ARMANDO CHANT
CONTACT INFO
e-mail - chantarmando@hotmail.com,
Instagram - @armando_chant
Website - http://armandochant.com/
Lives and Works in Sydney, Australia
b. Seville, Spain
EDUCATION
- MA Fine Art, National Art School, 2020 – 2022
- Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration, UNSW, 2008 – 2010
- MA Constructed Textiles, Royal College of Art, London 1997 – 1999
- BA Hons Fashion and Textile design, Brighton University, 1993 – 1997
SOLO/GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - April - GRAPHITE - Drawspace Gallery, Sydney
2023 - November - ATMOSPHERE - FRANCIS Gallery, Bath, UK
2023 – June – TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN – Bondi Pavillion Gallery
2023 – March - VALLÉ – Dominik Mersch Gallery – Sydney
2023 – February – A THOUSAND BEAUTIFUL THINGS – Sydney
2023 – February – ELEMENTS – Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney
2022 – November – ANTEROGRADE/RETROGRADE – group exhibition, Airspace Projects, Sydney
2021 – June – August – TRACKS AND TRACES – Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta Regional Gallery, finalist
2020 - August – TOPOGRAPHIC REFLECTIONS – Tamworth Textile Triennale “Tensions 2020” Tamworth, finalist
2019 – June – REFLECTIONS ON RORSCHACH – Maniffattura Tabacchi – Florence, Invited artist.
2019 – June – SKRI:N – Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award – Wangaratta Regional Gallery, finalist
2019 – April – X-RORSCHACH - GAFFA Gallery – Sydney
2018 – March – RESIDUE – GAFFA Gallery – Sydney
2017 – November – MISE EN ABYME – Exhibited as part of the “Arts of Research 2017” Conference – Helsinki, Finland, peer reviewed artist participation
2017 – August – LIMINAL – BLACKEYE Gallery – Sydney
2017 – June – BYOBU – BAROMETER Gallery – Sydney
2016 – February – ‘TRANSITION’ – SEVENTH Gallery – Melbourne
2015 – May – ‘INTER: REFLECTIONS’ Basilica de Santa Croce – Florence, invited artist
2014 - August – CLOUDSCAPE – Tamworth Textile Triennale, ‘Group Exchange’, Tamworth regional Gallery, finalist
RESIDENCIES
2018 – August/September – DRAW International, Caylus, France,
Artist residency at DRAWINTERNATIONAL the leading residency and center for artistic research, and professional practice, established to promote and reveal ideas on drawing within a contemporary and experimental context
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2024 - Finalist in the Jacaranda biennial Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional gallery
2024 - Finalist in the Gosford Regional Art Gallery National Art Prize
2024 - Finalist in Wynne Prize 2024 Art Gallery of New South Wales
2023 - Finalist in GIRRA Fraser Coast National Art Prize
2023 - Finalist in the Hazelhurst art on Paper Award
2023 – Finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize 2023
2022 - Awarded the Dominik Mersch Gallery (DMG) Award in association with the National Art School (NAS)
2021 – Finalist in the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile award biennale
2020 - Finalist in the ‘Tensions 20/20’ Tamworth Textile Triennale
2019 – Finalist in the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award biennia
2014 – Finalist in the ‘Group Exchange’ Tamworth Textile Triennale, where the work was acquired for the Tamworth Regional Gallery collection.