b. 1992, lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art with 1st Class Honours / RMIT University
2014 Semester abroad / Utrecht School of the Arts, The Netherlands
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 TBA / Sophie Gannon Gallery (forthcoming)
2020 In the midst of disappearing / Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane (forthcoming online exhibition)
Getting warmer / Boom Gallery, Geelong (forthcoming)
TBA / Metro Gallery, Melbourne (forthcoming two person exhibition)
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 Summer 2019 (online show), 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, 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 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
RESIDENCIES
2019 Artist Residency, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY, U.S.A.
2017 Artist Residency, The Macfarlane Fund, Kyneton VIC
AWARDS / PROJECTS
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
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
TEXTS / PUBLICATIONS
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
Elle Murrell, Influential Australian Women Star In National Portrait Prize Shortlist, The Design Files, 13 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