Kenzee Patterson is an artist currently living and working in Sydney, Australia. He works in an interdisciplinary manner, often incorporating sculpture, photography, video, performance, installation, painting and drawing in his art practice.

 

In 2007, Kenzee, together with Samuel Villalobos, started Locksmith Project Space. Kenzee continues as co-director of the space, which recently published the third issue of its journal Locksmith Project.

 

He has exhibited extensively in Sydney’s artist-run galleries, as well as regional galleries. He has also had work shown in various galleries and festivals in Melbourne, Japan, Iceland, Paris, and Berlin.

In the first half of 2006, Kenzee undertook an International Exchange at L’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, in Paris, and April in 2007 he participated in a one-month residency in Berlin as part of a program called Transit Lounge, for which he received a RUN_WAY Young and Emerging Professional Development grant from the Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts, as well as a Professional Development Travel Grant from the Australian Network for Art and Technology.

 

 

Click here to download a .pdf version of Kenzee's CV. 

 

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class 1), Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), University of Sydney.

Founding Director, Locksmith Project Space, Alexandria, Sydney

Founding Editor, Locksmith Project, serial published by Locksmith Project Space

Curator, L’Ovest, firstdraft, Surry Hills, Sydney

2010   

Prospect Hill, Blacktown Arts Centre
Old Toll Plaza, MOP, Chippendale, Sydney
Awful Awesome, Chalk Horse, Surry Hills, Sydney (forthcoming)

o.n.o, firstdraft, Surry Hills, Sydney

Keys Cut, Locksmith Project Space, Alexandria, Sydney (with Samuel Villalobos)

Focus, Chalk Horse, Surry Hills, Sydney

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Finalists Exhibition, Artspace, Wolloomoolloo, Sydney (forthcoming)

Group Show, Darren Knight Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney (forthcoming)

Robert Kinmont, Kenzee Patterson, Charlie Sofo, Ronnie van Hout, Darren Knight Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney

No Right Turn, Penrith Regional Gallery

Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship Exhibition, SCA, Sydney

Bent Western, Blacktown Arts Centre

Underscore, Juno Gallery, Berlin

The IRIS Award, Perth Centre for Photography

Antipodes, Point Éphémère, Paris

700IS Reindeerland Experimental film and video festival, Egilsstadir, Iceland

Work in Progress, Blacktown Arts Centre

Overt Compensation: Reloaded, The Depot Gallery, Sydney

2005   

Design Festa, Tokyo

What The World Needs Now IV, Phatspace Gallery, Sydney

Meat Meet, The Butcher Shop Gallery, Sydney

Satellite of Love: I Like to Watch Things on TV, Phatspace Gallery, Sydney, and Bus     Gallery, Melbourne

2004   

Fatigue Performance Evenings, Knot Gallery, Sydney

Utility: Function?, SCA Gallery, Sydney

L’Ovest, firstdraft, Surry Hills, Sydney

2003   

Play it Again Sam, Phatspace Gallery, Sydney
De-Coding (Sub) Cultures, Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown

Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship,

SCA, University of Sydney

Marketing Grant for NSW Artists,

National Association for the Visual Arts

RUN_WAY Young and Emerging Professional Development Initiative,

Australia Council for the Arts Inter-Arts Office

Professional Development Travel Grant,

Australian Network for Art and Technology

Marketing Grant for NSW Artists,

National Association for the Visual Arts

Short-listed for the IRIS Award, Perth Centre for Photography

Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship,

SCA, University of Sydney

The Dyason Bequest, The Art Gallery of New South Wales

2010
Visual Arts Studio Residency Program, Blacktown Arts Centre

Transit Lounge Residency, Josetti Höfe, Berlin

International Exchange Program, L’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris

Bibliography
2009   

Sturrock, Will, ‘Kenzee’s World’, Das SUPERPAPER, i. 8, 2009, pp. 5-10.

Locksmith Project, i. 1, June 2009, pp. 56-58.

2008   

Routledge, Elise, ‘Still running: Sydney ARIs’, un.magazine, i. 2.2, November 2008, pp. 28-29.

Fraser, Marita, ‘Spatial Interventions or how I learned to stop worrying and just love the space’, runway, i. 12, Summer 2008-09, pp. 19-21.            

Judd, Craig, ‘Bent Western, Sydney’, Art Monthly Australia, i. 211, July 2008, pp. 35-38.

2007   

Schulte-Fischedick, Valeria, ‘Utopia lounge’, Art & Australia, v. 45, n. 1 Spring 2007, pp. 46-47.

Duke, Sydney: Hunt & Welch, i. 2, July 2007, pp. 60-61.

2006   

Runway, Surry Hills: The Invisible Inc., i. 7, May 2006, pp. 24-25.

Antipodes, exhibition catalogue, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, 2006, unpaginated.

2005   

Miles, Melissa, ‘Reviews’, eyeline, n. 58 Spring 2005, p. 45.

Runway, Surry Hills: The Invisible Inc., i. 6, October 2005, pp. 60-65.

Millner, Jacqueline, ‘Satellite of Love (I like to watch things on tv)’, in Satellite of Love exhibition catalogue, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, June

2005, unpaginated.

2004   

Dean, Christopher, ‘The Revenge of the West’, essay accompanying the exhibition L’Ovest, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, June 2004.
2003   

De-Coding (Sub) Cultures: An Exploration of New Media Arts in Western Sydney, exhibition catalogue, Blacktown Arts Centre 2003, pp. 20-21.

Collections
Artbank, Australia
Private collections