• Curatorial
  • You Get to Determine the Reality
  • Together, Alone
  • History Pieces
  • Responsibilities to Time I
  • Responsibilities to Time II
  • The Gay Agenda
  • The Weatherman
  • Deviations
  • Thoughts and Prayers
  • Road Head
  • Toro
  • 1897-1991
  • Callum McGrath
  • Contact
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • POOFTA
  • River Torrens
  • Serious Queer Business
  • Passing
  • Selected Projects
You Get to Determine the Reality
Together, Alone
History Pieces
Responsibilities to Time I
Responsibilities to Time II
The Gay Agenda
The Weatherman
Deviations
Thoughts and Prayers
Road Head
Toro
POOFTA
1897-1991
River Torrens
Serious Queer Business
Passing
Selected Projects
Callum McGrath
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Curatorial



 

Based in Naarm/ Melbourne.  


Education

2021-2024 PhD in Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne 

2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Visual Arts Honours (First Class), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 

2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane


Solo Exhibitions

2024 You Get to Determine the Reality, 2024, MADA Gallery, Melbourne

2022 History Pieces, Kings Art Space, Melbourne 

2021 The Gay Agenda, The Walls, Gold Coast 

2021 The Weatherman, Metro Arts, Brisbane 

2020 Thoughts and Prayers, Outer Space, Brisbane  

2019 Responsibilities to Time, Boxcopy, Brisbane  

2019 Toro, Milani Gallery: Carpark Space, Brisbane 

2018 POOFTA, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2018 River Torrens, Green Screen, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 

2017 Passing, West Space, Melbourne

2017 Rose Tinted, FELTspace, Adelaide

2016 Site (re) Constructed, Bus Projects, Melbourne


Group Exhibitions

2025 (upcoming) Ramsay Art Prize 2025, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

2025 (upcoming) Unbecoming, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo

2023 The Party, UNSW Galleries, Curated José Da Silva and Nick Henderson 

2022 Embodied Knowledge, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane 

2021 Deviations, with Outer Space for Brisbane Art and Design Festival, Brisbane 

2021 To Resound, unbound, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 

2020 Loop, Metro Arts Lumen Room, Brisbane 

2019 MARS Video Exchange, Curated Kyle Weise and Simone Hine, MARS Art Gallery, Melbourne

2019 The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 

2019 The Freedman Foundation Traveling Scholarship, UNSW Galleries, Sydney  

2019 Queer Economies, Bus Projects/ Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 

2018 Cross-Mending, Outer Space, Brisbane  

2017 HATCHED, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth

2016 Two Thousand Sixteen, QUT Honours Graduate Exhibition, QUT, Brisbane

2016 Excerpts, The Block, Brisbane

2016 Spring Break, Frank Moran Memorial Hall QUT, Brisbane

2015 Send Help, QUT Graduate Exhibition, H - Block Gallery, Brisbane

2015 R u SRS?, Parer Place, The Block, Brisbane

2014 OCCUPIED, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2014 Here & Now, Whynot St. West End

2014 Eye Shot, Post Datum, H - Block Gallery QUT, Brisbane

2013 2High Festival, Powerhouse Museum, Brisbane


Awards/ Grants

2023 MATCH Lab Funding, Creative Australia, through Kink

2022 National Works on Paper Art Prize, The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (acquisition prize) 

2021 Vida Lahey Memorial Traveling Scholarship, with Courtney Coombs and Tim Riley Walsh, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art,  

2021 Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend, Monash University 

2019 The Freedman Foundation Traveling Scholarship, National Association for the Visual Arts

2019 Finalist, The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize 

2018 Queensland Arts Showcase Program, Arts Queensland 

2018 Arts Projects for Individuals, Australia Council for the Arts 

2016 Eyeline Prize for an Outstanding Visual Arts Graduate


Public Projects and Talks

2023 I Want a Past that Lives Up to My Future: Queer History in the Making Panel Convenors: Dr Amelia Barikin (UQ) and Callum McGrath (Monash), AAANZ Conference Gold Coast, QLD (December 2023)

2022 Curator Talk with Ellie Buttrose, In Queer Time: Cinema Program, GOMA Cinematheque

2020 In Conversation: Luke Roberts & Callum McGrath, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane 

2018 Serious Queer Business, Collaboration with Lu Forsberg, Pride Festival, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 

2018 Serious Queer Business, Collaboration with Lu Forsberg, First Thursdays, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane                                                         

2018 Adelaide Festival Centre Media Screens, Facilitated by Artspace Adelaide, Adelaide

2016 Make it Pink, Clutch Collective, Brisbane


Professional Experience

2019 Guest Lecture: Installing Video Art, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

2018 Artist Masterclass with Haegue Yang, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

2018 QLD ARI Knowledge exchange program, National Association for Visual Arts

2017 Co-Director, Cut Thumb Laundry, Brisbane

2015 Artist Masterclass with David Lynch, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

2015 - 2016 Co-Director, Cut Thumb ARI, Brisbane

2015 Children’s Art Centre Activities Assistant, APT 8, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

2015 Professional Development Workshop with Tate Technician: Linda Persson. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

2014 - 2015 Volunteer, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane


Publications

2022 Embodied Knowledge, exhibition publication, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane 

2022 Let's Go Outside: Art Iin Public, A MUMA Reader, Edited by Charlotte Day, Callum Morton and Dr Amy Spiers. Monash University Art Museum 

2020 “MARS Video Exchange Publication”, Kyle Weise and Simone Hine, MARS Gallery/ Metro Arts

2019 “Toro (Exhibition review)”, Hilary Thurlow, Art + Australia 

2019 "Responsibilities to Time", Catalogue Essay Boxcopy Brisbane, Hamish Sawyer

2019 “Queer uses of Colour: A tinted hermeneutics”, Abbra Kotlarczyk. Artlink 39:1 March 2019.

2018 POOFTA Review Louise Mayhew, Eyeline Publishing, Issue 90 

2018 POOFTA Catalogue essay José Da Silva, Metro Arts, Brisbane 

2017 HATCHED Exhibition Publication, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth

2017 How Do Australian Art School Grads Feel About the Future, Interview With Katherine Gillespie, Vice Creators

2017 Artist Page, Eyeline Publishing, Issue 86


Curatorial Projects

2017 Cut Thumb Laundry Program (2017) co-curated with The Laundry Artspace

2016 HOMEGROUND Cut Thumb ARI w/ Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane 

2016 Stella McCartney for Target, Group exhibition co-curated with Lu Forsberg. Cut Thumb ARI, Brisbane

2015- 2016 Cut Thumb Program co-curated with Lu Forsberg. Cut Thumb ARI, Brisbane 


Residencies

2018 Studio residency, Outer Space, Brisbane (4 months)

2017 Artist-Run Initiative In Residence (Cut Thumb Laundry), Metro Arts, Brisbane (12 Months)