1956
Born in Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne
1992-3
Master's Degree through Monash University, School of Art and Design, Melbourne
1975-7
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1974
1st year Computer Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Solo Exhibitions
2004
Line Culture, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2003
Carbon Groups, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Carbon Groups II, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2002
Jon Cattapan, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Figure : Ground Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2001
The Jon and Eugene Show (with Eugene Carchesio), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
vista : crowd, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Jon Cattapan: The City Submerged, tours to Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Tamworth City
Gallery, Manning Regional Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery
Some Seen, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1999
In the Present, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Jon Cattapan: The City Submerged, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong (tours to Drill
Hall Gallery, Canberra, Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery, Surfer's Paradise) Seven
Deadly Systems (paintings), Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Selected Drawings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997
Fluid, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Fire and Life - collaboration with Surendran Nair, Monash University Gallery
Jon Cattapan - Drawings, Hong Ik University Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1996
Alight, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Collection in Context: Jon Cattapan, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
Stem, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Fire and Life, (with Surendran Nair), M.S. University of Baroda and Gallery Chemould,
Bombay, India
1994
Pillars of Salt, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
The Open Line pt. 2, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Room 32, Regent's Court Hotel, Sydney
1993
Journal Entries, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
The City Submerged, Monash Studios, Melbourne
The open line, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1992
365 Days, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
365 Days, Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Paintings, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1991
Reworking the Notes-Photographs, Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Recent Works, Photospace Gallery, Canberra School of Art, A.N.U., Canberra
Reworking the Notes- Photographs, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings, Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1990
Paintings and Drawings, Nathalie Karg, New York, U.S.A.
1989
Local Sums - Paintings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings 1986-1989, D.C. Art, Sydney
Working The Notes - Drawings, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
Working The Notes (Part 2) - Drawings, Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987
Household Names Words On Lips - Paintings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1986
Paintings And Works On Paper, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Paintings And Works On Paper, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1985
Recent Paintings And Drawings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1984
Works On Paper, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
1983 Paintings, Constructions And Works On Paper, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
Otherworlds, Queensland Art Gallery
The Vizard Collection, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Loveletter to China, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, NSW
Transit Narratives, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane (and
then V.C.A, Melbourne and University of Tasmania, Hobart)
2002
Nocturne, Mornington Regional Gallery, Vic
Transit Narratives Le Venezie, Villa Letizia, Teviso, Italy
Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
Nick Cave: The Good Son, Mornington Regional gallery, Mornington, Victoria
The Best of 2002, S.H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney
2001
Landscape as Metaphor, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (touring), Qld
Imaging Identity and Place, Grafton Regional Gallery, N.S.W. (Touring N.S.W. and
Victoria 2001-2003)
Art on Paper, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2000
Terra Australis, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
National Works on Paper, Mornington Regional Gallery
SCEGGS Redlands Art Award Mosman Art Gallery, NSW
1999
Telling Tales Neue Galerie, Landesmuseum Janneum, Graz, Austria
1998
Decalogue - a decade of Australian printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul
Graphic, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Telling Tales, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Expanse, University of South Australia, Adelaide
1997
In Relief: Australian prints from the permanent collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Chandler Coventry Collection, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
The Urban Edge, Tours Regional Galleries in Queensland
The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
1996
The Power to Move - Aspects of Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane
The Constructed City, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Bathurst Art Award Exhibition, Bathurst regional Art Gallery, N.S.W..
Our Parents' Children (curated by Giacomina Pradolin) National Gallery of
Victoria-Access Galley, Melbourne
The Constructed City (Touring exhibition curated by Simeon Kronenberg, beginning at
University of Tasmania)
Flagging The Republic, Sherman Galleries, Sydney (Touring exhibition)
1994
Sulman Prize exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Reference Points III- The Immediate Past, Queensland Art Gallery
Construction in Process, First Draft Gallery, Sydney
Art Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1993
Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery
Real Time, Canberra Contemporary Artspace
Perspecta, New South Wales Art Gallery
Cloudbusters, Canberra School of Art Gallery
Art Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1992
Resident Alien, Australian Embassy, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Art Gallery of Western Australia,
Perth, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Drawings, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra curated by Julie Ewington
Domino I, University of Melbourne, Museum of Art, Melbourne curated by Merryn Gates
Medium Density, National Gallery of Australia
Group Exhibition, Nathalie Karg, New York, USA
Compact Art: A Clear Case, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1991
Works On Paper, Christopher Leonard Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Transitional Times, curated by Sheridan Palmer for Print Council of Australia
From The Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
Ellipses, curated by Natalie King, Verity St. Gallery, Melbourne
Sites, curated by Ann Kirker, Queensland Art Gallery
1990
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra and other state galleries
The City And Beyond, touring regional museums curated by Elizabeth Cross
Visiting Artist Exhibition, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH U.S.A.
Nomadic, Sullivan Hall, Columbus, OH U.S.A.
1989
The Intimate Object, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne curated by Jon Cattapan & Peter Ellis
Irony, Humour And Dissent, Manly Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, Monash University
Gallery, Melbourne curated by Alison Carroll
The ICI Collection, touring regional museums, curated by Robert Lindsay and William Wright
Intimate Drawing, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, curated by Arthur McIntyre
Imaging AIDS, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Linden, Melbourne curated by
Christopher McAuliffe & Stephanie Holt
re:creation/Re-creation: The Art Of Copying, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
curated by Merryn Gates
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and
state galleries
1988
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra and other state galleries
The Newcastle Invitation Art Purchase Exhibition, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
The New Generation 1983-1988, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The 9" x 5" Commemorative Exhibition, The Centre Gallery, Gold Coast
Recent Australian Etching, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Naked City, Adelaide Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, curated by Margot Osborne
1987
Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, touring Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra and other state galleries
Backlash - The Australian Drawing Revival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
curated by Ted Gott
Young Australians, The Budget Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Spring Drawing Festival, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery,
Mornington, Vic
1986
Artbank Works On Paper, Arts Council 1 Gallery, Canberra
Blake Prize Exhibition, Sydney o A First Look, Phillip Morris Collection, Australian
National Gallery, Canberra
Directors Choice, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne
1985
Figure, Fantasy, Fetish, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne curated by Peter Clarke
Images Codes: Art About Fashion, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
curated by Robert Pearce
Under The Hand Behind The Eye, Deakin University, Geelong
1984
City of Caulfield Acquisitive Art Award, Caulfield Arts Centre, Melbourne
Melbourne Printmakers, Print Council of Australia Exhibition, Aichi, Japan Print Council of
Australia Exhibition, University of Oregon, U.S.A.
Three Melbourne Artists, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Henry Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
1982
Forcing Wisdom, Art/Empire/Industry Gallery, Sydney (with Peter Ellis)
Emerging Painters, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
curated by William Ferguson
Australian Printmakers, touring exhibition - University of Bayreuth, Bavaria, Hessisches
Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany, Oxford University, England, National Gallery,
Bangkok, Thailand, curated by Jenny Zimmer
1981
Our Natural Dispositions - prints, Drummond Street Gallery, Melbourne
Bon A Tirer - prints, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Animals And Animalism in Australian Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Faculty Gallery, Melbourne curated by Jenny Zimmer
1980
What Happened To Me? Drummond Street Gallery (with Peter Ellis), Melbourne
1978
Crisis Drawings, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Faculty Gallery (with Peter
Ellis), Melbourne

Grants/Awards
1999
A.R.C. Grant to research 'Representations of the City'.
1998
Australia Council V.A.C.F. New Works grant.
1993-4
Australia Council Creative Arts Fellowship (for 1993-4)

Residencies
1991
Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
1989 Awarded Greene Street Studio Residency, New York Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board
1982
Artist in Residence Fintona Girl's School Melbourne (Artists in Schools Program)
1981
Artist in Residence Ivanhoe Girl's Grammar, Melbourne (Artists in Schools Program)

Selected Bibliography
Art Asia Hong Kong 1993, International Fine Art Expositions: Stuart, Florida, 1993, ill. (catalogue)
Art Asia Hong Kong International Fine Art and Antiques Fair. International
Fine Art Expositions: Stuart, Florida, 1994, ill. (catalogue)
Baker, James. From the landscape: a review of the influence of landscape in contemporary art.
Museum of Contemporary Art: Brisbane, 1991, ill. (catalogue)
Bennett, Jill and Dunn, Jackie. Telling tales. University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts:
Paddington, Sydney, 1998, ill. (catalogue)
Bull, Gordon. Cloudbusters. Canberra School of Art: Canberra, 1993, ill.
Carroll, Alison. Irony, humour & dissent: recent Australian drawings I. Manly Art Gallery &
Museum: Manly, 1989, ill. (catalogue)
Cattapan, Jon and Ellis, Peter. The Intimate object. 200 Gertrude Street Gallery: Fitzroy, 1989.
(catalogue) ill?
Channon, Eileen. Contemporary Australian painting. Craftsman House: Seaforth, N.S.W, 1990,ill.
Chapman, Christopher. The open line: works on paper. Bellas Gallery: Brisbane, 1993.
(catalogue)
Han, Un-Sung et al. (ed.) Thirty years of Korean contemporary prints/A decade of contemporary
Australian printmaking. K.C.P.A.: Seoul, 1998, ill.
Drury, Nevill. Images 1: contemporary Australian painting. Craftsman House: Roseville East,
1994, ill
Drury, Nevill. Images 2: contemporary Australian painting. Craftsman House: Roseville East,
1998, ill
Drury, Nevill and Murray-Cree, Laura. Australian painting now. Craftsman House: Roseville East,
2000, ill
Ellis, Peter and Field, Michael. Works on paper by contemporary Australian artists. RMIT Gallery:
Melbourne, 1992, ill. (catalogue)
Ewington, Julie. Drawings '92. Canberra School of Art Gallery: Canberra,1992, ill.
Ewington, Julie and Nelson, Robert. Jon Cattapan: journal entries.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art: Melbourne, 1993, ill. (catalogue)
Fire and life. The Asialink Centre, The University of Mebourne: Carlton, 1996, ill. (catalogue)
Fire and life. The Asialink Centre, The University of Melbourne: Carlton, 1997, ill.(catalogue)
The First Asia-Pacific triennial of contemporary art, Brisbane, Australia, 1993. Queensland Art
Gallery: Brisbane, 1993, ill. (catalogue)
Fitzpatrick, Donald. Pillars of salt. Annandale Galleries: Sydney, 1994, ill (catalogue)
Flagging the republic. Sherman Galleries Goodhope and New England Regional
Art Museum: Sydney, 1996, ill. (catalogue)
Gates , Merryn. re: Creation/Re-creation: the art of copying, 19th & 20th centuries. Monash
University Gallery: Clayton, Vic., 1989, ill. (catalogue)
Gates, Merryn. Domino 1. Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne: Melbourne, 1992.
(catalogue) ill.
Germaine, Max. Artists and galleries of Australia. rev.& enl. 3rd ed., Craftsman House: Roseville,
N.S.W., 1990, ill.
Gott, Ted. Backlash: the Australian drawing revival 1976-1986. National Gallery of Victoria:
Melbourne, 1986, ill. (catalogue)
Green, Charles. Peripheral visions. Craftsman House: Roseville East, 1995, ill.
Hammond, Geoff and Ian Watts. The Galleries book: a guide to public galleries of Victoria.
Victorian Ministry of the Arts: Melbourne, 1992, ill.
Holt, Stephanie and Murray, Julia. Luna Park and the art of delirium. Museum of Modern Art,
Heide Park and Art Gallery: Heidelberg, ill. (catalogue)
ICI contemporary art collection. ICI: Melbourne, 1989, ill. (catalogue)
Jon Cattapan. Hong Ik University Art Gallery: Seoul, 1997, ill. (catalogue)
Kerr, Joan. Dictionary of Australian artists. Power Institute of Fine Arts: Sydney, 1984.
King, Natalie. Ellipses. 13 Verity Street Gallery: Melbourne, 1991. (catalogue)
King, Natalie and McAuliffe, Chris. Jon Cattapan: 365 days. Realities Gallery: Melbourne,
1992, ill. (catalogue)
King, Natalie. Fire and life: Jon Cattapan and Surendran Nair. Monash University Gallery:
Clayton, 1997, ill. (catalogue)
Kirker, Anne and Williamson, Clare. The power to move: aspects of Australian photography.
Queensland Art Gallery: Brisbane, 1995.
Kronenberg, Simeon. Constructed city. Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Art: Hobart??
1995, ill.
Lindsay, Robert. Selected works from the Michell endowment. National Gallery of Victoria:
Melbourne, 1981.
McAuliffe, Chris. Art and suburbia. Craftsman house: Roseville East, 1996, ill.
McDonald, Jan. Australian artists‚ index. Arts Libraries Society: Sydney, 1886.
McIntyre, Arthur. The Age of collage. Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries: Sydney, 1987, ill.
McIntyre, Arthur. Australian contemporary drawing. Boolarong: Brisbane, 1988, ill.
McIntyre, Arthur. Contemporary Australian collage and its origins. Craftsman House: Roseville,
N.S.W., 1990, ill.
May, Andrea. Collection in context: Jon Cattapan. Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery:
Mornington, 1996, ill. (catalogue)
Moet & Chandon touring exhibition 1987. Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation:
(Chatswood), 1987,
Moet & Chandon touring exhibition 1988 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation:
(Chatswood), 1988, ill. (catalogue)
Moet & Chandon touring exhibition 1989 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation:
(Chatswood), 1989, ill. (catalogue)
Moet & Chandon touring exhibition 1990 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation:
(Chatswood), 1990, ill. (catalogue)
Moet & Chandon touring exhibition 1992 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation:
(Chatswood), 1992, ill. (catalogue)
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre: a history of the collection and a catalogue of selected works to
mark the opening of the new centre. Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre: Mornington, 1990, ill.
(catalogue)
Murray Cree, Laura and Drury, Nevill. Australian painting. Craftsman House: Roseville East,
1999, ill.
A New generation 1983-1988: the Philip Morris Arts Grant purchases. Australian National Gallery:
Canberra, 1988. (catalogue)
9x5xmail The Centre Gallery: Gold Coast, 1988.
The 1995 Bathurst Art Purchase. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery: Bathurst, 1995. (catalogue)
North, Ian. Expanse: aboriginalities, spatialities and the politics of ecstasy. University of South
Australia Art Museum: Adelaide, 1998, ill. (catalogue)
Osbourne, Margot. The Naked city: stories of the late 80’s. Contemporary Art Centre of South
Australia: Adelaide, 1988, ill. (catalogue)
Palmer, Sheridan. Transitional times. Print Council of Australia: Melbourne,1991. (catalogue)
Pearce, Robert. Image codes. Art about fashion! Fashion Design Council of Australia and the
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne,1985?, ill. (catalogue)
Platform. Platform Artists Group Inc. 1995, ill. (catalogue)
Pradolin, Giacomina. Our parents' children. 1995. ill. (catalogue)
20th century Australian and New Zealand painting. Martin Browne Fine Art: Sydney: 1991, ill.
(catalogue)
RMIT 89 optimum: a selection of works by distinguished Fine Art and Photography graduates of
RMIT. RMIT: Melbourne, 1989, ill.
Runnegar, Brenda. Real time: artists using digital technology. Canberra Contemporary Art Space:
Canberra, 1993, ill.
Scott, Sally. Under the hand behind the eye. Deakin University Gallery: Geelong, 1985.
(catalogue)
Sixth Australian contemporary art fair. Australian Commercial Galleries Association: Strawberry
Hills, NSW, 1998, ill.
Smith Jason, In Relief: Australian Prints from the permanent collection National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne, 1997
Smith, Bernard and Terry Smith. Australian painting, 1788-1990. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press:
Melbourne, 1991.
Stanhope, Zara. Graphic. Monash University Art Gallery: Clayton, 1998, ill. (catalogue)
10th birthday exhibition. Rex Irwin Gallery: Sydney, 1986, ill. (catalogue)
Troy, Patrick. ed. Australian cities: issues, strategies and policies for urban Australia in the
1990's. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1995, ill.
Urban edge (catalogue)
Verbeek, Ann. Directory 1982, Australian artists producing prints. Print Council of Australia:
Melbourne, 1988, ill.
Williams, Donald. In our own image: the story of Australian art. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill: Sydney,
1995.
Williams, Donald and Simpson, Colin. Art now: contemporary art post - 1970. McGraw-Hill:
Sydney, 1996.
Wood, Lillian. Directory of Australian printmakers. Print Council of Australia: Melbourne, 1982, ill.
Young Australians: the best of young Australia. Powell Street Gallery: Melbourne, 1987, ill.
(catalogue)
Zimmer, Jenny. Animals and animism in Australian art and other essays. RMIT: Melbourne, 1981.
(catalogue)
Zimmer, Jenny. Twelve Melbourne printmakers and young Melbourne printmakers. The Gallery,
RMIT: Melbourne, 1982. (catalogue)
Zimmer, Jenny. Whatever happened to me? Drummond Street Gallery: Carlton, 1980.
(catalogue)

Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Artbank
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art,
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Wollongong City Art Gallery, N.S.W
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Vic
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, N.S.W.
Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Vic
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery , N.S.W
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Vic
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Vic
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Southport, Qld
City of Glen Eira, Melbourne
City of Port Phillip, Melbourne
Parliament House, Canberra
Australian National University, Institute of the Arts, Canberra
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Curtin University Collection, Perth
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne
Bendigo Regional Art Gallery. Vic
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
Vizard Collection, Melbourne
James Baker Collection, Brisbane
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Print Council of Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Northern Territory University, N.T
Wollongong City Art Gallery, N.S.W
University College of Southern Queensland, Qld
Wesley College, Victoria
Tamworth City Art Gallery, N.S.W
Shire of Diamond Valley, Victoria
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
St. Leonard's College, Victoria
Footscray College of T.A.F.E., Victoria
Deakin University, Victoria.
Represented by Kaliman Gallery, Sydney