Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe
Both born 1980 in Sydney, Australia
Live and work in various locations...

SOLO PROJECTS

2010 Colony Collapse
Firstdraft, Sydney
Make-do Garden City
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2008 Notes on the Art and Manner of (Dis)arranging One's Books
LiveWorks
CarriageWorks Arts Centre, Sydney
The Hanging Gardens & Other Tales
Underbelly 08 Public Arts Lab + Festival
CarriageWorks Arts Centre, Sydney
En Plein Air
2008 Next Wave Festival
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
2007 Open Office for an Editorial Committee
This is Not Art / National Young Writers' Festival
Civic Park, Newcastle
They talk of ‘disphorrea’
Shifting Ground
Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Alice Springs

   



 
 
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 4A Members' Exhibition 2009
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Underground to Aboveground – Part II
NG Art, Sydney
Breathing Space
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney
The Freedman Foundation Awards Exhibition 2009 COFASpace, Sydney
FraserStudios Project
FraserStudios, Sydney
2008 11th Annual Members' Exhibition
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Art Day is Today (Gang Festival)
Peace Park / Bill + George, Sydney
2007 Art in the Park: Cross-pollinations
Maundrell Park, Sydney
 



 
 
 

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

2010 Firstdraft Emerging Artist Studio Residency
JUMP mentorship with Fiona Hall
2009 Australia Council for the Arts – New Work Grant
Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists
NAVA Marketing Grant for NSW Artists
Artists-in-Residence, The Bundanon Trust
Artists-in-Residence, The Lock-up, Newcastle
FraserStudio Residency, Sydney
2008 SOYA Visual Arts Award – Shortlisted
Myer Foundation / Sidney Myer Fund Small Project Grant
Arts NSW Visual Arts and Crafts Project Grant
2007 Next Wave Kickstart



 
 
 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2007 Art in the Park: Cross-pollinations
Maundrell Park, Sydney
GOLD
Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Griffith
2005 Changex 05
St. Margaret’s Urban Village, Sydney (as part of Sydney Esquisse Art + Design festival)
2004 Changex 04
Medium Rare Gallery, Sydney



 
 
 

PRESS

2010 Fuller, R. 'Colony Collapse', Concrete Playground, 18 July 2010
  Fokkema, L., ‘Make-do Garden City: Garden Party!’, Throw Shapes, 29 April 2010
2008 McKenny, L. 'Potted slant on urban jungles', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 July 2008
  Gleave, M. 'En Plein Air', in Drop down: NSW artists at the 2008 Next Wave Festival, Next Wave Festival, 2008, Melbourne
2007 Hinchy, M. ‘National Young Writers’ Festival: Fresh air, business cards & the odd hicky’, The Program, 21 October 2007
  Boon, C.’ Living Art Based in the Garden’, Centralian Advocate, 11 July 2007
2003 Artist profile in Stu no. 6
'Fake Ads' Monument no. 44