CV
Lives and works in Bunbury, Australia
Canadian + Australian citizenship
represented by Alfa Gallery, Miami + New York
WEBSITE https://www.amariebergman.com/
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Luxelles PS Art Space, Fremantle
2021 Perfect Lie Factory 49, Paris
2019 White Light 8'3" Watch This Space / The Pantry, Alice Springs
2018 A Slow Waltz Sawtooth ARI / Middle Gallery, Launceston
2018 Une Valse Lente Abstract Project, Paris
2018 Perlustrata no. 1 Blindside, Melbourne
2016 Aqua Vovo Factory 49 Paris Pop Up, Paris
2015 Neo Violet Five Walls, Melbourne
2012 The Rosy Crucifixion ParisCONCRET, Paris
2011 Quadrant Bearing (show 71) Sydney Non Objective (SNO), Sydney
2011 H Factory 49, Sydney
2010 The Golden Eternity Factory 49, Sydney
2009 C ParisCONCRET, Paris
2002 daydreaming, Beowulf Galleries, Sydney
1992 Mirari, Victoria
1990 Grace Gallery, Vancouver
1989 Fran Willis North Park Gallery, Victoria
1988 Grace Gallery, Vancouver
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2003 New Works, Tin Sheds, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Sydney
(with Malcolm Harding)
1993 Absence Leaves, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond (with Stephen Jenkinson)
1987 Grace Gallery, Vancouver (with John Pickering)
1986 Grace Gallery, Vancouver (with John Pickering)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Power of Infinity (online 14/2/2023 - 18/05/2023) Alfa Gallery, Miami
2022 -2023 Women in Abstraction (online 7/11/2022 - 11/01/2023) Alfa Gallery, Miami
2022 Art Basel Group Show (online 1 - 31 December 2022) Alfa Gallery, Miami
2022 Members Exhibition, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
2022 Flow (online 17 - 31 September 2022) Alfa Gallery, Miami
2020 Art Matters 2 (Honourable Mention) IG, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne
2019 Committee Members Past/Current 2006-2019 Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2018 Support Eighteen, Five Walls, Melbourne
2018 Abstraction Twenty Eighteen, Langford 120, Melbourne
2017 Supermarket International Art Fair/Factory 49, Svarta Huset, Stockholm
2016 CAPO Auction / Masked Soirée, Canberra Museum & Gallery, Canberra
2015 Le Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
2015 AT_Salon2 Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Annual Group Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2014 Exhibition (show 110) SNO, Sydney
2014 Le Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
2013 Poste Concret2, ParisCONCRET, Paris
2013 Annual Group Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2012 Annual Group Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2012 Turn On, Tune In! Factory-Art, Berlin
2012 Group Print Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2011 Poste Concret, ParisCONCRET, Paris
2011 Night Visions IV, Coconino Center, Flagstaff
2011 Galerie bij de Boeken DRU, Ulft Netherlands
2011 Smoke Screen, Letters from the Sky (film festival/COP17), Durban
2010 Structural Space, Factory 49, Sydney
2010 Adaptive Actions, Madrid Abierto, Madrid
2009 Exhibition (show 57), SNO, Sydney
2009 cut.paste, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
2007 Community Art Grid, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Zeitlupe – Câmera lenta/3, Centro Cultural Blanco do Nordeste, Sousa
2007 Zeitlupe – Câmera lenta/2, Galeria Antonio Bandiera, Fortaleza
2005 Zeitlupe – Câmera lenta/1, Stadtbibliothek, Nürnberg
2005 Ideas About Infinity, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
2004 Art to Carry, Aion Art Gallery, Vancouver
2001 Buddha and The Lotus, Beowulf Galleries, Sydney
2000 9th International Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibition
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1993 Benefit for the Olga Havel Foundation, Galerie Pallas, Prague
1991-1992 John Ramsay Contemporary Art, Vancouver
1985-1995 Grace Gallery, Vancouver
1984-1990 Fran Willis North Park Gallery, Victoria
1988 Dakotas 100, Mind's Eye Gallery/U. South Dakota, Dickenson + Vermillion
INTERVENTIONS
2023 laredo 006, Bunbury
2022 laredo 005, Bunbury
2022 laredo 004, Bunbury
2021 laredo 003, Bunbury
2021 laredo 002, Bunbury
2019 laredo 001, Melbourne
2015 Nitrogen 21 (21 locations), Canberra
WORKSHOPS
1992+1986 Emma Lake Artists' Workshop, University of Saskatchewan,
Kenderdine Campus, Emma Lake
MAJOR COLLECTIONS
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Bronfman, Montreal; Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver; Ponte Cultura, Nürnberg; Luciano Benetton, Treviso
SELECTED AWARDS
2011 Finalist (Smoke Screen), Letters From The Sky
experimental film festival re: United Nations COP17, Durban
2006 Finalist, Design A Door
competition hosted by Westbank + Peterson Group, Mcfarlane Green
Architecture + Design for Woodward’s Redevelopment Group, Vancouver
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018 Une Valse Lente, Exhibition Catalogue, Abstract Project, Paris
2010 Adaptive Actions Camp-Madrid Project in collaboration with Madrid Abierto Biennial
2010 Lateral Learning, curated by Paul Butler; Vantage Art Projects, Vancouver
SELECTED REVIEWS + INTERVIEWS
2018 Orbiting the Field, Lisa Sharp, Instantloveland
2015 Review by Dallas Jeffs, Artist Run Websites
2010 Interview with Sand T. Kalloch, artSPACE
2003 Review by Carole Driver, New Works, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney
CONFERENCE
2009 (audience participant/press) d documenta, a conference towards documenta 13, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino
2001 (paper given) Constellations of Inner Space, Seeking the Centre conference, Faculty of Religion, University of Sydney, Sydney
SELECTED TECHNICAL + VISUAL ART COURSES
2021 edX/Cambridge (Reconceiving Space: Installation + Performance Art)
2018 edX/Harvard (The Architectural Imagination)
2011 U3A, Canberra (Colour Consciousness)
2006 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (Illustrator)
2005 UBC, Vancouver (Drafting for Design)
2000 Workshop Arts Centre, Sydney (Sculptural Drawing I and II)
1998 Wrought Artworks, Sydney (Blacksmithing)
1998 National Art School, Sydney (Experimental Sculpture)
1995 Melbourne Print Workshop, Melbourne (Etching)
1995 RMIT, Melbourne (Cast Metal Sculpture)
1994 Swinbourne University, Melbourne (Welding)
1991 Emily Carr School of Art, Vancouver (Art History)
1983 Camosun College, Victoria (Printmaking)
1981-1982 Alberta College of Art, Calgary (Drawing + Painting)
1979-1980 Victoria College of Art, Victoria (2 semesters)
HIGHLIGHTS OF OTHER CERTIFICATES
Master of Herbology, Emerson College of Herbology, Montreal; Professional Jeweller, Mappins, Vancouver; Teacher of English as a Second Language (TESL), Century College, Vancouver; Professional Training Program, Clarins, Perth; Fledgling Entrepreneur, Maker+Co., Bunbury
SELECTED INVOLVEMENTS
2020 director/designer: Thin Air (graphic designs printed on-demand via DTA)
2018-ongoing member: artfacts
2017 art reviewer: Rochford Street Review (Christopher Gulick/Factory 49, Sydney)
2017-2020 associate: Art Research Center (ARC) Kansas City
2016-2019 member: Advisory Board (International Relations), Factory 49, Sydney
2015-2016 studio member: Australian National Capital Artists, Canberra
2009-2011 studio member: Australian National Capital Artists, Canberra
2008-2009 art reviewer: artUS (LA)
2008-ongoing profile: Saatchi Art
2007-ongoing member: LinkedIn
2007-2017 Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art (NY)
2006-2008 graphic designer: greeting card collections
Vancouver Art Gallery shop; Chapters Indigo
2000-ongoing member: National Association of Visual Artists, Australia
1980 director: Xchanges Studios and Gallery (artist-run centre), Victoria CA
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