Steve Cox Resume
Born
London, England
Studied
1978 - 82
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1997
Master of Fine Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne
One Person Exhibitions
1982
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1985
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1987
Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1989
Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1992
Benalla Gallery - Works On Paper Retrospective
1992
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1993
Powell St Gallery, Melbourne - Watercolours
1993
Botanical Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Scope Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Scope Gallery, Melbourne - Testosterone Zone
1997
Robin Gibson, Sydney
1997
B.M.G. Gallery, Adelaide
1997
WestSpace - Black: the Life, Work & Death of Joe Orton
1998
Robin Gibson, Sydney - Works on Paper
1999
The George Gallery, Melbourne
1999
BMG Gallery, Adelaide
2000
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney - Rave - Club Culture
2000
Mass Gallery, Melbourne - Ecstasy: a Celebration
2001
BMG Gallery, Adelaide
2001
Mass Gallery. Melbourne - Confessions of a Raving Lunatic
Selected Group Shows
1983
Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, VCA
1983
Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW
1985
Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1986
Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1987
Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1987
Young Australians, National Gallery of Vic.
1988
Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1989
Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1991
Raising the Furies, Touring Exhibition
1992
Inherited Absolute, ACCA, Melbourne
1993
Moet & Chandon Fellowship, All State Galleries
1994
20 Australian Paintings From The 80’s - Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1994
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W.
1994
Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W.
1995
Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Gallery
1997
Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Gallery
1998
Up the Road - Past Graduates of the VCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
1999
Prints at Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
2001
Script - Mass Gallery, Melbourne
Awards and Prizes
1982
Visual Arts Board, Materials Grant
1983
Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
1985
VACB, Half-Standard Grant
1986
VACB
1989
VACB, Overseas Studio - Besozzo, Northern Italy
1991
VACB
1996
Whitefriars Acquisition Prize
1997
Mornington Peninsula Gallery Acquisition Prize
1999
Artist in Residence, Muka Print Studio, Auckland NZ
Teaching
1984
Bendigo College of Advanced Education
1986 - 90
Victorian College of the Arts
1989 - 91
RMIT
1990
Charles Sturt University, Albury
1992
Monash University
1993
Charles Sturt University, Albury
1995 - 98
Eastern College of TAFE, Wantirna
1996 - 97
Victorian College of the Arts
1997
Deakin University, Melbourne
1998 - 01
RMIT TAFE, Melbourne
Travel
1983 - 94
Lived in London and Egypt
1990 - 91
Lived in Italy and Switzerland
Selected Collections
Victorian College of the Arts
National Gallery of Victoria
Benalla Art Gallery
Artbank, Sydney
Whitefriars College, Melbourne
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London
Reggie Kray, Her Majesty’s Prisons System, London
Estate of Francis Bacon, London
Publications
Perspecta Catalogue, Art Gallery of NSW 1983
Art & Australia, Vol. 21 No. 1 Spring 1983
Young Australians Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 1987
Art & Australia, Vol. 25 No. 3 Autumn 1988
Interior Design Magazine, No.18 1989
New Art Three Neville Drury, Craftsman House, 1989
Images in Contemporary Australian Painting
Neville Drury, Craftsman House, 1992
Essays by the Artist
Raising the Furies, Benalla Art Gallery, 1991
Reviews
The Paris and Others - Alan McCulloch, The Herald, 2.10.80
Good Ideas Come to Paris - Robert Rooney, The Age, 2.10.80
Influences and the Culling of Worthy Survivors - Sandra McGrath, Weekend Australian 14.5.83
Mysterious Art Challenges Reality - Gary Catalano, The Age, 27.2.87
A Bleak Outlook Isn’t Always Bad - Robert Rooney, The Australian, 16.5.89
Cox Jettisons Obsession to Find Compassion - Gary Catalano, The Age, 24.5.89
The Painful Side of Art - Ronald Millar, The Herald, May 1989
The Misadventures of Cap’n Kirk - Robert Rooney, Weekend Australian
Boom Goes the Art of Parenthood - Robert Rooney. The Australian, 15.8.92
Face to Face With Childhood’s Darkest Side - Robert Rooney, The Australian, 29.1.94
Child’s Play - Colin Shingleton, Art Monthly, April 1995
Contemporary Voices: Steven Cox - Roger Taylor, Asian Art News, Vol. 5 No. 3 May/June 1995
Sex, Violence and all Things Underneath - Peter Timms, The Age, 10.3.99
Method in the Madness - Peter Timms, The Age, 12.4.00
