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Mia Schoen - Curriculum Vitae

Email:  miaschoen@hotmail.com

Website: www.miaschoenart.com

b 1972 Bonn Bad Godesberg Germany

Education

Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours – Victorian College of the Arts 2005

Diploma of Graphic Design, Central Metropolitan School of TAFE Western Australia 1992

HSC - Selective Entry Specialist Art Program, Kalamunda Senior High School, Western Australia 1989 

Prizes, Commissions and Residencies

Kennedy Art Prize (finalist) 2024, Wyndham Art Prize (finalist) 2018, Cambridge Portrait Prize (finalist) 2018, KAAF Art Prize (finalist) 2017, Flagstaff Arizona Artist Residency 2017, PeterMac Memorial Sculpture Commission 2016, Hume Arts Award Established Visual Artist Category 1st Prize 2013, Glover Painting Prize (finalist) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, John Leslie Prize (finalist) 2008, 2010, 2012, Hume City Municipal Office Artwork Commission 2007, Agendo Prize (finalist) 2007, Atheneaum Prize (finalist) 2005, Wallara Travelling Scholarship 2004, A&A Sharpe award 2004, Julian Counsel award 2004, Cutler Acquisitive Prize 2004

Work represented in the following collections

Hume City Council Victoria, Parliament House Western Australia, City of Joondalup Western Australia, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, private collections in Australia, USA, Europe and New Zealand

Solo Exhibitions

Lost Scenes, Mario’s Cafe, Fitzroy 2024

Skies/EnPleinAir City of Moonee Valley, Ascot Vale/Flemington 2019

Gowanbrae Time Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy 2015

Unheimlich – Abandoned Estates Kreisler Gallery, Brunswick 2013

Light, Shadow, Texture, Time Hume Global Learning Centre Gallery, Craigieburn 2012

Interposed Mr. Kitly Gallery, Brunswick 2011

The Yard Goes on Forever Kozminsky Gallery, Melbourne 2009

On the Bay Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento, Victoria 2008

Mia Schoen Kozminsky Gallery, Melbourne 2007

Art Music Installation space, VCA Southbank 2004

Selected Group/Duo Exhibitions

Triplicities (with Rosemary Schoen) - Zigzag Gallery, Kalamunda, Perth 2024 

Nature Series (with Carly Housiaux)  - Sol Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2022 

Gippsland Print Award, Victoria 2017, 2023 

10 Artists - Aeso Studios, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2018 

Press Pause (with Toby Dutton and Bren Luke) - Kreisler Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne 2014 

Suburbia - Wyndam Cultural Centre, Werribee, Melbourne 2012 

Plein Air (with Paul Williams)- Kozminsky Gallery, Melbourne 2009 

Sustainable Living Festival Exhibition - The Edge Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne 2006 

Please Contact Mike VCA Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne 2004

Dream Tracing 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2004

Parallel Lines Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring, Perth 2003

one2phree4 West Space, Footscray, Melbourne 1999

Teaching and professional experience 

Melbourne University - drawing workshops Architecture and Planning Faculty 2024 

Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School - En plein air painting workshops 2018 -present 

Centre for Adult Education, Box Hill Institute - Pre-accredited courses Visual Arts 2012 -present 

Bureau of Meteorology - Administration of photography competition for the Australian Weather Calendar 2004 – 2022  

State Library of Victoria - drawing Workshop 2015 

Museum of Victoria - drawing workshop 2014 

Publications/bibliography

Stephen Cummings 100 Years From Now, LP/CD Cheersquad Records - cover art 2023

Meanjin  Vol 67, no. 3 pp 25-35 ‘The Uncultured Herd and Us’ by David Nichols -five paintings reproduced in colour 2008

Stephen Cummings Happiest Man Alive Head Records – cover art 2008

Suburban Fantasies – Melbourne Unmasked, Ed Colin Long, Kate Shaw and Claire Merlo, published Australian Scholarly Publishing – cover and back image 2005

Mention: The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd p268 afterword by John Denton, Philip Goad and Geoffrey London

‘Unheimlich’ by Peter Mayer, exhibition Essay, 2013

‘The Yard Goes on Forever’ by David Nichols, exhibition essay, 2009

‘Mia Schoen’ by Stephen Mead exhibition Essay, Feb 07

The Age Melbourne Magazine, issue 2, Dec 04 Michelle Griffin ‘inside information’

Selected Music and Collaborative Projects *includes art #includes recording/production

New Estate

*# 5 LP Kasumuen Records, 2023 video

*# Recovery CD Chapter Music, Melbourne, 2012 video

*# Diamonds EPCD Jacana Records ,Melbourne, 2010

*Out of the Ground CD Low Transit Industries Melbourne, 2008 video

*Is It Real? CD Low Transit Industries Melbourne, 2007 video

*# Rock Shop CD Jacana Records Melbourne, 2006

*# EP Jacana Records Melbourne, 2006

*# Considering CD W.Minc/Kittridge Records Melbourne/Los Angeles, 2004 video

Blueprints

*# Celestial Spheres Cassette, Glass Halo Music, 2023 video

*# Blueprints Cassette, Glass Halo Music, 2021 video

Mia Schoen

*# Hammerharp cassette, Glass Halo Music, Melbourne, 2021 video

*# Golden Hour cassette, Alberts Basement, Melbourne, 2017 video

MSG CD EP, Why Don’t You Believe Me, Melbourne, 2013

*# Champions CD Library Records, Melbourne, 2002 video

Surfergirl

#Faerie Accord CD, Glass Halo Music, Melbourne, 2021

#Persephones Throne CD, Glass Halo Music, Melbourne, 2019

Possum Moods

*Northern Times, LP, Emotional Response Records, Arizona, 2018 video

*Possum and the Moods CD, 555 recordings, Arizona, 2005

*# self-titled CD, Red Square, Philadelphia, 2003 

Sleepy Township

* Tragedy and Hope EPCD Dutch Courage Recordings, Chicago, 2003 

* All These Records CD Lost and Lonesome/Foxyboy Records, Melbourne/Washington DC, 2002 

* Deep Water CD/LP Library Records, Melbourne, 2001 

 Sleepy Township/Smiley EP Chapter Music, Melbourne, 2000 

*# Morning EP Library Records, Melbourne, 2000 

* Set Sail CD/LP Chapter Music, Melbourne, 1998 

SleepyTownship/Cannanes EP Chapter Music, Melbourne, 1997 

Huon

# Advance LP 555 Recordings/Knock Your Socks Off, Arizona/Melbourne, 2009 video
# Everything Under Control CD Animal World, Chicago, 2003   
* Answers to Lucky CD Animal World/Dutch Courage, Chicago, 2001 
* Disco Square LP 555 Recordings, Leeds, 2000 
* Tragedy EP 555 Recordings, Leeds
Hung Up Over Night CD 555 Recording,s Leeds, 1999 
Songs for Lord Tortoise CD Animal World, Chicago, 1999 
Epic LP 555 Recordings, Leeds, 1998 
Fluoro EP, Library Records, Melbourne, 1998 

Molasses

Molasses/Minimum Chips split single, Chapter Music, 1995