Photo: Lucy Foster
Claudia Pharès is French-Canadian of Vietnamese-Egyptian descent born in Montreal and based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her art practice uses photography, sculpture, installation, performance and video. It is framed around autobiographical events that have challenged her sense of control. Becoming a mother is such an event. While using matricentric feminism, she seeks to expand her roles and responsibilities as an artist/mother and to contribute to the current narrative surrounding motherhood.
CV Lives and works in Melbourne/Naarm.
Education 2019 Masters of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University 2017 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University 2004 Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada 1997 Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Applied Zoology), McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions, Performances
2022 Ilford CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2021 Shift Work, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton 2021 Invisible Labour, Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library, Melbourne 2021 Make a Fuss curated by Kate Robinson, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne 2020 How Was Your Experience With Feminism Is Self-Isolation? Edinburgh Gardens, Melbourne 2020 Sharing is Caring, Virtual Dinner hosted by Bus Projects, Melbourne 2019 Holy, Honest Confluences curated by Rebekah Pryor, ACU Melbourne Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2019 Lean, City of Yarra Exhibition Program, Richmond City Library, Melbourne 2019 Feminist Art Collective Group Show, Gibraltar Artscape, Toronto, Canada 2019 Where it’s at - Second Year MFA Student Exhibition- VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne University, Southbank, Melbourne 2018 Incinerator Art Award for Social Change - (Shortlisted)- Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne 2018 There is a pain – so utter, curated by current Gertrude Studio Artist Beth Caird at Gertrude Glasshouse, Collingwood 2017 Uh, or so on. (Honours Student Show), VCA Artspace, Melbourne 2016 This Place, That Place, No Place - curated by Irina Asriian, Neon Parlour, Thornbury, Melbourne. 2016 Good Grief!, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne 2016 Artists Residency in Parenthood curated by Lenine Bourke, 107 Projects, Redfern, New South Wales 2015 Family Fantasy, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2015 f generation: feminism, art, progression, George Paton Gallery, Union Building, Melbourne University 2014 Proud: VCA run exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 2012 The Grid Show, curated by Sandra Bridie & Craig Burgess, George Paton Gallery Union Building, Melbourne University 2012 It’s conceivable!, George Paton Gallery, Union Building, Melbourne University 2012 New Bodies, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne 2010 Inside Is Out, Outside Is In, Colour Factory, Melbourne 2010 Connections: Nothing Exists In Isolation, Grant Street Theater Foyer, VCA, Melbourne 2010 Embodiment: Fashion, Image, & Art , Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Awards
2022 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize (Shortlisted), Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville 2021 Incinerator Art Award For Social Change (Shortlisted) - Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne. 2020 Recipient of City of Yarra Arts Grant 2020 Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Research Award 2019 (Shortlisted) 2020 Footscray Art Prize - Tertiary Category (Shortlisted), Victoria University, MetroWest, Footscray, Melbourne 2019 Recipient of City of Yarra Arts Grant 2018 Incinerator Art Award - Art for Social Change (shortlisted), Incinerator Art Gallery, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne 2016 Substation Contemporary Art Prize 2016 -(shortlisted) Substation, Melbourne 2016 Majilis Traveling Scholarship Prize (shortlisted), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne.
Selected Residencies
2021- Artist in Residence for the Womens Art Register in collaboration with And Also Presents, Siteworks Residency Program, Brunswick 2019 Feminist Art Conference Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Canada. 2017 Doing Feminism/Sharing the World Residency Program, Norma Redpath House, Melbourne, Australia