CHRISTIAN CAPURRO

Christian Capurro works with a diverse range of media, tools and processes. He was curated into the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and also recently into: InVisible: Art at the Edge of Perception, Mass MoCA (2010); Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, IMA/Tin Sheds/Samstag Museum of Art (2009/10); Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, AGNSW/Asialink touring exhibition (2009/11); Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art, NGV (2012); and NEW07, ACCA (2007). Recent solo exhibitions include: a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), Artspace, Sydney (2010), IS, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna (2013), and Mouthpiece, Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2011). His work is held privately, both locally and overseas, and in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales/ Kaldor Family Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University Museum of Art and the Queensland University of Technology. While undertaking a Samstag Scholarship, Capurro completed residencies at Escola Maumaus, Lisbon in 2012 and Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna in 2012/13.