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