Count the surrogates
Make the playlist
Invent the room shect
Bearinmindromanticism
Repeat the gesture
Forge the feeling
Locatethesoundtrack
Speed up the tribute
Print the document
Obscure the origins Put the feelings away Return to the beginning
Disguise the whereabouts
Knockoff the bootleg
Remove the work
Gather scattered clues
Strip out the piety
Archive the screen
Mock up what you found
Polish the edges
Modify the middle
Restore the sensation
Pirate the mood
Eavesdrop on the appearance
Induce the premonition Assemble the copies Warm up the doubt Take in the parallel
Mind the wordcount
Text by Dane Mitchell
Michael Kennedy
Currently lives and works in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2024
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2018
Diploma of Visual Arts - RMIT University, 2015
Awards and residencies
Cutler Prize, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2024
Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2024
Ursula Hoff Institute Inc. Drawing and Painting Award, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2018
DÔ-SÔ Artist Residency, Fujiyoshida, Japan, 2019
Collections
Works held in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and Germany
Solo and curatorial exhibitions
2024 - Poetry Jam - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne
2022 - Razorblade Romance - KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne
2022 - TEMPLE (Curatorial exhibition) - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
2021 - Ember to Inferno - Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2020 - A postnet folk fanfiction fairytalemythology: Part 2 - Underground Flower, Melbourne
2020 - Zombies Everywhere (with Yolunda Hickman) - Sumer Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand
2019 - Why does the sun go on shining? なぜ朝日は輝くの? - DÔ-SÔ, Fujiyoshida, Japan
2018 - if only you were lonely - Bus Projects, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
2024
Future Call - Elam, Te Waka Tūhura Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland
One by One - VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne
Future Call - VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne
Kings Fundraiser - KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne
JAWS 6 - Off-Site, Naarm, South Melbourne Beach
Poetry Jam - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne
Caves Fundraiser - CAVES, Melbourne
2023
Whole Fish - FELTspace, Adelaide
Kings Fundraiser - KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne
2022
SINK (Curated by Leena O’Luu and Joseph Dogget-Williams) - SUBLETspace, Melbourne
Caves Fundraiser - CAVES, Melbourne
TEMPLE - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Soft Quitting: We aint gonna live 4eva - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
2021
encapsulated, Christopher L G Hill, CAVES, Melbourne
Choose Happiness, ft. collaborative work with Jemima Gale - Murray Art Museum, Albury
The Impressionists - Blindside, Melbourne
HELL ‘N’ BACK Again - CAVES, Melbourne
2020
Love you, wish you were here - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
Mail Out Project - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
HELL ‘N BACK - CAVES, Melbourne
Zombies Everywhere, with Yolunda Hickman - Sumer Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand
side to side, end to end - CAVES, Melbourne
Private Opulence Public Squalor - Off-site, Melbourne
Niche Fetisch #001, Niche Fetisch, Melbourne
2019
Friends and Family - Daine Singer, Melbourne
School Hall Performance, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Exhibition/Fundraiser - Melbourne
and on the eyes black sleep of night part 2 - Firstdraft, Sydney
Sleeping Dogs Lie - ill Fame, Perth
and on the eyes black sleep of night (curated by Sarah Brasier) - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
GOODBYEHELLO - CAVES, Melbourne
The Process of Making - West Space, Melbourne
2018
Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne
Survival. Reproduction. Death. - Off site exhibition, Melbourne
Toys R Us - (curated by Beth Downing and Chris Madden) - Second Space Projects, Melbourne
Proud 2018 - Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Night at the Nicholas (open studio) - The Nicholas Building, Swanston St, Melbourne
2017
Caves Fundraiser - CAVES, Swanston St, Melbourne
What are Chives Good For? - Living Museum of the West, Maribyrnong
38% Cucumber - George Paton Gallery, Project Space, University of Melbourne
Proud 2017 - Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Painting as an Object (curated by Christopher L G Hill) - VCA Art Space, Melbourne
Jon Campbell’s Painting Vernacular - VCA Art Space, Melbourne
2016
Sunday - Colour Factory, Melbourne
Proud 2016 - Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Paradise Lost - Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne
So Fresh - VCA Art Space, Melbourne
2015
Trash & Treasure - Strange Neighbour Gallery, Melbourne
Habits - Building 94, Melbourne