VIOLETA ČAPOVSKA

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EDUCATION

1995 M.A. Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1991 B.F.A. Academy of Fine Arts, University of Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia

Citizenship: MACEDONIAN and AUSTRALIAN

Resident at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, 2022

A: 572 Canning Street, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia

E: violetacapovska@bigpond.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS

2024 Seine, video installation, the Oratory, Abbotsford Convent

2023 Measurements, site-specific performances, Iceland

2022 SALT, Open Graphic Studio, Museum of City of Skopje

2018 Land Print Project 3 ‘Salt’, Small Lake, Pelister, Macedonia

2012 Testimonies and Confessions, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne

2012 Name Day, fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne

2011 Familia, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje

2007 Lustre, Red Gallery, Melbourne

2004 The Love Sick Girl, Series on Hysteria, Aikenhead Gallery,

St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne

1999 Bodily fluids, CIX Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia

1996 Duality, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

Snow, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje

Land Print Project 2 ‘I and the eye’,  Pelister, Macedonia

1994 Land Print Project 1 ‘Small Lake’, Pelister, Macedonia

  Conversation in the Garden, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

1992 Recent works, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

1992 Recent prints, Museum of Bitola

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS

2023 Sea, salt and silk (video, Iceland)

2022 Seine, video (Île Saint-Louis,Cité internationale des arts)

2021 Traces and Memories, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia

2020 18th Winter Saloon, DLUM, NGM, Skopje, Macedonia

2019 Perceptions Engendered, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia

2017 Dual Narrative, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

2016 Imago Mundi, LucianoBenetton Collection, imagomundiart.com  

2011 Fragments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia

Silk Cut Award for linocut prints, Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne

Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Art Gallery,

2009 Gender Check, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria

2008 Silk Cut Award for linocut prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery  

2003 Fifth International Women’s Art Festival, Aleppo, Syria

2002 III International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Balkan Art ‘02, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

2001 Perfect Match, Capital and Gender, Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia

Shining the site, Museum of Contemporary Art, Public Art Project, Skopje, Macedonia

2000 Artists and Refugees, Museum of City of Skopje, Macedonia

The first Peep Show in the city, CIX Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia

1998 Distance, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia

Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia

1997 28th Alice Prize, Alice Springs, Australia

  I Darebin - La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne, Australia

1996 Inhales-Exhales, II Yugoslav Art Biennial, Vrsac, Yugoslavia

  13th Biennial Prints Acquisitive, Mornington

1995 Video Space, Festival of Performing Art, Kapolch, Hungary

RESIDENCIES

2023 NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland

2022 Cité internationale des arts, Paris

2004 Artist in Residence, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES

2021 TRACES AND MEMORIES, exhibition catalogue, essay by Dr Suzana Milevska, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick and City of Skopje

2021 IMPACT 11, International Printmaking Conference Hong Kong, Illustrated talk: Land Print Projects 1994-2018, Between the topography of the sublime and the studio

2020 SALT, Dr Suzana Milevska, exhibition catalogue essay (Publisher Museum of City of Skopje)

2018 VISUAL ARTS in Macedonia-20th century/Book 2: MULTIMEDIA ART, Abadzieva Sonia, publisher OSTEN

2011 Familia, Dr Wendy Garden and Dr. Suzana Milevska, catalogue essays (National Gallery of Macedonia).

2010 Gender Check, Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, MUMOK, Wien

2001 Capital and Gender, International Project for Art and Theory (Museum of Skopje, Macedonia)

1999 Bodily fluids, Suzana Milevska, exhibition catalogue essay, Cix Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia (Soros foundation).

1996 Australian Printmaking in the 1990's, by Sasha Grishin (Craftsman House)

1996 Walking along the edge of invisibility, Suzana Milevska, Catalogue essay (Makedonska Kniga)

1994 Topology and Exemplification of the Sublime, by Suzana Milevska (City Museum of Skopje, Macedonia)

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne

Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne

Queensland University of Technology Art Collection, Brisbane

Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia

Museum of City of Skopje, N Macedonia

National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Private collections

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS and PRIZES

Grand Prix, 18th Winter Salon DLUM, NGM, Macedonia

James Northfield Scholarship for lithography, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne 2016

Soros Foundation grants for the Land Print Projects ‘ Small Lake’ (1994) and ‘I and the Eye’(1996)