Claire Mooney is represented by Tacit Art, Melbourne.
EDUCATION
1999 - Bachelor Fine Arts (Honours), RMIT
2004 - Master of Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts
2010 - Master of Teaching, University of Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Pattern Evolution, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2022 - Cloud Creek Water, Five Walls, Melbourne
2020 - A part and between, Five Walls, Melbourne
2020 - Fugitive Geometries, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2019 - Uncertain Equilibrium (site-specific mural), Richmond Library, Yarra Council
2016 - Pattern Remains, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2015 - Lost Forms, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2013 - A Slow Swarm Across the Surface, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2008 - Over & Out, Bus, Melbourne
2005 - 26 Colours, Bus, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - SALON: Fields of Abstraction, Tacit Art, Melbourne
2023 - Kennedy Art Prize Exhibition, RSASA Gallery, Adelaide
2023 - Abstraction, Five Walls, Melbourne
2022 - The Other Art Fair Melbourne, Meat Market, North Melbourne
2022 - Tape Twenty Twenty Two, Five Walls, Melbourne
2022 - Made in Rezza, Connection/Disruption (artwork commission), Felix Culpa, Darebin Council
2021 - Banyule Award for Works on Paper Finalists’ Exhibition, Gallery 275, Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub
2021 - Darebin Art Prize Exhibition, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2018 - Exploration 18, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2018 - Accession, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2017 - notfair 5, Curated by Sam Leach, Ashley Crawford and Tony Lloyd, Windsor, Melbourne
2014 - City of Albany Art Prize Exhibition, City of Albany Town Hall, WA
2014 - Pinpoint: Banyule Contemporary Art Fair Curated by Claire Watson, Hatch Contemporary Art Space
2010 - Something in the Air, Curated by Martina Copley, Gipps Street Gallery Melbourne
2009 - Agendo 2009 Phoenix Gallery, Deakin University, Burwood
2009 Substation Contemporary Arts Prize Exhibition
2006 - Postscript Curated by Simon Gregg, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
2006 - Minute Possibilities, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2005 - Translation, Curated by Martina Copley, 101 Gallery, Melbourne
2005 - New Painting Heroes, Curated by Viv Miller, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2004 - VCA Graduate Show, Victorian College of the Arts
2004 - Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Award Exhibition, Athenaeum Club, Melbourne
2004 - ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award Exhibition, ANZ Bank, Melbourne
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2023 - Finalist/Kennedy Art Prize/RSASA Gallery
2021 - Finalist/2021 Banyule Award for Works on Paper - Finalist/2021 Darebin Art Prize - Recipient / Darebin Council, Made in Rezza/artist project commission
2018 - Finalist/St Kevin’s Art Show (now Omnia Art Prize)
2017 - Bundoora Nebula Artist Residency/ Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2015 - City of Yarra Small Projects Grant
2014 - Finalist / City of Albany Art Prize
2009 - Finalist / Agendo - Finalist / Substation Contemporary Arts Prize
2008 - Recipient / NAVA Janet Holmes a Court grant - Recipient / Melbourne Fringe Festival Visual Arts Award
2004 - Winner /Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Award - Highly Commended /ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award - Winner /David Teleskivi Memorial Sculpture Prize - Winner /Galloway Lawson Award
COLLECTIONS
Athenaeum Club Contemporary Art Collection
Darebin Art Collection
Private collections, Melbourne