Patrick Rees
CV / Bio
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Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
2019 – Present:
The Big New
Founder and CEO
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Education
2011 Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honors) (Painting), University of South Australia
2010 Bachelor of Laws (J.D. equivalent), University of Adelaide, Australia 2002 Post-Graduate Diploma (Physics), University of Adelaide, Australia
2001 Contemporary Art Studies, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
1995 Bachelor of Art (Honors) (Screen Studies, Performing Arts), Flinders University, Australia
Selected Film and Video
2020 – 2022
Writer/ Director Producer: Various short docs for The Big New
2019
Permanence, Producer: Patrick Rees; Dir. Nicholas Reid
2014
Narcissus Tartarus - or David Takes a Wrong Turn on His Way to the Island, 2014, short video exhibited at The Australian Experimental Art Foundation
2013
Away Team – Redux, 2013, short video exhibited at Raid Projects, Los Angeles https://vimeo.com/67368523
Scooter World, 2013, short video https://vimeo.com/79260623
2010
The Window, (writer) 2010, short film, funded by Raw Nerve Initiative - Screen Australia Director: Gareth Wilkes; Producer: Christine Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_Nerve_Short_Film_Initiative
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Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2013
Patrick Rees’ Crazy Everything Has to Go Art Sale, performance and installation, Peer Studios, Adelaide
2012
Incubator Alligator, installation and performance, Australian Experimental Art Foundation – Odradek
The Cuddly Rapture, installation and performance(s), Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA), Project Space, Adelaide
The Dystopian Utopianator – Redux, FELTspace, Adelaide
2011
META, Patrick Rees and Ben Leslie, Paper String Plastic Gallery, Adelaide
2007
Deep Blue, Flightpath Gallery, Adelaide
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2017
Alchemy, Idolatry & Mysticism, Ghost Gallery LA, Los Angeles Curated by Ruben Vincent and Abby Sin https://www.ghostgalleryla.com/
2016
Dada Here and Now, San Francisco International Arts Festival, curated by Hanna Regev and Matt Mckinley,
2015
Rush Hour, Perform Chinatown, Los Angeles, curated by Molly Jo Shea
Performance Presence / Video Time, curated by Dr. Anne Marsh, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2014
The Dirty Furnace, SOSM Gallery, Los Angeles Pig Roast, The Foundry, Los Angeles
Aspy Kids, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide GRID Projects Festival, Adelaide
2013
Cold Fish Fresh Cream Reprise Machine, performance, and installation as part of Final Notice, group exhibition and performance series at Concord Artspace, Los Angeles
Momentary, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia in conjunction with the Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide
The Utopia Project, Concord Artspace, Los Angeles
Inaugural Symptopia Symposium Opening Address, performance as part of, ‘The Utopia Project LA’, Concord
Space, Los Angeles
FELT Natural, FELTspace, Adelaide
2012
#, RAID Projects, Los Angeles
Future World: Unknown, Cienfuegos Wynwood Gallery, Miami FELTspace at Co/Lab ART Fair, Art Platform, Los Angeles Curtain Call, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne Audience/Object/Performer, FELTspace , Adelaide
Good Mourning, FELTspace, Adelaide
FELT /SPACE, FELTspace at BOXCOPY, Brisbane
Pass it On; De-versions Festival , FELTspace, Adelaide
CACSA at 70, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2011
Rare, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
On Abstraction, Magazine Gallery, Adelaide Poppy No Good, Magazine Gallery, Adelaide
Shaw Hendry’s Amazing Simpsons Collection Exhibition, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
2010
Sticks and Stones, University of South Australia
Structural Integrity, Next Wave festival, Keynote Project, Art Centre Meat Market, Melbourne
2% Now Showing in 3D, Two Percent art collective, Format Art Space, Adelaide Small, Two Percent art collective, Format Art Space, Adelaide
2009
Skull, Gallery 139, Adelaide
(In) Site Specific, Format Festival, Format Art Space, Adelaide
Big, Two Percent art collective and Format collective, Queens Theatre, Adelaide
2008
Halves, Two Percent art collective, Two Percent Art Space, Adelaide
Two Rooms, Two Percent art collective, Two Percent Art Space, Adelaide A4, Higher Ground, Adelaide
2007
Encore, New Jay Gallery, Adelaide C-scape, New Jay Gallery, Adelaide
Collective, World’s End Gallery, Adelaide
The Sum of its Parts, Prospect Galley – Studio, Adelaide
2005
Interiors, Thomas Street Studio, Adelaide
Curatorial Projects
2013
Co-curator: The Utopia Project LA, Concord Space, Los Angeles
2010
Border Crossings, Visual Arts Exhibition for The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (Adelaide), Format Art Space, Adelaide
Visual Arts Grants, Awards, and Residencies
2013
Awarded Full Australian Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake MFA at the University of Sydney (deferred) Concord Space, Los Angeles, Artist Residency for The Utopia Project LA,
Arts SA, Project Grant for The Utopia Project LA
2012
RAID Projects, Los Angeles, Artist in Residence Program Internship (video production), Machine Project, Los Angeles Co-Director, FELTspace, Adelaide
Helpmann Academy Project Grant
2011/2012
Recipient of Studio Program, Australia Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2011
Chancellors Letter of Commendation (Top 5% in Division), University of South Australia EAS High Achiever Vacation Research Scholarship, University of South Australia Presented conference paper at the EAS HDR conference, University of South Australia 2010
Funding grant from Screen Australia, Screen Development Australia and The Media Resource Centre for Raw Nerve project: The Window (writer)
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (Adelaide) Position: Arts Coordinator and Visual Arts Curator; Chair – Artist symposium for Border Crossings Exhibition, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2009
Exhibition grant from the Helpmann Academy to the Two Percent art collective
2008
Exhibition grant from the Australian Experimental Art Foundation to the Two Percent art collective
Eckersleys Painting Award, University of South Australia
Founding member of the Two Percent art collective
Selected Bibliography
2015
Brooker, B., Performance Art in the Experience Economy Era, RealTime issue #127 June-July 2015 pg. 12- 13,http://www.realtimearts.net/article...
Forester, R., Performance Presence / Video Time, Arts Hub, May 12, 2015 http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-a...
Mahoney, S., Aspy Kids, The Thousands, April 2014 Sliuzas, A., Grid Festival, catalogue essay
2012
Harris, R. and O’Keeffe, R., Good Mourning, Welcome to Death, Your Destiny, catalogue essay for ‘Good Mourning’,
FELTspace, Adelaide
Simmons, K., Wounds and Corpses, catalogue essay for ‘Good Mourning’, FELTspace, Adelaide Neuman, A. Studio Visit: Interview with FELTspace, Los Angeles Art Resource
Lay, B., catalogue essay: Incubator Alligator, Australian Experimental Art Foundation – Odradek
Simmons,K., Unsubstantial Territory, catalogue essay for ‘The Cuddly Rapture’, Contemporary Art Centre of South
Australia – Project Space
David Broker, The Cuddly Rapture, CCAS
Leslie, B., A Private Dystopia, catalogue essay for ‘The Dystopian Utopianator – Redux’, February Langford, C., Dystopian Utopianator, The Thousands, January 25th
2012 http://thethousands.com.au/adelaide/look/dystopian-utopianator-patrick-rees
2011
Bolton, K. , 2011: Abstraction, Installation, Conceptualism: Some Returns — to the Once and Forever Future. (21.7.1), June 2011 http://aeaf.org.au/downloads/Abstraction_etc_07_2011.pdf
Tuffin, A., META, catalogue essay for META
Sliuzas, A., The Overloaded, catalogue essay for META
Lyall, S., META, The Thousands, October 12th 2011 http://thethousands.com.au/adelaide/look/ben-leslie-and- patrick-rees-meta
Lyall, S., On Abstraction, The Thousands, June 22nd 2011 http://thethousands.com.au/adelaide/look/on-abstraction 2009
Coleman, D., Two Percent Collective, Art Monthly Australia, June 2009, # 220, pp 62-63 2008
Barber, K., Adelaide’s Artist Run Initiatives, Update Arts Magazine, Helpmann Academy, December 2008 – February 2009, p13
Foster, F., A Rough Sketch to Conquer the Galaxy, Merge Magazine, November 2008, pp.38-43 http://www.merge.com.au/picturesandwords/twopercent