Kate Robertson's work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at numerous galleries both locally and internationally including Sentinel Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, Te Tuhi Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, and Melbourne galleries Kings ARI, TCB Art Inc, Blindside, C3 Contemporary Art Space and VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery. Her latest solo exhibition was held at Techno Park Studios in late 2011.

In 2005, she co-founded Victoria Park Gallery, an artist run initiative that served as a successful platform for emerging artists, with some works re-exhibited at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. She is co-founder and co-editor (Issue 1, November 2011) of Excerpt Magazine.

Kate has a Bachelor of Fine Art: Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Arts by Research at RMIT.

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Born 1981, Mount Gambier, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

EDUCATION
2010 -
Master of Art (Research) candidate, RMIT

2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts

2005
Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography, Victorian College of the Arts

2001
Bachelor of Arts (Photography), RMIT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
TBC, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne (forthcoming)

2011
Explorations of an Other Space, Techno Park Studios, Melbourne

2009
After the gold rush, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne
Camera no 4, Gertrude slide, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne

GROUP/COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2011
People, Dust and a Whole Lot of Spirit, Rae and Bennett, Melbourne
UNCOVER, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
Better than Art, King Ari, Melbourne (curated by Amy Marjoram)

2010
Matchbox, Federation Square, Melbourne
Endure Everyday, First Site Gallery, Melbourne (with Alysia Rees)

2008
Don’t forget to look at both ends, Kings ARI, Melbourne (with Amanda Schembri)
Calamitous, Sentinel Gallery, Brooklyn, New York City (curated by Warwick Edwards)
Things at Kings, Kings ARI, Melbourne

2007
L’equilibrio sulla merda, TCB art Inc., Melbourne (with Michael Ciavarella)
ART$MASH II, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
Girls say no to White Gloves, Blindside, Melbourne
Melbourne Operatic, Te-Tuhi The Mark, Auckland (curated by Rosemary Forde)
Obscura, TCB art Inc., Melbourne
Keith & Elizabeth Murdoch Fellowship, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

2006
VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
grasp control., Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
JAM, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
ART$MASH, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne

AWARDS/GRANTS
2011 Finalist in UNCOVER (young and emerging artist award)
2011 RMIT Link Arts Grant
2007 Finalist in the Keith & Elizabeth Murdoch Fellowship
2005 Christine Abrahams Award (Victorian College of the Arts)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Forde, Rosemary. ‘VPG, we’ve only just begun’, Making Space, pg105. ISBN 978-0-9803554-0-6, 2006
Hugo-Gialia, Sama. ‘After the Goldrush: c3 contemporary art space’, www.artshub.com.au, 2009
Marjoram, Amy, catalogue essay, Techno Park Studios, Melbourne, 2011
Peterson, Dr Mat, ‘Way with words’, catalogue essay, Techno Park Studios, Melbourne 2011
Richardson, Claire. ‘Girls say no to White Gloves’. exhibition catalogue, Blindside, Melbourne, 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011
Co-founder and co-editor (Issue 1, November 2011) Excerpt Magazine

2005 – 2008
Board Member, Victoria Park Gallery ARI, Melbourne

2002 – 2003
Volunteer, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS
Melbourne Scotch College