Rohan Schwartz, visual artist 



Education

2016-18 Graduate Diploma of Teaching, Visual Art, University of Melbourne (AUS)

2006-09 Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours, The Victorian College of the Arts (AUS)


Solo Exhibitions

2027 in the light of dark, p r o j e c t 8 Gallery, Melbourne, forthcoming

2026 so far so, Haydens Gallery, Richmond (AUS), forthcoming

2023 no well’s end, Working at Heights, Northcote (AUS), November

2023 nowhere now here, KINGS Artist-Run, West Melbourne (AUS), June

2021 The emergency of being alive, TCB Art Inc., Brunswick, Melbourne (AUS), April

2014 The Golden Lion, Number Eight Agnes Street, Thornbury (AUS), April 

2013 Pictures at an Exhibition, West Space, Melbourne (AUS), September

2011 The Band, It makes no difference, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne (AUS), October

2010 No comma after realm, Rear View, Collingwood (AUS), August

2009 Archives, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Parkville (AUS), August

2007 Document at Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Parkville (AUS), May


Collaborative Projects

2013 평화배지 (Peace Badges), Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Normal Gallery (DPRK), August

2013 奥塑像 (Australian Statues), People’s Republic of China, Normal Gallery (PRC), June

2012 The People’s Collection, Commonwealth of Australia, Normal Gallery (AUS), January

2011 std, Bus Projects (with Matthew Greaves), Melbourne (AUS), August

2011 Consultancy, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AUS), August

2010 A Wound, Disembodied, Seventh Gallery (with Krishnamurti Suparka), Fitzroy (AUS), December


Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Shapeshifters, p r o j e c t 8  at Spring1883, The Windsor, Melbourne (AUS), August

2025 Bernhard Sachs: After History, Linden New Art, St Kilda, (AUS), February

2024 The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World (curated group exhibition by Annabel Brown), Collingwood (AUS), November

2024 Oscilloforms (curated group exhibition by Cūrā8), p r o j e c t 8, Collins Street, Melbourne CBD, April

2019 Friends and Family at Daine Singer, Fitzroy (AUS), November

2017 9X5NOW, Victorian College of the Arts 150 Year Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank (AUS), June

2016 Elizabeth Studio Exhibition at Elizabeth Studios, Kensington (AUS), December

2016 An Excavation at c3 Contemporary Art Space (curated by Katie Paine), Abbotsford (AUS), November

2014 West Space Fundraiser at West Space, Melbourne (AUS), June

2013 奥塑像 (Australian Statues), Normal Gallery (w/ HomeShop) at Nongzhan North Road Farmer's Market, Beijing, (PRC), June

2013 Blood Flowers at Seventh Gallery (curated by Theodore Wohng), Melbourne (AUS) July

2013 West Space Annual Fundraiser at West Space, Melbourne (AUS), June

2013 Bound Apart at Rae & Bennett, Melbourne (AUS), March

2012 Tarpspace at Fontanelle, Adelaide (AUS), November

2012 Cosmos at Neospace, Collingwood (AUS), October

2012 Artist and Mentor at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre Gallery, Brighton (AUS), July

2012 where the birds always sing… at Ausin Tung Gallery, South Yarra (AUS), June

2012 Winter Paris (with Matthew Greaves) at KILP (curated by Eric Demetriou), West Melbourne, (AUS), May

2011 Arcadia at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre Gallery, Brighton (AUS), July

2011 Substation Contemporary Art Prize (finalist) at Substation Gallery, Newport (AUS), September

2011 New Concept at Meyerʼs Place, Melbourne (AUS), August

2011 Transits 1: the Visual Artistsʼ Non-Orchestra, Bus Projects at ACCA Forecourt, Southbank (AUS), August

2011 Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (finalist) at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank (AUS), July

2010 Busy, busy at TCB Art Inc, Melbourne (AUS), September

2010 Space at George Paton Gallery, Parkville (AUS), May

2010 Aftermath at Monash Faculty Gallery (MADA) (curated by Kathy Temin), Caulfield (AUS), March

2009 Sustainable Living Festival at Fed Square, Melbourne (AUS), February

2008 Wallara Travelling Scholarship (finalist) at Margaret Lawrence Gallery (AUS), August

2007 Linden Postcard Show at Linden Gallery, St Kilda (AUS), November


Commercial

2021 Remembrance of Echoes at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Fed Square (AUS), Melbourne


Published Works

2013 Australian Statues, un Magazine, Issue 7.1, p.2

2012 Life Correct, Correct Life, un. Magazine, Issue 6.2, p.33


Awards | Grants | Residencies

2017-2018 ACMI X Artist Residency Program, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and University of Melbourne

2016 Olive Battersby Scholarship, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne 

2010 ArtStart, Australia Council for the Arts

2009 UMSU Arts Grant, University of Melbourne

2009 Myer Foundation Award, Myer Foundation, Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition

2009 Shelmerdine Art Award, Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition

2008 National Gallery of Victoriaʼs Womenʼs Association Award, National Gallery of Victoriaʼs Womenʼs Association


Selected Bibliography

2024 Exhibition description and essay: The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World, by Annabel Brown, published in print and online, Gertrude Glasshouse and Gertrude Contemporary, November

2024 Exhibition essay: Oscilloforms, by curatorial collective Kim Donaldson and Sean Lowry (Cūrā8), April

2022 Review: Janenne Eaton, Evidence - a stratigraphy by Amelia Winata, Memo Review, December

2022 'Artist Rohan Schwartz on ‘Remembrance of echoes’, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) website, by Rohan Schwartz and ACMI, February

2021 Catalogue essay: The emergency of being alive by Amy Rudder, April

2016 Review: Open Spaces, Ace Wagstaff and Tai Snaith, RRR radio, November

2015 Editorial: Words, Photos, and the Capitalist Aesthetic by Benjamin Thomson, VICE, April

2013 Editorial: Normal Gallery in China by Dylan Rainforth, Art Guide, July

2012 Editorial: Artist and Mentor by Wendy Cavenett, Melbourne Review, August 2012

2012 Catalogue essay: Artist and Mentor by Simon Gregg, BACC Publications, July, pp.15, 37

2012 Catalogue essay: What we are Making by Julia White, MRSS Publications, September, pp.35

2012 Review: In the Galleries by Dan Rule, The Saturday Age newspaperʼs Life & Style Magazine, June, pp. 5

2012 Review: Artist and Mentor by Penny Webb, The Age newspaper’s Melbourne Magazine, July, Issue #93, pp. 65

2011 Review: The Band, it makes no difference, Rohan Schwartz by Ace Wagstaff, October

2010 Review: Busy, busy. Aren’t we all! by Alison Lasek, September

2010 Catalogue essay: Aftermath: Art, History, Memory by Kathy Temin, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Caulfield, March, pp.1-3

2010 Review: A Wound, Disembodied by Penny Webb, The Age, Melbourne Magazine, December, Issue #74, p.96


Published Writings

2022 Catalogue essay: …there’s a lot of nothing and then all of a sudden, everything all at once, in Janenne Eaton: Evidence


Professional Associations

Councillor for Art Education Victoria, 2016-2018

Board Member for Seventh Gallery, 2010-2012