James Angus

JAMES ANGUS

Born 1970, Perth, Australia

Lives New York

EDUCATION

Completed Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Yale University School of Art

Completed Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Curtin University of Technology

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

New Sculpture, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Papier Mâché for Beginners, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, Australia

James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

John Deere Model D, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA

James Angus, Triple V, Paris, France

James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

James Angus, Triple V, Paris, France

James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

James Angus, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth curated by Rachel Kent

James Angus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney curated by Rachel Kent

James Angus and three Sculptures, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York

Truck Corridor, Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

James Angus, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA

James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
James Angus, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
James Angus, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
James Angus, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

James Angus, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA

James Angus, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA

James Angus, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
James Angus, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia

James Angus, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia

James Angus, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney

Connecting the World through Sculpture, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

From the Ground Up as part of Connecting the World through Sculpture, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Hong Kong

The Like Button, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

State of Play, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney

Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary, Australia

Primavera at 25: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Re-Corbusier, Maison La Roche, Villa Jeanneret, Paris

19^th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire (curated by Juliana Engberg)

Ambulance Blues, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, NY
Puddles, Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy

Lightness of Being, City Hall Park, New York (organized by the Public Art Fund)

Your Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

Science Fiction #3, Triple V, Paris, France.

Changwong Sculpture Biennale, South Korea

Sculpture Park at Frieze New York, New York.

GROUPS WHO, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Out of the West: Art of Western Australia from the National Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Cubism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

To make a work of timeless art: MCA Primavera Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Lucky Town, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

The Freak Show, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

Group Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,

Strange Cargo: Contemporary art as a state of encounter, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Tweed River Regional Gallery

21^st Century Modern, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Random Access, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria

MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Wall Power, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

C'town Bling, curator Anne Loxley, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, Australia

National Sculpture Prize exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gridlock: cities, structures, spaces, curator Simon Rees, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Contemporary Collection Benefactors: 12^th Annnual Dinner & Art Auction, CCB, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, September 2003 - July 2004

Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

GBE (Modern), Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

Fair Game: Art + Sport, NGV Response Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Still Life: Inaugural Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Gulliver's Travels, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Parkside, South Australia

Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
(the world may be) fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, curated by Richard Grayson, Sydney
Gulliver's Travels, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania; Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

The Age of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Never Never Land, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

New Urban Sculpture, Public Art Fund, New York

Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Penumbrae, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Animal Instincts, Art Gallery of South Australia

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
Transformers, Auckland City Art Gallery
Hans Accola, James Angus, Fischli and Weiss, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

Mind over Matter, Art Gallery of Western Australia

115 degrees 58 minutes East, 91 degrees 56 minutes South, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Movement and Light, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

ARX 3 (Artists' Regional Exchange), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia

PRIMAVERA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Lecturer (design) University of Technology Sydney

Lecturer (sculpture) Sydney College of the Arts

Visiting fellow, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne

Lecturer (sculpture) Sydney College of the Arts

Lecturer (sculpture) Sydney College of the Arts

Visiting artist workshop (sculpture), Curtin University of Technology

Teaching assistant (sculpture), Yale University School of Art

Tutor (architecture), Curtin University of Technology

Tutor (sculpture), Curtin University of Technology

Australia Council Fellowship

Basil Sellers Art Prize, Melbourne

Short listed for National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia

Studio residency, Cite des Arts, Paris

Australia Council Professional Development Grant

Australia Council Professional Development Grant

Yale University Travelling Fellowship

Fulbright Postgraduate Award

Australian Network for Art and Technology Grant

Mobile, Omnia Commission, Omnia Potts Point, Sydney

Built Unbuilt Unbuildable, Monash University Museum of Art

I‐beam Sunburst, 1800 Rockville Pike, Maryland

Mobile, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane

Compressed Pipeline Expansion, Changwon Sculpture Biennale

Concrete Cloudburst, Frieze Art Fair, New York

Day In Day Out, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney

Grow Your Own, Forrest Place, Perth

Lycee Ferdinand Buisson, Voiron, France

Geo Face Distributor, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Ellipsoidal Freeway Sculpture, Eastlink Freeway, Connect East, Melbourne

Wave Machine, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney

Basketball Dropped from 35,000 Feet, Public Art Fund, New York

Artbank

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

Austcorp, Sydney

Credit Suisse, Sydney

Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Murdoch University Art Collection, Perth

Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle

Public Art Fund, New York

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Graham Mathwin, 'Review - James Angus Papier Mâché for Beginners', Artguide, 12 June 2019 

Michael Bates, `The New Australian Garden,' September 2017

'Sculpture celebrates forms of science and engineering', Monash University, 9 December 2015

Nicholas Forrest, `Shows that Matter - James Angus Recreates Space at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery', Blouin Art Info, February 8 2013

Sharne Wolff, `James Angus', The Art Life, February 9 2013, http://theartlife.com.au/2013/james-angus/

Henriette Bretton-Meyer and James Angus, `Between science and fictions', MCA Collection Volume One, (Sydney: MCA, 2012) pp168-174

'Gallery's new work has many faces', Border Mail, 27 October, 2009, p.9

Pryor, Sally, 'Not just another face in the crowd', Canberra Times, 27 October, 2010, p.1

Katrina Strickland, 'Mid-City Statement- The evolution of a major new sculpture,' The Australian Financial Review, Thursday 29, July, pp.44

Andrew Taylor, 'Tractor as art', The Sun Herald, October 17, 2010, pp 36

Bolland, Michaela, 'Orange blob replaces white man on horse', The Australian, 27 October, 2009, p.6

Chapman, Christopher, 'Abstraction and figuration', Portrait34, Summer ed, 2009

Strickland, Katrina, 'Mid city statement: the evolution of a major new sculpture', Financial Review, 29 July, 2009, p.44

'James Angus', To make a work of timeless art-MCA Primavera Acquisitions, 08-09

Art and Australia, Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, 2008, p44

Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. (ed.) 2008 Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions - Forms That Turn, exh.cat. Thames & Hudson: Australia, 2008

Scarlett, Ken, 'No stopping on the freeway!', Australian Art Review, August-October, 2008, pp.34-36

Nelson, Robert, 'Sport: where we all find our inner idiot', The Age, August 13, 2008, p. 16

Ara Jansen, “Twisted Reality”, West Australian Newspaper, 15 December 2007

Bevan, Robert 'art & events', Vogue Living Australia, January/February 2007, pp. 69 - 72

Palmer, Daniel, 'Looking Back: Retrospectives', Frieze, mo. 104, December - January 2007, p. 128, p. 130

Angus, James, James Angus, Art and Australia, 2006 (published to accompany the exhibition of James Angus curated by Rachel Kent at the Museum of Contemporary Art)

Broadsheet interview with Linda Michael for 2006 Adelaide Biennial, Broadsheet, Vol. 35 No. 1, March - May 2006 pp. 24 - 27

Boyd, Chris 'Both literal and figurative', The Weekend Australian Financial Review, September 2 - 3, 2006, pp. 32 - 33

Clement, T. 'Collision Theory', in the Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, January 13-19, 2006 p. 19

Cook, Robert, 'James Angus', 21^st Century Modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art catalogue, curated by Linda Michael, published by Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2006 pp. 18-19

Fortescue, Elizabeth 'Off the Wall - James Angus at the Museum of Contemporary Art', Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2006, p. 63

Jinman, Richard, 'It's a shift to the right for this old racer', The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, September 13, 2006, p. 13

Smee, Sebastian, “Watch out for sharp bends”, The Australian, Monday September 25, 2006

Charles Robb and Wes Hill, `James Angus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,' Eyeline, number 64, pp56-57

“James Angus,” National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition (exh. Cat.), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p.13

Duncan, Jenepher, “James Angus,” Wall Power (exh. Cat.), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2005 (unpaginated)

Engberg, Juliana, 'The Body in the Box: Callum Morton and James Angus', Art and Australia, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2005, pp. 580 - 587

Gallerie d'Art & Co, “A Bocca Aperte: In Australia `'arte riesce a togliere il fiato,” 2005

Israel, Glenis artwise contemporary: visual arts 10-12, John Wiley & Sons, Qld. 2005 pp. 7 - 13

Margaret Marsh, Michele Watts and Craig Malyon A.R.T. 2 practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2005 p. 212-23

MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, exhibition catalogue, Sydney 2005 p 6, 24

Sydney Morning Herald, “Stories Revisited: The semiotics of installation,” (refers to Lenny Ann Low, August 6, 2004), ed. Matt Buchanan, January 7, 2005, p. 26 (Summer Spectrum)

ArtLife, “It's a Truck!,” http://artlife.blogspot.com Monday, August 30 2004

Burns, Karen, “About Face,” Monument, no. 58, January 2004, p. 38

Crone, Bridget, “Face Up: Contemporary Australian Art in Berlin,” Art & Australia, vol. 41, no. 3, Autumn 2004, p. 386, 387

Grayson, Richard, “The Downside up Show,” Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 4, 2/2003 - 12/2004

Higson, Rosalie, “Truckload of meanings squeezed for a tease,” The Australian, August 6, 2004

Hill, Peter, “Keep on Truckin',” Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), August 14 - 15, 2004, p. 8 - 9

Hill, Peter, “Join the Red Dots,” Spectrum, Sept 25-26, 2004, p. 8

Holubizky, Ihor, Truck Corridor, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004

Low, Lenny Ann, “Sculptor becomes truckie in the name of art,” Sydney Morning Herald, August 6, 2004

Wahjudi, Claudia, “Face up - XeitgenÃsshiche Kunst aus Australien,” Austellungen, Kunstforum International, Bd. 168, 01/02/2004

The Blurb, “Keep on Truckin',” http://www.theblurb.com.au/Issue44/JamesAngus.htm

Angus, James, “On making Manta Ray,” Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, exhibition catalogue, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2003, p.59

Carsten Probst, “Face Up - Zeitgenössiche australische Kunst im Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin,” DeutschlandFunk - `Kultur heute', 2 October 2003

Angus, James, “Manta Ray: In search of perfect ambiguity,” Art & Australia, 40^th Anniversary Issue, Winter, vol. 40, no. 4, 2003, p. 580, 581

Apthorp, Shirley, “Urban work smashes