EDUCATION
2009 First Classs Honours, Victorian College of the Arts.
Australia
2005-2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the
Arts. Australia
2003-2005 Diploma of Visual Arts, Victoria University.
Australia
AWARDS, GRANTS and RESIDENCIES
2012 NARS Foundation, New York Residency
Victoria
University Summer Residency, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Finalist, Toyota Spirit Travel Award
2010 Honourable Mention Kala Art Institute Fellowship
Program
Kala Art
Institute, San Francisco Residency
Copyright Agency
Limited Grant
Finalist,
Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize
2009 Finalist, The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition
2008 Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
Residency
Art Channel,
Beijing Residency
Ian Potter
Cultural Trust Grant
2007 Shelmerdine Art Award
Alliance Francaise
Award
Finalist, Wallara
Travelling Scholarship
2006 Fringe Festival Visual Arts Award
Melbourne University Student Union Womyns Grant
Melbourne
University Student Union Arts Grant
VCA Student Union
Arts Grant
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
SOLO
2012 Santina Amato, MARS Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
Carousel Ballet,
Platform, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Horses Shed Their Tails Once A Year In The Fall,
Melbourne, Australia
2010 Untitled (Carousel), Kala Art Institute, San
Francisco, U.S.A
2009 I Want To Swing On An Invisible Swing, Center
for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne,
Australia
2008 Farina (Flour Not Flower), Artworkers Alliance,
Brisbane, Australia
GROUP
2012 Not In Love, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Google Me This, The Library Artspace, Melbourne,
Australia
2010 Fresh Works, Kala Art Institute, San Francisco,
U.S.A
Toyota
Community Spirit Gallery Emerging Artist, Melbourne, Australia
Williamstown
Festival Contemporary Art Prize, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Constellations, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
VCA Graduation
Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne,
Australia
The Churchie
National Emerging Art Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia
2008 Winterlights, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
New Romance,
Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Playheads,
Alliance Francaise de Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Debut IV,
Blindside, Melbourne, Australia
What is
(Australia Like)?, FABS, Warsaw, Poland. Annual Video Festival,
Directors Lounge,
Berlin, Germany. Sub Urban Lounge Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007 VCA Graduation Exhibition, Victorian College of
the Arts, Melbourne,
Australia
Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
Wallara
Travelling Scholarship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
Somewhere to
Run...,Loop Bar, Melbourne, Australia
Do It, Hans
Ulrich, Orbist International Project, Melbourne, Australia
Self Portrait
of My Mother, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Parked!!! Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne,
Australia
EVENTS
2009 dot, dot, dot. Hell Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
2008 Open Studio, Platform China Contemporary Art
Institute, Beijing, China
Intrude 366,
Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2006 Live In The Nowhere, Mia Salsjo, Margaret
Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
Herstory Of The
Present, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Unconditional Regard, Gertrude Contemporary Art
Space, Melbourne, Australia
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Horses Shed their Tails Once A Year In The Fall, Catalogue
Essay, Picture Skew. 2010
Playheads, Dead Hare Melbourne Art Review, Ace Wagstaff.
2008 http://deadhareartreview.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-now-playheads-alliance-fracaise.html
Debut IV, Catalogue Essay, Marion Piper. 2008
Do It, Bridge Road Projects, Jared Davis. 2007
