilson, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne
2012 Placeness, 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin
2011 Boom Boom, Knowledge Knowledge, ARS Upstairs, Napier Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria
2009 Figuring Landscapes, curated by Steven Ball, Catherine Ewes, Pat Hoffie, Danni Zuvela. TATE
Modern, London, UK, Artsway, New Forest, UK, Dundee, Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, FACT Liverpool, UK, Vivid, Birmingham, UK Showroom, Sheffield, UK, 7th Hull International Short Film, UK, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK, Site Festival, Cinecity, UK, Brighton Film Festival Stroud Valley Artscape, UK Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, eMerge Media Space, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Perpetual Art Machine, University of Georgia Art Galleries, Athens Georgia, USA
2008 Perpetual Art Machine, Utsikten Art Center, Utsikten, Norway, Charlotte and Phillip Hanes Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, USA, SCOPE Art Fair, Basel
2008 The Mirror Stage, curated by Helene Black & Yiannis Colakides, Lanitis Foundation, Limassol,Cyprus
2008 Neo Goth: Back in Black, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
2007 Australian Gothic, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Project Space, & Spare Room, Melbourne, Victoria
2007 New Revelations, curated by Leon Marvell, Perth International Film Festival 2007, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, WA
2007 After Cinema, curated by Shaun Wilson, 4th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Scala Theatre, Berlin, Germany
2007 Voyeur One, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne, Victoria
2006 Exposed, The Basement ARI, Friskas, Finland
2006 Risk, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Downtown ARI, Adelaide, South Australia
2005 Vital Signs Conference, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria
2004 Megastar MegaMart, guerilla public projections, Hobart, Tasmania
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2022 Corridors, Online Artist in Residence, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia
2021 ACMI-X, ACMI, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND BOOKS
2023 Mapping Place, Exhibition and catalogue essay, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia
2021 Like, Whatever, Exhibition and catalogue essay by Shaun Wilson, Laminex, Bakers Road Entertainment ISBN: 978-0648955344
2018 Spider Girl, Exhibition and catalogue essay by Jessica Schwientek, NOIR Darkroom, CC BY-SA 3.0
2011 Re-Imagine: Contemporary Art, book by L Chuy, Art Now International ISBN: 978-0982092132
2008 Figuring Landscapes: artists’ moving image from Australia and the UK, Exhibition and catalogue essays by Catherine Elwes,Steven Ball, University of Arts London ISBN: 9781846380471
2008 Neo-Goth: Back in Black, Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue, The University of Queensland Art Museum, ISBN: 9781864999167
2007 Australian Gothic: Video Art Now, Exhibition and essay by Shaun Wilson, RMIT University
2006 Risk, Exhibition and catalogue essay, Kings ARI, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
ASAC collection, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia
Ergas Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Iceland, England and Indonesia
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2007 Acquisition Artist Grant, ERGAS Collection, [$5000]
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 GBiennale GB22 Art Symposium, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
2022 GBiennale - Film and Arts Program, GIFF, GECO, GUFF, GINDIE
2021 GBiennale - Film Festival Program, GIFF, GECO, GUFF, GINDIE
2019 GIFF - Film Festival
REPRESENTATION IN FILM MARKETS
2021 European Film Market EFM, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2020 TIFF Industry, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2020 Marche du Film, 73rd Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France
2020 Venice Production Bridge, 77th Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
2019 Canadian Film Market, Hamilton Film Festival, Hamilton, Canada
2019 Venice Production Bridge, 76th Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
2019 Marche du Film, 72nd Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France
GUEST LECTURERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2023 Artist talk and workshop, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia
2022 Speaker, GB22 Symposium, GBiennale, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia