1974
Born Sydney, New South Wales

Qualifications

2005
Masters of Visual Art, Sydney College of the Arts, New South Wales
2003
Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, New South Wales

Academic Employment

2013–present
Lecturer in Visual Art, University of Wollongong, New South Wales
2013
Sessional Lecturer in Drawing. Faculty of Design and Architecture, University of Sydney
2009–12
Sessional Lecturer in Drawing, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

Solo Exhibitions

2019
The Black Captain, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2016
Black Geometry, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2014
Dark Matter, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisnbane
Abstract, DNA Projects, Sydney
2013
A Willingness to Forget: New Drawings, DNA Projects, Sydney
The Kingdom, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney
2012
A Small Victory, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
2010
The Science, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne; MOP, Sydney
The Proposition, Flinders Street Gallery. Sydney
This is not an exit, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2007
On The Multiplicity of Wolves, First Draft, Sydney
2006
Fragments Drawing, Onefourteen Gallery, Sydney
2005
Tabloid Nation, Phatspace, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
The National 2019: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
2018
Fieldwork, ALASKA Projects, Sydney
Couplings, Dominik Mersch, Sydney
2017
How to Disappear Completely, Garage Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016
Dark Symmetries, PS Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2014
Fractured Beauty, Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales
Processing, Alaska Projects, Sydney
2013
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
2012
Remarking remaking: contemporary Australian drawing connections, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney
2009
Southerly Buster, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts, New South Wales
Works on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2008
ABN Amro Art Awards, ABN Amro Building, Sydney
2006
The War and the Cooked, PELT, Sydney
The Thin Lead Line, Phatspace, Sydney
Overt Compensation Reloaded, Depot Gallery, Sydney
Dozen: Approaching Intimacy Miniatures, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2005
Hatched, PICA/Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
Design Festa, Bus Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Arts Aporia, Osaka, Japan

Awards and Grants

2017
Finalist, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, PLC Gallery, Sydney
2015
Finalist, Works on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2013
Finalist, The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
Faculty Grant, Arts, Humanities and Law, University of Wollongong, New South Wales
2009
Finalist, Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts
Finalist, Works on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2008
Finalist, ABN Amro Art Awards, ABN Amro Building, Sydney
2004–05
Australian Post Graduate Award, Department of Education and Training, Canberra

Bibliography

Brand, Louise. Fractured Beauty [ex. cat.], Wollongong City Gallery, 2014
Branson, James. ‘All By Myself In Solitary Confinement’, Sneaky, Issue 2, 6 November 2013
Cunningham, Dr Daniel Mudie (editor). Sturgeon, Issue 2, 2014
Fitzgerald, Michael. ‘The Kingdom’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, October 2013
Frost, Andrew. ‘I count the grains of sand’, Teo Treloar: Black Geometry [ex. cat.], Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2016
Hegardt, Björn. Fukt Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, Sydney, 2012
Judd, Craig. ‘The National 2019: New Australian Art’, Artlink, 15 May 2019
Kavanagh, ‘Teo Treloar’, The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2019
Li, Dr Wenmin and Syed, Dr Abdullah M. I. Remarking/Remaking: contemporary Australian drawing connections [ex. cat.], Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2012
Kiely, Annemarie. ‘The Renaisance of Watercolour in Contemporary Art’, Vogue Living Australia, September–October 2010
O'Sullivan, Jane. ‘Artist Interview: Teo Treloar’, Art Collector, 6 October 2010
Riley, Jane. ‘Drawing in the 21st Centry’, The Innovative Household, 2010 Issue
Rule, Dan. ‘Teo Treloar: A Small Victory’, The Age, 5 May 2012

Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney