BIOGRAPHY
JUAN FORD
Born 1973, Melbourne
| EDUCATION | |
| 2001 | Master of Arts (Fine Art) by research, RMIT University, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne |
| AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES | |
| 2015 | New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts |
| 2013 | New Work Grant - Established, Australia Council for the Arts |
| 2011 | OMI International Arts Centre Residency, New York, New York, USA |
| 2010 | Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, People's Choice Award Winner |
| New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts | |
| Bundanon Studio Residency, Nowra | |
| Art Vault Residency, Mildura | |
| 2006 | Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Open Award |
| Australia Council for the Arts, Studio Residency, Rome, Italy | |
| 2004 | Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Winner |
| ABN Amro Emerging Artist Prize, Sydney, People's Choice Award Winner | |
| Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Holding Redlich People's Choice Award Winner | |
| 2003 | Conrad Jupiters Art Prize Winner, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Winner |
| 2002 | Australia Council New Work Grant |
| The Siemens Art Prize, RMIT Gallery, University of Melbourne | |
| 2001 | Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, Winner |
| 1998 | Victorian Campus Art Prize, Award for Critical Merit |
| 1996 | RMIT Union Arts Grant Recipient, RMIT University, Melbourne |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2022 | Dearthlings, This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2022 | Doomscroll the Masthead, Res Artis Project Space, Melbourne |
| 2021 | Abyssal Figuration, This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2020 | The Beast and the Bestiary, This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2019 | Blank, Galerie Du Monde, Hong Kong |
| 2017 | Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice |
| 2015 | Solo Show, This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2014 | Art Taipei, GDM projects, Taiwan |
| Lord of the Canopy, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Melbourne | |
| When We take Flight, Bank of Melbourne in conjunction with National Gallery of Victoria | |
| 2013 | Art Basel Hong Kong, Dianne Tanzer Gallery stand, Hong Kong |
| Lord of the Canopy, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura | |
| 2012 | Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| Lord of the Canopy, a project commissioned for the LaTrobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo | |
| 2011 | Juan Ford: The Instant, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, curated by Kent Buchanan |
| Make Nature Better, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| 2010 | The Day the Machine Started, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Centre, Melbourne |
| 2009 | Simple Interference, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney |
| Juan Ford: Works from 2001 - 2006, 24HR Art, Northern Territory Contemporary Art Centre, Darwin | |
| Figuration Overhaul, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane | |
| Gravity, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2007 | Inverted World, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane |
| 100,000 Lux, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| 2006 | Revelation, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| More is Less, Dudespace, Melbourne | |
| More is Less, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane | |
| 2005 | Solo, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2004 | The Golden Mile, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2003 | Songs from the Penumbra, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Night and Day, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| Clone, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2001 | Protect me From what I Want, Mass Gallery, Melbourne |
| AΩ; West Space Inc., Melbourne | |
| 1999 | Artbox Installation, Sherman Galleries, Sydney |
| 1999 | The Way it Is, TCB art Inc., Melbourne |
| 1998 | Periphery, First Site Gallery, Melbourne |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2023 | Art SG, Marina Bay Sands Exhibition Centre, Singapore. Gallery DuMonde HK stand |
| Floating Land Biennale : Us and Them, Noosa region . Site specific installation at Little Cove |
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| The Romantic Route 3 Art Festival, Taiwan. curated by Eva Lin, Site specific installation at Taoyuan | |
| A Forest: LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell VIC | |
| Spring 1883: The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, with This Is No Fantasy | |
| Orbit : This Is No Fantasy, Melbourne | |
| 2022 | The Archibald and Wynne Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| Fragile Earth: Extinction. Gippsland Art Gallery | |
| Call and Response, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria |
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| 2021 | Still Now, Horsham Regional Gallery |
| Sydney Contemporary, This is no Fantasy & Dianne Tanzer Gallery | |
| Don’t Say I Never Warned You When Your Train Gets Lost, Stockroom Kyneton |
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| 2020 | Taipei Dangdai, Taipei World Trade Centre, with Gallery DuMonde HK |
| The Archibald and Wynne Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| 2019 | Art Basel Hong Kong, This is no Fantasy & Dianne Tanzer Gallery |
| 2019 Young Congo Biennale, KinArts Studio, Kinshasha, DR Congo | |
| Floating Land, Noosa Regional Gallery, curated by Michael Brennan | |
| Floating Land, Tewantin National Park, curated by Michael Brennan | |
| The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo | |
| RM McGivern Prize, Artspace at Realm, Ringwood | |
| 2018 | New Histories, Bendigo Art Gallery, curated by Jess Brigfoot |
| Devil in the Detail, Mornington Peninsula Region Gallery | |
| Analogue Art in a Digital World, RMIT Gallery Melbourne | |
| A Fine Romance, Gippsland Art Gallery | |
| Chaos and Order, 120 years of collecting at RMIT; RMIT Gallery | |
| Sydney Contemporary, This is no Fantasy & Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Carriageworks Sydney | |
| Art Shenzhen, GDM projects, Shenzhen China | |
| Odile, curated by David O'Hallaran, various venues, city of Dandenong, Melbourne | |
| 2017 | Romancing The Skull, Ballarat Art Gallery |
| Artist Profile: Australian Painters 2007 - 2017, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW | |
| A Small Show of Imperfect Paintings, Trocadero ArtSpace, VIC | |
| From Tears to Tsunami, ArtSpace at Realm, VIC | |
| Sydney Contemporary, This is no Fantasy & Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Carriageworks Sydney | |
| 2016 | Art16 Art Fair, THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery, London, UK |
| The Archibald and Wynne Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| Birds: Flight Paths in Australian Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC | |
| 2015 | 21st Century Hyperrealism, Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea |
| 5th Nakanojo Biennale, Gunma Prefecture, Japan | |
| The Archibald Prize Finalists Exhibition, Art Gallery NSW, Touring Australia 2015-2016 | |
| Art Stage Singapore, GDM projects, Singapore | |
| 2015 Group Exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| Conflicted: Adversaties in Art; Town Hall Gallery, City of Boroondara, Melbourne, Curated by Dr Kent Wilson | |
| Art15 London, GDM projects, London | |
| Syndey Contemporary, This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Sydney | |
| The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo | |
| 2014 | In the flesh, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra |
| Composing Common Worlds, Town Hall Gallery, City of Boroondara, Melbourne, Curated by Dr Kent Wilson | |
| This is no Fantasy, 2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne | |
| 2014 Archibald Prize Finalists Exhibition, Art Gallery NSW, Touring Australia 2014-2015 | |
| Side Project, Academy of Design Australia, Curated By Michael Peck | |
| Made To Last: The conservation of art, NETS Touring Exhibition, Curated by Sherryn Vardy and Sophia Lewincamp, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Charles Darwin University Art Gallery | |
| The Medium is the Message, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Curated by Michael Brennan | |
| FloraXFauna, Womanorial Texas, Curated by Haley Kattner Allen, Gabriela Ochoa, Deirdre Milionis | |
| 2014 Melbourne Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery + projects, Melbourne | |
| Tools of the Trade Project, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne, New Zealand | |
| 2013 | Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria |
| Finalist Exhibition, Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo | |
| Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #9, Mildura. | |
| Auckland Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery + projects booth | |
| Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne. Curated by Ash Kerr | |
| Made To Last: The conservation of art, NETS Touring Exhibition, Curated by Sherryn Vardy and Sophia Lewincamp, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Wangaratta Art Gallery, QUT Art Museum, Manningham Art Gallery | |
| 2012 | Hotel de Immigrantes, curated by Tomasz Wendland, parallel program to Manifesta 9, Belgium |
| Archibald Prize Finalists Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, then touring Australia 2012-2013 | |
| Wynne Prize Finalists Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| Sub12,The Substation, curated program by Substation committee | |
| Lie of the Land, Embassy of Australia, Washington, curated by Alex Taylor | |
| Revealed: inside the private collections of South Australia;Samstag Museum, Adelaide | |
| Juan Ford and Shaun O’Connor,Krause Gallery, New York | |
| Signal 8: Storm, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| Made to Last: The conservation of Art, NETS touring exhibition curated by Sherryn Vardy and Sophie Lewincamp, Latrobe Regional Gallery, 2013 - Art Gallery of Ballarat, Wangaratta Art Gallery | |
| The Rockhampton Gold Award, inaugural invitational prize, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland | |
| SSFA12, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| A4 Art, Westspace, Melbourne | |
| 2011 | Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore |
| Double Vision, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, curated by Penny Teale | |
| Wattle, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| Trans, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne | |
| High Definition – New Realist Painting, Paradise Hills, Melbourne | |
| High Definition – New Realist Painting, Austin Tung Gallery, Melbourne | |
| SSFA11, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| 2010 | Outside In, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne |
| Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne | |
| Present Tense, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra | |
| Understory, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport | |
| Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| Imaging the Apple, AC Institute (Direct Chapel), New York, New York, USA | |
| The Shilo Project, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| 2009 | Murray Darling Palimpsest, Mildura Arts Festival 2009, Wentworth Gaol, Mildura |
| Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist | |
| Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist | |
| Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, finalist | |
| The Space in Between - Book Project, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga | |
| The Skin Show, Shifted Visual Art Space, Melbourne | |
| The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne | |
| Now & Then, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney | |
| A Natural World, Glen Eira City Gallery, Glen Eira | |
| SSFA09, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| 2008 | Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| Neo-Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane | |
| A Strange Façade, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Gippsland | |
| A4 Art, Westspace, Melbourne | |
| When You Think About Art, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne | |
| The Space in Between, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo | |
| Eye to I, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool | |
| SSFA08, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| 2007 | The Far Side of the Moon, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne |
| City of Perth Art Award, Perth Town Hall, Perth | |
| University of Queensland National Artist’s Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane | |
| Eye to I, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat | |
| The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney | |
| Apropos – Human Rights in Art, Bus 117, for the 2007 Human Rights and Film Festival, Melbourne | |
| Human Rights and Film Festival, Melbourne | |
| SSFA07, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney | |
| A4 Art, Westspace, Melbourne | |
| Prometheus Art Prize, All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac, Gold Coast | |
| The Space in Between, Victoria College of the Arts, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo | |
| Royal Rumble 2, Kings ARI, Melbourne | |
| Behind You, Underground – RMIT Union Collection Retrospective, First Site, Melbourne | |
| 2006 | Overlap, The Sainsbury Gallery, The British School at Rome, Italy |
| Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange | |
| Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney, (Winner) | |
| A4 Art – Reunion, Westspace, Melbourne | |
| The Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra | |
| A portable model of…, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Where the Beep Hell are Ya?, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne | |
| 2005 | The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo |
| Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| A portable model of…, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart | |
| This Urban World, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport | |
| Selekta, Westspace, Melbourne | |
| ABN Amro Emerging Artist Prize, ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne | |
| Australian Icons Framed, National Trust fundraiser, Hotel Sofitel Wentworth, Sydney | |
| Exposure, Trocadero Artspace, Melbourne | |
| Why are you showing here? Trocadero Artspace, Melbourne | |
| Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2004 | Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong (Winner) |
| Address Book, Bus Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne | |
| ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize, ABN Amro Offices, Sydney and Melbourne | |
| Australian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Imaging the Apple, national touring exhibition, curated by John R. Neeson | |
| 2003 | SBS/Federation Square Contemporary Art Prize Federation Square, Melbourne |
| Nth Art, Nth Art, London, United Kingdom | |
| Melbourne X, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra | |
| Melbourne X, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney | |
| Glacier: Contemporary Painting, touring exhibition, Victoria and Queensland | |
| Headspace, National Neuroscience Faculty, University of Melbourne, Melbourne | |
| The Arthur Guy memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo | |
| Posted, MOP Projects, Sydney | |
| The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo | |
| Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, (Winner) | |
| The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney | |
| Royal Rumble, Kings Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne | |
| 2002 | Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong |
| Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne | |
| 2001 | The Siemens Art Prize, RMIT Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne |
| Melbourne x 8, Gallery 482,Fortitude Valley, Brisbane | |
| Look See: Five Contemporary Painters, Monash University Gallery, Clayton | |
| Glacier: Contemporary Painting, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne | |
| The Mediated Portrait/Image in Painting and Drawing, Mass Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2001 Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla (Winner) | |
| The Space in Between, Platform, Melbourne | |
| Eat My Art, TCB art Inc., Melbourne | |
| 2000 | Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast |
| Dickerson-Scott, Melbourne | |
| ...A Brush With Death, La Trobe St Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1999 | RMIT Fine Art at Yuan-Ze University, Yuan-Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan |
| Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne | |
| Project One, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Artzine, Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne | |
| The New Collectable, First Site Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2 Years of Span, Span Galleries, Melbourne | |
| 1998 | RMIT Fine Art at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong |
| The Victorian Campus Art Prize, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne | |
| RMIT Honours Graduate Show, 101 Collins Street Annex, Melbourne | |
| 1997 | Love Arm Live, performance with Japanese artist Ujino, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne |
| Contingency, Span Galleries, Melbourne | |
| EXHIBITIONS CURATED | |
| 2000 | …A Brush With Death, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| SELECTED COMMISSIONS | |
| 2014 | Jewish Museum of Australia, portrait of Sir Isaac Isaacs |
| When We Take Flight, Bank of Melbourne in conjunction with National Gallery of Victoria | |
| 2013 | Lowther Hall, Portrait of Principal Carolyn Grantskalns. |
| You, Me & the Flock, National Gallery of Victoria | |
| 2012 | Victorian State Parliament, portrait of the Hon. John Brumby, Premier. |
| 2011 | La Trobe University Chancellor, Sylvia Walton |
| 2010 | Westin Hotel, Sydney |
| 2008 | Sydney University Deputy Vice-chancellor, Professor Andrew Coats |
| Monash University Chancellor, Jerry Ellis | |
| 2007 | Monash University Vice-chancellor, Professor Richard Larkins OA |
| RMIT University Vice-chancellor, Professor Ruth Dunkin | |
| 2005 | University of Melbourne Chancellor, Professor Fay Marles AM |
| COLLECTIONS | |
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Artbank Bendigo Art Gallery Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney Geelong Art Gallery,Geelong City of Whyalla, SA Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast Fidelity International, Sydney La Trobe University, Melbourne Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne RMIT University and RMIT Union Arts, Melbourne Trinity College, University of Melbourne,Melbourne TXU Victorian Energy Ombudsman Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne Westin Hotel, Sydney Private collections in Australia and overseas |
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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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2015 Crawford, Ashley, 'Global', Art Collector, Issue 74, Oct - Dec, 20015 Nowak, Mardi, Conflicted: war and play, The Town Hall Gallery, ex. cat., 2015 Ford, Juan. 'Observation Point', Portrait, #50, Spring 2015 Rule, Dan. 'In the galleries', The Age, Spectrum, November 21, 2015 Ore, Madeleine, '10 quirky ways to engage audiences', ArtsHub, 24 February, 2015 Shanahan, Brittany, 'Juan the explorer', Diamond Valley Leader, October 21, 2015
2014 Brennan, Michael. The Medium is the Message, LUMA, La Trobe University Museum of Art, ex. cat., 2014 Watson, Bronwyn. ‘Public Works’, The Australian, November 29-20, 2014 Rule, Dan. 'Group show at Town Hall Gallery and a retrospective of Andrew Sibley's early work', The Age, September 5, 2014 Rule, Dan. 'David Rozetsky's choreographed allegories and a remarkable group exhibition', The Age, August 19, 2014 Harford, Sonia. 'Dystopian works a fresh take on nature', The Age, 14 February 2014 'Archibald Prize exlusive at Monington Peninsular Regional Gallery', Peninsula Wide, October 2014
2013 Cuthbertson, Debbie. 'Art draws in the Kids' The Age, 2 December 2013 Harford, Sonia. 'Children put on the map at the NGV', The Saturday Age, 28 September 2013 Rule, Dan. 'In the Galleries - Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself', The Age, 14 September 2013 Crawford, Ashley. 'Go Figure: Human side comes back to life', The Australian Financial Review, 30 May 2013 Percival, Lindy. 'A whiff of fresh perspectives', The Age, 1 June 2013 Crawford, Ashley. 'Juan Ford', Artist Profile, issue 23, 2013 McHissock-Davis, Hannah. Art Collector at Art Basel Hong Kong, Special Edition, 2013 Kiely, Annemarie. 'Man Vs Wild', Vogue Living, May-June, 2013 Crawford, Ashley. 'Curators Radar', Australian Art Collector, issue 63 2013 Leach, Sam. 'Realistic Representation in Australian Art', Vault, issue 3 2013 Crawford, Ashley. 'Tapping the Hustle and Bustle: Art Basel', The Australian Financial Review, 30 May 2013 Ashley-Kerr, David. Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself, ex cat., Strange Neighbour Gallery, 2013 Cooke, Dewi. 'Hong Kong art show opens borders', The Saturday Age, 20 April 2013
2012 Alessi, Vincent. Lord of the Canopy, ex cat. 2012-2014 Alessi, Vincent. 'Juan Ford - Recent Paintings', ex cat., dianne tanzer gallery + projects, 2012 Bridgefoot, Jessica. Sub12, ex cat. Sub12 The Substation, 2012 Backhouse, Megan. 'New Work Juan Ford', Art Guide Australia, Sept-Oct 2012 Miller, Carrie. 'Program Highlights', Australian Art Collector, Jan-Mar issue 59, 2012 Hoorn, Jeanette. Lie of the Land, New Australian Landscapes, ex cat. Embassy of Australia, Washington, 2012 Allen, Christopher. 'Man with no face the year's top portrait', The Australian, 31 March 2012 McDonald, John. 'Face the Facts', The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 March 2012 Allen, Christopher. 'Facial Recognition - The Archibald', The Australian, 16 March 2012 Teale, Penny. Double Vision, ex cat, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne 2012 Crawford, Ashley. 'Back to the Land', The Australian Financial Review, March 2012
2011 Buchanan, Kent. The Instant, ex cat., Dubbo Regional Gallery, 2011 Crawford, Ashley. '50 of Australia's most collectable artists', Australian Art Collector, issue 55, 2011 Amore, Melissa. Beyond the Instant, ex cat., Dubbo Regional Gallery, 2011
2010 Duncan, Sarah. ‘Buy Gum’, Brisbane News, 25 November 2010 McAuliffe, Chris. Basil Sellers Art Prize, ex cat., Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2010 Cormack, Emily. 'The Day the Machine Started' ex cat. Melbourne Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery + projects, 2010 Desmond, Michael, Present Tense, ex cat. National Portrait Gallery, 2010
2009 Thompson, Nicholas, 'Negotiating Art and its public: Optimism at the GOMA', Art Monthly, Issue 219, 2009 Kubler, Alison. 'Wrapped up in the real world', The Courier-Mail, 21 November 2009 Gill, Raymond. 'Shortlist to show sport, creativity', The Age, 25 September 2009 Hampson, Jane. 'Juan Ford: A Phrenologist's Deceptions'. Australian Art Review, Issue 18, February – April 2009
2008 Hampson, Jane. 'Juan Ford: A Phrenologist's Deceptions', Australian Art Review, Issue 18, February – April 2009 Gaynor, Andrew. Wake in Fright, ex cat. Gravity, 2008 Parker, Francis. 'The Salon Project, A Chamber of Light and Dark', ex cat., Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery, 2008 Watson, Claire. A Strange Facade, ex cat. Gippsland Art Gallery, 2008 Crawford, Ashley. ‘The Goth Within’, ex cat. Neo Goth: Back in Black, July 2008 Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Neo-Goth Shadow Looms Large’, ex cat. Neo Goth: Back in Black, July 2008 Crawford, Ashley. 'Terror Australis’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 44, April-June 2008 Slade, Lisa. ‘The Thrall of the Skull’, ex cat. Neo Goth: Back in Black, July 2008 Kubler, Alison. ‘As Black as Stone’, ex cat. Neo Goth: Back in Black, July 2008
2007 Clements, Justin. 100,000 Lux, ex cat., April 2007 Crawford, Ashley. ‘The Suburban Vernacular’, Nathan Taylor catalogue, Mossgreen Gallery 2007 Kidd, Courtney. ‘Artnotes', Art Monthly, April 2007 Kiely, Annemarie, 'Bright Young Things', Vogue Living, Nov-Dec 2007 Kubler, Alison. 'Queensland Painters: A New Breed’, Art and Australia Vol 45, No 1 2007 Backhouse, Megan. 'The Space in Between Book Project', Art Around the Galleries, The Age, 26 July 2007 Iaccarino, Clara. “100,000 Lux’, Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum section, 6 April, 2007 Lobley, Katrina. ‘Sullivan & Strumpf’, Events Section, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 February, 2007
2006 Gregg, Simon. ‘Melburnin’, Trouble, Issue 29, October 2006 Mahar, Jessica. ‘A Proud Night for our Art Credentials’, Cambelltown - Macarthur Advertiser, 8 November, 2006 Preston, Edwina. 'Revelation’ , ex cat. Revelation, September 2006 Rainbird, Stephen. ‘More is Less’, ex cat. More is Less, July 2006 Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘City’s Arty Image the In Thing, but Artists on the Way Out’, The Age, 7 September, 2006 Hansen, David. ‘Signs of the Times’, Sightlines, The Age, 13 October 2006 Backhouse, Megan. 'Revelation’, Art Around the Galleries, The Age, 30 September, 2006 Nelson, Robert. ‘Relics Reveal More than Meets the Eye’, The Age, 13 December, 2006
2005 Backhouse, Megan. 'Beyond the Cold detail of the Lens', The Age, April 2005 Crisp, Lynda. 'Exposure to the Learning Curve’, Australian Financial Review, 4 August, 2005 Hawley, Jane. ‘Idol Chatter’ The Age, Good Weekend, June 2005 McDonald, John. ‘Out of Art’s Boiler Room’, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, October 2005 Myer, Rod. ‘ABN Amro gets the hang of being young at Art’, The Age, 17 August, 2005
2004 Britton, Stephanie. Artrave - Awards section - Artlink Volume 24, 2 Number, 2004 Antony, Rachael. 'Ford drives on', Poster Magazine, Issue 7, 2004 Cass, Naomi. Artnotes Victoria, Art Monthly Australia, no. 170, June 2004 Clements, Justin. Eyeline - Contemporary Visual arts, no. 53, March 2004 Anderson, Patricia. 'Faces in a Crowd', The Weekend Australian, April 2004 Angeloro, Dominique 'He's the One, Officer - Review, "Abstraction"', Sydney Morning Herald, September 2004 Backhouse, Megan 'Juan Ford: the people's choice', The Age, May 2004 Backhouse, Megan feature article The Age, May 2004 Evans, Holly. Diary, The Age, August 2004 Low, Lenny Ann. Sydney Morning Herald, September 2004 McDonald, John. 'Mystique: in love with the Archibald', Australian Financial Review, 1 April, 2004 Makin, Jeff. ‘Much to be Big-Headed About’ Herald-Sun, October 2004
2003 Clements, Justin. 'Songs From the Penumbra', ex cat. Songs From the Penumbra, July 2003 Portus, Martin. 'Melbourne X' review, Eyeline 51, Winter 2003 Clark, Julie. 'Clone paintings', ex cat. Clone, February 2002 Strachan, Lucinda. Melbourne Magazine, August Issue 2003 Backhouse, Megan 'Singing in a world of their own', The Age, July 2003 'Juan takes Top Prize', Gold Coast Weekender, December 2003
2002 Loughrey, Felicity 'Attack of the Clones', Black and White Magazine, Issue 61, June/July 2002 Trotter, Penny. ‘The Theatrics of Cloning’: The recent paintings of Juan Ford’, Artlink, Vol 22, No 1, March 2002 Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘Double Trouble in a Virtual World’, The Age, February 2002 Nelson, Robert. ‘Prize Show Offers Fascinating Tour of New Directions', The Age, September 2002 Nelson, Robert. ‘Subversive Work at Play in Ironic Ode to Grecian Urn’, The Age, February 2002
2001 Bond, Chris. ‘A Short History of the Reconciliation of Opposites in the Paintings of Juan Ford’, ex cat. Protect Me From What I Want, February 2001 Gregg, Simon. ‘Art Soul’, Large Magazine, August 2001 Walwicz, Ania. Literary response to “Mediations” on July 2001 Williams, Linda. Reflection and Reconstruction: New Directions in Australian Painting’, ex cat. Glacier, September 2001 Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘RMIT Turns Cool’, The Age, September 2001 Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘Down an Alley, Filled with Art’, The Age, November 2001 Bullock, Natasha. ‘Moving Through Space’ ex cat. Look See: Five Contemporary Painters, March 2001 Nelson, Robert. ‘Are You Experienced’, The Age, March 2001 Nelson, Robert. “The ’Death of Painting’ a little premature”, The Age, September 2001 Timms, Peter. ‘Clever, Complex Ride Through Hearts’ Desires’ The Age, March 2001
2000 Atkinson, Paul. 'A Brush With Death’ ex cat. La Trobe Street Gallery, March 2000 Clements, Justin. ‘Revelations of the Insensible: The paintings of Juan Ford' Kubler, Alison. ‘Sebastian&rsquo An Artsphere Website © JUAN FORD 2024 
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