OWEN LEONG
Born in Sydney 1979
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

EDUCATION
2005 Master of Fine Arts. College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours). College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Infiltrator. Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne
  Tidal Skin. Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Infiltrator. Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney
2010 Birthmark. Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Owen Leong. Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane
  Owen Leong. Mori Gallery, Sydney
2006 Ghost Heart. Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
  Owen Leong. The Prism, Westpac Corporate Art Collection, Sydney
2005 Autofiction. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2004 White Amnesia. Sherman Galleries, Sydney
  Crisis Tendencies. ROOM 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
2003 Owen Leong. Gallery 4a, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Chinese Australia (curated by Venita Poblocki). Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne

2011 Magic Spaces (curated by Binghui Huangfu). Today Art Museum, Beijing
  The Rest is Silence. Death Be Kind, Melbourne
  Night Vision. 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art at Grasshopper Bar, Sydney

2010 Melbourne Art Fair (with Anna Pappas Gallery), Melbourne
  Group Show, Anna Pappas Gallery at The Depot Gallery, Sydney

2009 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize. Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
  NEXT Art Fair (with Über Gallery), Chicago
  Surveying the Field. Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

2008 Bridge Art Fair (with City Art Rooms), Berlin
  Reflecting Skin. City Art Rooms, Auckland
  Leading Lights. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

2007
Soft Power. Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
 
Asian Attitude: Transit Forces. National Museum of Poznan, Poland
 
I’ll Be Your Mirror. Gallery Primo Alonso, London
 
Synthetic / Aesthetic. Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney
 
Entanglement (with Shoufay Derz). Westspace, Melbourne
  Funeral Songs (curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham). MOP Projects, Sydney
 
Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane
 
Blake Prize. National Art School Gallery, Sydney

2006 I’ll Be Your Mirror. Liverpool Biennial Independents, Liverpool
  Video Easy. The Hart Center For Arts, Beijing
  ...becoming as a hundred thousand. George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
  Liquid Aesthetics. 2006 Midsumma Festival. BlackBox Arts Centre, Melbourne
  Helen Lemprière Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition. Artspace, Sydney
 
2005 Asian Traffic. Esplanade Jendela Visual Art Space, Singapore; Today Art Museum, Beijing; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
  Contemporary Collection Benefactors Art Auction. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  Text Me: an exploration of body language. Sherman Galleries, Sydney
  Room 35 turns 8, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
  Prospectus: projections in new media. Blankspace, Sydney
  Helen Lemprière Traveling Art Scholarship Award Exhibition. Artspace, Sydney

2004 Asian Traffic (curated by Binghui Huangfu). Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney (Official Parallel Event of the Biennale of Sydney)
  Res Artis (with Song Dong and Shen Shaomin). Artspace, Sydney
  CCAS Contemporary Art Award, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
  Nightvision video projects. Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney
  New Q Cubed. 2004 Midsumma Festival. Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
  Helen Lemprière Traveling Art Scholarship Award Exhibition. Artspace, Sydney

AWARDS
2009 Asialink Visual Arts Residency
  Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award (Highly Commended)
  William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (People's Choice Award)
2008 Australia Council New Work Grant
  Art Gallery of NSW Moya Dyring Studio
  Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2007 Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award (Highly Commended)
2005 Australia Council New Work Grant
2003 Australian Postgraduate Award
1998 College of Fine Arts Undergraduate Scholarship

RESIDENCIES
2009 Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2008 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2006 Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
  Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney

COLLECTIONS
Stephen Grant and Bridget Pirrie Collection, Sydney
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Carrie Miller. "Changing with the Landscape", Australian Art Collector, issue 59 (January-March 2012): 202-205
Bree Hadley. "Re-Constructing Asianness in Australia: Yumi Umiumare, Owen Leong, and the Remobilisation of Monstrosity", Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, volume 7, no. 3 (Autumn 2011)
Aaron Seeto. "Transcultural Radical", Artlink, volume 31, no. 1 (March 2011): 28-31
Christen Cornell. "Old Categories New Frameworks", Artlink, volume 31, no.1 (March 2011): 24-27
Lian Low. "Interview with Owen Leong", Peril Magazine, (20 June 2010)
Dan Rule. "Owen Leong: Birthmark", A2 - The Age, (Saturday 22 May 2010): 18
Damian Smith. "Birthmark", catalogue essay (April 2010)
Robert Nelson. 'Perpetual pirouette is a novel spin', The Age, (22 July 2009): 14
Anna Edmundson. "But where are you really from?: The crisis of multiculturalism examined through the work of four Asian-Australian artists", Humanities Research, volume XV, no. 2 (2009): 93-113
Felicity Fenner. "Leading Lights", catalogue essay (November 2008): 22-23
Francis Maravillas. "Constellations of the contemporary: Art / Asia / Australia", Journal of Australian Studies, 1835-6419, volume 32, issue 4, 2008: 433 – 444
Naomi Gall. "The Taste of Race", Incubate Magazine, no.1 (Winter 2008): 52
Alan Cruickshank. "Asian Attitudes", Art & Australia, volume 45, no. 3 (Autumn 2008): 362-363
Uros Cvoro. “Owen Leong”, Art & Australia, volume 45, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 288
Jason Lingard. "Owen Leong", Nothing Mag, www.nothingmag.com, issue 16 (April 2007)
Margaret Mayhew. "Pink Bits and Milky", Art and Mayhem, www.artandmayhem.blogspot.com (5 March 2007)
Chris Long. "Man of Milk and Honey", BBC Online UK (23 June 2006)
Barbara Bolt. “Queer Spill”, RealTime, issue 72 (April/May 2006): 26
Annabel Pegus. “Unlimited Potential”, COFA Magazine, Issue 15 (Summer 2006): 22
Prue Gibson. “Busy Benefactors”, Australian Art Collector, issue 34 (October-December 2005): 94-95
Ella Barclay. “I link, therefore I am”, RealTime, issue 66 (April/May 2005): 32
Danielle Johnson. “Text Me”, catalogue essay (January 2005): 3
Gary Carsley. “Asian Traffic”, Broadsheet, volume 33, no.4 (December 2004): 22-25
Felicity Fenner. “Shifting Gears: Asian Traffic”, Artlink, volume 24, no. 3 (December, 2004): 20-27
Lilly Wei. “South by Southeast”, Art in America (December 2004): 63
Aaron Seeto. “Flaccid momentums and tactical interventions”, EastWest, issue 1 (September-November, 2004): 108-109
Joanna Mendelssohn. "Owen Leong", Tema Celeste (Italy), issue 104 (July-August, 2004): 80
David Mills. "The Eyes Have It", blue, issue 51 (June-July, 2004): 6
Dominique Angeloro. “Owen Leong”, Metro – The Sydney Morning Herald, (May 14, 2004): 27