BIO
Tammy Honey is an Australian artist who for the past 25 years has made work about memory and place framed as a Metamodernist approach of oscillation 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 ERGAS Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and private in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Iceland, England, and Indonesia.
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 Topos, 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, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne, Victoria
Tammy Honey: iLandscape 2007-2018, Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
iLandscape, Cube 37, Frankston Art Centre, Victoria, Dark Space, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, 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
2022 Digital Aesthetic, Box Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2021 Christmas Exhibition, Small Works by the [MARS] Artists, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Carried Landscapes, curated by Kim Collmer, Q18 Galerie, Quarter am Hafen, Cologne, Germany
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
Creativity Persists, Seattle Centre on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
2017 Artefacts From 21st Century Humans, curated by Shaun Wilson, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne, Victoria
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
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
The Mirror Stage, curated by Helene Black & Yiannis Colakides, Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus
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
New Revelations, curated by Leon Marvell, Perth International Film Festival 2007, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, WA
After Cinema, curated by Shaun Wilson, 4th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Scala Theatre, Berlin
Voyeur One, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne, Victoria
2006 Exposed, The Basement ARI, Friskas, Finland
Risk, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Downtown ARI, Adelaide
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, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND BOOKS
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
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
Ergas Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Iceland, England and Indonesia