PENELOPE CAIN RESUME 2024
Lives and works between Sydney and the Netherlands. 3 children 1 cat. www.penelopecain.com insta: @penelope.cain
Education
2001: Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) (Hons),The Australian National University
Previously completed veterinary science degree, The University of Sydney
2016: MFA awarded, Sydney College of Arts, the University of Sydney.
Selected solo exhibitions
2024: Ice-told stories in layers of dust POP Gallery AUS
2020: Object Bound Curses, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2019: Interregnum, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
2018: Dump, Kudos Gallery, July, 2018
2017: Profiteer Chic, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2010: Parklife, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
2010: Meshing on the Grid, MOP Gallery, Sydney
Selected curated and group exhibitions
2024: SALT AND ROCKS IN OUR VEINS, in NaturArchy, IMAL, Brussels, curated by Claudia Schnugg +Ingeborg Reichle
2024: Upcoming: Apocatopia, group show curated by Lieke Wouters, POST, Nijmegen, NL
2023: Mussel dreams in seaweed song New work commission for Een Fabriek/ The Factory, Zeeland, NL. Considering the future-extinction site of a present plastics factory.
2023: Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life of Microbes, Radius, Delft NL. Group show curated by Mateo Chacón Pino +Àngels Miralda.
2023: SACO Bienale: GOLPE/ CUT, Antafogasta Chile: Before Air there Was Water
2022: ReWild MAXXI Rome, group show curated by Manuel Cirauqui
2022: Undercurrents, Penrith Regional Gallery, curator Toby Chapman and Nina Stromvquist
2022: finalist, The Blake Prize, CPAC, Sydney AUS
2020: Time Crystals, Museum of Minerals and Metals, Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
Curators Alexandre Milagres +Tadeus Mucelli. Working with Peruvian glaciologist,
Dr Christian Yarleque and 3D AR artist Andrew Yip.
2020: Art and Activism in the 21st Century, curator Roshanak Khahban, London
2019: Taoyuan ArtX Media, Taoyuan Exhibition Centre, Taiwan. curated by Yun-Ju Chen
2019: Material Flow, Museum in the Park, Stroud, UK. Curated by Patricia Brien
2018: Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship exhibition of finalists. SCA Galleries, Sydney
2017: PAS artists @ Ideas Platform, Artspace Sydney. Curators Talia Linz + Alexie Glass-Kantor
2016: finalist in The Sulman Prize, part of the Archibald exhibition, Art Gallery NSW AUS
2016-2017: Creative Accounting, curated by Holly Williams
2012: Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
2012: Mostly Agree, Stills Gallery, Sydney. Curated by Josephine Skinner
2011: Selectively Revealed, Aram Art Gallery, Goyang, Seoul. Curated by Claire Needham + Sarah Bond. Toured Seoul, Taiwan and Thailand 2012.
2011: Experimenta Utopia Now, Museum of Old and New Art, Launceston, Tas. Curator Clare
Needham
2011: A-to-Z, University of East London Gallery, London
Awards, Scholarships, Grants
2024: EU Digital Deal residency for project Radical Care and the Greenhouse, working with WAAG, Amsterdam facilitated with Ars Electronica
2023: Een Fabriek/ The Factory Commission to respond to brownlands in Zeeland
2023: Residency and site specific work: Kingdom for the Moles, commissioned for 49m2, Witterook, Breda
2023: Residency and new art-sci research commission: NaturArchy Art-Sci, Joint Science Research Centre Italy
2022: S+T+ARTS Residency, Repairing the Present, The Hague NL
2021: Artist in residence with Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute + University of Western
Sydney AUS.
2019: Taipei Artist Village residency, Taiwan, to study contested landscapes, Kinmen Island
2019: Glenfiddich Contemporary Arts residency, Glenfiddich Distillery, Scotland, UK
2019: HAWAPI artist Microresidency funding and organisation, to Quelccaya glacier, Peru
2018: Winner, Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship
2018: International Glenfiddich Artist Residency, for travel in 2019
2017: Parramatta Studio recipient
2011: Power Institute Award for Artists: Residency at the Cite International des Arts, Paris
2010: ArtsNSW grant travel and new work
Artist Statement
Landscapes in their widest definition are central to Penelope Cain’s practice. In particular the colonised, extracted and transformed landscapes of the Anthropocene and the manifest marks of humans on the land.
She works with scientists, scientific data sets and concepts, and use video, sound installation, digital interaction, flags, text and public participation in storytellings about the lands of the Anthropocene and post-Carbon, from human and greater than human entry points.