Joshua Petherick
Born 1979, Adelaide, South Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Saratogian Bedding, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
Simultaneous Solitudes, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Joshua Petherick, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art at Mirka Tolarno, Melbourne
Nom Abbamon, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne (w. Christopher L.G. Hill)
2009 Bootleg at The Manor, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne
Austin & Petherick, Neon Parc, Melbourne (w. Nick Austin)
Selected Group Exhibitions/Events
2012
Chinatown, The Sequel, curated by Liv Barrett, LTD. Los Angeles (forthcoming)
Big Refrigerator, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland
2011
BYOB, Melbourne
Studios 2011, organised by Alexie Glass and Pip Wallis, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (forthcoming)
Social Sculpture, curated by Charlotte Day, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
ACCA ART#2, curated by Juliana Engberg and Hannah Mathews, Horsham Art Gallery
New Psychedelia, UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Eastern Seaboard/Foodcourt du Jour, du Jour, curated by Liv Barrett, Artspace, Sydney
Love In The Mourning, curated by Helen Johnson, Death Be Kind, Melbourne
Another Yummy Fantasy II, curated by Kate Smith and Alex Vivian, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
2010
Three’s Company, Gambia Castle, Auckland
Hotel Theory, curated by Liv Barrett, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne
No Soul For Sale, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni, Tate Modern, London
Public Lounge, curated by Danny Lacy, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Yummy Fantasy, curated by Kate Smith and Alex Vivian, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Musique Povera performances, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
Malibu Circa 1990, Gallery Malibu Circa 1990, Los Angeles
Original Title: The World is a Text with Several Meanings. Desired Title at Time of Publication: Don’t Think, Drink, curated by Liv Barrett, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Structural Integrity, Y3K at Next Wave, Melbourne
Stolen Library, curated by Marco Fusinato, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne
2009
Cross Colouring, curated by Sarah Hopkinson and Harriet Morgan, Gambia Castle, Auckland
Cargo Project, curated by Daniel Du Bern, Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago
Y3K for Tomorrow The World, Westspace, Melbourne
Artspace New Artist Show 09, “News Travels Faster In A Room with No Walls”, curated by Sonya Lacey and Sarah Rose, Artspace, Auckland
Cross Colouring, curated by Sarah Hopkinson and Harriet Morgan, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
Why Freak? Mmm’kay…, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne
A House Full Of A1 Black and White Posters Pt 2, Joint Hassles Gallery, Melbourne
General Jam, curated by Warren Taylor, ACMI, Melbourne (Pæces performance)
Secret Life, curated by Ola Vasiljeva, Curatorial Projects at Version Festival, Chicago
A House Full Of A1 Black and White Posters Pt 1, Joint Hassles Gallery, Melbourne
Axis Bold As Love, curated by Liv Barrett and James Deutsher, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne (organised by A Constructed World)
West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial 09, Anstey & Ashton, Melbourne (Pæces performance)
21:21:21: “Twenty-One Sound Works by Twenty-One Australian Artists from the Twenty-First
Century”, curated by Marco Fusinato, Oren Ambarchi, Alexie Glass and Emily Cormack,
Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania (w. Pæces)
Fundraiser, The Narrows, Melbourne
The Art Of Music, Colette, Paris
2008
The Second (Fourth) Melbourne Biennial of Art, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
Axis Bold As Love, curated by Liv Barrett and James Deutsher for the exhibition ‘Saisons
Increase part 3’, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (organised by A
Constructed World)
21:100:100: “One Hundred Sound Works by One Hundred Artists from the 21st Century”, curated
by Marco Fusinato, Oren Ambarchi, Alexie Glass and Emily Cormack, Gertrude Contemporary Art
Spaces, Melbourne (w. Pæces)
You Can’t Steal A Gift, presented by Christopher L.G. Hill, Gambia Castle, Auckland
Informal Rituals, curated by Helen Johnson and Alex Vivian, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
NGV Theatre, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Pæces performance)
United Artists, curated by Marco Fusinato for Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Palais
Theatre, Melbourne (Pæces performance)
Table of Elements, World Food Studio, Melbourne
Salon, OogaBooga, Los Angeles
Melbourne Art Fair 08, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
2007
Used Future and Nieves space, curated by Used Future, Daniel Baumann, and Nieves, Art Basel,
Switzerland
Sub-Devide&Concrete, curated by James Deutsher and Chris L.G. Hill, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
Octopus 7 – Curated by Robert Cook, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Omnipresents, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
My 2007, Colette, Paris
You Don’t Have To Call It Music, curated by Marco Fusinato, Curtain House, Melbourne (Pæces
performance)
MyHome, Vitra Campus, Weil Am Rhein, Germany
2006
Inaugural Show, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
Escape Party, Presented by Clubs Project Inc., Enjoy Gallery, Wellington
A Thousand Things, Mu Foundation, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Workshop Non-stop, Loose Projects, Sydney
Classics–Customs, curated by Roger Leong, NGV International, Melbourne
2005
HappyHardHauntedHaus!!!!, Clubs Project Inc., Melbourne
Corner, Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris
Slave 3, co-ordinated by Rob McKenzie, Nick Selenitsch, Kain Picken and Chris Hill, Margaret
Lawrence Galleries, VCA, Melbourne
Otherworld, curated by Jeff Khan and Ulanda Blair, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces,
Melbourne
Vitra Campus, Weil Am Rhein, Germany (commissioned interiors)
Drawing, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo
2004
New Drawing, curated by Emil Goh and Tara D’cruz Noble, UTS Gallery, Sydney Biennial, Sydney
Les Enfants DeL’atone, curated by Dylan Martorell, Outskirts, Melbourne
2003
The Sun In Your Eyes Makes Some of the Lies Worth Believing, curated by Helen Johnson,
Little Salon, Melbourne
Curatorial Projects
2011 The First & Final Y3K Second(Third) Inaugural Melbourne Biennial of International Arts, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne (w. Hany Armanious, Tobias Kaspar, Michael O’Connell, and Carissa Rodriquez)
Awards/Residencies
2011 Yaddo Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York
2011-12 Studio Residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2011 Arts Council Victoria, International Grant