BIOGRAPHY
1966
Born Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Currently lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
2011-2012
MFA Elam University of Auckland
2010
Post Graduate Diploma, Elam, Auckland University, New Zealand
2000- 2002
Australian Centre For Photography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Prinicpal of Hope, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Unearthed; Encrouchment Of The Commons, Woolongong Regional Gallery, Woolongong, NSW, Australia
2009
Another Day in Paradise, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney Pretty, as a Picture, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Pyramid Scheme, The John Paynter Gallery
2008
Cliffhanger, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Competing continents of Bling, Kiosk, Christchurch
2006
Painting Rubbish, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Ether, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005
Ether, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2004
Ascension, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2003
Behold The Man, Gallery Barry Keldoulis (Inaugural Exhibition), Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Link, Snake Pit, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
The New Arcadia, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW Black, Cessnock Regional Gallery, NSW
2010
Shifting Sands, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW Curious Colony: A twenty first century wunderkammer, Newcastle Region Gallery
2009
Wax on Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2008
17th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Atoea Centre Gallery, Auckland and The New Dowse, Wellington, New Zealand Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award 08, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand gbk @ Melbourne Art Fair 2008
2007
Roger Williams Contemporary, New Zealand gbk @ Silvershot, Melbourne
2006
Bitmap, International Photo Project, Alternative Space Loop, Korea gbk @ Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building
2005
December Group, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast GBK Group Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne Sweet Louise Charity Art Auction, Auckland ABN AMRO Australian Emerging Artist Finalist, Renzo Piano Building Sydney
2004
Melbourne Art Fair, Gallery Barry Keldoulis ABN AMRO Australian Emerging Artist, Finalist, Renzo Piano Building Sydney Group Show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Conrads Jupiter Art Prize, Gold Coast
2003
Citibank Photographic Archibald Prize, New South Wales Gallery, Sydney Refresh: 10 years of Photo Technica new Australian Photo Artist of the Year, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Portraiture The Art of Social Commentary, Te Tuhi The Mark, Auckland
2002
Photo Technica New Australian Photo-Artist of The Year, Australian Centre For Photography, Sydney
2001
Kodak ACP Student of The Year, Australian Centre For Photography, Sydney
AWARDS
2010
Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand, finalist.
2009
RBS Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
2008 17
th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Aotea Centre Gallery, Auckland and The New Dowse Wellington, New Zealand, finalist Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand, finalist
2002
Photo Technica New Australian Photo-Artist of the Year, Australian Centre For Photography
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Art Bank, Sydney Australia Deutsche Bank, Sydney Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle
CURATING
2003
'20 Years Between Europe and New Zealand': a contemporary jewellery show, Anna Bibby Gallery, New Zealand
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Rule, Dan. 'Around the galleries', The Age, A2, 11 July, 2009, p. 20
2008
'Ten recommended shows for April an May', Art World, April/May 2008, pp. 34-35
2007
Rawlings, Sarah. 'Sarah Smuts-Kennedy', Insight Magazine, Westpac Private Bank, Sydney , p. 9, 16-17, 25
2006
Nagy, Peter, 'Sarah Smuts-Kennedy', Bitmap: International Photo Project, Alternative Space LOOP, Korea 2006 Rawlings, Sarah, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, ex cat, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney Smuts-Kennedy, Sarah, Dispatch: Chasing Clouds in Rajasthan?, Artnews New Zealand, Autumn 2006, p. 72 ? 74
2005
Hynes, Victoria and AnneMarie Lopez, The Apprentice, The Sydney Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, n. 29, September 2005, p. 52 - 60 Low, Lenny Ann, Exhibitions, The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 July, p. 10
2005
. MacNeil, Jess, 'Indecipherable Eloquence, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Ether Gallery. Barry Keldoulis
2005
. Parr, Andrew, 'Inside Knowledge', Good Weekend, 18 June, p. 58-59
July 2005. 'We Can Build You', The Art Life, http://www.artlife.blogspot.com.
2004
. Benzie, Tim, In The Frame, Sunday Herald, June 2004 Forster, Alisdair (ed), Preview, Photofile, Spring 2004. p 6 Keehan, Reuben, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy Ascension, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, June 2004 The Art Life, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, http://www.artlife.blogspot.com
2003
. Breen, Sally, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy - Behold the Man, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, August 2003
2002
. Hill, Peter, Exposure: Photo Techica Award 2002, The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, p. 26
2002
. McFarlane, Robert, Freed from perspective in the hills of Tuscany, The Sydney Morning Herald
