Giuseppe Romeo
1958 Born, Melbourne, Australia
Studies
1978 – 1981 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Individual exhibitions
2014 Our Pretty Still Lives, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Homo Economicus – monotypes, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 “Everything is a human construct” – monotype and lithographs, landscape series, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2007 Insidious realities – mirrorworks and book sculptures, MARS, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Still lives- – mixed media sculptures, – Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 Lifestyle Rights – sculptures and mirrorworks, Span Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Christ Died For This – small box sculptures, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2004 The Billowing Flag – sculptures and mirrorworks, Span Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2003 Blind Faith – lithographs, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
2002 Blind Faith – lithographs, Kirkcaldy Davies Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Hot Tears –sculpture and monotypes, Kirkcaldy Davies Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2001 The death of reflection – sculpture and mirrorworks., Kirkcaldy Davies Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2000 The death of reflection – sculpture, monotypes and mirror works,
Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1999 Fears and false aspirations – sculpture, monotypes and mirror works,
Muka Gallery, Auckland New Zealand
1997 Communicating Tension – sculpture and monoprints, Savode
Galleries, Brisbane, Australia
Sculpture and Monoprints, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Communicating Tension – sculpture and monoprints, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1995 Sculptures and Monoprints, Savode Galleries,Brisbane, Australia
Small Sculptures, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1994 The Definite Object, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Ten Years of Sculpture and Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
1993 Small Sculptures and Drawings, Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand
1992 Recent Sculpture, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Monoprints, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1991 Small Sculptures and Drawings, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Lithographs and Monoprints, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1989 Sculpture and Drawings, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Works on Paper, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1986 Sculpture and Drawings, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2013 Word Works, from the Govett Brewster Collection, Percy Thomson Art Gallery, Stratford, New Zealand
2011 Eyes Wide Shut – Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood, Melbourne
2009 The aliens can smell our blood – Block Projects, Melbourne
2008 Redeeming the Ruin, the art of consumption – Exhibition organized and toured by Banyule City Council, curated by Dr Wendy Garden
2007 Curious Forms, Selected Works from the La Trobe University and City of Banyule Art Collections, La Trobe University Art Museum and Collections, Melbourne, Australia
2006 One Square Foot, MARS, Melbourne, Australia
2006 The Virtual and the Physical, an Artists’ Treasure Trove, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2005 Religion Across Boundaries, Community Church, Hawthorn, curated by Ian George
2004 beyond belief – Works from the Banyule Art Collection. Melbourne, Australia.
2004 Summer Exhibitions, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Precious Platters. Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
2002 New Small Sculptures, Kirkcaldy Davies Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2001 European Painting/Simulation, Ramp Gallery, Waikato Polytechnic, Hamilton, New Zealand
2000 Image and Text, Lopdell House, Auckland, New Zealand
1999 Volume and Form, Singapore
1998 Exhibition of International Lithographs, Muka Gallery, Auckland
Cornucopia – Collaboration between Artists and Chefs, design of frontispiece and colophon, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1997 Exhibition of International Painting, Sculpture and Lithographs, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Victoria University Collection, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1995 Muka European Youth Print Tour, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Denmark
Decadence – Ten Years of Exhibitions at 200 Gertrude Street, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1995 The Wandering Jew, Myth and Metaphor, Jewish Museum, Melbourne, Australia, then touring
Bluntstone Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, Launceston, then touring Australia
The MCA Collection, Gift of Victor and Loti Smorgon, Sydney, Australia
Our Parents’ Children, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
1994 Aussemblage, Auckland City Gallery and Wellington City Gallery,
New Zealand
Who’s Who and Who’s Hot, Kirkaldy Davies Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
1993 The First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Luba Bilu Gallery at MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane,
Australia
Just Sculpture, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Review 1993, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1992 Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries, Australia
ACAF 3, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Australia
Review 1992, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1989 McCaughey Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,
Australia
Small Sculptures, Graeme Sturgeon Foundation, Powell St Gallery, Melbourne and Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Lithographs, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, Australia
Diamond Valley Art Award, Melbourne, Australia
Review 1991, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Correspondences, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Muka Youth Print Tour, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia
1990 ACAF 2, Royal Exhibitions Buildings, Melbourne, Australia
100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher, Brunswick St, Melbourne, Australia
Aspects of Coolaroo West, Popular Front, Coolaroo, Melbourne, Australia
Four Refusniks Show, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
SPECIAL – it’s been used before, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Gold Coast Invitation Prize, Gold Coast Gallery, Queensland, Australia
1989 They’re still thinking aloud, Ray Hughes Gallery, Melbourne
Australia
Smorgon Collection of Australian Art, touring USA
Delineations – Exploring Drawing, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
ACAF 1, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Australia
A New Generation, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1987 Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Savage Club Drawing Exhibition, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
United Artists at Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
United Artists, Melbourne, Australia
1986 Guilding the Lily, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1987 Graven Images, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1984 Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
United Artists, Melbourne, Australia
1983 Young Sculptors, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1984 First Australian Sculpture Triennial, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Phillip Morris Collection, Canberra, Australia
Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand
Diamond Valley Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Smorgon Collection Gift to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Taim Management Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Bankers Trust, Melbourne, Australia
Victorian Arts Centre Trust, Melbourne, Australia
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Victoria University Collection, Melbourne, Australia
John Buckley Collection, Melbourne, Australia
CGA Bryson Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Ian George Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Peter and Michelle Vuletic Collection, Matakana, New Zealand
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand and Europe
Commissions
2005 Restructure, outdoor sculpture, for CGA Bryson, Mt Waverley Office Development “The Central”
1998 Office (furniture) for Magda Van Gils, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1996 Communicating Tension, sculpture commission, bronze, Grey Lynn Park, Auckland, New Zealand
1993 Delusion, sculpture installation, Grattan Gardens, Prahran, Melbourne, Australia
1991 Christmas Tree, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Cover design for GALLERY, National Gallery Society Magazine, Melbourne, Australia
1990 Invitation design celebrating the seventh anniversary of the Australian National Gallery, ANG, Canberra, Australia
Instruments for Human Solidarity, sculptural mural, World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Australia
1989 Design for record cover Come back to me, the Chantoozies, Australia
Allegory of Events following the Birth of My Grandfather, sculpture, Cafeteria, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1987 Five sculptures, Babalu Restaurant, Collins Place, Melbourne, Australia
Grants and Awards
1991 Andrew and Lillian Pederson Memorial Prize for Drawing and Small Sculpture, Brisbane, Australia
Diamond Valley Art Award, Melbourne, Australia
1990 Visual Arts and Craft Board, Australia Council
Gold Coast Gallery Invitation Prize, Acquisition, Gold Coast,
Australia
1989 Visual Arts and Craft Board, Australia Council, Travel Grant to Portland, Maine to attend the opening of the American Tour of the Smorgon Collection of Australian Art
1988 Visual Arts and Craft Board, Australia Council
1987 First Prize Savage Club Invitation Drawing Prize, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Australia
1986 Visual Arts and Craft Board, Australia Council
Victorian Ministry for the Arts
1981 Tina Wentcher Prize for Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
2000 Jan White Giuseppe Romeo – Mirroring the light,
Art New Zealand 2000. 95; 76
Jan White Image and Text Catalogue – Lopdell House,
Auckland, New Zealand
1996 Other The Wandering Jew – Myth and Metaphor Exhibition
Catalogue, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne,
Australia
Muka European Print Tour Exhibition Catalogue,
Muka Studio, Auckland, New Zealand
1994 TJ McNamara Perspective on Art
New Zealand Herald. New Zealand
Mark Amery Therefore Art thou, Romeo
Sunday Encore, Auckland, New Zealand
Louise Martin-Chew Sifting through the Rubble
Art and Australia 1994. 31; 4 : Winter, Australia
James Baker MOCA Bulletin #74, MOCA, April 1994, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
Sue Smith Romeo’s Reality, The Courier Mail, April, 1994, Brisbane, Australia
Other MOCA Bulletin #73, MOCA, March 1994, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
Aussemblage Auckland City Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1993 John Buckley The First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,
Exhibition Catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
James Harley The Art Museum (More or Less), MOCA Bulletin #68, September, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
Christopher Heathcote Shifting from Metaphysical to the Physical, Just Sculpture, The Age, 12.11.1993, Melbourne, Australia
Other Just Sculpture, Exhibition Catalogue, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
1992 Alison Carroll Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition, Exhibition
Catalogue, Editions Moet and Chandon, Melbourne,
Australia
1991 Graeme Sturgeon Contemporary Australian Sculpture, Craftsman
House, Sydney, Australia
Michel Sourgnes Correspondences, Exhibition Catalogue,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1990 John McPhee Australian National Gallery Association News, May-
June Issue
Ken Scarlett Australian Sculpture; Vigorous and Diverse, Ikebana
Ryusei
1989 Simon Kronenberg Three Shows in Melbourne, Artlink, Summer,
Australia
Jenny Zimmer Celebrating the Rhythms of Village Life, Sunday
Herald 24.9.1989, Melbourne, Australia
Other Molecules and Superstition, Tension, Issue #18, October, Australia
The Bardas Foundation Gift, Australia National
Gallery Foundation Magazine, November 1989,
Canberra, Australia
Interior Architecture and Design, Issue #20
Around the Galleries, Australian Jewish News,
15.9.1989, , Australia
Gary Catalano Dwelling on the Meaning of Life in Art, The Age, September 1989, Melbourne, Australia
1988 Jonah Jones The First Australian Contemporary Art Fair Exhibition
Catalogue, Australian Commercial Galleries
Association, Melbourne, Australia
Amanda Lynch Young Art Attacks Senses, Saturday Magazine, The
Canberra Times, 4.6.1988, Canberra, Australia
Other Interior Design, Issue #14
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Australian Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Melbourne,
Australia
1987 Memory Holloway Ordinary and Fabulous, Art and Australia, Autumn
Australia
Gary Catalano Axmen, Jugglers and a Lonely Shovel at Work,
The Age 23.9.1987, Melbourne, Australia
Juliana Engberg The Third Sculpture Triennial, Australian and
International Art Monthly, Issue #7, December 1987,
Australia
Other The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Exhibition
Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
1986 Ronald Miller The Dignity of Rustic Simplicity, Herald 4.7.1986,
Melbourne, Australia
Gary Catalano Symbolically a Misunderstanding, The Age
25.6.1986, Melbourne, Australia
Louise Neri Guilding the Lily, Exhibition Catalogue, Melbourne,
Australia
1985 Maudie Palmer Australian Sculpture Now, The Second
Australian Sculpture Triennial, Art and Australia,
Spring 1985, Australia
Noel Hutchison Art Network #17, Spring
Other Graven Images, Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of
Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1984 Sue Cramer Shaping the Eighties – Sculpture, The Age,
15.8.1984, Melbourne, Australia
Chance to Assess Work of the Eighties, The Age,
1984, Melbourne, Australia
Other The Second Australian Sculpture Triennial,
Exhibition Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne, Australia
1983 Other RMIT Young Sculptors Exhibition, Exhibition
Catalogue, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
1981 Other First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Exhibition
Catalogue, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia