MARC STANDING

Born: 1976 Zimbabwe, Harare

Marc Standing - We Can Be Hero

2007- Represented by Brenda May Gallery.
2005 Immigrated to Australia.
2004-05 Lived and worked in Geneva, Switzerland.
2002-03 Lived and worked in Lestho, SA.
1996-99 BA Fine Arts Honours Degree, Cape Town University, South Africa. Major in painting.
1976 Born Harare, Zimbabwe.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 South Coast Gallery, Wellington, NZ.
‘Teraphim’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2007 'New Painting', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2006 'Waking dreams; an Australian portrait', Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld.
2004 'The human wreckage', Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland.
2003 'Metamorphia', Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland .
2002 'A post apocalyptic independence', Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland.
'Gerontophobia', Association for the Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.
2001 'Psychosis', Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
Memento Mori, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
Narrative, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
Touring - Blake Prize 07 (finalist).
2007 Birthday Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney.
Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, (finalist).
Blake Prize for Religious Art, National Art School, Sydney (finalist).
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW (finalist).
I'm As Mad As Hell..., Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
Melbourne Art Fair, Pivotal Galleries, Melbourne.
Pivotal Galleries, Melbourne.
2006 Pivotal Galleries, Melbourne.
'New breed exhibition', Global Gallery, Sydney.
'Regional art awards', Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa/ Raw Space, Brisbane.
Churchie emerging art award, Brisbane.
Cooper Gallery, Noosa, Qld.
Linden postcard show, Melbourne.
2005 Winner, Viewer's Choice Award, Regional art award exhibition, Longreach/Brisbane, Qld.
2003 'Artists for Zimbabwe', Gallery 27, Cork Street, London.
2002 'Zimbabwe now', Academy of the Arts, The Hague, Holland.
2001 'Business as usual', Harare Int. Arts Festival [HIFA], National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe.
2000 'The summer exhibition', Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe.
'mobile heritage exhibition', National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe.
'ikons', Gallery Delta, Harare,Zimbabwe.
BAT workshop auction, Netherlands Embassy, Harare, Zimbabwe.
'Post election exhibition,' Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe.
'Works on paper', Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe.
'The young artists exhibition', Gallery Delta, Zimbabwe.

AWARDS
2005 Regional Art Awards, Viewer's Choice

PUBLISHED/REPRODUCED
2008 ‘The Planner’, SMH (Spectrum), 21-22 June, pg.6.
‘Open Gallery’, SMH (Spectrum), 14-15 June, pg.18.