BRENDAN LEE

Brendan Lee is an Australian artist working in the mediums of video installation and photography

Lee's art looks at the associations that are made between notions of place, film and history. He explores the relationships between the filmic memory of significant cinematic locations and how we interact with their historical weighing. In the last few years, Lee has focused on Australian film history and folklore in how we identify and differentiate ourselves culturally from other regions. Through constructed and discovered film locations, Lee presents open ended questions about identity through filmic narrative and tropes. Lee's current videos aestheticize cinematic genres and portray the underbelly of australian culture represented via film.

Recent works

Recent exhibitions include Proving Ground, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2007; Two Birds With One Stone, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006; The Beautiful Badlands, Crossley & Scott, Melbourne 2006; Shootin’ from The Hip, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA); Takin’ a Shot, The Institute for Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane 2005; …Matter of Time, Video-Spell curated by Blair French, Performance Space, Sydney 2004.He was the guest editor of Photofile 74 and has written for un Magazine and Artlink. Lee recently completed an Australia Council residency in Los Angeles and will be exhibiting in a major survey of Australian moving image artists at the Tate Modern in February 2009.

More information can be found at www.brendanlee.com

selected Solo Exhibitions

2010	Proving Ground, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
2009	The Sentimental Blokes, Jenny Port Gallery, Melbourne
	Great Southern Land ,The Academy Gallery, Launceston
2008	Standing on the Outside Looking In Shifted, Richmond, AUSTRALIA
	Out of Character Trocadero, Footscray
2007	Save Braybrook, DIY Project for the Footscray Community Arts Centre
	Between a Rock, Bendigo Art Gallery
2006	Two Birds with One Stone, Art Gallery of New South Wales
	Anthology, Crossley & Scott, Melbourne
2005	Takin’ a Shot. Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
	Takin’ a Shot. Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane
	Shootin’ from the Hip. Perth Institute for Contemporary Art
	Role Model. Crossley & Scott, Melbourne
2004	Takin' a Shot. Downtown, Adelaide
	Shootin' from the Hip Crossley & Scott, Melbourne
	Shootin' from the Hip (photographic version). The Farm, Brisbane
	a matter of Time, Video Spell 3 Performance Space, Sydney
2003	a matter of time Gertrude contemporary Art Spaces
	Death is a matter of time, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2002	…numbers up BUS Gallery Melbourne
2001	Cut to the Chase, 1st Floor Gallery
	Vault of the Third Kind, Slide, 200 Gertrude Street
	ANGER, TCB artinc.
	Apprehension of Immediate Danger Westspace
2000	Syntax 7.04 Centre For Contemporary Photography
	Syntax 3.0, Sherman Galleries
1998	Syntactic Subjection Slapo Video Gallery
	Kaboom Slapo video Gallery
1997	Lightboxes, Tivoli Gallery, Bourke Street, Melbourne

selected Group Exhibitions

2009	Tyre Kickers, Session, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray
	Two Birds with One Stone (abridged) Palimpsest Festival, Wentworth Goal NSW
	Proving Ground, Figuring Landscapes curated by Catherine Elwes, Tate Modern London
2008	Shootin’ from the Hip, The Mirror Stage, Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus
	Between a Rock (photographs) Team Australia, Curated by Veronica Tello, Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
	Out of the Blue RE:CONNECT, Level 17 Artspace Melbourne
	Proving Ground, Between a Rock Neo Goth: back in black University of Queensland Art Museum
	Two Birds with One Stone Australian Gothic: Video Art Now, Curated by Dr Shaun Wilson, PICA
	Shootin’ from the Hip Contemporary Australian video, Institute for Contemporary Art, London
	The Beautiful Badlands excerpt 2008,World One Minutes, Today Art Museum Beijing
	To Catch a Thief, Don’t Steal Tricks, Revolving Doors, Uplands, Melbourne
	The Beautiful Badlands 2008 version, Proving Ground, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, curated by Helen Frajman, Curtain House Melbourne
	Out of the Blue Post Cinema curated by Shaun Wilson, Project Space, Melbourne
	Proving Ground Circlework version Videobrasil, Sao Paulo
2007	The Beautiful Badlands, The Vernacular Terrain, QUT Museum, Brisbane
	Proving Ground, NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
	Out of the Blue Tracks 1, 2, 3 4, Figuratively Speaking, curated by Simone Jones, The Block, Brisbane
	Out of the Blue Tracks 1, 2, PROJECTOR Curated by Kate Murphy, Broadstone Gallery, Dublin
2006	Shootin’ from the Hip, Plain Crash, Vidi_festival06, Valencia, Spain
	Plain Crash, SynCity curated by Mark Titmarsh, ACP, Sydney
	Art Vs Hollywood curated by Joanna Callaghan, London
	The Patriot Act, 18th St Art Complex, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
	Shootin’ from the Hip, Plane Crash, Role Model, Out of the Blue ARCO, Spain
	Out of the Blue Tracks 1, 2, The Late Sessions curated by Soda Jerk, George St Cinemas, Sydney
2005	Shootin’ from the Hip, Make a Scene, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
	Shootin’ from the Hip: Exito version, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
	PG+13 Trocadero, Melbourne
	Mythologies of Film & A Plain Video, Scott Donovan, Sydney
	Sprog Learns that his Future has been Cancelled, Half Life Kings ARI
	Cut the Chase (redux)Pitch Yout Own Tent, Monash University Museum of Art
	A Plain Crash,'A portable model of...' curated by Tristian Koenig Plimsoll Gallery Hobart
2004	Mythologies of Film, EFOS04, ACMI Melbourne & Artspace Korea
	Death Time. One Minutes, Salto Television, Amsterdam
	Human Resources, OutTAKEout, Kiosk, Christchurch. New Zealand
	Shootin' from the Hip; Gran Exito Version. 80X80. Athens
	Shootin' from the Hip; Gran Exito Version, Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne
	Mythologies of Film. Next wave. Scratch Video. Melbourne
2003	OFTENON Sydney International Film Festival curated program by Scott Donovan and Brent Grayburn
	Death is a Matter of Time, Nth Art Exhibit01, Ols & Co Gallery, London
	SKIDS, Entertainment, Chewing the Phat, Phatspace, Sydney
	SHOOT ME, Art + Film, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
	… Two Birds with One Stone (preview), Royal Rumble. Kings artist – run initiative Melbourne
	Mythologies of Film #1 Wall Candy curated by Greg Defteros, Conical, Melbourne
	Game Over Man Bong On 02, BUS, Melbourne
2001	PursuitTouching at the Parabolica, Latrobe St Gallery
2000	Hits & The Automated Attendant, Immersed- curated by Natasha Bullock, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
	Line of sight,Platform 2, the space in - between group show
	Syntax 5, DLUX Media Arts, D>Art00, Sydney
	Bubblegum Crisis, TCB Melbourne
1999	Greatest Hits Inconspicuos Ivanhoe Girls Grammar
	One of fifty, Summer Salon, CCP Melbourne
1998	Syntactic Subjection RMIT Honours Show Gallery 101 Annex. Collins, Street Melbourne
	Kaboom version 2, I.D, Serial Art video installation, Melbourne Festival, Myer
	Kaboom/ Theorists,Plummet, Melbourne Fringe Festival
	3D photograph, Glen Eira photographic prize
	Serial Art HMV Records, Bourke Street Mall,
	The Two Minutes, First Site Gallery Swanston Street, Melbourne
1997	iMmersion Type 2 Span Gallery,Flinders Lane Melbourne
	Reactives First Site Gallery Swanston Street Melbourne Digital work on paper with Sean Kavanagh
1993	Sound Sculpture, Buniyong Hotel

PRIZES AND AWARDS

2007	Footscray Community Art Centre, DIY project
2005	Australia Council Los Angeles Studio
2002	City of Melbourne projects grant, PROJEKT VIDEO CATALOGUE
1999	Ilford Prize for Digital Excellence, Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography
1998	RMIT Union Arts grant recipient

SELECTED CURATORIAL

2009	Australia? With Kristian Haggblom, Mildura Arts Centre
2005	END, HALF-LIFE, NO RETURN, RISK Kings ARI, Melbourne
2004	VIDEOLA, 30 Years of Australian Video Art, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
	PROJEKT#NEXT WAVE, SpaceMent, Melbourne
	P# Contemporary Australian Video Art. The Physics Room. Christchurch. New Zealand
2003	PROJEKT VIDEO ARCHIVES, Issues #1 - #6 outTAKEout, Kings artist - run space
	Melbourne ENTERTAINMENT, Phatspace, Sydney
	ART + FILM, with Natasha Bullock, Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne
	Royal Rumble, with Frank Guarino. Kings artist – run space.
1997	Tivoli Gallery Program co-ordinator, RMIT, Melbourne