Aldo Iacobelli CV
EDUCATION
1985
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), South Australian School of Art
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
1987
1987
1988
1988
1989
1991
2000
2003
2005
2008
2009
Awarded Grant by the South Australian Visual Arts Board
Artist in Residence, Townsville College of TAFE, Queensland
Project Grant, South Australian Department for the Arts
Awarded Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement in
Drawing, International Art Competition, New York
Artist Development Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australian
Council
Australian Council, Studio Residency, Barcelona, Spain
Project Grant, Arts SA
Awarded Arts SA Fellowship
Project Grant Arts SA
Project Grant Arts SA
New Work Established, Project Grant Australia Council
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1989
1992
1992
1993
1995
1996
1996
1997
1997
1999
1999
2000
2001
2002
2002-3
2002
2002
2004
2004
2005
2006
2007
2007
2007
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Side One, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
‘Souvenirs’ (installation), Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
‘Paintings in Oil’ (Installation), Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
‘New Thinking is Rare’, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
‘Piel’, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
‘Craft’, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Detalle Arquitectourico’, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia Spain
Paisaje, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
Nexus Gallery, Window Installation Project, Adelaide, Australia
Disegni Fragili, Contemporary Art Centre, South Australia
Architectural Detail, Traveling Exhibition, Country Arts South Australia
Graft, Traveling Exhibition, Country Arts South Australia
Galeria Siboney, Santander, Spain
BMG-ART, Adelaide, Australia
Patterns, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
Aldo Iacobelli, Downtown Art Space, South Australia
Portraits, Galeria Carmen De La Calle, Madrid, Spain
BMG- ART, Adelaide, Australia
Aldo Iacobelli, Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas De Las Gran
Canaria, Spain
Pieces of Hearth, Galeria Syboney, Santander,Spain
From time to time one talks to the moon, Experimental Art
Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
2008
2009
2010
‘overnight the country had become nameless’, Sala de Arte Robayera,
Miengo, Spain
The vez en cuando uno habla con la luna, Galeria Tomas March,
Valencia, Spain
Galeria Magda Bellotti, Madrid, Spain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1988
1988
1988
1988
1988
1989
1992
1993
1993
1993
1994
1994
1997
1997
1997
1999
1998
1998
1998
1999
1999
2000
2001
2001
2002
2002
2003
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2004
2004
2005
2005
2006
2006
2007
2008
2008
2009
2010
2010
2010
‘A New Generation 1983-88’, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Cold Coast Invitation art prize, The Centre Gallery, Queensland, Australia
‘Australian Drawings 1983-88’, University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
‘Australia Art Post 1960’, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Invitation, Drawing Prize (a selection of Recent Australian Drawings),
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
‘Recent South Australian Art’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
‘Symbols & Metaphors’, Touring Exhibition, Australia
‘ARCO ‘93’, Greenaway Art Gallery Stand, Madrid, Spain
‘Australian Perspecta 1993’, Art Gallery og New South Wales, Australia
‘ARCO ‘94’, Greenaway Art Gallery Stand, Madrid, Spain
‘ARCO ‘95’, Greenaway Art Gallery Stand, Madrid, Spain
Art Gallery of NSW Trustee Prize, Sydney, Australia
‘Still-life, Still-lives’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
‘New Art’, Galleria Tomas March Stand, Barcelona, Spain
‘ADUANA X Edicion’, Cadiz, Spain
‘ARCO ‘98’, Gallery Tomas March Stand, Madrid, Spain
‘ART 29’98 BASEL’ Galeria Tomas March Stand, Switzerland
‘New Art ‘98’, Galleria Tomas March Stand, Barcelona, Spain
‘ARCO ‘99’, Galleria Tomas March Stand, Madrid, Spain
‘ART 30’99 BASEL’, Galeria Tomas March Stand, Switerland
ARCO 2000, Galeria Tomas March Stand, Madrid, Spain
Arco 2001, Galeria Tomas March Stand, Madrid, Spain
ART 32-2001 BASEL, Galeria Tomas March Stand, Switzerland
Arco 2002,Galeria Tomas March Stand, Madrid, Spain
ART 33-2002 BASEL, Galeria Tomas March Stand, Switzerland
Arco 2003, Galeria Tomas March stand, Madrid, Spain
Dia/gram, University of South Australia
Arco 2004, Galeria Tomas March Stand, Madrid, Spain
ART 35-2004 BASEL, Galeria Tomas March Stand,
Arco 2005, Galeria Tomas March Stand, Madrid, Spain
Mentor-Mentored, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide
Arco 2006, Galeria Tomas March stand, Madrid, Spain
Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra Museum,
Arco 2007,Galeria Tomas March stand,Madrid,Spain
Arco 2008, Galeria Tomas March stand, Madrid, Spain
‘UNEASY: Recent South Australian Art’, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
Arco 2009, Galeria Tomas March stand, Madrid, Spain
Arco 2010, Galeria Tomas March stand, Madrid, Spain
PAINthING, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
THE NEW NEW, CACSA Contemporary 2010
COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia
Phillips Morris Collection, Australia
Artbank, Australia
Riddoch Art Gallery, Australia
South Australian Museum, Australia
Townsville College of TAFE, Australia
University of South Australia
Workcover Corporation, Australia
City of Hamilton Art Gallery, Australia
Office of the Premier of New South wales, Australia
Bassat, Ogilvy & Mather Collection, Spain
Diputacion de Cadiz, Spain
Museo de Bellas Artes de Alava, Spain
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Spain
Collecion Josep M. Civit
Sala de Arte Robayera, Miengo, Spain
COMMISSIONS
1988
1990
2000
Mural Project, South Australian Museum, Australia
Mural Project, 300 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Australia
Nexus Gallery, Window Installation Project, Adelaide, Australia
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Artlink: Image Issue, vol. 5& 6, December 1985
‘Big but not Monumental’, The Australian, 19 February 1986, Ian Were
‘Art & Ideas’, Artlink, vol. 6, no.1, Tim Morrell
‘The Academy of the Future’, Artlink, vol.6, no. 5, Ken Bolton
‘Aldo Iacobelli’, Catalogue Introduction, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 20 October - 1
November 1987, Delphine Rousessart, Frances Thomas & Ross Searle
‘Some Provincial Myths: Recent Arts form Adelaide, Catalogue Introduction, Touring
Exhibition 1987-88, Tim Morrell
‘Amorous Liaison’, Catalogue Essay, Contemporary Centre of South Australia, 1989,
Linda Marie Walker
‘Aldo Iacobelli: Recent Works’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 24, September 1989, Adrian
Weston
‘Adelaide Report’, Art & Australia, Autumn 1990, Timothy Morrell
‘Objects of Devotion’, Photofile, Summer 1989, Jyanni Steffensen
‘The Corporate, the Spiritual and the Forbidden Fruit’, CAC Broadsheet, vol. 19, no. 2,
June 1990, David Broker
‘Iacobelli in Barcelona’, Broadsheet, vol. 21, no. 3, September 1992
‘Art at the Adealide Festival’, Art & Australia, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring 1992, Daniel Thomas
‘Souvenirs’, Exhibition Catalogue, 1992, Richard Grayson
‘Come Again (Souvenirs)’, Artlink, vol. 13, no. 1, March-May 1993, John Neylon
‘Symbols and Metaphors: the Image is Never Innocent’, Exhibition Catalogue, February
1993, Margot Osborne
Forum International, vol. IV, no. 18, May-August 1993
‘Australian Perspecta’, Catalogue Essay, 1993, Linda Marie Walker
‘Aldo Iacobelli’, Catalogues Essays, 1994, John Neylon & Richard Grayson
‘Out of Adelaide’, Exhibition Catalogue, Richard Grayson
‘Aldo Iacobelli: Back in Adelaide’, Nuovo paese, August 1996, Sergio Ubaldi
Art Gallery of South Australia (Brochure) June-July 1997, Nat Williams
‘Still Life, Still Lives’, Catalogue Essay, 1997, Christopher Chapman
‘Architectural Detail’, Catalogue Essays, 1997, Richard Frayson & Juan Bta Peiro
‘Iacobelli: The Intercultural Artist’, Artlink, vol. 18, December 1998, Stephanie Brittan
‘Chemistry’, Art Monthly, Cath Kenneally
‘Chemistry: Art in South Ausrtalia 1990-2000, Art Link, Christopher Chapman
Aldo Iacobelli: The Politics of Painting, Broadsheet,November 2003, Sarah Thomas
212121 PAINTING From Postconceptualism to recontextualism, Contemporary n.58,
2003, Brian Muller
Aldo Iacobelli, Contemporary n. 58, 2003, Ken Bolton
Legacy Of The Abstract, Broadsheet, vol. 35 n.1, March - May 2006, Chris Reid
Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, Catalogue essay, 2006, Victoria Lynn
Aldo Iacobelli, I Love Painting, Book first published 2006,Wakefield Press essay, John
Neylon
Aldo Iacobelli Pieces of Hearth, catalogue 2007, editor Galeria Siboney text by John
Neylon
From time to time one talks to the moon: Aldo Iacobelli, Art Link, vol 28 n.1, march 2008,
by Stephen Loo
Snapshop of a decade, CACSA Contemporary 2010, THE NEW NEW Catalogue, by
Wendy Walker