Zoja Trofimiuk

Artist` Statement: "My Art is my Statement".

Sculptor and printmaker, born in Prague, lives and works in Melbourne.

"......Zoja Trofimiuk is a glass practitioner who is familiar with all kinds of glass methods. Her artistic profile and potential in glass is quite unique and means that her work clearly "˜stands out from the crowd...."
prof. Sylva Petrova PhDr

2012 Graduate Diploma in Education, Secondary, ACU
2002 Glass Monash/RMIT, Melbourne
1991 M.A., Master of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne
1977 B.A., Diploma in Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art, Sculpture, Poland

Awards:
2021 Monoprint Award Australia, finalist
2020 VAS /Victorian Artists Society/ Sculpture Award, Winner, for "Vanity"
2018 Australian Print Triennial, Mildura, finalist
2016 Print Council of Australia Award, finalist
2015 Honorary Award, JAPAN
INTERNATIONAL MINIATURE PRINT BIENNALE
2006 finalist, RANAMOK GLASS PRIZE
IX INTERNATIONAL GLASS SYMPOSIUM
Nový Bor, Czech Republic
2005 Honorary Award, 1.Art Biennial, Art Addiction
Medial Museum, London, for Time Capsule
1999 Print Council of Australia Award
1990 Honorary Award, Dante’s Biennale, Ravenna, Italy
1981 Honorary Award, Dante’s Biennale, Ravenna, Italy

Represented by:
Art Gallery NSW
Corning Museum of Glass, Rakow Research Library
CRYSTALEX studio glass collection, Europe

Membership:
AUSGLASS
FIDEM
ABI (American Biographical Institute)
Honorary Member of the Research Board of Advisors
PCA (Print Council of Australia)
NAVA
VAS /Victorian Artists Society/

Selected Exhibitions:
solo:
2005 Sculpture & Graverre, Adam galleries, Melbourne
2001 Ocean Gallery inaugurated from Austral. Shores
1996 Works on Paper, George gallery, Melbourne
1990 Torso, Hugo gallery, Canberra

group:
2020 VAS George Hicks Foundation Contemporary,
Melbourne
2018 Australian Print Triennial, Mildura
2006 Ranamok Glass Award 2006
IX INTERNATIONAL GLASS, Nový Bor
Czech Republic
2003 AXIA MODERN ART, Kiln formed glass
Australia & New Zealand, Melbourne
2000 Women on the Move 1910-2000
Adam galleries, Melbourne
1996 Sculpture 8,9 Robin Gibson gallery, Sydney
1990 Small Forms, Castellanza, Italy