Curriculum Vitae

Marcus Williams - MFA  RMIT Melbourne, BFA Auckland, Cert Prof Photography, Cert Adult Education. 
Date of Birth 		12 November 1962
Place of Birth  		New Zealand
Current Employment	Lecturer in Art and Design, Unitec.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2005	‘The Cupboard’
	Artists Video
Finalist in Waikato Contemporary Art Award
Waikato Art and History Museum
	Hamilton
	New Zealand
 
‘Response and Responselessness’
	Artists Book
Finalist in Waikato Contemporary Art Award
Waikato Art and History Museum
	Hamilton
	New Zealand
 
 ‘The Box’
	Digital print in curated group show ‘Whats in the Picture’
Mt Marua Gallery
	Upper Hutt
	New Zealand
 
‘Wonderland’
	Collage in curated group show ‘BookMark’
Ramp Gallery
	Hamilton
	New Zealand
 
‘Soon’
Sound installation in curated group show ‘Trolley’
	Spark Symposium
Hamilton
	New Zealand
 	
‘John Gregory’
	Installation
Te Tuhi Gallery 
	Auckland
	New Zealand

 ‘From The Corner Of My Eye See You’
	Video Installation
Snowwhite Gallery 
	Auckland
	New Zealand

 ‘Response and Responselessness’
	Artist book in curated show ‘Duets’
Room 103 Gallery
	Auckland
	New Zealand
 
‘Burn’
	Video installation and performance
Enjoy Gallery 
	Wellington
	New Zealand

‘Avant Garde or Death’ – Pinkpunk/Avangard
	Juried International survey exhibition curated by Marcus Williams
	Gus Fisher Gallery
	Auckland
	New Zealand

‘The Bomb’ – Avangard
Exbhition curated by Marcus Williams
Enjoy Gallery
Wellington

‘The Nest’ – selected short film screening
	Auckland International Arts Festival AK05
	Aotea Square
	Auckland
	New Zealand

‘The Encounter’ 
Digital print
	Finalist - Vodafone Digital Arts Award
	Disruptiv Gallery
	Auckland
	New Zealand

2004	‘Somewhere on Earth, Other’
	National Drawing Exhibition group show
	Artspace, Auckland and Physics Room, Christchurch
	New Zealand
	
‘The Nest’
	video screening in ‘One Take’ Film Festival  
	Zagreb
	Croatia
	
‘The Couple’
	video screening in International Experimental Festival  ‘Exit – Edit’
	University of Auckland
	New Zealand
	
‘The Dinner Party’
	video in group show ‘The Toys’
	Novosibirsk
	Russia

‘Home Movies’ 
videos for public screening
Postsovkhoz IV (International Art Festival)
Mooste
Estonia
 	
‘Reunion’ 
Audio and photographic installation
YGallery 
University of Tartu
Estonia
 	
‘Orlo’
video screening
Stanzione di Topolo (International Art Festival)
Italy
2003	‘Mr Silver’
‘Inn House’ group show 
Lopdell House Gallery
Auckland

‘Intersculpt 2003’
Curator of international 3D digital art exhibition
Snowwhite Gallery
Auckland
 
‘Love is a Battle Field’
	collaboration with Susan Jowsey
	Intersculpt group show
	Snowwhite Gallery
	Auckland

Home Alone IV
	installation with sound and video
	Te Marua Gallery
	Upper Hutt
	
	‘Every bodies Somebodies Fool’
collaboration with Susan Jowsey
Intersculpt 2003 group show
	Righton Gallery
	Manchester
	United Kingdom

‘Dead Ball’
	cibachrome print
	finalist James Wallace Art Awards
	Auckland Museum

‘A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll’
	collaborative diptych with Susan Jowsey
	artwalk gallery
amsterdam 
the netherlands

‘Do you feel the way we feel’
	Sound installation
	Room 103 Gallery
	Auckland

‘Case study; vestibule for Grand papa’s muse’
	‘Infiltrations’ group show
Whanganui Museum
Wanganui

‘Its Only Make Believe’	
	Graphite (part of Siigraph)
	Span Gallery
	Melbourne

2002	‘Don’t Leave Me this Way’
Collaborative installation with Susan Jowsey
	Blue Oyster Gallery
	Dunedin

‘I may never pass this Way Again’
3d computer print with Susan Jowsey
Finalist Annual Contemporary Art Review
Sarjeant Gallery,
Wanganui

‘Breaking in a Brand New Heart”
3d computer print with Susan Jowsey
Finalist Waikato Contemporary Art Exhibition
Waikato Art and History Museum

 ‘B World Drama’
	Installation
	Stanzione di Topolo (International Art Festival)
	Italy

 ‘Urban Lymphatic’
	Installation
	Enjoy Gallery
	Wellington

2001	‘Intersculpt’ An International exhibition of Digital Art
Collaborative work with Susan Jowsey exhibited in Righton Gallery, Manchester, Artcore @ Archetype Gallery, Dayton, Ohio, USA, Marshall Gallery, Cincinnati, USA
Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui and Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.

 ‘Little Eagle 2’
	Group show
	Te Wa Gallery
	Wanganui

‘Tongues of Water’
Sound, sculpture and internet installation with Susan Jowsey
Sarjeant Gallery
Wanganui

'Home’
	Sound and photographic installation
	Point Zero Gallery
	Wanganui

 ‘Little Eagle’
	Group show
	Te Wa Gallery
	Wanganui

2000	'Low Impedance'
	Collaborative work with Eugene Hansen
	Finalist Waikato Contemporary Art Award	
'FilterCorp'
	Collaborative installation with Eugene Hansen
	George Fraser Gallery, Auckland

1999	'Filter'
	Collaborative installation with Eugene Hansen
	Physics Room
	Christchurch
	
	'Taonga Mauri - Objects of our Affection'
	Group Show - curated - Cushla Parekowhai
	Artstation, Auckland
	
1998	'A Picture Theory of Thinking'
	Photographic group show
	Soliloquy Gallery
	Auckland

	'The Imagination - Lesson 2'
	Group show
	Span Gallery
	Melbourne
	
	'Being here being there'
	Installation
	Lopdell House
	Auckland
	
	'Cast'
	Installation with Rezone group
	Greys Avenue car park
	Auckland City

The Imagination - Lesson 1'
	Group show
	Gallery 101
Melbourne

1997	 'Light Works'
	 Group show – curated by Atholl McCredie
	 Manawatu Art Gallery
	 Palmerston North 

	 'Long White Dream Cloud'
	  Collaborative installation with Eugene Hansen
	  George Fraser Gallery Auckland

	  'The Hi-Culturalist'
	  Collaborative sculpture with Eugene Hansen
	  Merit Award: Visa Gold Art Awards
	  Auckland City Gallery, Wellington City Gallery

	 'Decisive Moment'
	 'The Genuine Article' Group exhibition
	  Fisher Gallery Auckland	  

1996	'When Night Comes' 
	Collaborative installation and book with Susan Jowsey 
	Artspace Quay St Auckland

1995	'Present' Solo installation and book
	George Fraser Gallery and Albert Park Auckland
	
	'Margins'. Solo exhibition of photographs
	Escalante Gallery Ponsonby

1994	'Idlers, Indigents, Vagrants, Artists, Criminals, Children, Savages, Brutes, Religious 	Fanatics, Idiots and Madmen'. "Asylum" group (installation and publication) 
	Artspace Quay St  Auckland

	'You are Here'  
	Collaborative installation with Stephen Roucher 
	George Fraser Gallery Auckland

	'(Re)search'
	'Take'. Group exhibition of Photography
	George Fraser Gallery Auckland

	'Tribute to Linnaeus'
	'Boxed' Small works group exhibition
	ASA Gallery Auckland

	'Just Passing Through'
	Art on the Buses project - Elam School of Fine Arts
	in conjunction with the Yellow Bus Company Auckland

AWARDS
2004	‘The Encounter’ 
Digital print
	Finalist - Vodafone Digital Arts Award
	Disruptiv Gallery
	Auckland
	New Zealand

2003	‘Dead Ball’
	cibachrome print
	Finalist James Wallace Art Awards
	Auckland Museum

2002	‘Breaking in a Brand New Heart”
3d computer print with Susan Jowsey
Finalist Waikato Contemporary Art Exhibition
Waikato Art and History Museum

‘I may never Pass this Way Again”
3d computer print with Susan Jowsey
Finalist Annual Contemporary Art Review
Sarjeant Gallery,
Wanganui

1997	'The Hi-Culturalist'
	 Collaborative sculpture with Eugene Hansen
	 Merit Award: Visa Gold Art Awards
	 Auckland City Gallery, Wellington City Gallery

1995	Kodak Award for Photography, University of Auckland

1994	Photography Scholarship, University of Auckland 

Memberships	

2000	Unitec Research Ethics Committee, School of Design Research Committee

1999	Unitec Research Ethics Committee, School of Design Research Committee

1998	Voted member Board of Trustees Artspace Auckland,  School of Design Research Committee

GRANTS
2004	Creative New Zealand Grant for Professional Development

2003	Unitec Research Grant for photographic installation in curated exhibition

2002	Creative New Zealand Grant for Professional Development

2001	Creative New Zealand Grant for New Work

	Unitec Research Grant for publication ‘Filter

1996	Unitec Research Grant for Installation and publication
	'When Night Comes'

1995	Unitec Research Grant for "Asylum'' project

1994	QEII Commissioning grant for "Asylum" project

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2003	Bridie Lonie: ‘Space Invaders’ chapter in
	Blue Oyster Gallery Catalogue, Dunedin, NZ.

2001	Zoë Cromwell: ‘Tongues of Water’ review
	The Dominion, Wellington, NZ.

2000	Miriam Harris: ‘Linkages’ essay
	‘Filter’ Catalogue RIM Books

	Christina Barton: 1+1 (does not) = 2 essay
	‘Filter’ Catalogue RIM Books

	Robyn Stoney: 'Taonga Maori' review
	'Circa' Arts Magazine Ireland

1997	Miriam Harris: ‘Memory Incendiary’ essay
	‘When Night Comes’ Catalogue RIM Books.

	T J McNamara:’ Radical Expression Begs Question’ review
	Of ‘Decisive Moment’ in ‘The Genuine Article’ 
	NZ Herald July 17 1997

	Miriam Harris: 'Long White Dream Cloud' article
	Art in Asia Pacific Summer 1997

	Stella Brennan: 'Long White Dream Cloud' article
'George' Survey of shows at George Fraser
Elam School of Fine Arts 

1996	T.J McNamara: ‘’When Night Comes’ review
	New Zealand Herald, 14-11-1996.

	T.J McNamara: ‘’When Night Comes’ review
	New Zealand Herald, 8-12-1996.

	Miriam Harris: 'When Night Comes' review
	‘Monica’  Summer 1996

1995	Sunday Arts programme: short documentary piece on 'Present', a time
	based, site specific installation and publication. Albert Park, Auckland.
	Shot on location and in studio. Screened August 1995, T.V.3

1994	Allan Smith: 'Damaged Life, three artists in the wake of Carrington' article
	Art New Zealand Winter 1994 number 71

PAPERS
2005	‘Addiction and Motivation’ Artists talk at Ucol Wanganui, New Zealand.

2004	‘The Accidental Idea’ Paper at Teaching and Learning Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand.

	‘Isolation in the Arts, New Zealand’ Paper at Postsovkhoz4, International Arts Symposium, Mooste, Estonia.

2003	‘Urban Lymphatic’ Paper at Spark conference, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton.

2002	‘Subterranean Urban network’ Artists talk at Enjoy Gallery, Wellington

2001	‘Collaboration as Site” Illustrated talk at ‘The Forum’, Sarjeant Gallery

1998	'A Picture Theory of Thinking' Invited talk at photography forum at Soliloquy Gallery Auckland

	'The Decisive Moment' Invited talk at Elam School of Fine Arts

1997	'The Genuine Article'  Invited debate at Fisher Gallery Auckland

1996	'An Old Subjectivity'  - Unitec research paper

	'Accountable to Whom?' with Ian Jervis - Eduvision Conference - Dunedin

1995	'Recent Installation' - Invited illustrated talk A.S.A School of Fine Arts

1995	'Asylum- Close to Home' - Research presentations Unitec.

PUBLICATIONS

2004	‘Infiltrations’
	Curated exhibition catalogue 
	With essays by Susan Jowsey and Jon Bywater

2000	'FilterCorp' with Eugene Hansen
	24pp A5 publication with colour illustrations documenting four collaborations over three years 
	with essays by Miriam Harris and Christina Barton

1998	'When Night Comes' with Susan Jowsey
32pp publication with colour illustrations documenting the installation 'When Night Comes' and produced by each artist in its wake with essays by Jowsey, Williams and Miriam Harris

1994	'Idlers, Indigents, Vagrants, Artists, Criminals, Children, Savages, Brutes, Religious 	Fanatics, Idiots and Madmen' with Susan Jowsey and Allan Mc Donald
24pp duotone publication with gatefolds, photographs documenting the Oakley Mental Asylum with essays by Dr Fraser McDonald, Giles Read, Madeline Heron and the artists.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
2005	PinkPunk – ‘In the De Militarised Zone’, Essay in Kunste.ee, Estonian Art Journal.

FELLOWSHIPS
2004	Postsovkov II (International Art Event), Mooste, Estonia

2002	Stanzione di Topolo (International Art Event), Topolo, Italy

2001	Artist in Residence, Tylee Cottage, Sarjeant Gallery Wanganui

EMPLOYMENT
1989 – 1996	Freelance photography business

1991 – 1996	Part time photography tutor, UNITEC, Auckland

1996 – 2000	Full time Lecturer in Art and Design UNITEC, Auckland

1997 – 2000	National Bursary examiner, NZQA, Wellington

2001		Artist in Residence, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui

2002 		Lecturer in Sculpture and Art Theory, Wanganui Polytechnic

2003	             Lecturer in Photography and Design, UNITEC, Auckland

2004		Lecturer in Photography, Drawing and Design, UNITEC, Auckland	
		Coordinator of Year Two Photography.
Examiner N.Z Scholarship, Visual Arts - Photography, NZQA, Wellington