Antoinette J. Citizen is a visual artist and founding co-director of the artist run initiative No Frills* and is currently involved with Kings Artist Run Initiative in Melbourne. Citizen graduated with honours from a BFA at Queensland University of Technology in 2008 and is currently undertaking a PhD by research at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Citizen has exhibited nationally in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney including the exhibition Fresh Cut 2012 at the Institute of Modern Art Artspace’s Artist-Run exhibition Eastern Seaboard (2011) with No Frills* and internationally in Luxembourg and Germany for the exhibition Ceci n’est pas un Casino! (2010)
Citizen has been involved in various residencies including with DAS in the United Kingdom, Aphids in Victoria and with Media Lab Melbourne.
Antoinette J. Citizen
b.1982 at Sea
Education
2011 (ongoing) Doctor of Philosophy (Research), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2009 CERT III (Paranormal Studies), Futromec Academy
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Queensland University of Technology
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts), Queensland University of Technology
Recent Exhibitions
2012 Fresh Cut – IMA, Brisbane
2012 Emerson Greene – Kings ARI, Melbourne
2011 3Square – Conical, Melbourne
2011 Remote Sense – Incubator Space, Castlemaine
2011 Eastern Seaboard – Artspace, Sydney
2010 Ceci N’est Pas Un Casino! – Villa Merkel, Germany
2010 Ceci N’est Pas Un Casino! – Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2010 The Directors Show – No Frills*, Australia
2010 Level Launch – Level gallery, Australia
2009 No Frills* Vs The General Will – Newstead
2009 Recession Art + Other Strategies – InBetweenSpaces
2009 Lean Toward Indifference! – !Metro Arts
2009 More No Frills* – QUT Art Museum
Residencies/Labs
2011 Media Lab Melbourne, Sprint Artist, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Artspace, Residential Studio Program, Sydney, Australia (with No Frills*)
2010 Aphids, Mentorship and residency, Castlemaine, Australia
2010 DAS, International residency program, Belfast, United Kingdom
2009 !Metro Arts, ARI residency, Brisbane, Australia (with No Frills*)
Guest Speaker
2011 Forum – Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2010 Artist Talk– DAS, Belfast, United Kingdom
2010 PechaKucha – Brisbane Powerhouse, Australia
2009 Video Art – Queensland University of Technology, Australia
2009 Artist Talk – Metro Arts, Brisbane
Professional Experience
2012 Administrator – Kings ARI, Melbourne (2010 – 2012)
2010 Board Member – Kings ARI, Melbourne (2010 – 2012)
2009 Revenge of RSK, The Hangar, Co-Curated with No Frills* Directors
2009 Lean Towards Indifference! !Metro Arts, Brisbane, Co-Curated with No Frills* Directors
2008 Founding Co-director – No Frills* Artist Run Initiative, Brisbane (2008- 2011)
Teaching
2010 World 1-1 workshop – Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2009 Academic Tutor (New Media) – Queensland University of Technology
2009 Rotoscope workshop– The Block, Brisbane
Bibliography
2011 Coates, R. 3SQUARE. Melbourne: Conical. (Cat. Essay)
2011 Jansson, M. Videogame Appropriation in contemporary art. Furtherfield. (Online Article)
2010 Debatty, R. Ceci N’est Pas Un Casino! We Make Money Not Art. (Online Article)
2010 Ceci N’est Pas Un Casino! Luxembourg: Casino Luxembourg. 134-141. (Cat. Essay)
2009 Jayemanne, D. Resident of Evil Creek. Overland. 197: 49-56 (Article)
2009 Mckewen, D. Lean Towards Indifference! Review. Eyeline. 69: (Review)
2009 Robb, C. Lean Towards Indifference. Brisbane: Metro Arts (Cat. Essay)
2008 Donahoe, M. Pixel Painter: Antoinette Citizen. EGM Magazine. 233: 30 (Interview)
2008 Rajkowski, R. No Frills*. Gold Coast: Blkmrkt Gallery (Cat. Essay)
2008 Cavalli, E. Fan Crafted Mario-Themed Room. WIRED. (Online Article)
