Mary Cherry Contemporary

Selected works

Exhibitions

Education

2020

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) (First Class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts

2019

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts

Solo/Collaborative exhibitions

2025

'you can use my phone' (with Sol Fernandez), Blindside, Melbourne

2024

'every painting has a friend' (with Jess Tan, Victoria Todorov, Matilda Davis, Samantha Axiak, Luci Avard, and Naoise Halloran-Mackay; Lily Goliightly, Luyuan Zhang, Hana Pera Aoke, Yusi Zang, Jana Hawkins-Anderson, Rumer Elisabetta Guario, and Masato Takaska), Mary Cherry Contemporary, Melbourne

2023

'whole fish' (with Mei Leong, Angela Gale, Jonno Revanche, Madeline Simm, Kirby Casilli, Luyuan Zhang, Michael Kennedy, En.V, Katie Dey + Cal Birchall, Eleanor Amor,gi, Kyle Stanton, Matild Davis, Rumer Elisabetta Guario, Mario Mogensen, nunzie Madden, Ari Tampubolon, Jess Tan, Jana Hawkins-Anderson, Jennifer Mathews, Ruby Fitzgerald, Sophie Casser, Sadie Magdalene, + Alexandra Nemarič), FELTspace, Adelaide

2022

'nothing is more important than hanging out' (with Sarah Brasier, Nat Thomas, + friends), outer Space, Brisbane

'donut king' (paintings about love) (with Jennifer Mathews, Jess Tan, Luyuan Zhang, Jackie De Lacy, and Brayden van Meurs), Suite7a, Sydney

'stick head here' (with Brayden van Meurs) Seventh Gallery

'My friend’s in the other room' Connors Connors, Melbourne

2021

'drowning curse' (with Aida Azin, Alexandra Nemarič, Brayden van Meurs, Krishan Meepe, Levi Neeson, Luci Avard, Matthew Harris, Panda Wong, Ruby Fitzgerald, Sol Fernandez, + artist name withheld), TCB

2019

'i'll always know i'm not enough to even make you think' (with Ada Azin, Brayden van Meurs, Jennifer Mathews, + chloe Puddin), Cathedral Cabinet

'if the pain is endless how can i live' Kings Artist Run

2018

'free them' Irene Rose

'If Only You Were Lonely' (with Michael Kennedy) curated by Matthew Harris, Bus Projects

Selected group exhibitions

2024

'an invitation to dance' organised by Jess Tan, Cool Change x PS art Space, Perth

'Incinerator Art Award 2024': Art for Social Change (collaboration with skramwife, Fleur, Luyuan Zhang, Jess Tan, Marlo Mogensen, Matilda Davis, mararara, Gigi De Lacy, and Rumer Elisabetta Guario) Incinerator gallery, Melbourne

'friendship bracelet' organised by Lily Golightly, flowerpot, Sydney

'hand' (collaboration with Stacey Collee) popup studio 813, Melbourne

2023

'Loose Knot Chorus' organised by Suite7a, Petersham Town Hall, Sydney

'Then Sharply Turns' (in collaboration with skramwife, Fleur, Luyuan Zhang, Jess Tan, Marlo Morgensen, Matilda Davis, marara, Gigi De Lacy, and Rumer Elisabetta Guario), Connors Connors, Melbourne

2022

'With You' Nano Gallery, Sydney

'Zombie' (collaboration with Mia Sokolic) cyrated by Madeline Minack + Arthur Dimitriou, Caves, Melbourne

'Grimace' curated by Nicholas Currie, Temporalities Gallery, Melbourne

'Text Tile' curated by Madeline Simm, Anna fiedler, + Tia Ansell, Caves, Melbourne

'5x7 Art Prize' Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre

'Kiss My Art' organised by Aretha Brown, Schoolhouse Studios

2021

'The Impressionists' curated by Sarah Brasier and William Hawkins, Blindside

'Choose Happiness' (including collaborations with Katherine Botten, and Michael Kennedy) curated by Serena Bentley, Murray Art Museum Albury

tea time, within ‘cat toys & paperweights’ (Brayden van Meurs’ solo exhibition) TCB

'I Am Here' (collaboration with EN.V) curated by Katherine Hattam, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney

'such structures might not be predeterminable' (collaboration with Jackie De Lacy) organised by Marian Tubbs, Byron School of Art, Mullumbimby

2020

'Slime & Ashes' curated by Matthew Harris, West Space
Hopeful / Hopeless, Signal (online)

'On Kindness and Care' curated by Vikki McInnes, Assembly Point (online)

'private opulence public squalor' organised by Matthew Harris and Sarah Brasier, offsite

'From Heart + Mind' Dax Centre

'out is out' Wyndham Art Gallery

2019

'friends and family' (collaboration with Matthew Harris), Daine Singer

'toys r us' (collaboration with Brayden van Meurs), Second Space Projects

'and on the eyes black sleep of night' curated by Sarah Brasier, Firstdraft, Sydney

'Kaleidoscope' (collaboration with Beth Downing) curated by Brigit Maher and loserunit, The Dirty Dozen

'Machines don’t have eyes but birds do' c3, Artspace

'it's a night in the north pole and the elf take the pot off the stove been cooking some reindeer stew looking out the window rudolph's nose glowing in the distance elf thinks cant believe they ate the second last reindeer ever in a simple stew so they go to see rudolph another elf stops them holds them at cane-point says give me all your toys elf 1 emptys pockets of every toy and goes home has shower lays in bed forever or at least what feels like forever, wishing that the day never started and they were back in bed the night before when everything was so much better and simpler'

'TL;DR' - christmas show, Pee Pee Gallery HQ

'Playing With Matches' curated by Peter Waples-Crowe and Chiara Scafidi, Incinerator Gallery

'Signal Curators: Layered' The Dirty Dozen
Collectively, West Space

2018

'been thinkin about all this ooh no spider landed on me while writing this Hey this is spider speaking. what's uuup!' (collaboration with Kyle Stanton), Pee Pee Gallery + Poo Poo Gallery at Bus Projects Bathroom

'Graduate Exhibition' Victorian College of the Arts

'Proud' VCA Artspace

'EOD Wednesday' curated by ichikawaedward, 33 Tinning Street, Brunswick

'survival.reproduction.death' offsite

2017

'What Are Chives Good For' (collaboration with Michael Kennedy), Living Museum of the West

'Proud' Margaret Lawrence Gallery

'Painting as an Object' (collaboration with Anna Savage) curated by Christopher LG Hill, VCA Artspace

'Dero Arcade Group Show 001' curated by Jack Mannix, Trocadero Art Space

'A Call for Nonsense' curated by Daniel Ward and Slam Ross, SOMA Gallery

'Other Other' curated by Peter Waples Crowe and Pila Darling, Wyndham Art Gallery

2016

'Mine' (collaboration with Katherine Botten), Fort Delta

'Proud' Margaret Lawrence Gallery

'So Fresh' VCA Student Gallery

2015

'Mapping with Miso' (collaboration with Stanislava Pinchuk), Signal

'Art bed installation + Signal 37 Showcase' Signal + MPavillion

Media

2024

Amelia Winata, ‘every painting has a friend’ Memo Review, 23 November

2023

Emily Kostos, ‘Then Sharply Turns’ un Projects, 5 May 2023

2022

Tiarney Miekus, ‘Text Tile’ The Age, 3 July 2022

Audrey Pfister, ‘Jemi Gale: donut king (paintings about love)’ Memo Review, 22 June 2022

2021

Audrey Schmidt, ‘Claire Lambe, Dart Object and Jemi Gale, drowning curse’ Memo Review, 6 March 2021

2020

Tai Snaith, Smart Arts, RRR FM, 27 February 2020

2019

Random (re)View 13 August 2019

Residencies

2019-2020
: Dax Centre

Professional development

2019

Nexus, Arts Access Victoria