b. 1992, lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
louise.tate@hotmail.com
EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art with 1st Class Honours / RMIT University
2014 Semester abroad / Utrecht School of the Arts, The Netherlands
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 TBA / Boom Gallery, Geelong (forthcoming)
2018 History is a variable narrative / SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Intimacies / Boom Gallery, Geelong
2016 Like a lingering silence, the solitude / 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
An irrational tenderness for inanimate objects / First Site Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Here: A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They've Been / NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY,
U.S.A.
Seventh Gallery Fundraiser / SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Memory and Paint / Boom Gallery, Geelong
Salon Gallery Warming / Gallery Salon, Melbourne
2017 The Macfarlane Fund / Stockroom Space, Kyneton
2016 Boom Christmas Show / Boom Gallery, Geelong
RMIT Honours Graduate Exhibition / RMIT University, Melbourne
Hornsby Art Prize 2016 / Wallorobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby
Current / Boom Gallery, Geelong
Emerging Artist Award 2016 / fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
Green / Boom Gallery, Geelong
Summer Projects IV / Boom Gallery, Geelong
2015 End of Year Prize Show / 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
Graduate Exhibition / RMIT University, Melbourne
Light and Shade / GreySpace: RMIT, Melbourne
2014 Foreingers / Kuub 99, Utrecht
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / PROJECTS
2019 the churchie national emerging art prize - finalist, the churchie, Brisbane
Artist residency, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (U.S.A.)
Contemporary Art Awards - highly commended
2018 Protégé program / Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2017 Artist Residency, The Macfarlane Fund, Kyneton VIC
Emerging Writers Program, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Hornsby Art Prize - finalist, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby
Emerging Artist Award - finalist, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2015 End of Year Prize show - winner student section, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
TEXTS / PUBLICATIONS
2019 Di Erlichman, "Louise Tate: A Fiction of Others," Contemporary Art Awards
2018 Sophie Morrow, "Girl from Chios Goes Soul Searching," Exhibition Essay for History is a variable narrative, SEVENTH Gallery
2017 Louise Tate, "You're a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother, but you have very lovely legs and you’re a very nice tiny person," SEVENTH Emerging Writers Program
2016 Voiceworks issue 103: Bang