CURRICULUM VITAE - MARY WENHOLZ

ARTIST BIO.

1983 Born Sydney, currently lives and works in Sydney

Mary Wenholz is a Sydney based artist who has been exhibiting since 2004. Through her practice Wenholz explores issues related to the contemporary placement of painting and the relevance of its modernist history. Her large format paintings, painted on a transparent vinyl ground, incorporate the wall itself into the painting's composition. In this manner Wenholz explores the materiality of painting and its ability to engage with its architectural context.

In 2005 Wenholz received a Bachelor of Visual Arts with first class Honours from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney where she studied under Prof. Brad Buckly, Dr Debra Dawes, Matthys Gerber and Mikala Dwyer. Wenholz in currently a candidate for Master of Visual Arts, which was also undertaken at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Her MVA research project, entitled 'Painting about Painting: the contemporary expansion of medium specificity', explores the placement of painting within contemporary art in terms of the materiality of the medium and its modernist history.

TERTIARY STUDIES

• 2006 - 2007     Masters of Visual Arts (Fine Arts), The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts.
• 2005     Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class I), The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts.
• 2002 - 2004     Bachelor of Visual Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2008     Painting with Vinyl, MOP Project Space, Sydney.
• 2007     How to paint grey paintings, At the Vanishing Point, Contemporary Art, Sydney.
• 2007     How to read grey paintings, exit Gallery, Sydney.
• 2006     Reading the Mark, exit Gallery, Sydney.
• 2003     1+1=2, Newspace Gallery, Sydney.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2008     The Painted Surface, Horus and Deloris, Sydney
• 2007     SCA Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
• 2007     USU Art Prize, Verge Arts Festival, University of Sydney
• 2007     Stonevilla Fundraising Exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
• 2007     Wordwide Project, Dutch Design Week, Eindoven
• 2006     Death of the New, Verge Arts Festival, University of Sydney
• 2006     Scissors, Paper, Rock, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
• 2005     Multiplicity, Newspace Gallery, Sydney
• 2005     Tigers, Swans and Artistic Songs… Newspace Gallery, Sydney
• 2005     Sydney College of the Arts Undergraduate Degree Show 2005, Sydney
• 2004     Other People from Other Places, USQ Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
• 2004     Sydney College of the Arts Undergraduate Degree Show 2004, Sydney

ARTISTIC & ACADEMIC AWARDS & POSITIONS

• 2007     Sydney University Arts Literature Prize (3rd place abstract painting)
• 2007     The Australian Federation of University Women Jean Gilmore Bursary
• 2007     Recipient of Postgraduate Research Funding, the University of Sydney
• 2006     Member of the Sydney College of Arts Academic Board
• 2006     Zelda Stedman Young Student Scholarship
• 2005     President of Student Association (SASCA)
• 2005     Chair SASCA Management Committee
• 2005     Student representative of the Faculty Research Committee, S.C.A
• 2005     Recipient of Commonwealth Learning Scholarship
• 2004     Secretary of the SASCA
• 2004     Golden Keys International Honour Society

RELATED PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

• 2007     Lecturer, Painting Studio Elective, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
• 2006/07     Gallery Assistant, SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
• 2006     Artist assistant to Julie Mehretu. MCA 2006 Biennale of Sydney
• 2004     Freelance Illustrator for Saatchi and Saatchi, Spain