STEPHEN PLEBAN

Lives Ballarat

Qualifications

2003 University of Ballarat, Master of Fine Art (incomplete)
1995 Academie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam, Postgraduate 1986 Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Kind of World, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Half the Day is Night, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney

2022 Thinking of a Place, &Gallery Australia, Sorrento
2021 Thinking of a Place, Project Gallery 90, Sydney
2018 In Search, Biennale of Australian Art, St Andrews Hall, Ballarat 2011 Lake Surfaces, Art Gallery of Ballarat
2004 In Vivo, Span Gallery, Melbourne
2003 In Vivo, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
1995 De Kooning Academie Rotterdam, Netherlands
1994 West Space, Footscray

Group and Prize Exhibitions
2023 Winter Group Show Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2023 XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 Resistance! Paintings as Provisional Realities, M16 Artspace, ACT

Summer Group Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2021 The Nude Exhibition, Project Gallery 90, Sydney

Finalist, Tatiara Art Prize, Walkway Gallery, South Australia 2020 1.5 Degrees, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne

Finalist, Glover Art Prize, Tasmania
2019 Finalist, Len Fox Art Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine

Finalist, Kilgour Prize, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales

Finalist, Kennedy Prize, Adelaide 2017 Finalist, Kennedy Prize, Adelaide

What’s in the box?, BOAA, Ballarat
2016 Belle Art Prize, Bailey Gallery, Abbotsford

Miniature Immensities, Kingston Art Centre, Moorabbin

Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney 2015 Belle Art Prize, Bailey Gallery, Abbotsford

Flanagan Contemporary Art Prize, Ballarat 2014 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat

Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery 2013 Flanagan Contemporary Art Prize, Ballarat
2012 Unicorn Art Space, Ballarat
2011 Orbit, Space 22, Ballarat

Flanagan Contemporary Art Prize, Ballarat
2010 Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Williamstown

Weather Project, Space 22, Ballarat
2009 Williamstown Contemporary Art PrizeI, Williamstown, Victoria

Flanagan Contemporary Art Prize, Ballarat 2008 John Leslie Art Prize, Sale Art Gallery, Gippsland

Art Deco Postcard Exhibition, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat 2005 Art for Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra
2004 Masters/PhD Exhibition, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
2003 Post card exhibition, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda
2002 Masters/PhD Exhibition, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
1998 City of Moonee Valley Contemporary Art Prize, Moonee Ponds

Coalesce, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy 1997 Shell Art Prize, Williamstown, Victoria

City of Moonee Valley Contemporary Art Prize, Moonee Ponds 1996 Gesprek met Vermeer, Museum Prinsenhof, Delft, Netherlands 1995 Gallerie Maurits van der Laar, Den Haag, Netherlands

Contemporary Art Fair, Belgium
1989 Three-person exhibition, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne

Second Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne 1988 Ten New Artists, 70 Arden Street, North Melbourne

Le Quattro Stagioni (Four Artists, Four Approaches, Four Mediums), The Warehouse, Melbourne 1987 Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Mornington Art Gallery, Mornington

Prizes

2014 Highly Commended, Calleen Art Award, NSW 1999 City of Moonee Valley Art Prize
1991 National Art Prize, The Australian newspaper 1990 VTU Art Prize, Caulfield Art Gallery

1983 Winner, Sarah Levy Painting Prize, Victorian College of the Arts: Victorian National Art Gallery