Jamin Kluss

Jamin (b. 1976, Sydney) is a Tasmanian based artist known for his vibrant murals and street art as well as his contemporary approaches to visual art, harnessing and combining a variety of painting styles with other material-based experimental approaches to develop innovative and dynamic works. His creative output extends into music festivals, staging, restaurants and even two of the Mona ferries that operate in Hobart. Jamin maintains a dynamic engagement with the flow of new and sometimes radical ideas, drawing from Zen, Deleuze, Science and Music.

Jamin has produced mural work internationally in Moscow, Paris and Bangkok as well as nationally and across Tasmania. In 2018 his gallery-based works were selected for the Biennale of Australian Art in Ballarat and in 2008 for Contemporary Australia: Optimismat the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Brisbane. He was the Visual Curator and Artistic Associate of MONA FOMA’s Faux Mofestival from 2015-2017.

Jamin is a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Arts & Media, University of Tasmania, where his thesis explores illusions produced by material assemblages.

Jamin is represented by Despard Gallery, Hobart and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.

2021 PhD Fine Art, University of Tasmania
2008 MFA Master of Fine Art, University of Tasmania
2005 BFA Honours (1st) University of Tasmania
2004 BFA Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Tasmania

Solo Exhibitions
2019 - Floating Point, Flinder’s Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2017 - Black Prism, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2013 - One Thing Begets Another, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2011 – Shields Against the Enemy, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
2008 – INERTIA / FORCE / CHANGE / INERTIA, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
2007 – First We Take Paris, Then We Take the World, Solo Commission Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport
2007 – Tasmania: Explore the Possibilities, INFLIGHT Gallery, Hobart
2006 – Common Ground (Folie á Trois), BUS Gallery, Melbourne
2005 – A.K.A. (Every One's a Suspect), Criterion Gallery @ Amulet Restaurant, Hobart