Monika TICHACEK Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1975 -

MONIKA TICHACEK

Born in 1975 in Switzerland, Monika Tichacek studied at the School of Visual Arts, Zurich before moving to Perth in 1994, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, Perth (1994-96). In 2000, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and, following sojourns abroad in New York and Prague.


In 2005, Monika staged her first major solo exhibition, The Shadowers video at Artspace, Sydney, the Contemporary Centre of South Australia, Adelaide and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, with a selection of photographic works only exhibited at Sherman Galleries, Sydney and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.

She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, both locally and abroad, including Cosmic Love Wonderlust: The Imperial Slacks Project, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney (2015); Activate, animate, complicate, grow: what new acquisitions can do for the collection, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne (2015); Nature Nurture, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2014); Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Re/Gendered, Platform Artists Group Inc., Melbourne (2010); Horror, Come Darkness, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney (2009); The Vernacular Terrain (2008), IDAprojects, Songzhuang Art Center, China; New Deities: Art and the Cult of Celebrity (2008), Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford; Anne Landa Award for Video & New Media Arts (winner) (2007), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Supernatural Artificial: Contemporary photo-based art from Australia, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan and touring various venues throughout Asia (2004-06); Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria and Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (2004); I thought I knew but I was wrong - New video art from Australia, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and touring various venues throughout Asia (2004); Octopus 4: More Real than Life, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2003); Kiefer Hablitzel - Eidgenoessischer Wettbewerb Fuer Kunst, ART 33, Basel, Switzerland (2002); and Homecoming King, Performance Space, Sydney (2001).


Among the various grants and awards Monika has received, particularly notable are the Anne Landa Award for Video & New Media Arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2007); Kiefer Hablitzel Stipendium from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation, Zurich (2002); the Dyson Bequest, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2001); the Helen Lemprière Travelling Arts Scholarship, Ministry of the Arts, New South Wales (2001); and the Basil Muriel Hooper Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2000).