BIO:
Monica Renaud (b. 1974, lives and works in Sydney Australia), is a conceptual Artist primarily using photography. Renaud’s practice brings together a broad range of social, political and environmental references in attempt to subvert the mainstream expectations of women and especially Mothers, in this 21st Century, which she feels, greatly impacts on humanity and the globe.
EDUCATION :
2020 Master of Art (by Coursework), University of New South Wales, Sydney.
2014 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art / Visual Culture), incomplete, Curtin University (Open University Australia).
1993 Advanced Certificate in Film Production Techniques, North Sydney College of TAFE.
SOLO EXHIBITIONs :
2023, The Visible Woman Gallery, My House Is Your House, Aotearoa New Zealand - January 23-27.
2020, STUDIOFIFTYSEVEN’s OPEN STUDIO | inaugural exhibition, Garage Gallery, Cronulla Beach, Sydney
2020, Three Foot Square Public Art installation, UNSW Art & Design Paddington, Sydney
2020, Domestic Abstractions, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.
2018, Nature Morte, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS :
2023
FINALIST/Highly Commended Whitewall Art Prize Into the Light 30 September - October 15th. Berrima NSW
FINALIST/Winner LOOK! Art Prize Museum of Photography (MAPh) 30 August - November 27th. Melbourne VIC
2022
Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, 25 June – 8 July.
2021
Gallerie POMPOM Chippendale, Confabulations. Group SHOW 5 August - 5 September 2021.
Hazelhurst Gallery 20 Years Birthday Group SHOW Hazelhurst 21 November - 31 January
2020
The Anti-Annual Airspace Projects Marrickville 9th - 19th December
Urns of 2020 Charity Exhibition and fundraiser Gaffa Gallery 10 December - 21st December.
Home-Works, Online exhibition, Sept 12 - Oct 11 Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland
FINALIST Waverley Art Prize, July 2020 (online only exhibition due to Covid).
2019
Arts Week UNSW Main Campus digital Projection, October 2019
FINALIST Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award Sept 21-November 17.
Fault-lines Group Show UNSW Art & Design Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.
2018
KNOX ST WINDOW LAUNCH - Inaugural Artist, July SYDNEY.
2017
FINALIST 8TH Green Way Art Prize; ‘BEETHOVEN'S LAST MOVEMENT,2017’.
HEY GURL, Curator Kimberly Peel, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.
STILLNESS, Curator Rhiannon Hopley, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.
2016
Rue des Cordeliers. Pau, France. L’Atelier Ambulant, Dec/Jan 2016. Dec/Jan 2016.
2015
Pastemodernism#4 Curated by Ben Frost for aMBUSH Gallery, Chippendale
Spring 1883 September 9th – 12th. Performance. The Establishment Hotel, SYDNEY. ‘1 ROOM, 13 TIMES’, Curated Mark Feary, group performance with Hossein Ghaemi.
PassionFruits, GAFFA GALLERY Feb-Mar; Golden Pash, digital collage, archival pigment ink on rag, Golden PASH, 2015.
Contemporary’s Contemporaries, Cadeau Deux (Gift Two), 2014. Plastic baby’s bottle, sand, upholsters tacks, chrome plated.
AWARDS AND PRIZES:
2023 Shortlisted Australian Photography Awards : Photo Collective.
FINALIST/Highly Commended Whitewall Art Prize Into the Light : Berrima NSW
Winner Experimental category Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) LOOK! Prize : Melbourne VIC
2022 Shortlisted Australian Photography Awards : Photo Collective.
2022 Shortlisted BAM Art Prize : Byron Arts Magazine.
2020 FINALIST Waverley Art Prize, July 2020
2019 FINALIST Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award Sept 21-November 17.
2017 FINALIST 8TH Green Way Art Prize; ‘BEETHOVEN'S LAST MOVEMENT’.
2003 Winner Shoot the Chef Portrait Prize for ‘Belgium BBQ’.
1998 Winner Silver Lion Cannes, Silver Clio New York.
Editor | Talon ‘Scaredy Rat’ animated TVC
Dir: Norman Yeend
1997 Finalist Tropicana Film Festival
Editor | Fishwalk A Flathead (Short)
Dir: Anik Chooney
1996 Finalist 3rd place Tropicana Film Festival
Editor | Levi Fly (short) /Sbs Broadcast
Dir: Anik Chooney
RESIDENCIES:
UNSW Art & Design, Fowler’s Gap & Broken Hill NSW, September 2019.