JENSEN GALLERY CURRENT EXHIBITIONS ARTISTS MELISSA COOTE WORK PROJECTS ARCHIVE PUBLICATIONS CONTACT	MELISSA COOTE Melissa Coote 1966 Born in Sydney, Australia 1989 Living and working in Sydney and Paris EDUCATION 1987 Renaissance Art Theory, British Institute, Florence Italy 1988 Bachelor of Arts, City Art Institute, Sydney, Australia 1989 Post Graduate Studies, Painting and Sculpture. New York Studio School of Drawing 2002 Masters of Painting, University of Western Sydney, Australia SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Fox Jensen, Auckland, New Zealand 2006 Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 ‘Under’ Earl McGrath Gallery, New York 2002 ‘Faultline’ Mori Gallery, Sydney,Australia 2001 ‘Hands’ Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1998 ‘Skulls II’ Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1997 ‘Breathing Bines’ Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland ‘Breathing Bones’ Limerick City Gallery, Ireland 1996 ‘Skulls I’ Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1995 ‘Tetes’ Galerie Perquis, Paris, France 1991 ‘La muse d’Embeiria’ Galerie Cannibal Peirce, St Denis, France 1990 ‘Self Portraits’ New York Studio School Gallery, NYC, USA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 'The Truth That Lies Tell' Fox Jensen, Auckland, New Zealand 2011 'The Estrangement of Judgement' Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2006 Parise, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, with Susan Norrie and Joan Grounds 2005 Sydney, Mori Gallery, ‘Placards’ Los Angeles, Earl McGrath Gallery, Spring Show Sydney, Mori gallery, findraiser Sydney, Artists Projects, Bill Wright, ‘Bleak Epiphanies’ Sydney, Sir Herman Blac Gallery, Blake Prize 2004 France, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris McGrath Gallery, New York Mori Gallery, ‘Barking Up the Wrong Tree’, Sydney, Australia Mosman Art Prize, Sydney, Australia 2003 ‘Arabesque’, Mori Gallery, Sydney. Australia 2001 Harte, ‘Muses’, Dublin Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2000 France, Foundation Coprim, ‘Ateliers au Feminin’, Paris 1999 Private Showing, Dublin Galerie sur Cour, Paris, group exhibition for tenth anniversary of gallery with Emmanualle Renard & Gustave de Stalle 1998 EV’A 98, Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art 9, Irish Biennale, curated and invited by Paul O’Reilly 1997 Gallery Douyon, Miami, Florida, group exhibition with French artist Vincente Imentel 1996 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France selected competition and exhibition Galerie sur Cour, Paris 1995 Contemporaines 95 Quai Branly, Paris, curated by Jette With 1994 Austion Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, ‘Decouvertes et Creatures’, a selection of young contemporary French artists Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland collaborative show with Australian artist Marion Borglet 1993 ‘Bole Arts Festival, Resonance through Time and Space’, Ireland. Group exhibition, curated by Brigid Harte Art Gallery of NSW, ‘Sulman Prize Selection’, Sydney, Australia Grand Palais, Paris, ‘Contemporaines’ Grand Palais, Paris, ‘Jeune Peintures-Collection for AIDS’, fundraising exhibition 1992 Grand Palais, Paris, ‘Jeune Peinture 92’ international selection of young artists ‘Jeune Peinture 20/20’ travelling exhibition Poland, Czech Republic, Africa, selection of works from Jeune Peinture 92 1991 France Galerie Cannibal Peirce, St Denis, ‘Pensée de l’art’ (Thoughts from Art), group Exhibition of French Artists 1990 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia ‘A Portfolio of Australian Women Artists’ 1985 Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney, ‘Young Artists’ RECENT PUBLICATIONS Michaud, Y. Ateliers au Feminin, pp. 146-151, article by Yves Michaud, director of L’Ecole de Beaux Arts, Au Meme Trite editions, Paris, 1999. AWARDS 1996 Australia $5,000 grant, Australia Council