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Biography
Lily Hibberd is an Australian artist and writer working in Paris. Her interdisciplinary practice creates encounters with memory, time and light through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, video and installation art. Her work is frequently developed in long-term research and collaboration with communities, artists, scientists and historians, and has been presented in more than 40 major Australian and international museums and festivals. Lily has also published extensively in academic and arts forum, as well as founding and editing the community arts writing publication un Magazine.

Contact
lilyhibberd [insert@] gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

MAJOR SOLO/COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020
Boundless - out of time, for NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney 2020, in partnership with Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
2018
Parragirls Past, Present: Unlocking memories of insitutional 'care', (co-producer/writer/editor) with Parragirls and UNSW media artists, immersive 360 3D film, officially selected for 7 international film festivals in 2018, including Haifa (Israel), MIFF, Adelaide, Sydney, and SXSW, Austin, Texas, USA. First commissioned for The Big Anxiety festival, Sydney, 2017
2017
Data Horizons, Edinburgh International Science Festival 2017, Edinburgh, UK
Parragirls, Past, Present (co-producer/writer/editor), EPICentre, The Big Anxiety Festival, UNSW Paddington, Australia
The Public Secret in 'Group Therapy: mental distress in a digital age' curated by Vanessa Bartlett for The Big Anxiety festival, UNSW Paddington, Australia
2015
First Light, Musée des arts et métiers, Paris, France
β Persei, galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
Eclipse […] diaphane, galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
It goes both ways: moving images between different times and places, commissioned for 'Spaced 2 Future Recall', Perth International Arts Festival, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia
2014
Twin Cinema: 4 Devils and a Woman in Red, commissioned for 'The Cinemas Project', Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria, Australia
4 Devils: hell and high water, performance commissioned for 'The Cinemas Project', The Regent Theatre, Yarram, Victoria, Australia
2013
Ice Pendulum, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Les Aimants, Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
2012
The Phone Booth Project, in collaboration with Martu filmmaker Curtis Taylor, commissioned for We Don't Need a Map, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Anti-panopticon, installation and performance Museum of Freud's Dreams, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Woman in the Bridge, ArtBAR, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2011
Seeking a Meridian, Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
Benevolent Asylum: just for fun, in collaboration with WART, WALK commission, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
Benevolent Asylum: an eclipse of historical fiction, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
2010
BookBUS, various sites Sydney, commissioned by P4 (pilot) and Performance Space, Australia
Being of the Book, performance installation, 2010 International Book Conference, St Gallen, Switzerland
Being of the Book, performance installation, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
2009
First Love, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, Australia
Deadman Monologue, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australia
No place like, performance installation, Lyndal Jones’ “Eco Living Festival”, Avoca, Central Victoria, Australia
Endless summer: sunglasses and the spectacle of vision, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
Bordertown, Conical Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Australia
2008
Bordertown, Artpace, Sydney
2007
Endless summer: sunglasses and the spectacle of vision, Studio 12 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
2006
I want to break free, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Dangerous Liaisons, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, Australia
2004
Paint Tin Fantasias, The Farm, Brisbane, Australia
SLEEPWALKER: cinema & dreams, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Australia
Blinded by the Light, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Blinded by the Light, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Blinded by the Light, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
2002
Burning Memory, Imperial Slacks, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
2001
Burning Memory, TCB inc. ART, Melbourne, Australia
2000
Time Slots, Spencer Street Gallery, West Melbourne, Australia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Politics of Place, curated by Alexander Campos and Monica Oppen, New York- The Center for Book Art, NY, USA.
2018
Parragirls Past, Present, in Future Design, ZKM museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2017
Networking the Unseen, Villa Merkel, Stuggart, Germany
Spaced 2 Future Recall, touring exhibition, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA, 15 April - 25 June 2017, Vancouver Art Centre, Albany, WA, 6 July - 2 September 2017 Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, 20 October - 25 November 2017.
2016
L’Oeil du collectionneur. Neuf collections particulières strasbourgeoises, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
Networking the Unseen, curator Gretta Louw, Furtherfield Gallery, London, UK
Drawing Now, art fair with galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
The Phone Booth Project, Lily Hibberd & Curtis Taylor, Pilbara Arts Centre and Martumili Gallery, Newman, Western Australia
2015
New Frontiers, Linden New Art, Melbourne, Australia
Island Salon, Underbelly Arts Festival, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia
VOLTA11 Basel, Switzerland
Counting Bone, Affiliated Text, Sydney, Australia
2014
The Phone Booth Project, Lily Hibberd & Curtis Taylor, touring 2014-16 in 'We Don't Need a Map: a Martu experience of the Western Desert', Western Australia
A bittersweet legacy & Pense-bête Collection 1, Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
The Phone Booth Project with Curtis Taylor, 'Les Rencontres Internationales', Palais de Tokyo and Gaité Lyrique, Paris, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Pixeling: recontre pour l'art vidéo, Garage Turrenne, Paris, France
2013
The Phone Booth Project with Curtis Taylor, 'Vivid Memories: an Aboriginal Art History,' Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Black out, Galerie Jordan- Seydoux, Berlin, Germany
Alors, ils se mirent à parler du temps, Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
The Solo Project, MOVING ART, Basel, Switzerland
Easy Listening, WestSpace, Melbourne, Australia
Polar Time in 'Suspension,' Parer Place Urban Screens, QUT, Brisbane, Australia
Sciences & Fictions, curator Manuela de Barros, Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
ART PARIS Fair, with Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
2012
Eschatologie, Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
Build me a city, Adelaide Architecture Biennale, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
21 x 29,7, curated by Jean-Jacques Lebel & Nabila Mokrani, Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
'retelling, untelling Two Rivers,' in I Would Breathe Water, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, Australia
IMPORT/EXPORT, Kassel, Germany.
'Polar Time,' in Formal Intensity: Australian Art Today, for the Australian Embassy, Tsagaandarium Art gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
BOOKS UNFOLDED VOL.2, STUDIO_VISITS, Berlin, Germany
'Bordertown: excise,' in Seeing Books, Heritage Library at the Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
HOLIDAYS IN GREECE, a performative installation, STUDIO_VISITS, Berlin, Germany
Polar Time, in'Suspended' Perth Cultural Centre public LCD screening, Perth, Australia
The Appin Project, Appin Motel, New South Wales, curated by Lisa Andrew and Bronia Iwanczak, Australia
2011
Seeing to a Distance: Single channel video work from Australia, Level 17 Artspace, Melbourne, Australia
The gravity of the situation, Monash University Art & Design Faculty Gallery, Australia
SubText (Artists and writing), West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2010
Some kind of intermission: live in store, collaboration with Robert Cook, for P4 (pilot)Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
Babel Projekt, Woodford Festival, Queensland, Australia
West Space A4 Art, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
PICA Salon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University, Australia
2009
To Whom it May Concern, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia
2008
The Leisure Class, Australian Cinématèque Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Home. Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, Australia
Time and Again, Melbourne City Laneways writing project, Melbourne, Australia
2007
Arc Biennial, QUT Museum, Brisbane, Australia
The last thing I remember… University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia
Too near too far exhibition, C/O careof gallery, Milan, Italy
Kiosk: Modes of Multiplication, Artists Space, New York, USA
2006 Studio Artist Exhibition Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
The Kilgour Painting Prize, Newcastle Region Gallery, Australia
The last thing I remember... Switchback gallery, Monash University
2005 You’re So Vain, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Richmond, Australia
2004 Imaging the Apple, RMIT Projectspace, Melbourne
2003 Art+Film, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Australia
Royal Rumble, Kings Artist Run Space, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Mnemotech, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
Towards Colour, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia
2001 Look See: five contemporary painters, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, Australia
One for the Ladies, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne, Australia
2000 UBS Art Award, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Australia
A Brush with Death, LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

AWARDS
2018 UNSW Dean’s Best Creative Work Award for 'Parragirls Past, Present', Sydney, Australia
2019-2021 Fellowship, Université de Paris, France
2016-19 Australian Research Council, Early Career Research Award (DECRA)
2016 Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, artist residency with Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK
2001 Finalist, ANZ Arts Fellowship Award, Melbourne, Australia
2000 National Winner, UBS Art Award, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Finalist, Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney, Australia
1999 Postgraduate Award, National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association, Melbourne, Australia
School of Graduate Studies, Academic Activity Grant, University of Melbourne, Australia
Finalist, ANZ Arts Fellowship Award, Melbourne, Australia
Honourable mention, Jacques Derrida Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

COLLECTIONS
BHP Billiton Collection, UBS Private Banking Collection, Basel, Switzerland, Melbourne; Private collections; Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney & London

CURATORIAL & EDITORIAL
2020 Screen dossier on immersion edited with Martine Beugnet
2010 Curator, Unseen forces, ICAN (Institute of Contemporary Art, Newtown), Sydney, Australia
2004-6 Founding editor un Magazine issues #1–#7
2006 Co-editor Photofile 76 'Shifting Ground' with Natasha Bullock
2006 Curatorial advisory team, Rapt!: 20 contemporary artists from Japan

HIGHER EDUCATION
2010 Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Australia
2001 Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1993 Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University, Australia