JORDAN MARANI

Born Melbourne, lives and works in Melbourne.

Education

1988 – 1990  Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victoria College (VCA), Prahran

Selected solo exhibitions

2023 NOBODY’S HOME, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2022 NOBODY, Social, Hobart
2020 NOBODY, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2019 WORD, Res Artis, Melbourne
2018  Autobiography, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2016  SHIT Happens, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat
2016  PLONK, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2015  BULLSHIT, Drawing Wall commission, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton
2015  Foyer wall painting commission, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat
2014  Colourful Language: The Charm Offensive, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2013  Idiot as an Artist, West Space, Melbourne
2013  Xmas is a Four-Letter Word, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2011  Ten Pound Poms and Other Stories, Static Gallery, Liverpool
2011  The Rest is Silence, Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2010  Who cut the cheese? Two giants of contemporary art talk frankly of monumental tasks, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2009  Home is Where My Hell Is, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (with Jess Johnson)
2009  Hell is Other People, Inflight Gallery, Hobart (with Jess Johnson)
2009  Flippin Heck, Hell Gallery, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2008  Hellraiser: The Directors Cut, Hell Gallery, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2007  This is Not a Love Schlong, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2001  Recent Works by Jordan Marani, Yelza, Melbourne
1996  For Your **** Pleasure, West Space, Melbourne
1994  Liquid Assets, Saratoga Night Club, Melbourne
1993  Binge, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1992  Head, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions

2023 Manifesto, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2022 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2021 Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2021 Spring1883, Melbourne
2020 Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2020. NADA Fair
2020 Art Aid Gippsland, Gippsland Art Gallery
2020 Small Mercies, Creative Spaces, Melbourne
2019 Hauswerk, McClelland Gallery
2019 Arthur Guy Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2019 Geelong Print Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
2019 Castlemaine Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
2019 McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery
2019 Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Bayside Contemporary Art Price, Bayside Art Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Lo Fi High, Toot Artspace, Melbourne
2018  NADA, New York
2018  Winter Rundgang, LIA Leipzig, Germany
2017  Affects on Absorption, LIA Leipzig, Germany
2017  Open House, True Estate, Melbourne
2017  Icon, Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne
2017  Restless, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2017  Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2016  ACCA in the City, public art, ACCA, Melbourne
2016  Invited, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2015  Spring 1883, Daine Singer, Sydney
2014  I Probably Don’t Like You, curated by Nick Devlin and Fergus Binns, The Alderman, Melbourne
2014  Faux Museum, c3, Melbourne
2014  Spring 1883, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2014  Melbourne Art Fair Pop-Up, curated by Barry Keldoulis, Melbourne Art Fair at Cutler & Co, Melbourne
2014  No Werk, curated by Ace Wagstaff, Trocadero, Melbourne
2014  Industrial Estate, curated by Kym Maxwell, Melbourne
2013  Drunk vs. Stoned III, curated by Geoff Newton, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2012  Deakin Small Sculpture Prize, Finalist, Deakin University Gallery, Victoria
2010  No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London
2010  Harrell Fletcher: The Sound We Make Together, National Gallery of Victoria
2010  NotFair, Block Projects, Melbourne
2010  The Memorial, Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne
2009  Lorne Sculpture Exhibition, Lorne
2008  Honk If You Love Contemporary Art, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2008  Flux Capacitor, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2008  Dirty Popsicles, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2008  Informal Rituals, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
2007  Cut n’ Paste, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2000-2006  Helen Gory Gallery, Artists Garden, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Victoria Park Gallery
1990s National Gallery of Victoria, George Paton Gallery, West Space, 200 Gertrude Street, Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Linden Gallery, Monash Gallery of Art, Tolarno Gallery, Deutscher Gallery, Ray Hughes Gallery

Residencies

2023 Driving Creek Pottery Residency, Coromandel Aotearoa, New Zealand
2019 Leipzig International Art Programme, Germany
2017 Leipzig International Art Programme, Germany
2011 Australia Council Liverpool Residency
1991-1993 Gertrude Street Studios

Collections

LIA, Leipzig
Yarra City Council
Merri-bek Art Collection
Ararat Regional Art Gallery

Bibliography/Press

2022 Andrew Harper, “Howling into the void”, The Mercury, 16-17 April 2022
2019 Jane O’Neill, Hauswerk, catalogue essay, McClelland Gallery
2018  Laura Couttie, ‘Autobiography’, catalogue essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2016  Sarah Werkmeister, ‘Jordan Marani paints four-letter words’, Art Guide, Australia
2016  Claire Capel-Stanley, ‘Jordan Marani: Shit Happens’ Art Almanac, Australia
2014  Dan Rule, ‘In the galleries’, The Age, 19 December 2014
2014  Roger Taylor, State of the Arts, PBS FM, 25 November 2014
2014  Steven Rendall, ‘Painting, writing, colour and profanity’, catalogue essay, Daine Singer, 2014
2014  Madeleine Dore, ‘Pop-ups level the playing field’, ArtsHub, 4 November 2014
2014  Dan Rule, ‘Furniture makes way for fine arts in Heidelberg West factory exhibition Industrial Estate’, The Age, 8 January 2014, p.20
2013  Robert Nelson, ‘A year of visual-arts invention from here and afar’, The Age, 27 December 2013
2013  Jonathan Nichols, ‘Xmas: Jordan Marani’, Stamm, October 2013
2013  Dan Rule, ‘Xmas is a Four-Letter Word’, The Age, 7 September 2013
2013  Dylan Rainforth, ‘Take a larrikin tour’, The Age, 4 September 2013
2013  Ace Wagstaff, Smartarts, RRR FM, 12 September 2013
2013  Roger Taylor, State of the Arts, PBS FM, 7 September 2013
2013  Nat Thomas, ‘Dodging a Bullet and Going Straight to Hell’, catalogue essay, Xmas is a Four-Letter Word, Daine Singer, Melbourne 2013  ‘Jordan Marani: Xmas is a Four-Letter Word’, The Thousands, 31 August 2013
2013  Xmas is a Four-Letter Word, catalogue, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2013  Meg Watson, Concrete Playground
2010  ‘Hell Gallery Headed for London’, Stateline Victoria, ABC
2010  Art Nation, ABC TV, 9/5/2010; 7.30 Report, ABC TV, 1 May 2010