PETER HENNESSEY

Born 1968, Sydney. Lives and works in Melbourne.

1990-1995 Bachelor of Architecture (First Class Honours), RMIT

2002-2004 Australia Council New Media Arts Board Member

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & COLLABORATIONS

2016
Alone With The Gods, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (with Patricia Piccinini)

2015
Making It Real, University of Queensland Art Museum
The Shadows Calling, Detached, Hobart (with Patricia Piccinini)

2010
My Hell’s Gate, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2008
Two Projects (Sea and Sky), Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
My Burnt Frost, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2007
My NSAT-110, Kandada, Tokyo

2006
My NICU, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
My Ejector Seat, Tolarno Galleries at the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne

2005
My Moon Landing, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
My Voyager, PICA, Perth

2004
Repercussions, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (with Patricia Piccinini)
Closer (in collaboration with Chunky Move), Perth Festival

2003
Closer, ACMI, Melbourne
Booth, ACMI, Melbourne

1996
ICU, The Basement Project, Melbourne

1995
TerrUrbanism, Australia Centre, Manila, The Philippines (with Patricia Piccinini)
PathL, The Basement Project, Melbourne

1994
TerrUrbanism, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (with Patricia Piccinini)
MPath, The Basement Project, Melbourne

1993
Two Hertz, Temple Studios, Melbourne (with Peter Zellner)

1991
Heretical Gestures At The Birth Of Enlightenment, Swanston Street Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Works and Collaborations, Charles Williams Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
New Romance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2015
Outer Space, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney

2011
Star Voyager, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

2010
The Beauty of Distance, 17th Biennale of Sydney

2007
De Overkant, Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague

2006
Greenaway Art Gallery at ARCO, Madrid

2004
Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Proof, ACMI, Melbourne

2002
Akiharbara TV, Tokyo, Japan
Click, Bendigo Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre Gallery and Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery.

2001
LumpCD, CCP, Melbourne

2000
LumpCD, Impact Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands

1999
LumpCD, Spiral TV, Tokyo, Japan

1997
Protein Lattice Remix screened at SIGGRAPH 97, Los Angeles, USA
pH2, Interact Multimedia Expo, Melbourne
PathL, screened as part of ArtRage on ABC-TV and at SA Stage Gallery, Adelaide

1996
Vert, Experimenta TV commercial project, TEN 10
Basement, Test Strip Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Full Stop, Basement Gallery, Melbourne
Robotica, curated by Shiralee Saul, Melbourne Town Hall

1995
RMIT Department of Architecture Major Project Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
Since The Accident, Basement, Melbourne
Arts & Industry Design 95, The Arts & Industry Gallery, Melbourne

1994
Critical Mass, Arts Victoria Gallery, Melbourne
Humanetics, New Media Network, Southgate, Melbourne
Scission, The Basement Project, Melbourne (exhibitor & curator)

1993
City Screens, Melbourne International Festival Projections
Pure Cinema, Charles Williams Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
Vitae, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Deliquescence, 200 Gertrude St Gallery, Melbourne (curator)
Deliquescence, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (curator)

1992
Deliquescence, First Draft West, Sydney (curator)
SuperMart, Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne

1991
The OverExposed City, Swanston Street Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

2014
Hanabi, 180 Lonsdale Street Melbourne

2012
My Voyager Redux, Westfield Sydney Skylobby

2011
Car Tower, Chisholm TAFE Automotive Trades School

2010
Root Level, Global Switch Building, Sydney

2008
My Humvee, Melbourne Art Fair Commission for University of Queensland Art Museum

2005
A Rare Occurrence, Mercer Building, Melbourne

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 Monty DiPietro, ‘The Satellite in the Room’, The Japan Times Online, April 2007

Chiaki Sakaguchi, ‘Peter Hennessey’, ARTiT #16, Summer/Fall 2007

2005 Ashley Crawford, ‘Peter Hennessey’, Australian Art Collector, August 2005

2004 Ted Snell, ‘Watch this space and wonder’, The Australian, March 26th 2004

2001 Leon van Schaik, ‘Asymptote & Drome’, Architectural Review #74

1996 Rosemary Burne, 'Peter Hennessey's ICU', Mesh, Winter;
Arts training Victoria, Picture This: Create a Career in Visual Arts, Crafts and Design;

1994 Rohan Storey, ‘Scission’, Architecture Australia, September;