Commencing Fine Art training in the painting program at the Victorian College of the Arts – VCA, in Melbourne, Australia, in 2009, Sam Fagan graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art – BFA, with First Class Honours in 2012.
Read MoreHaving previously studied 18 months of interior design at RMIT – The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, before moving to the VCA, Fagan’s practice had a spatial predisposition that would later assist a move toward sculpture in 2011, and installation and architectural intervention during his honours year in 2012.
Recent solo exhibitions include: In between, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2014); minus, DUDSPACE, Melbourne (2012) and Counter-, Off the Kerb Gallery, Melbourne (2011). His work has featured in a number of group exhibitions including: Slip, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne (2014); Failure Works, Kings, Melbourne (2014); dud project #1, Kings, Melbourne (2014); Debut XIII, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne (2012); Lux 0.27, Dark Horse Experiment Gallery, Melbourne (2012); + (plus), Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne (2012); Where the birds always sing…, Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne (2012); VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (2012); The Wallara Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne (2011); Is It Straight?, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne (2011); VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (2011) and From Wonder To Ruins, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne (2011).
Fagan has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Off the Kerb Emerging Artist Award in 2010, The Wallara Traveling Scholarship, The Paradise Hills Group Exhibition, The Roger Kemp Memorial Prize, The Global Art Projects Award and The Blindside Debut Group Show in 2011. As recipient of the Wallara Traveling Scholarship Fagan travelled to the United States: Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC and central Japan: Tokyo, Nara, Nikko, Matsimoto, Takayama, Kyoto, Nara, Naioshima, Koyasan and Osaka – from December 2011 to March 2012. In December 2013 Fagan partook in the Silence Awareness Existence – SAE Program, a 1 month residency at the Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland.
Sam Fagan continues to live and work in Melbourne, Australia.
