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Education
2015 | Victorian College of Arts, Naarm - Melbourne Honours (First Class Honours) |
2012-2014 | Victorian College of Arts, Naarm - Melbourne Bachelor of Fine Arts |
Solo Exhibitions & Commissions
2024 | Mirage, Linden New Art, St Kilda |
2023 | Sleep Walker for Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
2023 | POP (Seeing In), Bus Projects, East Brunswick |
2022 | Firmament, NAP Contemporary, Mildura |
2022 | Screening: We touch the sun, stars and everywhere at once, RUSHES, Fitzroy |
2021 | Horizon, CAVES Gallery, Photo 2021 Festival |
2020 | Screening: Haptic Boundary, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy |
2019 | Vanishing Point, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley |
2019 | Live Work with Arini Byng, Blindside Gallery, Naarm Melbourne |
2017 | Tenome 'Eyes of the Hand,' First Draft, Sydney |
2016 | Speculative Foundations, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne |
2016 | Impressions of Mars (with Olivia Koh), Visual Bulk, Hobart Tasmania |
2015 | 1/60; 5/5.0, TCB, Melbourne |
Group Exhibitions
2024 | The light draws along.., Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds |
2023 | Curated: Seeing In, Bus Projects, East Brunswick |
2023 | This might just pass the time, Blindside, Melbourne |
2023 | The Chills, Oigåll Projects, Fitzroy |
2023 | It's not you, it's me, The Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Southbank |
2023 | UMSU Art Collection: New acquisitions and selected works, George Paton Gallery, Parkville |
2023 | Tech Support, TCB, Brunswick |
2022 | CRACK Out, Temporalities with Sublet space, North Melbourne |
2022 | States of Disruption, Centre for contemporary Photography, Collingwood |
2021 | Darebin Arts Prize, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre |
2021 | Macquarie Emerging Artist Award, Hosted online |
2021 | Not For the Sake of Something More, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne Curated by Kiron Robinson for Photo 2021 Festival |
2021 | Two people never see the same rainbow, LON Gallery, Collingwood |
2020 | Niche Fetisch #001, Niche Fetisch, Carlton |
2019 | Film on Film: Multi-realities on screen and beyond Melbourne University, Parkville Presented by with Next Wave |
2019 | Anathema: Kicking a Dead Horse, Seventh Gallery, CollingwoodCurated by Emanuel Rodriguez-Chaves |
2019 | Glass Eye, LON Gallery, Collingwood |
2019 | The Utopian Object, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford |
2018 | Live Work (Performance) with Arini Byng, Kings. Naarm Melbourne Curated by Sophie Perillo |
2018 | Editions 2018, Bus Projects, Melbourne |
2018 | Spring 1883, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne Caves Suite |
2018 | Crocodility, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Bundoora Curated by Boe-lin Bastian |
2017 | Memory Palace, Platform Artspace, Melbourne Curated by jake Treacy |
2017 | Conditional Surplus, Channels Video Art Festival, Federation Square Curated by Gillian Butcher |
2017 | Another Space, Testing Grounds, South Bank Curated by Yandell Walton |
2017 | Inherent Vice, Nicholas Projects, Melbourne Curated by Katie Paine |
2016 | Transference, Bus Projects, Collingwood Curated by Madé Spencer-Castle |
2016 | Weeping Willow, LON Gallery, Collingwood |
2016 | Beauty Resolve, The Alderman, East Brunswick Curated by Nic Mejia |
2016 | The Bathhouse Show, Space Space Gallery, Komae Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | Is/Is not, West Space, Melbourne Curated by Kiron Robinson |
2016 | The Union Collection: Recent Acquisitions, George Paton Gallery, Parkville |
2015 | Honours Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank |
2015 | Unintended Refrains, George Paton Gallery, Parkville Curated by Sandie Bridie |
2015 | In the Epoch of the Near and Far, Grey Gardens Projects, Fitzroy Curated by Amelia Winata |
2014 | Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank |
2014 | Holy Lands, George Paton Gallery, Parkville Curated by Jake Treacy |
2014 | Set-Up, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford |
2014 | Proscenium, George Paton Gallery, Parkville |
Awards and Grants
2021 | Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize, Winner |
2021 | Darebin Art Prize , Shortlisted |
2021 | The Hopper Prize , Shortlisted |
2020 | Creative Practices Grant, Creative Victoria |
2020 | Project Grant for 'Horizon' City of Melbourne |
2015 | VCA Emerging Artist Prize, VCA Graduate Show |
2015 | Orloff Family Charitable Trust Award, VCA Graduate Show |
2015 | Omnus Framing Award, Proud: Victorian College of the Arts |
2014 | Majil Encouragement Award, VCA Graduate Show |
2014 | Blair Trethowan TCB Art Inc. Award, VCA Graduate Show |
2014 | Arts Grant, The University of Melbourne Student Union |
Press coverage
- Art Collector Magazine, 50 Things collectors should know, 2023 annual edition, Feature
- Hopper Prize Interview
- Video: Spaced-Apart, Online symposium presentation curated by PHOTO2020
- Techno Ghoul, an Essay published in TheArticle by Diego Ramirez about Tenome, ‘Eyes of the hand’
- Review of Another Space, at Testing Grounds by Dumb-brunette
- Video: Experimenta Social #9: Aaron Christopher Rees on Moving Images Futures
- Interview with Aaron Christopher Rees: The world is a camera now (Channels Festival)