Kathy Temin
Heide Museum of Modern Art 2009
Born Sydney, Australia 1968
Lives and works in Melbourne
Kathy Temin’s sculptural practice explores memory, history and loss. Her work is structured around the tension between apparent binaries, for instance, the familiar and strange, organic and artificial, literal and metaphoric, solemn and kitsch. The artist’s signature choice of medium, synthetic fur, subverts the monumental scale of her sculptures, to draw allusions to softness, childhood and play.
Kathy Temin completed and post-graduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2007. She is currently Professor at MADA, Monash Art Design & Architecture, Monash University.
Exhibitions and projects include: Mothering Gardens, 2021 as part of AMPLIFY at Sydney Contemporary, (2022), Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2020−2021); MCA Collection: Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Con- (2019), Monochrome, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW, (2019); White Garden Intervention, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, (2018); Spacemakers and Roomshakers: Installations from the Art Gallery NSW
Collection, AGNSW Sydney, (2018) Soft Core, touring exhibition, Casula Powerhouse, NSW, (2016); The Koala Room, Bella Room Commission, National Centre for Creative Learning, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2016−17); Howard Arkley and Friends, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria, (2015); Neverwhere, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul (2015); Pet Cemetery, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2014); The Memorial Project, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland (2014); Drawing Now, Melbourne
Now, NGV, Melbourne, (2013) Less is More, Minimal and Post Minimal Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne,(2013); Kathy Temin | My Monument: White Forest, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, (2013); Witness, Linden Gallery (2013); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2013); Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists, Heide Museum of Modern Art, (2012) My Monument: Black Garden, Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects (2011); Sonic Youth etc: Sensational Fix, Cen- tro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, LIFE, St. Nazaire, France; MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy; and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2008−2010); and ART TLV, Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Israel (2008); Kathy Temin, Survey exhibition, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2008) and My Kylie, Institute Contemporary Art, London (2004).
Public collections include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Kathy Temin
Wall Works
21st April – 27th May 2023
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Kathy Temin
White Garden Intervention (ASG)
28th August – 29th September 2018
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Kathy Temin
Pet Cemetery
2nd October – 8th November 2014
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Kathy Temin
Memorial Gardens
19th – 25th August 2012
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Kathy Temin
My Monument, Black Cube
3rd September – 3rd October 2009
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Kathy Temin
Auditions for a pair of koalas
3rd – 26th April 2003
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Kathy Temin
Frozen Moments
19th – 28th March 2002
Anna Schwartz Gallery
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