Marita Fraser

CV

EDUCATION
   
2010 Master Class Heimo Zobernig
Academy of Fine Art, Vienna
   
2005 Bachelor of Visual Arts (1st class honours)
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
   
2004 Master Class Muntean + Rosenblum
Academy of Fine Art, Vienna
   
EXHIBITIONS
   
Solo shows
2010 Marita Fraser, Engen Stadt Museum + Galerie , Engen
  Marita Fraser, W I N I A R Z Y K, Vienna
  Marita Fraser, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2009 Rio, Mop, Sydney
2008 Modern Love, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2006 Marita Fraser, bell street project space, Vienna
2005 I'll be right back, Peloton, Sydney
2004 Recent Work with Paint, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna
   
Selected Group shows
2011 Prima Interventionen, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
  Silver Moon, • (Lisa Ruyter Gallery), Vienna
  Caution colour!, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
2010 Love of Diagrams, PICA, Perth
  Pattern Recognition, PS, Amsterdam
  UND #6, Schwartz Gallery, London
  Group Show, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna
  Bell Street Project Space and The Hex, Kunstbeuro, Vienna
  in passing 9, Kunstlerhaus Passage Galerie, Vienna
2009 Early Dawning ,Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, with Robert Dowling, Carsten Fock, Marita Fraser, Ryan Mosley
  The Center of Attention. Kunst als Soziotopie, Radetzkystraße 23, Vienna (curated by Ursula Maria Probst)
  Urban Signs - Local Stratergies (in collaboration with Alex Lawler), Praterstern, Vienna,
(curated by, Ursula Maria Probst, Walter Seidl, Martin Wagner)
  Back to Basel, The Foreverending Story, Basel
  The Economic Powerhouse, Neocon Central, Frankfurt
  The Forgotten Bar, Berlin (curated by Forever Ending Story)
  Abstrakte Kunst im Jahr 2009, Rondo, Graz (curated by Frank Altman)
  Silent Post, Pavement Gallery, Manchester
  The Real Thing, MU, Eindhoven (curated by Vvork)
  Faith and Lust: Various Approaches to Formalist Abstraction, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney
  N.O., SNO, Sydney
2008 Investigations on anything, something and nothing, W I N I A R Z Y K, Vienna
  SkulpTULLN, City of Tulln, Austria
  Con Art Fair,Vienna
  Here comes the Ocean, Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe
  Existance in a Letter, Cluster, Berlin (curated by Barbara Buchmaier)
  Junger, Immanence, Paris,
2007 Work in Progress, Forum +, Concertgebouw, Brugge.
  Aktuelle Positionen der abstrakten Malerei, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen
  Pudel Kollektion, Hamburg
  Spiel weiter du süsses etwas, Cluster, Berlin
  En Bloc, Karlsruhe
  Seasons in the Abyss, Mop, Sydney
  ArtMart, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
  Shoebox, curated by Huseyin Sami, bell street project space, Vienna
  UND#2, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 Stupid as a painter, brick 5, Vienna
  The Invisible Reading Room, presented by The Invisible Inc, Firstdraft, Sydney
  CMKY, bell street project space Vienna, part of Vienna Biennale 06
  Platte 6, Platte, Vienna
  Platte 3, Platte, Vienna
  Failed artwork, Verein zur forderung des professionellen dilettantismus, Vienna
  Trafik, a Peloton Project, curated by Matthys Gerber and Giles Ryder, Sydney
   
RESIDENCIES
   
2011 Artist in Residence, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
2010 Artspace, Sydney
2008 Cité International des Arts, Paris
2007 Artist in Residence, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
 
AWARDS, GRANTS, COMPETITIONS and SCHOLARSHIPS
   
2011 New Works Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2009 ArtStart, Australia Council for the Arts
2008 Nava marketing grant
2007 The NSW Arts Gallery, Moya Dyring Studio, Cité International des Arts, Paris
2005 Selected Finalist Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship
  Zelda Stedman Scholarship, University of Sydney
2003 Fauvette Loureiro Scholarship, University of Sydney
   
MEDIA and REVIEWS
   
2009 Vier Ecken Aktueller Malerei, Der Standard, September 24, 2009 p. 40
  FBI radio, interview on Canvas, April 26, 2009
  InsideOut, April, 2009
  Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 10 April, 2009
  Art Monthly, Artnotes, April, 2009
2008 Sydney Morning Herald, Metro,July 4,Top10, 2008
2007 Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Open Gallery, by Kelsey Munro, August 18 - 19, 2007
  Falter, Best of Vienna, Vienna, May, 2007.
  Falter, Profis im Off, Vienna, 15 th - 22 nd February, 2007.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald, Critics Pick by Tracey Clement, April 8, 2005.
  Sydney Morning Herald, Visual Art (for Pump if up (Baby), China Heights), by Sunanda Creagh, Aug, 2005.
  2SER radio, interview on Wednesday Overdrive, March 30, 2005.
   
PUBLICATIONS
 
Marita Fraser, Love of Diagrams, Bucher Verlag, Austria, 2010
Love of Diagrams, PICA, Perth, 2010
Locksmith Nr. 1, published by Losksmith, Sydney, 2009
Magazin Textuelle Bildhauerei NR 4, 2009
Runway, Issue 12, published by Invisible Inc., Sydney, 2009
Modern Love, self published, 2008
Magazin Textuelle Bildhauerei NR 3, 2008
Abrechnung, published by One Star Press, Paris, 2008
En BLOC, published by koi, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2007
Runway, Issue 9, published by Invisible Inc., Sydney, 2007.
SPACE 3, An Australian Independent Creative Network, published by Space3, Sydney, 2006.