CURRICULUM VITAE – Siri Hayes b.1977
Education
2001 Graduate Diploma of Visual Art – Victorian College of the Arts
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art – Victorian College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Back to Nature Scene – Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2012 All You Knit is Love – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2010 Aquatic Listening * – GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Dredge * – Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Listening Portraits – Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
Listening Portraits – Gallerysmith, Melbourne
* in collaboration with music composer Eve Duncan
2009 En plein air – Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2008 Landscapes – University of Sydney Gallery, Sydney
Landscapes – Swithchback Gallery, Churchill
Transition Portraits – Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2005 Lyric theatre - Centre for Contemporary Photography
2004 Lyric theatre – Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
2003 Farm – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2002 Walking Home – West Space, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 MAKE-UP: The painted face in contemporary photography –
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
The Cuckoo’s Nest – Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Northern Lights – Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2012 Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art –
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
A Curious Nature: the landscape as theatre in contemporary photography and new
media – Geelong Gallery, Geelong
Nature in the Dark – Federation Square main screen, Melbourne
I would breath water – Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne
Un-acclimatized – Switchback Gallery, Churchill
2011 Boundary Line – TarraWarra Museum of Modern Art, Healeseville
The New Arcadia – Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
The Gravity of the Situation – Monash Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Stormy weather – the landscape in contemporary Australian photography –
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert photography prize Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast
2009 William and Winifred Bowness photography prize – Monash Gallery of Art,
Melbourne
Re-socialization - The Old Wentworth Jail, Wentworth
Prix Pictet – Palais de Tokyo, France
International Festival of Photography – Lodz Arts Centre, Poland
2008 Tickle Attack – Backlight Photo Festival – Exhibition Centre TRI, Finland
Where in the Woods – Margerat Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Moving Galleries – Connex metropolitan train system, Melbourne
2006 Reverie – Switchback Gallery, Churchill
Inhabitation – Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005 National Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Art Gallery, Albury
Outdooring – Gallery Senkukan, Japan
Badlands – The Wedding Circle, Sydney
City of Perth Photomedia Award – Perth Institute of Art, Perth
The Woods – Kings ARI, Melbourne
2003 Darebin – Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize – Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2002 Contemporary Australian Portraits – National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Love at First Sight – Centre for Contemprary Photography, Melbourne
Curatorial Projects
2012 Threshold projects – Screen Space, Melbourne
2010 The Portrait Project, paintings by Sister Christina Wood – Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Selected Bibliogaphy
2012 101 Contemporary Australian Artists, Kelly Gellatly, published by the National
Gallery of Victoria
2010 Look – Contemporary Australian Photography, Dr Anne Marsh
2009 Twin gardens of artistic Eden depart bitter taste, Robert Nelson, The Age
2008 Wate,r Francis Hodgson, Prix Pictet, teNeus
2005 Landscape and the renewal of social space, Kyla McFarlene, Photofile
CCP renewed, Chris Reid, Realtime 68
Paen to the noble weed, Robert Nelson, The Age
Lyric theatre at Merri Creek, Phip Murray, UN Magazine
Selected Awards and Grants
2012 Arts Development Project Grant – Arts Victoria
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize – Honorable Mention
Monash Gallery of Art
2010 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award – Highly Commended
Gold Coat City Art Gallery
Arts Development Grant – Arts Victoria
2009 Skills and Development Grant – Australia Council for the Arts
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize – Highly commended, MGA
2008 Arts Development Grant – Arts Victoria
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize – Highly commended, MGA
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize People’s choice, MGA
2006 The Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture - Tweed Regional Gallery
2005 National Photographic Purchase Award - Albury Regional Gallery
2004 Australia-Korea Foundation travelling grant – Department of Foreign Affairs
2003 The Darebin Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize – Bundoora Homestead
2001 National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Post Graduate Award –
Victorian College of the Arts
Collections
Albury Regional Gallery
Art Bank
Australian Parliament House
City of Benalla
City of Darebin
City of Melbourne
Gold Coast City Art Agllery
Latrobe University
Legal Aid
Monash Gallery of Art
Monash Univeristy Museum of Art
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
2004
Queensland University
Tweed River Regional Gallery
Victorian Arts Centre
Residencies
2012 Message in a bottle - at Crib Point Primary through the Mornington Peninsula
Regional Gallery
2010 Barcelona studio – Australia Council
2008 MUMA/Monash Churchill campus residency – Monash University
Lecturing
2009-present Monash University
Previous – Victorian College of the Arts, Swindburne University
Guest Lectures
Festival of Ideas 2011 – University of Melbourne
Monash University, National Gallery of Victoria, Photographic Imaging College, RMIT,
Victorian College of the Arts, Victoria University