Jemima Wyman

Her most recent artworks utilize these mediums to specifically focus on visually based resistance strategies employed within protest culture and zones of conflict. These works aim to explore the formal and psychological potentiality of camouflage and masking in reference to collective identity.

Wyman is represented by Commonwealth & Council, Milani Gallery and Sullivan & Strumpf. Her most recent solo exhibition …like a siren it repeats was held at Sullivan & Strumpf in 2019. Recent group exhibition have been held at ZKM (Germany), MU artspace (Netherlands), Nam June Paik Art Center (Korea), Elaine L. Jacob Gallery Wayne State University (Detroit), Carriageworks (Sydney), Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles), 17th Biennale of Sydney | THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age (Sydney), MUMA(Melbourne), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney) and 21^st Century Museum of Art (Japan).

Selected large-scale commissions include work for Other Life-formings at Blackwood Gallery (Canada), Iconography of Revolt at City Gallery Wellington (New Zealand), The Unexpected Guest: Liverpool Biennial at FACT (Liverpool) , and Pattern Bandits at the Children’s Art Center at GOMA (Brisbane) with an accompanying book Pattern Power.

Wyman completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (in Visual Arts) with Honors at the Queensland University of Technology. In 2007, she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from The California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles; this study was made possible with the generous support of an Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship.

In 2005 CamLab was formed, a collaboration between Wyman and Anna Mayer. The duo’s sculptural, video-based, and social practice work has been exhibited internationally, as well as extensively in their hometown of Los Angeles at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Hammer Museum, The Armory Center for the Arts, and Occidental College’s Weingart Galleries. CamLab has co-taught classes of its own design at California State University, Los Angeles, Art Center College of Design, Ox-Bow School of Art, Occidental College and (held public workshops) at the University of Houston.

Lives and works in Australia and Los Angeles.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021

• Fume, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney

2019

• ... Like a siren it repeats, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney

2018

• At the Fray, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles

2017

• Counterpowers, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney

2015

• Tactical Frivolity, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
  
• Conjouring Radical Opennes, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
  

2014

• Pattern Bandits, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
  

2013

• Effacing Power, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
  

2012

• Piecing Together Core Concerns, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
  

2010

• The Will to Deceive, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
  

2009

• The Declaration of Resemblance and Fluid Insurgents, IMA, Brisbane
  

2008

• Putting On: Hyper Stealth and Protective Coverings, Steve Turner Cont.
• Combat Drag: Lessons in Unlimited Expansion, Milani Gallery
• More Jungle then Paradise, IMA (TCB Space), Brisbane
  

2007

• The Difficult Word Is Born At Last, A402 Gallery CalArts, Los Angeles
  

2006

• No Nonsense: Great Shapes, The Block, Brisbane (cat.)
• Whak’emall, 507Rose, Los Angeles
• Off Their Heads! Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
  

2005

• Catastrophe Theory: Earthquake Girl and other Stories, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
  

2004

• Minnie Peep, 18th St Arts Centre, Los Angeles
  

2003

• See-Saw, The Farm, Brisbane (cat.)
  

2002

• Chroming, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
  

2000

• Lightweight Poncho, Palace Gallery, Brisbane (cat.)
  

1999

• Pink Bits, Palace Gallery, Brisbane

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

• Living Patterns: Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
• Refigured, Lobby Gallery, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
  
• New Exuberance: contemporary Australian textile design (touring), Jam Factory, Tarntanya/Adelaide, Kaurna Country

2022

• Air, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

2021

• Conflict In My Outlook_Don't Be Evil, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
• On Fire: Climate and Crisis, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
• CUT IT: Collage to MEME, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
  

2019

• 2019 Annual Summer Group Show, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney

2015

• MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• Quaternary, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
• A New Feminine? Airspace, Sydney
• GNAP, Post Office Gallery Federation University Australia, Victoria
  

2014

• Logistical Gymnastics, Sam Francis Gallery, Los Angeles
• Menagerie, or Artwork Not About Love, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery Wayne State University, Detroit
• Conflict: Contemporary Response to War, University Queensland Museum
  

2013

• Direct Democracy, Monash University Museum of Art
• Chockablock, University Art Museum, Long Beach
  

2012

• The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial FACT, Liverpool (cat.)
• Feminage, Cross Art Projects, Sydney
• Panorama, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney (cat.)
  

2011

• Inner Voices, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (cat.)
• New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Museum, Brisbane (cat.)
• The Open Day Book Exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles (cat.)
  

2010

• THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney Biennale Cockatoo Island, Sydney (cat.)
  

2009

• GPS, Cypress Collage Art Gallery, Los Angeles
• Total Nowhere Emotional Expansion, Brisbane Powerhouse
• No Other One Is, Threewalls, Chicago (CamLab)
  

2008

• The Art Resort, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
• Pap Spears, Karen 19, Gold Coast
  

2007

• The Collective Body, Galerie Califia, Czech Republic (CamLab)
• Powder Room, Track 16, Los Angeles
• Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, CalArts, Los Angeles (CamLab)
• The Juice is Loose, 507Rose, Los Angeles
• Too Check Effect, 40000, Chicago, USA
• IDAP, Yokohoma Art Centre, Japan (cat.)
  

2006

• Seeing is Believing, Gatov Gallery West (CSU), Long Beach
• Contemporary Commonwealth, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia (cat.)
• Someone Shows Something to Someone, CCAS, Canberra, Australia (cat.)
• Rectangular Ghost, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• IDA, Beijing Film Academy, China
• OUT of THE INTERNET (MAAP), State Library of Qld, Australia
  

2005

• Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (cat.)
• Twofold, Westbeth Gallery Kozuka, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
• Prime, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
• Not Worried, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
  

2004

• Talking about Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (cat.)
  

2003

• Colour, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
• Sub-Tropic, Harvey Bay Regional Gallery, Harvey Bay, Australia
  

2002

• Unit 197, Gamma Space, Melbourne, Australia (cat.)
• The Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  

2001

• QUT Alumni Exhibition, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
• Virtually Furniture, Brisbane Powerhouse
  

2000

• Next Gen, Metro Arts, Brisbane (cat.)
• (painting), Monash University Gallery, Melbourne (cat.)
  

1999

• Colourfield, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
  

1998

• Griller Girls, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
• Fragility, Smith & Stoneley on Stratton, Brisbane
  

1997

• After Image, Development Space Metro Arts, Brisbane

Education

2007

• MFA at California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles
  

2001

• Honours (first class) at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
  

1997

• Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts at QUT, Brisbane

Selected Awards and Residencies

2012

• Australia Council Grant, New Work Grant (Mid-Career)
  

2011

• Arts Queensland, Career Development Grant
  

2010

• QANTAS Foundation Art Award, Australia
• Elam International Residency, University of Auckland , New Zealand
  

2009

• Threewalls Summer Residency, Chicago (CamLab)
  

2006

• California Institute of Arts Scholarship, Los Angeles
  

2005

• Lord Mayors Fellowship, Brisbane City Council & Arts Qld
  

2004

• The Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
• Los Angeles Studio Residency, Australia Council for the Arts
  

2001

• Graduate Award (Honours), Software Engineering Aust.
  

2000

• Melville Haysom Scholarship, Queensland Art Gallery

Selected Live Performances/Screenings/Events

2014

• Surface Tensions, Institute for Labor Generosity Workers and Uniforms, LA
  

2012

• Embodied, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CamLab)
• Engagement Party, MOCA, Los Angeles (CamLab)
  

2011

• Social Clothing Experiments, The Getty Centre, Los Angeles
  

2010

• Outside the Box, Bongout Gallery, Berlin
• The Fish Bowl, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
• Whak’emall, San Pablo Arts District, Oakland
  

2009

• Ben Russell: Burns, Chicago (CamLab)
  

2008

• Drift, Volta, New York
• Swoon Soon Suit, Silver Platter, Los Angeles (CamLab)
• Gentle Extended Performance, Anarchist Bookfair, Los Angeles (CamLab)
  

2007

• 4th Monkey Town Semiennial , Monkey Town, New York
• Ladyfest07 , Verdenskulturcentret, Copenhagen (CamLab)
  

2006

• You/Me (Puppet Cabaret) , CalArts, Los Angeles
• [PAM] Cinema-scope program, Scope Miami, Miami
• Chromophonozone, Don’t Tell Mama, Brisbane
• Cat Theory, Director’s Lounge, Berlin
  

2005

• Video works 2001-2003 , artLA, Los Angeles
  

2004

• Love it or Leave! , Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles
• Video Works 2000-2004, Project Artaud, San Francisco

Selected Bibliography

• Wyman, J. Tactical Frivolity, Artist Project for X-tra, Volume 17, No.3, Spring 2015, pp. 44-53.
• Blas, Z. Contra-Internet Aesthetics. In Kholeif, O. You Are Here Art After the Internet, London: Cornerhouse Publications, 2014pp. 90-91
• Wyman, J. Pattern Power: Blending In and Standing Out, 2014, Australia: The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, 2014.
• Cull, T. The Power of Patterns, Artlines, 2014, pp. 34-37
• Mallouk, Elyse. Engagement Party: Social Practice at MOCA 2008-2012, 2013, pp. 203-220
  http://www.moca.org/party/camlab/ with writing by Melinda Guillen (CamLab)
• Ziherl, V. ‘Techniques of the Skin,’ Inner Voices, 2011
• Baum,G., Gluck,M. & Johnson,A. ‘Arts & Power,’ Angelino Magazine, December 2011, pp.72-73.
• Kim, S. ‘Looking Back/ Looking Forward,’ Frieze Magazine, Issue 136 Jan-Feb 2011, p. 90.
• Dick, L. ‘Jemima Wyman: Incognito’, Eyeline, Issue 69, 2009, pp. 29-33.
• King, S S. ‘Santa Fe Summer Preview,’ Art in America, No.6: June/July, 2007
• Stratton, S. ‘CamLab,’ artUS, Issue18: May-June, 2007, p. 44.
• Mayer, A. ‘Jemima Wyman: Whak’emall,’ Eyeline, Issue 61: Spring, 2006, p. 55.
• Mackinlay, D. ‘Under the City’s Skin,’ RealTime, Issue 75: Oct-Nov, 2006, p. 7.
• Fitzgerald, M. ‘Finding Their Inner Spring’, Time Magazine(Aus.), October 3rd, 2005, pp. 70–72.
• Jackson, B. ‘A Sensorial Abstraction’, Eyeline, Issue 57: Winter, pp. 22-26, 2005.
• Butler, R. ‘Smart Art,’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 33: July – Sept 2005, p. 128.
• Stevens, G. ‘Video National//Queensland,’ Photofile, Issue 74: Winter, 2005.
• Butler, R. ‘Surface Tension’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 21 July-Sept, 2002, p. 144.
• Webb, M. ‘The Body, The Imago, and The Intermezzo,’ Eyeline, no.45, Autum/Winter, 2001, pp. 32-35(& cover).
• Kubler, A. ‘(You make me feel) mighty real ’ Art Monthly, no. 130 June 200

A Practice of Protest and Protection: The Masks of Jemima Wyman, Art Monthly Australasia, June 2020