B. Christchurch, AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND
EDUCATION
Masters of Art, COFA, UNSW Sydney
Bachelor of Fine Arts, COFA, UNSW Sydney
Certificate in Drawing, ESTC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Saccades, Void_Melbourne
2021 Redesigning Sovereignty, Le K.A.B Square des Batignolles, Paris
Redesigning Sovereignty, Mellemrummet Godsbanen Aarhus Denmark
Pillars of Déplacement, Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Les Voyageurs, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Absent Bodies, Public Art Project, Melbourne
2017 Vests, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Melbourne
2016 Liberte, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
2015 Meeting Points for Democracy, Ficciones Typografika, Minneapolis, USA
2014 Proposal Base, Buitenplaats Koningsweg,Armham Netherlands
2013 14645 km to Taksim Square,Site Specific, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023. Spring1883 Art Fair, Hotel Windsor Melbourne
2022 Vernissage, Void_Melbourne
2021 Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Together, so Far so Close, MOMus Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki Greece
Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
29th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2020, Pah Homestead, Auckland NZ
Art of sustainability, GG3 Berlin
Wyndham Art Prize, Melbourne
Art Aid Gippsland, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
2019 CIRCULAR, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne
Blacktown City Art Prize, Sydney
Drowning Not Waving, Wyndham Art Gallery, Melbourne
Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, Kunsthal Aarhus, DK
Wyndham Art Prize, Melbourne
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Victoria
2018 Intervene, Goodman Lane, Melbourne
Keep the fire burning, Hillvale Gallery, Brunswick
Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gallery Hota, Gold Coast
Looking at America, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, USA
Kings Gallery Fundraiser, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
University of Western Sydney Sculpture Award, Campbelltown Sydney
Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture, Juniper Hall, Sydney
2017 Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Personal Structures, Biennale Arte 2017 , Giardini Marinaressa, Venice, Italy
Breaking News, Diplarios School, Athens
Museum of Lost Public Notices, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2016 CCP SALON, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Factivism: Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
The Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne
National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton New Zealand
Site Specific, Lesvos, Greece
2015 Meeting Points for Democracy, Syntagma Square, Athens
Meeting Points for Democracy, Open View, Istanbul
2014 Der Wald, Group Global Project Space, Berlin
Recent Work, Studio OpeN
National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton New Zealand
Festival Miden, Video screenings, Art Wall Project Space Athens
Images Contre Nature 2014, Marseilles, France
The Open West 2014, The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, United Kingdom
Exuberant Politics, Public Space One, Iowa City, USA
Move in ( space ), Visual Container TV Milan, Italy
2013 AGORA 4 th Athens Biennale 2013, Athens Greece
La photographie du portefeuille, l’Université de Lorraine, Maxéville France
CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Frieze, Regents Park London
Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne
National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton New Zealand
Videotheque à la carte, Images Contre Nature 2013, Marseilles, France
Festival Miden 2013, Move in ( space ) curated by Margarita Stavrak, CAMP, Athens Greece
Once upon time, the Arab Spring..., Galerie d'Art Kaiss, Rabat Morocco
La Photographie du portefeuille, La Conserverie, Metz France
Snap to Grid, Los Angles Center for Digital Arts USA
2012 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
NordArt 2012, Kunstwerk-Carlshutte, Büdelsdorf, Germany
In the Electron Salon, Los Angles Center for Digital Arts USA
Videotheque à la carte, Images Contre Nature , festival International de video experimentale, Marseilles, France
Hidden Cities, International Video Art Festival, Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association, Istanbul Turkey
Ruoli Segreti Ruoli Proibiti, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice Italy
Web broadcast, 12/10/2011 Piazza San Marco, Venezia
Random Cities, Video Installation, Bari, Italy
Blurred, Farmacia Melbourne
Recent Work, Gallery 19, Sydney
Artifice, 151 Regent street, Sydney
Longitude, First Draft, Sydney
Found, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Bush Paintings and X-rays, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Artists Against Sedition Laws, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
The Politics of Everyday Fear, Australian Perspecta, Artspace, Sydney
50/50, Gallery 19, Sydney
Red Brick, Performance, Pittsburgh, USA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
KP20, Catalogue, p19 2020
Drowning Not Waving, Rebecca Shanahan, Art Guide Australia, August 2019
Ficciones Typografika 1624, Paul Handley 1021-1022-1023, Formist Publications April 2019
KP19, Catalogue, p19 2019
Wyndham Art Prize 2019, Catalogue , page 33
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Catalogue, page 12, 2019
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award Catalogue, page 31, 2018
Nachkunst: Metamorphoses of the work concept in curated and political art of the present, by Wolfgang Ullrich, KunstForum International Vol 254
Everyone’s a Critic, ABC TV, Episode 8, 2018
Interview with Annie McLoughlin, Solidarity Breakfast 3CR, 5 May 2018
Western Sydney University Sculpture Award, Catalogue, Text by Dr Pamela James, May 2018
Les Voyageurs: Paul Handley, UNSW Art & Design, April 2018
Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture Catalogue, March 2018, page 09
Contemporary Hum, Paul Handley interview, September 2017
New Work Friday #227, The Art Life, Aug 18th 2017
Personal Structures: Open Borders Catalogue, p 556-557, Text by Richard Ennis, May 2017
Contemporary Hum, Paul Handley brings Smuggling Pod to Venice, May 2017
The Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change, Catalogue, p16, October 2016
Artist Inquisition :Paul Handley, Melbourne Arts Club, September 7th 2016
Hamilton's Contemporary Art Prize, Peter Dornauf , EyeContact 20 September, 2016
The Substation Contemporary Art Prize 2016, Catalogue, September 2016
National Contemporary Art Award Catalogue August 2016 p 8 2014
In)Decent Proposal in Armham, NAK, Armham Netherlands, October 2014
National Contemporary Art Award, Eye Contact ,1 September 2014
National Contemporary Art Award Catalogue, August 2014
The Open West 2014 Catalogue Open West 2014,
05/05/2014, Artlyst BBC Radio Gloucestershire, 03/05/2014
Occupational Hazard, Athens Biennale, Artforum Diary 10/11/13
AGORA 4 th Athens Biennale 2013 Catalogue
Art News, Art Collector 02/10/13
Hamilton's National Contemporary Art Award, Eye Contact ,23 August 2013
National Contemporary Art Award Catalogue, August 2013
La Photographie du portefeuille a la Conververie, Cindy Laboutuque, La Plume 02/04/2013
Metz: La Photographie du portefeuille, le journal de la photographie, 01/04/2013
Nord Art, Catalogue, page 150, 2012
Hidden Cities Istanbul, The gossamer of precarious realities in contemporary metropolis, Ozge Celikaslan, May 2012
Hidden & Forbidden Identities, Elis Saint-Juste Gluckstein, 2012
FINALIST AND GRANTS
Creative Victoria, Sustaining Creative Workers Fund 2020
Sidney Myer Fund, 2020
29th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2020, Auckland New Zealand
2020 Wyndham Art Prize, Melbourne
Blacktown City Art Prize 2019, Sydney
2019 Wyndham Art Prize, Melbourne
2019 Montalto Sculpture Prize, Victoria
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gallery Hota, Gold Coast
2018 Western Sydney Sculpture Award, Sydney
Tom Bass Sculpture prize, Sydney
Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2017, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2016, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change 2016, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
Substation Contemporary Art Prize 2016, The Substation, Melbourne
National Contemporary Art Award 2016, Waikato Museum, New Zealand
National Contemporary Art Award 2015, Waikato Museum, New Zealand
Substation Contemporary Art Prize 2013, Melbourne
National Contemporary Art Award 2013,Waikato Museum, New Zealand
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
Pat Corrigan Marketing Grant
Project Grant - New Work, Australia Council
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
Pat Corrigan Artist Grant
NSW Travelling Art Scholarship