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Lucia Usmiani - Curriculum Vitae




Academic Record

2000    University of Tasmania School of Art, Hobart, Bachelor of Fine Arts
2000    University of Tasmania, Mount Nelson Prize (Art)
2000    University of Tasmania, Dean’s Roll of Excellence 
2001    University of Tasmania, School of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours
2002    University of Tasmania, University Medal
2006    University of Tasmania, Doctor of Philosophy


Selected Exhibitions

The Little Things Despard Gallery, Hobart, 31 August – 26 September 2007

Contemporary Collections Benefactors Supper Club Auction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 18 August 2007

The Port Arthur Project, Port Arthur Historic Site, 10 Days on The Island, 16 March – 15 April 2007,
Curators: Professor Noel Frankham and Julia Clark
Artists: Lucia Usmiani, Christl Berg, Lucy Bleach, Tracey Cockburn, Nicole Ellis, Anne Ferran, Linda Fredheim, Ruth Frost, Lola Greeno, Vicki West, Fiona Hall, Leigh Hobba, Colin Langridge, Fionia Lee, Karen Lunn, Milan Milojevic, Anne MacDonald, Anne Mestitz, James Newitt, Brigita Ozolins, Justy Phillips, Helena Psotova, Alyssa Simone, Matt Warren, Elizabeth Woods.

I’d Like To Be; Lightbox Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, January 2007, Solo exhibition

Imagine: The Creativity Shaping Our Future, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria,
18 July – 29 October. 2006
Curator: Zara Stanhope
Artists: Lucia Usmiani, Chris Barry, Arlo Mountford, Garry Namponan, Ron Yunkaporta,
Lizzy Newman, Michelle Nikou, David Palliser, Vera Moller, Stelarc.
Catalogue:

Deluxe, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, 6 – 26 May 2006,
Curator: Milan Milojevic
Artists: Lucia Usmiani, Fred Fisher, Ona Kaukenas, Meg Keating, Fiona Lee, Karen Lunn,
Adrian Read, Richard Skinner.

Store, Inflight Gallery, Hobart, 2 – 23 July 2005, Solo exhibition

HWY 1 #2, 10 Days On The Island, Wynyard, 1 – 10 April 2005
Curator: Jane Deeth
Artists: Lucia Usmiani, Anne Mestitz, Kim Nielsen-Creeley, Michael Muruste, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan,
Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, Stone Lee

Sculpture, Despard Gallery, Hobart, 13 November 2004
Curator: Steven Joyce
Artists: Lucia Usmiani, John Eisman, Andrew Evans, Michael Eather, Nick Maxwell, Andrea Morrucchio,
Jenny Orchard, Craig Richards, Keith Smith, Bill Yaxley

Group Material,Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart,  17 March 2004
Curator: Michael Edwards
Artists: Lucia Usmiani, Ben Booth, Anna Phillips, Kit Wise, Neil Haddon, Anthony Johnson,

IXL Art, Plimsoll Gallery Hobart, January 2004
Curator: Noel Frankham
Group show

Where The Heart Is, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, March 2003,
Curator: Johnathon Hodgkin
Artists: Lucia Usmiani, Fiona Lee, Johnathon Daniels.

Living Artist’s Week, shopfront Aroma Records, North Hobart, 2003

Pattern as Subject, CAST Gallery, Hobart, 7 – 24 March 2002,
Curator: Sean Kelly
Artists: Lucia Usmiani, Michael Muruste, Paul Zika, Neil Haddon, David Hawley,


Publications

Phillip Watkins, 2002, Pattern As Subject, Artlink: Contemporary Art Quarterly Australia,
Vol22, No2 pp 90, 91.

Phillip Watkins, 2004, Group Material, Artlink: Contemporary Art Quarterly Australia, Artlink:
Contemporary Art Quarterly Australia,Vol. 24, No. 2, pp 84, 85.

Joerg Andersch, 13 November 2004, Sculpture, The Mercury Magazine, p. 45

Cathy Alexander, 2 April 2005, Highway key to artistic experiences, The Advocate

5 April 2005, Installation creates artistic interest, The Advocate, Coast to Coast.

Daniel Thomas, May 2005, Ten Days On The Island: The Exhibition Round-Up, Art Monthly Australia, No. 179, pp 30 – 35.

Joerg Andersch, 9 July 2005, A real bottler, The Mercury Magazine, Inside Arts p. 13

Megan Backhouse, July/August 2006, The New Heide, Art Gallery Guide Australia pp 6 – 17.

Robert Nelson, 26 July 2006, Imagining the forces that shape our artistic future, The Age, Metro Reviews, p. 22.

Grants

NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts Ltd) Visual and Craft Artist’s Grant Scheme.
July 2005

Community Service

Exhibition Opening, Friends School Matric student’s exam show, November 2004.

Member of Plimsoll Gallery committee from December 2004.

Commissions 

1998    Foyer for MPSD – 13th floor 188 Collins Street, Detour Design, Hobart Tasmania
2005    Foyer for Evans Street IXL Apartments    




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