NAME: Dana Ashlakoff
STUDIO: 845 Hazelwood Rd, Hazelwood North, Vic. 3840, e: dana@danaashlakoff.com
QUALIFICATIONS:
2004 Master of Visual Arts, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Vic.
2001 Graduate Diploma of Visual Art, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Vic.
2000 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Vic.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES:
2007 3 month residency, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2003 Highly Commended, Aurora Australis Art Prize, Warragul.
2002 Highly Commended, Korrumburra Art Show, Korrumburra.
2002 Best Exhibit in Mixed Media, Mirboo North Art Show, Mirboo North.
2001 Aurora Australis Art Prize, Warragul.
2001 Highly Commended, Tyers Art Show, Tyers.
2001 Best Exhibit in Mixed Media, Mirboo North Art Show, Mirboo North.
2000 National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award for final semester in Bachelor of Visual Arts.
2000 Best Exhibit, Tyers Art Show, Tyers.
2000 Golden Key National Honour Society Membership by invitation for excellence in studies.
1999 Best Exhibit in sculpture, Tyers Art Show, Tyers.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006/7 Intuitions and Connections, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2005 Detritus to Egalitarianism, Oak Hill Community Gallery, Oak Hill.
2004 Egalitarian Forms, Smyrnios Gallery, Prahan.
2001 Nexus, Graduation Ceremony, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill.
2001 Tactility, Doctors Rooms, Traralgon.
2000 Rhythms of my Intuitions, Graduation Ceremony, Monash University Gippsland Campus.
2000 Awakenings, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
1999 Gestures, School of Business, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED, CURATED):
2006 Arc Drawing Prize, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2005 New Energies Traveling Exhibition, Warragul Art Centre, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Main Street Gallery - Bairnsdale, Morwell Regional Gallery.
2005 Collectors Exhibition, Carlton.
2003 Scratching the Ground - Art on Tour, Gallery arc, Yinnar, Cowwarr Gallery, Cowwarr, Main Street Gallery, Bairnsdale.
2003/2 Showstoppers - Award Winning Works, Faculty Gallery, Monash University Caulfield Campus.
2002 John Leslie Art Prize, Sale Regional Gallery.
2002 Yoghurt, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick.
2001 Within, Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill.
2000 Exploring the Self - Traveling Exhibition, Sale Regional Gallery, Sale, Nicholson Street Gallery, Bairnsdale, First Site Gallery, Swanston Street, Melbourne.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2006 Women's Exhibition, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2005 Women's Exhibition, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2004/5 Summer Show, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2004 Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne.
2004 Members Exhibition, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2003 Women's Exhibition, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2003 Blackberry's and Bracken - Saving the Strezlecki's, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2002 17th Annual Women's Exhibition, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2001 16th Annual Women's Exhibition, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
2000 Summer Show, Gallery arc, Yinnar.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
State Superannuation Board, Spring Street, Melbourne.
Dandenong College of Tafe, Dandenong.
Doctors Rooms, Traralgon.
PUBLICATIONS:
Making Space, Victorian Initiatives of Artists Network - 2007, illustrations and details, pg. 139, 246.
A space for artists 25 years on, newspaper editorial, cover photo, photo, The Express, 19th April 2007, pg.19.
New Energies reaches a significant milestone, newspaper editorial, The Star, 22nd March 2005, p.17.
Yoghurt, exhibition catalogue, The Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, September 2002.
Within - Contemporary painting in the Latrobe Valley 2000-2001, exhibition catalogue, Gippsland Centre of Art and Design, Monash University, p.3.
Exploring the self - a contemporary view of self portraiture, exhibition catalogue, Voice Productions 4th annual exhibition, Dec. 10th to Feb. 16th 2000, p.2.
Final Year Students - Bachelor of Visual Arts, exhibition catalogue, Gippsland Centre of Art and Design, Monash University, pg. 5. 2000.