Chris Howlett

Howlett graduated with a MFA from the Californian Institute of the Arts in 2000. His works have been exhibited internationally in festivals including the GamerZ in Marseille, France, Inter-Society of Electronic Arts in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm; Videoholica International Video Art Festival in Bulgaria; Los Angeles Freewaves Festival of Film, Video and New Media and exhibited work at the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena, California. His solo and collaborative works have also been exhibited locally at the Gallery of Modern Art, Institute of Modern Art, the QUT Art Museum, The Arc Biennial for Art & Design and interstate at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Hobart Art Gallery, Cairns Contemporary Art Space and Blindside Artist Run Space in Melbourne. His public art commissions include “KICK OFF” which was a curated screen-based program at the new Metricon Stadium Homeground of the Gold Coast Suns and Australia’s largest public art canvas the QUT billboard project. In 2012, he was part of the DJ Culture: Contemporary Australian Video Art, screening in the Cinémathèque at Gallery of Modern Art and in 2013 underwent a residency in Armenia at Tumo – center for creative technologies where he completed a series o...

2016-present Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology, QLD, Australia.

2000 Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

1996 Bachelor of Visual Arts, First Class Honours, Queensland University of Technology, QLD, Australia


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2016 Board Member, Boxcopy artist run space, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

2008-2012 Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

2006 Curator, Debut III, Blindside Artist Run Space, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Committee Member, Blindside Artist Run Space Inc., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS

2014 Jeremy Hynes Award, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

2013 Sunshine Coast Art Prize – 3D, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia.

Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travel Grant, Melbourne, Queensland, Australia.

2004 Arts Queensland Monthly Grant, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

1998 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship, South Australian School of Art.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 New Dawn, Boxcopy, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

ARGARMENIA, Tumo – center for creative technologies, Yerevan, Armenia.

2009 Flashbacks, Metro Arts, Gallery 2, Edward Street, The City, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

2006 InOut, Blindside Artist Run Space Inc., Nicholas Building, The City, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2005 Weapons on the Wall, Institute of Modern Art, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

2003 Weapons on the Wall, The Farm Space, The City, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

2000 Hire Me Out, Gallery 1, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

1999 Untitled Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVE...