Louise Tate

Solo exhibitions

2021
— TBA, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (forthcoming, online only)
—Flowerings, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

2020
—Looking at trees, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (online)
—Getting warmer, Boom Gallery, Geelong
—In the midst of disappearing, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane (online)

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

2021
— TBA, Boom Gallery, Geelong (forthcoming)
—Every Artist Ever, Stockroom Kyneton, Kyneton VIC (forthcoming)

2020
—Looking Forward While Looking Back: A Self in Construction curated by Elisa Gutiérres Eriksen, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY, USA (online)
—Spring Group Exhibition, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (online)

2019
—Summer 2019  (online), Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
—The churchie national emerging art prize curated by Naomi Blacklock, the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
—Here: A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They've Been curated by Vanessa Kowalski, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY, USA
—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 VIC

2016
—Boom Christmas Show, Boom Gallery, Geelong
—RMIT Honours Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne
—Hornsby Art Prize, Wallorobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby NSW
—Current, Boom Gallery, Geelong
—Emerging Artist Award, 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, The Netherlands

Awards / Grants

2021
—NAVA Artists' Benevolent Fund

2020
—Finalist, The Hopper Prize

2019
—Semi-finalist, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney
—Finalist, the churchie national emerging art prize, the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
—Semi-finalist, The Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whitely Studio, Sydney
—Highly Commended, Contemporary Art Awards, online exhibition

2017
—Emerging Writers Program, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
—The Macfarlane Fund Graduate Residency Award, Kyneton, VIC

2016
—Finalist, Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby NSW
—Finalist, Emerging Artist Award, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne

2015
—Winner: Student Section, End of Year Prize show, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne

2014
—John Storey Junior Memorial Scholarship, RMIT University, Melbourne

Texts / Publications

2021
 —Sasha Gattermayr, 11 Affordable, Emerging Painters You Should Know!, The Design Files, 22 February

2020
—Mickey Egan, Review of 'Getting warmer', Boom Gallery, 5 July
—Dylan Foley, Q & A with Louise Tate, Boom Gallery, 20 June
—Simone Agius, comfort in creativity, simétrie, 13 April
—Hopper Prize: Spotlight on the Artists, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
—Hopper Prize Finalist Interview, The Hopper Prize, 26 March

2019
—Lois Hazel, Monday Muse: Louise Tate, Lois Hazel - Honest Women Series, 29 September
 —Gyun Hur & Louise Tate, Louise Tate's garden, fLoromancy online journal, 22 September
—Naomi Blacklock, "the churchie national emerging art prize 2019," catalogue essay, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
—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