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
*# 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
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
* 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