Born 1991, Sydney, NSW
Currently based in Tarntanya/ Adelaide, SA
rowena.boyd@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2009 - 2012 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) with First Class Honours, Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, AU
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Project and Development Grant Recipient - Arts SA
2020 Sidney Myer Foundation National Assistance Program for the Arts Grant Recipient
2017 Artist Residency - Sustainable Bolivia Artist in Residence Program, Cochabamba, BO
2017 Resident Studio Artist - La Calera, Oaxaca, MX
2015 - 2016 Artist Residency - Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, DE
2015 Finalist, Emma Hack Art Prize
2012 Studio Endowment Honours Scholarship for Painting, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
2012 Canberra Eye Hospital Exhibition Opportunity Award
2012 Alliance Française de Canberra Exhibition Award
2012 EASS ANU Acquisitive Award
2011 Art Monthly Award, Emerging Artist Support Scheme
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Liquid States (‘Pas de Deux’ Exhibition with Marcel Hoogstad Hay) - Saint Cloche, Sydney, NSW
2020 Little Oceans - Floating Goose Studios Inc., Adelaide, SA
2020 Tender Slopes - FELTspace ARI, Adelaide, SA
2019 Waves of Honey & Other People’s Houses - Australian National Capital Artists Inc. (ANCA), Canberra, ACT
2018 Intimate Geographies - Tributary Projects, Canberra, ACT
2016 Common Senses - Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, DE
2013 My Eye, My I - Canberra Eye Hospital, Canberra, ACT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Etherium - Saint Cloche X Tiffany & Co., Sydney, NSW
2019 Soul & Mortar - Nishi Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2019 Keeping the Lights On - Floating Goose Studios Inc., Adelaide, SA
2017 USB-Shuffle-Show (five) - Abteilung für Alles Andere, Berlin, DE
2016 Ten Hours Behind ...Ahead (If you saw the ocean today: collaboration with Freunde sind Künstler) - Gone Fishing, Leipzig, DE
2016 USB-Shuffle-Show (four) - Abteilung für Alles Andere, Berlin, DE
2015 The Emma Hack Art Prize - Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, SA
2013 We Live Here - Alliance Française de Canberra, Canberra, ACT
2013 Rise, Exist, Demise (RED) - Nishi Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2013 Gumbo - ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2012 Model Citizens - New Acton Precinct Pop-up Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2012 Graduating Exhibition - ANU School of Art, Canberra, ACT
2012 Friday on my Whitehouse: Honours Students ‘Friday on my Wall’ - Photospace Gallery, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2011 Graduating Exhibition - ANU School of Art, Canberra, ACT
2011 Whitehouse 2 ‘Friday on my Wall’ - Photospace Gallery, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2008 Kioloa Field Studies Exhibition - ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2007 Headspace ‘The Journey’ - National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
2017 Coordinated Pieces for Peace workshop and traveling exhibition - CityArts New York and Sustainable Bolivia, Cochabamba, BO
2017 Teacher - Painting and art therapy workshops - Niños con Valor, Cochabamba, BO
2017 Member of SA Art Collective, Adelaide, SA
2016 - 2017 Member of Floating Goose Studios Inc. ARI, Adelaide, SA
2015 Volunteer at ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik artist residency and research program, Berlin, DE