Richard Bell

Richard Bell was born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland, Australia, and is a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities. Based in Brisbane, Bell has held numerous solo exhibitions since 1990. He is represented in major collections in Australia and New Zealand and is internationally recognized through numerous exhibitions, including the significant European touring exhibition Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, 1993; Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, 2007; the 9th and 16th Sydney Biennales, 1992 and 2008; Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Unfamiliar Territory, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 1991. His work was the subject of the survey exhibition Positivity, presented by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, in 2006. He won the National Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2003. A past member of the Campfire group, Bell is a founding member of proppaNOW, the Brisbane-based Aboriginal artists collective. He is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.

Bell’s residency at Location One is supported by the Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency (QIAMEA).

International Residents

Adel Abidin

Adel Abidin was born in 1973 in Baghdad, Iraq, where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Helsinki, Finland in 2001 to pursue a MFA in new media, a degree he received in 2005. He is represented in major museum collections in Finland and is internationally recognized through numerous exhibitions, including the 2007 Venice Biennale; On the Margins (2009, Kemper Art Museum, St Louis); and the 2008 Cairo Biennale. He has held solo exhibitions throughout Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East, and, in 2010, Abidin’s work will be the subject of a major solo exhibition at Kiasma, Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art. For more information on Abidin’s work visit his website at http://www.adelabidin.com/

Adel’s residency at Location One is supported by FRAME, the Fund for Art Exchange.

Tomomi Adachi

Tomomi Adachi was born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1972 and graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo in 1994 with a degree in philosophy and aesthetics. He has created multiple sound installations inspired by Fluxus, played improvised music with voice, live electronics, self-made instruments (e.g. the “Tomomim”), and has composed works for his own group “Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus,” which is a punk-style choir. He has also organized experiment music concerts and inter-disciplinary performances in Japan and Germany, working collaboratively with artists such as Chris Mann, Trevor Wishart, Nicolas Collins, Jaap Blonk, Carl Stone, Akira Sakata, Erhart Hirt, Butch Morris, and Jon Rose. Recently, he is focusing his activities on solo performance (with voice, sensors, computer, self-made instruments), sound poetry (especially to the unknown Japanese sound poetry tradition), video installation and workshop style big ensemble with non-professional voice and instruments. To learn more about Adachi’s work, please visit his website at http://www.adachitomomi.com/

Adachi’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Alexandra Mota de Aguiar

Alexandra Aguiar was born in Funchal, Madeira (Portugal) in 1977. In 1996 she moved to Oporto city to attend theatre classes at Balleteatro Professional School. Two years later she travelled to New York where she remained for approximately one year, experiencing her first encounter with art. Shortly thereafter, she went to Lisbon to study sculpture at the Center for the Arts and Visual Communication (AR.CO), completing her degree in 2004. Since then, she has held solo exhibitions at several venues in Portugal, and has participated in international group exhibitions, most notably Anteciparte (2005, Parque Eduardo VII, Lisbon) and Drawing Attention (2008, Invaliden Gallery, Berlin). She currently lives and works in Berlin.

Aguiar’s residency at Location One is sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation.

Wojtek Doroszuk

Doroszuk was born in 1980 in Glogów, Poland and currently resides in Kraków where he received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. In addition to critically acclaimed solo exhibition Special Features at BWA Awangarda Gallery (2009, Wroclaw), and another at the Bunkier Sztuki (2007, Kraków), he has participated in innumerable group exhibitions throughout Europe since 2003, including, most recently, Double Movement: Migratory Aesthetics (2008, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway); Blankly, perfect summer (2008, vertexList, New York); Where the East Ends (2008, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany); Flowers of Our Lives (2008, CSW Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland); Ain’t No Sorry (2008, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland); The Memory of this Moment from the Distance of Years (2007, Schindler’s Factory, Kraków); At the Center of Attention (2006, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw).

Doroszuk’s residency at Location One is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Ministry of Culture, Poland, and the Polish Cultural Institute, New York.

Mattias Ericsson

Mattias Ericsson will join Location One as the first winner of the Hasselblad Foundation’s Victor Award, an honor that recognizes the best young Scandinavian artist working in photography. Ericsson was born in 1979 in Ängelholm, Sweden, and received his MFA in 2009 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Umea University. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout Sweden, including most recently, What is identity? (2009, Ha Noi Art Academy, Ha Noi), Ny nordisk fotografi / From Now On (2009, Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg), It’s about time (2009, Andersson Sandström, Stockholm), Baart, Bachelor utställning (2007, Konsthögskolan, Umeå), Tavlor på en utställning? (2006, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå), and Singalong your solosong (2005, Gallery Tapeten, Visby). Recent solo exhibitions include: 1532 Photographs (2009, Galleri 60, Umeå) and Kanske är allt grått ändå, Konstföreningen Aura (2009, Fotografi I Fokus, Lund). To learn more about Ericsson’s work, please visit his website at http://www.mattiasericsson.se

Ericsson’s residency at Location One is sponsored by the Hasselblad Foundation.

Lyra Abueg Garcellano

Lyra Abueg Garcellano was born in 1972 in Manila, Philippines, and graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (1994) and from the University of the Philippines with a BFA (2000). She has held numerous solo exhibitions and was an artist in residence for the Cemeti Art Foundation in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, which was made possible through the UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists in 2002. She has also participated in countless international group exhibitions, including Post-Tsunami Art, Emerging Artists from Southeast Asia (2009, Milan, Italy), Jakarta Biennale XIII (2009, Jakarta), Trauma Interrupted (2007, Cultural Center of the Philippines); Balancing Act (2006, Future Prospects, Quezon City); Flippin’ Out: From Manila to Williamsburgh (2005, Goliath Visual Space, NY); and the 2002 Gwangju Biennale. Garcellano is also an accomplished illustrator of children’s books and is the author of a comic strip in a national daily newspaper in the Philippines.

Garcellano’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Jesse Jones

Jesse Jones was born in 1978 in Dublin, Ireland, and is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design (BA, 2002), and the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design (MA, 2005). She has held solo exhibitions throughout the U.K.; and has participated in numerous international group exhibitions, such as I Have Doubts, Centre for Visual Introspection, Bucharest, Romania (2009); Ubersong, Plan 9, Bristol, UK (March 2009); Historians of the Present 2, Ghost of Buildings, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva (2009); Nought to Sixty, ICA, London (2008), with upcoming exhibitions including Red Thread (2009, TANAS, Berlin), and The 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009).

Jones’s residency at Location One is sponsored by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Irish American Cultural Institute.

Zhou Tao

Zhou Tao was born in 1976 in Changsha, China and now resides in Guangzhou, China. He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with an MFA degree in 2006. In addition to numerous solo exhibitions held internationally, Zhou has participated in many group shows, including the 7th Shanghai Biennale (2008); Guangzhou Station: Special Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Guangdong (2007); China Power Station Part II at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2007); 24 HR Art, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney
(2007); Platform China, Beijing
(2006); Accumulation-Canton Express Next Stop, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing (2006); Gambling, Para / Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2005); Archaeology of the Future: The 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing (2004); and FEI, FEI, FEI, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2004).

Zhou’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.