Lives in Boorloo/Perth, Australia.
Represented by sweet pea
They/them pronouns
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021
Wind Chill, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Curated by Isobel Wise.
Sticky Notes, sweet pea, Perth, Western Australia.
2019
PDA, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2015
Room Service, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2013
North by North East, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2012
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Three, Edmund Pearce, Melbourne, Victoria.
2010
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Two, Gallery Central, Perth, Western Australia.
A Collection of Organised Spaces, Free Range Gallery, Perth, Western Australia.
2009
Inside Room, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Western Australia.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021
the pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane, Artspace, Sydney. Curated by Talia Linz.
Love in Bright Landscapes, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth. Curated by Annika Kristensen.
2020
Rotterdam Photo Festival 2020, The Netherlands, showing with Perth Centre for Photography.
2019
The Essayist, The Cross Arts Projects, Sydney. Curated by Jasmin Stephens.
2018
Looking but not seeing, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria. Curated by Kiron Robinson.
La Grotta della Chiocciola, CIOMA, PSAS, Fremantle. Curated by Andrew Varano.
WAU!- Focus in Western Australia, Korundi House of culture, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Lapland, Finland. Curated by Jaana Lönnroos.
2017
HERE&NOW17: New Photography, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth. Curated by Chelsea Hopper.
2016
New Matter: Recent forms of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Curated by Isobel Parker Philip.
Invisible Genres, John Curtin Gallery, Perth. Curated by John Mateer.
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
City of Perth 2016 Architectural Photographic commission, Perth Centre for Photography.
Miscellaneous #20, Pet projects, Perth. Curated by Andrew Varano, Dan Bourke and Gemma Weston.
2015
Frühlings Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
The John Stringer Prize, Kerry Stokes Gallery, Perth.
2014
Transcendental: New Australian Abstract Photography, Jarvis Dooney Gallery Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
Melbourne Art Fair, Victoria, showing with Turner Galleries.
PICA Salon 2014, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.
Dusk to Dark, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane. Curated by Maurice Ortega.
Dusk to Dark, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland. Curated by Maurice Ortega.
Trace, Architectural Musings, Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia. Curated by Leonie Matthews and Amanda Alderson.
2013
Primavera 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales. Curated by Robert Cook.
Bliss, New Video Project, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia. Curated by Sally Quin & Ted Snell.
2012
Bottom Drawer, Monster Valley Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
RMIT Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University MFA Studios, Melbourne, Victoria.
Shared Spaces, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
2011
Remix, WA Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Curated by Jenepher Duncan.
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Student exhibition, Pingyao, China. Curated by Rebecca Dagnall.
SIM Artist in Residence Exhibition, SIM gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank
University of Western Australia
Wesfarmers
Central Institute of Technology
Murdoch University
EDUCATION
2021
PhD, Curtin University. Thesis title: Collage as Queer Methodology: The Pleasures and Politics of Trans and Queer Photographic Representations
2012
Masters of Fine Art, RMIT University.
2009
Bachelor of Arts (Art) (Honours), Curtin University.
RESIDENCIES
2013
PICA Studio Residency, Perth, Western Australia.
2011
SIM, The association of Icelandic visual artists, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sillanpää Art Residency, Varistaipale, Finland.
PUBLICATIONS + MEDIA:
2020
Jac Ball focuses on trans bodies through photo-collage, by Sheridan Hart, Art Guide, April 2020.
2019
PDA, by Melissa McGrath, Semaphore, October 2019
2015
TAR Magazine, Transcendence, Issue 12, double page spread with Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin. Issue curated by David Lynch.
Landscape Stories. Out there 03, Australian Photography, by Heidi Romano.
2014
Platform profile, curated by Jasmin Stephens, written by Lucy Rees, ARTAND Australia, 51, No 4.
Dusk to Dark, Catalogue essay by Maurice Ortega, Queensland Centre for Photography.
2013
Primavera 2013, Young Australian Artists, Introduction essay by Robert Cook and Catalogue essay by Iván Muñiz Reed, September 2013.
Primavera Posse, by Amanda Woodard, Art Collector, July-Sept 2013, Issue 65.
Puzzles offer food for mind, by Laetitia Wilson, The West Australian, 2-3 March 2013.
2012
The Great Unknowns, by Robert Cook, Scoop Homes and Art Magazine, Spring 2012, Edition 34.
2011
Remix catalogue essay by Jenepher Duncan, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
2010
A Collection Of Organised Spaces Part Two, Catalogue essay. Set up- Filmic Theatre and the Photographs of Jac Ball by Ric Spencer.
Represented by sweet pea
They/them pronouns
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021
Wind Chill, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Curated by Isobel Wise.
Sticky Notes, sweet pea, Perth, Western Australia.
2019
PDA, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2015
Room Service, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2013
North by North East, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
2012
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Three, Edmund Pearce, Melbourne, Victoria.
2010
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Two, Gallery Central, Perth, Western Australia.
A Collection of Organised Spaces, Free Range Gallery, Perth, Western Australia.
2009
Inside Room, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Western Australia.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021
the pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane, Artspace, Sydney. Curated by Talia Linz.
Love in Bright Landscapes, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth. Curated by Annika Kristensen.
2020
Rotterdam Photo Festival 2020, The Netherlands, showing with Perth Centre for Photography.
2019
The Essayist, The Cross Arts Projects, Sydney. Curated by Jasmin Stephens.
2018
Looking but not seeing, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria. Curated by Kiron Robinson.
La Grotta della Chiocciola, CIOMA, PSAS, Fremantle. Curated by Andrew Varano.
WAU!- Focus in Western Australia, Korundi House of culture, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Lapland, Finland. Curated by Jaana Lönnroos.
2017
HERE&NOW17: New Photography, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth. Curated by Chelsea Hopper.
2016
New Matter: Recent forms of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Curated by Isobel Parker Philip.
Invisible Genres, John Curtin Gallery, Perth. Curated by John Mateer.
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
City of Perth 2016 Architectural Photographic commission, Perth Centre for Photography.
Miscellaneous #20, Pet projects, Perth. Curated by Andrew Varano, Dan Bourke and Gemma Weston.
2015
Frühlings Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
The John Stringer Prize, Kerry Stokes Gallery, Perth.
2014
Transcendental: New Australian Abstract Photography, Jarvis Dooney Gallery Berlin, Germany. Curated by Michael Dooney.
Melbourne Art Fair, Victoria, showing with Turner Galleries.
PICA Salon 2014, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.
Dusk to Dark, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane. Curated by Maurice Ortega.
Dusk to Dark, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland. Curated by Maurice Ortega.
Trace, Architectural Musings, Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia. Curated by Leonie Matthews and Amanda Alderson.
2013
Primavera 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales. Curated by Robert Cook.
Bliss, New Video Project, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia. Curated by Sally Quin & Ted Snell.
2012
Bottom Drawer, Monster Valley Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
RMIT Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University MFA Studios, Melbourne, Victoria.
Shared Spaces, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
2011
Remix, WA Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Curated by Jenepher Duncan.
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Student exhibition, Pingyao, China. Curated by Rebecca Dagnall.
SIM Artist in Residence Exhibition, SIM gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank
University of Western Australia
Wesfarmers
Central Institute of Technology
Murdoch University
EDUCATION
2021
PhD, Curtin University. Thesis title: Collage as Queer Methodology: The Pleasures and Politics of Trans and Queer Photographic Representations
2012
Masters of Fine Art, RMIT University.
2009
Bachelor of Arts (Art) (Honours), Curtin University.
RESIDENCIES
2013
PICA Studio Residency, Perth, Western Australia.
2011
SIM, The association of Icelandic visual artists, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sillanpää Art Residency, Varistaipale, Finland.
PUBLICATIONS + MEDIA:
2020
Jac Ball focuses on trans bodies through photo-collage, by Sheridan Hart, Art Guide, April 2020.
2019
PDA, by Melissa McGrath, Semaphore, October 2019
2015
TAR Magazine, Transcendence, Issue 12, double page spread with Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin. Issue curated by David Lynch.
Landscape Stories. Out there 03, Australian Photography, by Heidi Romano.
2014
Platform profile, curated by Jasmin Stephens, written by Lucy Rees, ARTAND Australia, 51, No 4.
Dusk to Dark, Catalogue essay by Maurice Ortega, Queensland Centre for Photography.
2013
Primavera 2013, Young Australian Artists, Introduction essay by Robert Cook and Catalogue essay by Iván Muñiz Reed, September 2013.
Primavera Posse, by Amanda Woodard, Art Collector, July-Sept 2013, Issue 65.
Puzzles offer food for mind, by Laetitia Wilson, The West Australian, 2-3 March 2013.
2012
The Great Unknowns, by Robert Cook, Scoop Homes and Art Magazine, Spring 2012, Edition 34.
2011
Remix catalogue essay by Jenepher Duncan, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
2010
A Collection Of Organised Spaces Part Two, Catalogue essay. Set up- Filmic Theatre and the Photographs of Jac Ball by Ric Spencer.