Rus Kitchin

Education

2007  Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2004  Diploma of Public Art, RMIT, Melbourne

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008  Take the Long Way Home, Until Never Gallery, Melbourne
End of the Beginning, Vitrine at Platform, Melbourne
2007  Global Child, Horse Bazaar, Melbourne
2004  Teotihuacan Pitspace, RMIT, Melbourne
Caught Thinking,  Right Angle Space RMIT, Melbourne
1998  Sweet soul, little entity,  Maudespace, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009  Activate 2750, (Project Assistant/ Collaborator) Museum of Contemporary Art/C3West, Sydney
The Clan Macloed, This Way Up, Melbourne
The Endless Huge, Hogans Gallery, Melbourne
2008  Graphein, Lindberg Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Director’s Lounge Video Festival, Berlin, Fabs Gallery, Warsaw & SubUrban Video Lounge, Rotterdam
2007  Meat Market, Melbourne
2007  Face It, Loop Bar, Melbourne
Wallara Travelling Scholarship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne
Grad Show, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne
Playing Games, Kings Space, Melbourne
Salon Sideways, Until Never, Melbourne
2006  Proud ’06, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne
Parked, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Collingwood & Underground Arts Park, Melbourne
Rumble, Until Never Gallery, Melbourne
2005  Proud ’05, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne
Spring Intervention, RMIT, Melbourne
Bits & Pieces, BrightSpace, Melbourne
2004  Spring Intervention, RMIT, Melbourne
Harvest, Public Art Installation Ceres Environmental Park, Melbourne
1994  Theoretical Vogueing, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1991  Off The Wall, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1990  Pump Up The Can, Meat Market, Melbourne (National touring exhibition)

Collections

Tamborine Mount Pty Ltd, Melbourne
Tolarno Hotel, Melbourne
Acacia Art Collection, Melbourne
Fremantle City Council, Perth
Various private collections, Melbourne, Sydney

Awards

2007    Tolarno Hotel VCA Annual Art Award
2007    Acacia Award