Mel O'Callaghan b. 1975

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Installation, video, and photomedia artist born in Sydney in 1975. O'Callaghan lives and works in Sydney and Paris.
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exhibited at
New Moving Image Works
Place
Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artspace.org.au/gallery/gallery_exhibition.php?e=102
exhibited at
Lajamanu: Early Paintings
Date
February 2013 - May 2013
Place
Burrinja, 351 Glenfern Road, Upwey, VIC
Description

An exhibition of paintings by Walpiri men and women from the remote Aboriginal community of Lajamanu, 500km northwest of Alice Springs, on the beginning of acrylic painting in Central Australia. This exhibition brings together rarely seen canvases free from commercial influences and market forces.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.burrinja.org.au/
exhibited at
Each flake of that night filled mountain
Date
2010
Place
Grantpirrie, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.grantpirrie.com/grantpirrie.php
exhibited at
Each atom of that stone...in itself forms a world
Date
2010
Place
Grantpirrie, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.grantpirrie.com/grantpirrie.php
exhibited at
Global Switch
Date
11 May 2009
Place
Ultimo, Sydney, NSW
Description

50 metre window piece.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.globalswitch.com/index.en.html
exhibited at
Fantasmata
Date
2008
Place
Galerie Museum AR-GE Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.argekunst.it/
exhibited at
afterthought
Date
2008
Place
Irmavep Lab, Châtillon-sur-Marne, France
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.irmaveplab.com/exposition/nouvelle-adresse
exhibited at
Neo Goth: Back In Black
Date
2008
Place
University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia, QLD
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=85261&pid=0
exhibited at
Viva Las Vegas
Date
2008
Place
Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, France
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.theatre-chaillot.fr/spectacle.php?id=55
exhibited at
Topsy-Turvey
Date
2008
Place
Grantpirrie, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.grantpirrie.com/artist.php?g=gallery1&a=20&e=78&s=3&i=1
exhibited at
Printemps de Septembre
Date
2007
Place
Les Jacobins, Toulouse, France
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
leibhaftig
Date
2007
Place
Städtische Galerie Ravensburg, Germany
Description

Also later in Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Hamsterwheel
Date
2007
Place
Venice Bienielle, Printemps du Septembre in Toulouse, France
Description

Also at Centre d’art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Sommerfrische - Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies
Date
2007
Place
Stiftung kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt, Germany
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Phases of the moon
Date
2007
Place
Irmavep Lab, Châtillon-sur-Marne, France
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.irmaveplab.com/exposition/phases-of-the-moon
exhibited at
Vergänglichkeit
Date
2007
Place
Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris, France
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.galerieschleicherlange.com/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=2979
exhibited at
Landslide
Date
2007
Place
Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris, France
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.re-title.com/public/newsletters/October_2007_-_London_&_Paris_0.htm
exhibited at
2nd Athens Video Art Festival
Date
2006
Place
Athens, Greece
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://2006.athensvideoartfestival.gr/eng/default.asp
exhibited at
Cutting Fields
Date
2006
Place
First Draft, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Place Marks
Date
2006
Place
Gallery 4A, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
National Sculpture Prize
Date
2006
Place
Dell Gallery, Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Also did a touring exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/artworks/exhibitions/content_nsp.html
exhibited at
VIDEOFORMES Festival
Date
2006
Place
Clermont Ferrand, France
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
GLAD WRAP UP
Date
2005
Place
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.shermangalleries.com.au/artists/inartists/mixed.asp?exhibition=123
exhibited at
16th Impakt Festival
Date
2005
Place
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
New Vectors
Date
2005
Place
15th International Exhibition of Electronic Arts Videobrasil, Sao Paolo, Brasil
Description
Type
Exhibition
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