POLIXENI PAPAPETROU
Curriculum Vitae
Born Melbourne, lives and works Melbourne, Australia
STUDIES
2007 PhD, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
1997Master of Arts (Media Arts), RMIT University, Melbourne
1984Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
1984Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008

Games of Consequence, Fotofreo, Fremantle Festival of Photography, Perth, Australia at Johnston Gallery, Perth, Australia
  Games of Consequence, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Wonderland, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
2007 Haunted Country, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
 Haunted Country, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2006Haunted Country, Foley Gallery, New York
Haunted Country, Johnston Gallery, Perth
Dreamchild and Phantomwise (selected works), Stills Gallery, Sydney
Elvis Immortal, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Haunted Country, Stills Gallery, Sydney
A Most Curious Adventure, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Wonderland, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
2005After Alice,Maison de la culture Plateau-Mont-Royal,'Le Mois de la Photo', 9th Montreal Photography Biennale, Montrèal
Go Ask Alice Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Dreamchild Felicity Johnston Gallery, Perth
2004Mystical Places, Stills Gallery, Sydney
Wonderland, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Phantomwise, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Dreams and Whispers, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide
2003Dreamchild, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Dreamchild, photographic, New York, USA
Saturday's Child, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Phantomwise, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2002Searching for Marilyn, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Olympia Masked, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
2001Authority (Part II), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2000Authority, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1999Olympia's Clothes, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Elvis Immortal, Old Treasury, Melbourne
1997Elvis Immortal, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Fallible Archetypes, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1996Curated Bodies, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1991Elvis Lives (in Melbourne), State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 1993)
2008

Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
  Artist File 2008: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, curated by Yusuke Minami, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
  Silver-lined: Contemporary artists and the Performing Arts Collection, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
  FX in Contemporary Photography, The McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne Australia
2007Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
Aperture 55th anniversary exhibition, Aperture gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA
Selected works, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, Te Tuhi Gallery, Manukau City, New Zealand

Contemporary Group Show, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand, exhibiting as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography

Beauty, What For?, curated by Éditions Babylone, Paris, at El Zanjon, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Living Elvis, RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2006Decade: Acquisitions 1996 to 2006, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Picturing the Sea, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
Changeling, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
2005Beyond Real: Dressing Up, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Recent Acquisitions: Photographs from the MGA Collection, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
2004Changeling, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
The Melbourne Art Fair, Stills Gallery
The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Photographica Australis, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 11th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh, Dhaka, India
The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
MAKE Believe-Photographic Fictions, Stills Gallery, Sydney
Chicks that click, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Larger than Life, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
2003Fair Game, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
MAKE Believe-Photographic Fictions, Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney, NSW
Corpus of Meaning: Figures Through the Lens of Female Photographers Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Photographica Australis, National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Construct, 24 HR Art, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Northern Territory
Play, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Josephine Ulrick National Photography Portrait Prize, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Albury Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
2002Photographica Australis, Sala De Exposiciones Del Canal De Isabel II, (ARCO Arts Festival) Madrid, Spain
Play, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
When I was young: Impressions of Childhood, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland
Photography from Australia and New Zealand, Sotheby's, New York; The Australian Consulate, New York
Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Significant Contemporary Photographers, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
2001Telling Tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of South Australia Museum of Art, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
What John Berger Saw, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Striking, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Albury Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
2000Telling Tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Bendigo Art Gallery, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
What John Berger Saw, Orange Regional Gallery, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, University of South Australia Museum of Art, John Curtin Gallery, Perth
Striking, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Geelong Art Gallery
1999What John Berger Saw, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1997WorkStation, Platform, Melbourne
Neophytes Retrospective>, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
City of Hobart Invitation Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
1996Mixed Platter,Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Bendigo Art Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1995The First Age, West Space, Melbourne
A Century of Culture, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1994Read My Lips, Ascent Gallery, Melbourne, The Union Gallery, University of Adelaide
1993Immortality, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
For My Part, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Images of Their Land By Five Australian Photographers, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogue essays and books
 Anne Higonnet, Rachel Lafo, Kate Dempsey (ed.), Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, exh. cat., De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts, 2008,pp. 
Naomi Rosenblum, A History of Women Photographers, Abbeville Press, New York, 2008 (forthcoming)
Yusuke Minami, Artist File 2008, exh. cat., The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan 2008
 Natalie King, Games of Consequence, exh. cat., 2008
Eiichi Tosaki, “The Specter in Presence: Polixeni Papapetrou’s ‘Haunted Country’", insert in Games of Consequence, exh. cat., 2008
 Suzanne Davies and Peter Barnes, Living Elvis, exh. cat., RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2007
Sonia Payes, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, MacMillan Publishers, Australia, 2007, pp. 260-265
Adrian Martin, ‘Polixeni Papapetrou’, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, MacMillan Publishers, Australia, 2007
Emma Bugden, Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Mythology, Fairytales and the Occult, exh. cat., Te Tuhi Gallery, Manukau City, New Zealand, 2007
Amy Leal, ‘Lewis Carroll's Little Girls’ The Chronicle, Volume 54, Issue 10, 2007, page B16 Washington, D.C
Susan McCulloch, The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The Meigunyah Press and Aus Art Editions, 2006, pp. 754-5, p.776
Nikos Papastergiadis , Spatial Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday, Rivers Oram Press, London. 2006, p. 104-107
Robert Nelson, 'Haunted Country: The Secret History of the Australian Bush', Haunted Country, ex, cat., 2006
Alasdair Foster, Changeling: Childhood and the Uncanny, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2005
Alasdair Foster, Beyond Real, Dressing Up, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2005
Martha Langford, 'Mirroring Ourselves, Recasting Otherness, 'After Alice: Angela Grossman and Polixeni Papapetrou', Image and Imagination, ed. Martha Langford, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2005, p. 2, 75-80
Kyla McFarlane, The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2004

Kendrah Morgan, ‘Riddles that have no answers’, p. 35, The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art, exh. cat., Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004
Bronwyn Rennex, Makebelieve: Photographic Fictions, exh. cat., Stills Gallery, Sydney, 2004
Vivienne Webb, 'Mystical Places', Stills Gallery, Sydney, 2004
Ross Moore, 'Olympia, Faciality and the Punctal Play of Darkness', Phantomwise, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, 2004,
Anonda Bell, Fair Game, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003
Anne Marsh, 'The Child and the Archive', The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 249-259 and illus. figs.65-68)
Alasdair Foster, Photographica Australis, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney,2002, Gael Newton, “Generations: Australian Photography since the 1970s”, pp. 66-69; Daniel Palmer, “Habitats, Fictions and Gestures: Australian Photography Now”, pp.60-64. Reprinted for Asia Tour, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and Asialink, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Photographica Australis, Alasdair Foster, Asia Tour, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and The Asialink Centre, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne
Zara Stanhope, 'Serious play', Saturday's Child, 2003
Rex Butler, Phantomwise, 2003
Stephanie Lindquist, When I was young: Artists' Impressions of Childhood, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland, 2002
Katherine O’KEEFE, Play, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2002
Rex Butler, Olympia Masked, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2002
Adrian Martin, 'Legend' Searching for Marilyn>, Monash Gallery of Art, 2002
Nikos Papastergiadis, 'Passing', Authority, 2001
Robert Nelson, 'Pose-Impose', Authority, cat.2001
Robert Nelson, Authority, 2000
Anne Marsh, 'Light writing desire and other fantasies' Telling tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 2000
Nikos Papastergiadis, Editor, What John Berger Saw, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, 1999
Striking, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 1999
Barry Divola, 'The Day the Music Died', Fan Club, Allen andUnwin, Sydney, 1998 pp. 216- 222
Jennifer Phipps, Elvis Immortal, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 1997
Robert Nelson, 'The Australian Agonies of Hellas' Neophytes Retrospective, 1997
Robert Nelson, 'Pillars of Society, Fallible Archetypes, 1997
Robert Nelson, ‘Remote Control’, WorkStation, Platform, 1997
Anne Marsh, 'Faking it: Notes on Interpretation' Curated Bodies, 1996
Robert Nelson, 'Gender Hacking', Curated Bodies, 1996
Kevin Murray, 'Three Child Proofs', The First Age, 1995
Susan Fereday, Immortality, 1993, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
 
Articles
 Cristina Franzoni, ‘Polixeni Papapetrou’, ZOOM, Milan, March/April 2008, p. 26-31
 Robert Nelson ‘Haunted Country’ Heat, Issue # 16, Sydney, 2008
Alasdair Foster, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue 82, Summer 2008 pp. 20-25
 Wendy Walker, Contemporary, 2007 Annual (August), London, pp. 78-79
Fotis Kapetopoulos ‘Polixeni's dreamscapes lead to international recognition’, Neos Kosmos, English edition, 17 December 2007, p. 17
Adam Gifford, ‘Vanishing into the landscape’, New Zealand Herald, 23 August 2007. p. B5
Siobhan Duck, ‘Loss of Innocents’, Herald-Sun, 14 February 2007, p.61
‘Elvis Immortal’, Esquire (Russian edition), February 2007, pp. 134-45
Philippa Hawker, ‘Little and lost to the land’, The Age, A2, 10 February, 2007, p. 19
Anonda Bell, 'Haunted Country', Aperture New York, #184, Fall 2006, pp. 58-63
Terry Ingram, 'Big Apple shines bright for expats' The Australian Financial Review, 2 November 2006, p.26
French Photo, 'Les Terribles histories de Polixeni Papapetrou', September 2006, p. 13
New Yorker 18 September 2006, p. 12
Silvia Sorelli, 'Anglela Grossman's and Polixeni Papapetrou's Adventures in Wonderland', The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal, Issue 2, 2006, pp. 113-119
Karen Vanmeenen, ‘A hunger for images’, Afterimage, Volume 33, Issue 4, 2006
Sunanda Creagh 'Haunted Country', Sydney Morning Herald, Arts & Entertainment, July 8-9 2006, p. 16
Emma Gravagnuolo, 'La Covata Malefica', Arte #384, Milan, August 2005, pp. 65-70
Georgina Jerrums, 'Principal artists' Sunday Life Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald / The Age, 12 December 2004, p.28
Adrian Martin, 'Strike a Pose', Australian Art Collector, Issue 28, April - June 2004, pp102-106
Louise Nunn, 'Alice's wonder years', Adelaide Advertiser, 19 April 2004, p. 84
Adrian Martin, 'Australia's 50 most collectable artists, Australian Art Collector, p.95, Issue 27, Jan-March 2004
Dominque Angeloro 'Malice in Wonderland' Sydney Morning Herald, 10-16 October 2003, Metro, p. 26
Katrina Strickland, 'Eye of the beholder', The Australian, Weekend Review, 16-17 August 2003, pp16-17
Rebecca Lancashire, 'Exploring Wonderland', The Age, 10 May 2003, Review, p.7
Andrew Frost, 'Phantomwise', Australian Art Collector, Issue 24, April-June 2003, pp103-4
'Elvis Immortal' River City, University of Memphis, Memphis, Vol. 22 #2 Summer 2002
Margaret Moore, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, No. 65, 2002 p. 57
John McPhee, 'ARCO' 2002, Art Monthly, March 2002, pp8-11
Gael Newton, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, No. 64, 2001 pp22-23
K.P.Hall, 'Teenage riot: representations of adolescence in contemporary art', Artlink, Vol 21 no. 2 June 2001, pp. 42-47
Anne Marsh, Telling tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Eyeline, No. 46, Spring 2001
Anne Marsh, Antithesis (Sex 2000), pp. 32-40
‘Elvis’ Heat, Sydney, first series, Vol. 7, 1998, pp. 35-47
Rebecca Lancashire, 'Loyal to their Royal', The Age, 27 April, 1998, p.16
Robert Rooney, 'Down at the end of lonely street' The Australian, 16 January 1998, p. 19
Zelda Cawthorne, 'Elvis Lives-on paper', Herald-Sun, 20 December 1997, p.115
Artlink, Autumn 1996, Vol.16 No., p.35
Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue 38, 1993, pp. 24-29
Isobel Crombie, Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1990
 
Reviews
 Darren Tofts, ‘Living Elvis’, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue 82, Summer 2008 pp. 65-66
Adam Gifford, ‘Mythology and fairytales reign’, New Zealand Herald, 21 March 2007. p.B4
 Robert L. Pincus, ‘Narrative is making a comeback’, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 February, 2007
Ted Snell, “Coastal Life from idyllic to ominous, The Australian, 17 August 2006, p. 36
Robert McFarlane, 'Landscape in a new light', Sydney Morning Herald, 25 July 2006, p15
Melissa Miles, The Line Between Us' The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography', Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 56, Summer 2004/05, pp. 50-51
Kerstin Westphale, 'The Line between Us', Kunststoff, Issue 1/05, Germany
Ric Spencer, The West Australian, 27 August 2005, (Weekend Extra), pp.12-13
Ron Banks, 'Delicate Subject', The West Australian, 23 August 2005, Arts, p.2
Tessa Dwyer, 'The Line Between Us' The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography', Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue, No. 73, 2004, pp. 70-71
Anne Marsh, 'The Plot Thickens- Narratives in Australian Art', Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue, No. 73, 2004, p. 73
Peter Hill, 'Sticks and bones', Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December 2004, p. 20
Katrina Strickland, 'Raw images via a maternal lens' The Australian, 30 September 2004, p. 14
Chris Boyd, 'Mapping mother-daughter terrain', Australian Financial Review, 18 September 2004, p. 32
Penny Webb, 'Every picture tells a tale', The Age, 13 August 2004, A3 p.8
Penny Webb, 'Phantomwise', The Age, 16 June 2004, A3 p.8
Robert McFarlane, 'Moments of fantasy and grace' Sydney Morning Herald, Metropolitan, 1 June 2004, p17
Andrew Sellon,' 'Picturing Dreams', Knight Letter, The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, California, USA, Winter 2003, Vol II, Issue 2, No. 72, pp. 43-46
Anne Marsh, 'Home of the Brave', Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Issue, No. 70, 2003, pp. 71 &73
Penny Webb, 'Posed for adventure, The Age, 29 May, 2003, A3 p.12
Marielle Juchau, 'Photography's phantasmagorias', RealTime, JuneÐJuly 03 No. 55, p. 14
Peter Hill, 'The child within', Sydney Morning Herald, May 9-15, 2003, Metro, p. 26
Peter Timms, 'Life Rehearsal', The Australian, 1-2 March 2003, Weekend Review, p. R21
Philippa Hawker, 'Images of an ambiguous world', The Age, 4 September 2002, The Culture, p. 6
Philippa Hawker, 'Finding signs of Marilyn in life and art', The Age, 3 May 2002, The Culture, p. 4
Felicity Allen, Herald Sun, 12 February 2002, p.53
Robert McFarlane, Sydney Morning Herald>, Spectrum, 19-20 May 2001, pp. 12-13
Philippa Hawker, 'Baby, look at you now', The Age, 20 November 2000, Today, p. 6
Felicity Allen, review, 'Authority', Herald Sun, 9 September 2000, p.111
Felicity Allen, 'Childhood Focus'; Herald Sun, 7 August 2000, p. 97
Suzanne Spunner, review of 'Olympia's Clothes', Art Monthly, April 1999, p. 17
Peter Timms, 'Something New', The Age>, 13 May 1998, p.17
Charles Green, Art Forum>, New York, March 1997, XXXV, Vol. 7, p.103.
Robert Nelson, 'Behind the Chauvinism of Adulthood', The Age, 2 August 1995, p. 19
Anne Marsh, 'Violence of Child's Play', Herald-Sun, 26 July 1995, p. 56
 Robert Rooney, ‘Focus On Moving Pictures’, The Australian, 11 July 1992, p.13
Susan Fereday, 'Elvis Lives', Agenda Contemporary Arts Magazine, #20/21, 1991, p. 41
 Robert Rooney, ‘The King Is Dead, A Way Of Life Is Born’, The Australian, 14 September, p.8
 
COLLECTIONS
Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Artbank, Sydney
Austcorp Group, Sydney
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
BHP Billiton, Melbourne, Melbourne
Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, Australia
Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
LaTrobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Murdoch University, Perth
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Wesfarmers Art Collection, Perth
Private Collections in Australia and in the United States
 Private collections in Australia, England, France and USA
 
COMMISSIONS/GRANTS/AWARDS
2007 Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
2007 Arts Victoria, International Touring Grant, 2007
2007Bundanon Trust, Artist in Residence Program, New South Wales
2005 Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
2003Arts Victoria Professional Development Grant
2003Albury Regional Art Gallery National Photographic Purchase Award
2003Julie Millowick Photographic Award
2002Australian Post-Graduate Award (3 year award)=
2000Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
1997-2002State Library of Victoria, Commission to photograph the recipients of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
1994Australian Post-Graduate Award