Kathy Temin

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: Woven, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2023; Wall Works, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2021 Moth­er­ing Gar­dens, 2021, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Syd­ney, 2018 White Gar­den: White Christ­mas, Los Ange­les, White Gar­den Inter­ven­tion, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2016 The Koala Room, The Bel­la com­mis­sion for the Nation­al Cen­tre for Cre­ative Learn­ing at the Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art (MCA), Syd­ney 2015 The Koala Tram, The Mel­bourne Art Trams Project, The Mel­bourne Fes­ti­val, The Memo­r­i­al Project, The Gus Fish­er Gallery, Auck­land 2014 My Mon­u­ment: White For­est, GOMA, Queens­land Art Gallery, Bris­bane, 2013 Black Gar­dens, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Syd­ney, 2012 Memo­r­i­al Gar­dens, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Mel­bourne, Gar­den Islands, City of Ston­ning­ton Pub­lic art com­mis­sion for Clare­mont St, South Yarra 2011 My Mon­u­ment: Black Gar­den, Art Gallery of NSW, Syd­ney, 2010 My Land­scape, Hamish McK­ay Gallery, Welling­ton 2009 My Mon­u­ment: Black Cube, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Mel­bourne, Kathy Temin 1989 – 2009, Hei­de Muse­um of Mod­ern Art, Mel­bourne.

Select­ed Group Exhi­bi­tions and projects include: A Fic­tion­al Ret­ro­spec­tive: Gertrude’s First Decade, Mel­bourne Art Fair, Colab with Alpha60, 2024 A Space Between, Hei­di Mod­ern, Hei­de Muse­um of Mod­ern Art, The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Syd­ney 2022 Aus­tralian Art Col­lec­tion, Lev­el 2, NGV Fed­er­a­tion Square, Mixed Tape, HOTA, Home of the Arts, Bris­bane 18 Decem­ber 2021- March 2022, 2020 Know My Name, NGA, Can­ber­ra, The Chan­cellery Col­umn Seat, MUMA pub­lic art com­mis­sion: The Chan­cellery Build­ing, Monash Uni­ver­si­ty, Clay­ton, 2019 Nev­er The Same Riv­er, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Pets are Peo­ple Too, Bay­side City Coun­cil, Vic­to­ria, Mono­chrome, Wol­lon­gong Art Gallery, NSW 2018 Space mak­ers and Room shak­ers: Instal­la­tions from the Col­lec­tion, Art Gallery, NSW, 2017 Every Bril­liant Eye: Aus­tralian Art of the 1990s, Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne 2016 MCA Col­lec­tion: Today Tomor­row Yes­ter­day, Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Syd­ney Soft Core, curat­ed by Michael Do, Casu­la Pow­er­house Arts Cen­tre, Syd­ney (tour­ing) 2015 Howard Arkley and Friends, Tar­rawar­ra Muse­um of Art, Vic­to­ria, Sol­id State, Casu­la Pow­er­house Arts Cen­tre, Syd­ney 2014 Wit­ness, Lin­den Gallery, Mel­bourne, Draw­ing Now, Mel­bourne Now, NGV, Mel­bourne, 2013 Aus­tralia, Roy­al Acad­e­my of Arts, Lon­don, Sculp­ture, 2012 Louise Bour­geois and Aus­tralian Artists, Hei­de Muse­um of Mod­ern Art, Mel­bourne, Less is More, Min­i­mal and Post Min­i­mal Art in Aus­tralia, Hei­de Muse­um of Mod­ern Art, Mel­bourne 2010 Son­ic Youth etc: Sen­sa­tion­al Fix, Museion, Bolzano, Italy, After­math: Art, His­to­ry and Mem­o­ry, Monash Uni­ver­si­ty, Fac­ul­ty Gallery 2009 Soft Sculp­ture, Nation­al Gallery of Aus­tralia, Can­ber­ra 2008 Con­tem­po­rary Aus­tralia: Opti­mism, Gallery of Mod­ern Art, Queens­land Art Gallery, Bris­bane, Open Plan Liv­ing: ART­TLV, Hele­na Ruben­stein Pavil­ion, Israel.

Awards, Grants and Res­i­den­cies include: 2023 Pub­lic Art Com­mis­sion Alma, (2025−2026) St Kil­da with Neometro and KTA, 2020 Mel­bourne Urban Sculp­ture prize, The Glen Eira City Coun­cil Com­mis­sion for Sel­wyn Street Precinct, Inte­grat­ed Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al (for 2023), 2015 Besen Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Grant, 2014 Arts Vic­to­ria, Cre­ation, Aus­tralia Coun­cil New Work, 2011 Besen Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Grant, 2009 Arts Vic­to­ria Pre­sen­ta­tion, Arts Vic­to­ria Cre­ation 2008 Aus­tralia Coun­cil: Fel­low­ship, 2004 Aus­tralia Coun­cil, Lon­don Stu­dio 2001 Arts Vic­to­ria, New Work Grant, 1999 – 2000 Moet & Chan­don Aus­tralian Art Fel­low­ship.

Col­lec­tions include: Art Gallery NSW, Syd­ney, MCA, Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Syd­ney, Nation­al Gallery of Aus­tralia, Can­ber­ra, Queens­land Art Gallery, Bris­bane, New­cas­tle Region­al Art Gallery, Nation­al Gallery Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne, Art Gallery of West­ern Aus­tralia, Perth, AGSA, Ade­laide, Monash Uni­ver­si­ty Gallery Col­lec­tion, Mel­bourne, Hei­de Muse­um of Mod­ern Art, Mel­bourne, Lyon Col­lec­tion Lyon House­mu­se­um, Mel­bourne and City of Port Phillip Col­lec­tion, Vic­to­ria, and Wol­lon­gong Art Gallery, NSW, Mec­ca, Melbourne.

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