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Anna Carey

Anna Carey
Sunroom 2010
Giclée print
79 x 118 cm
Edition 5

  Anna Carey

Biography

1987
Born Tweed Heads, NSW
Lives and works between Los Angeles, CA, USA and Gold Coast, Australia

Education

2012–
Ph.D. candidate, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland
2007–10
Bachelor of Visual Media with Honours (First Class), Griffith University, Southport, Queensland

Solo Exhibitions

2020
Faraway, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane; Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2019
In Search of Rainbows, Diginner Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017
In search of rainbows, Artereal Gallery, Sydney; Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2016
Stardust, Photo Independent, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Selected photographs by Anna Carey, Ipswich Art Gallery, Brisbane
2015
Stardust, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2014
Blue Angel, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
Preludes, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2013
Anna Carey, The Walls, Miami, Queensland
2012
Mirage, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane; Artereal Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2020
Built Forms, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Queensland
2019
Venice Family Art Clinic Art Auction, Google, Venice, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Collectors Space, 541 Art Space, Sydney
2018
We are Gold Coast, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
2017
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
I can paint a rainbow, Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
2016
High Rise Low Rise, Gorman Arts Centre, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
LOVE... More than a four letter word, Caboolture Regional Gallery, Queensland
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Home, Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, NZ
Artereal X/l, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2015
Cream: Four Decades of Australia Art, Coboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Photo Independent, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, CA, USA
Reconstructed, PYO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Photo LA: The 24th International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, The Reef/L.A. Mart, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Feeling for Place: Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection—Recent Acquisitions, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Video Contemporary, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Carriageworks, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary, Artereal Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
Reconstructed, PYO Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Melbourne Art Fair, Artereal Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
2014
Fibro Coast, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
David Malouf and Friends, Museum of Brisbane, Queensland
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
Brisbane Open House, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Urban Screen, Dlux Media Arts, Chatswood Concourse, Sydney
Graceland, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2013
Photo LA: The 22nd International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Holiday and Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
California Dreaming, Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane
Graceland, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
Speculative Spaces, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2012
Connection: An exhibition of the 2011 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy, Queensland; John Flynn Place Museum and Gallery, Cloncurry, Queensland; Mount Isa Civic Centre, Mount Isa, Queensland; State Library of Queensland, Brisbane; TYTO Regional Art Gallery, Ingham, Queensland
2011
Built, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
From Here to There, Surfers Paradise Community Gallery, Queensland
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
Best of 2010 Graduates, Whitebox Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Southport, Queensland
2010
Art for Eva, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
First Date, The Fish Farm, Gold Coast, Queensland
Spray Tan Spread: Queensland College of Art Gold Coast Graduating Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
BARI Festival, Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane
Bursting at the Seams, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Test Pattern, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2009
Mediamorphosis, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland

Awards and Grants

2013
‘Finalist’ (work acquired), Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
2012
‘Australian Postgraduate Award’, Department of Industry, Australian Government, Canberra
2011
‘Finalist’, Queensland Regional Art Awards, Flying Arts, Brisbane
‘New Work Emerging Grant’, Australian Council for the Arts, Sydney
2010
‘Rapid Response Cultural Development Fund Grant’, Gold Coast City Council, Queensland
‘Honours Best Research Project, Bachelor of Visual Media’, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland
‘Academic Excellence Award’, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland
2009
‘Godfrey Rivers Medal’ (Best studio based work—Bachelor of Visual Media), Griffith University, Southport, Queensland
‘Fine Art Best Portfolio’, Bachelor of Visual Media, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland
‘Academic Excellence Award’, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland
‘Ignition Prize’, National Association for the Visual Arts Ltd (NAVA), Sydney
2008
‘Academic Excellence Award’, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland

Commissions

2019
Commission of new artwork and acquisition of multiple artworks by Soho House, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2014
‘Promotional image’, Queensland Festival of Photography 5, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2013
‘Promotional image’, Queensland Festival of Photography 4, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
‘Promotional image’, Fibro Coast, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland

Bibliography

Anna Carey: Preludes [ex. cat.], Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2014
Anna Carey: Stardust, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2015
Anon. ‘Engaging Exhibitions at Gold Coast City Gallery: Fibro Coast’, Antiques and Art in Queensland, December 2013–March 2014
Brown, Alexandra and Leach, Andrew. Anna Carey, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, 2012
Brown, Alexandra and Leach, Andrew. ‘Beyond Starlight’ in Schnoor, Christop (editor). Translation: Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Volume 31, SAHANZ and Unitec ePress, Auckland/Gold Coast, 2014
Cheng, Scarlet. ‘Re/constructed’, Art Scene Los Angeles, June 2015
Coleman, Sheridan. ‘High Rise Low Rise explores Canberra and the Gold Coast’, Art Guide Australia, 11 January 2017
Denham, Peter and Grace, Renai. ‘A shared place’, David Malouf and Friends [ex. cat.], Museum of Brisbane, 2014
Fortescue, Elizabeth. ‘Bygone charmers whose days in the sun are almost over’, The Daily Telegraph, 13 September 2012, p. 53
Fraser, Margie. ‘Anna Carey’, Inside Out Magazine, Issue 95, January–February 2012, p. 32.
King, Georgia Frances. ‘Anna Carey's Tiny Houses’, Frankie, 18 September 2012 
Kumurdian, Dijana. ‘Anna Carey creates uncanny artworks inspired by Gold Coast architecture’, Vogue Living, 30 September 2014
Kumurdian, Dijana. ‘Time Warp’, Vogue Living, May–June 2014, p. 62–63
Ley, Aimee. ‘Not just a pretty face’, Gold Coast, Issue 203, September–October 2012
Malouf, David. ‘Anna Carey’, in Denham, Peter and Grace, Renai. David Malouf and Friends [ex.cat], Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, 2014
Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Preview: David Malouf and Friends’, Art Guide Australia, 22 May 2014
Martin-Cher, Louise. ‘In search of rainbows’, Anna Carey: In search of rainbows [ex. cat.], Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2017
Morgan, Alice. ‘Anna Carey’, Inside Out, Issue 95, January–February 2012, p. 32
Ortega, Maurice. Queensland Festival of Photography 5 [ex. cat.], Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, 2014
Rigney, Virginia. ‘Cultural context and art practice on the Gold Coast, Flying Colours: 10 Years of QCA Graduates [ex. cat.], Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, 2010
Rigney, Virginia. ‘Places found and reimagined’, Fibro Coast Bleach Extension [ex. cat.], Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, 2014
Rigney, Virginia. ‘A city made through the photograph’, Lucida Journal: Habitat, Issue 1, p. 54–60
Wollf, Sharne. ‘David Malouf and Friends—artistic collaboration a Brisbane state of mind’, The Guardian, 12 May 2014
Yiu, Pak. ‘David Malouf exhibit opens at the Museum of Brisbane’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 
15 May 2014

Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Soho House, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Artbank, Sydney
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane
Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, Queensland
Grantpirrie Collection, Sydney and New York, NY, USA
The Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney