Ali McCann (She/Her)
Lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Return to SOCIAL, correspondences, Brunswick, VIC
2022 SOCIAL (in collaboration with Mat Watson), correspondences, Brunswick, VIC
2019 Οι νέοι, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC
2018 Masks for Magicians, Caves, Melbourne, VIC
2018 Polytechnic, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, VIC
2017 An Introduction to Liminal Aesthetics, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, VIC
2017 Throwing Off The Hump, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, VIC
2009 The Organisation, West Space, Melbourne, VIC
2004 The Great Western, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, VIC
Selected Group Exhibitions & Projects
2024 The National Photography Prize, MAMA Murray Art Museum, Albury, NSW
2023 Frozen Blood, Neon Parc, South Yarra, Melbourne, VIC
Slippery Images, curated by Maggie Finch for Melbourne Now, NGV, Melbourne, VIC
The Chills, curated by Annika Kafcaloudis, Oigåll Projects, Fitzroy, VIC
2022 Tree Log Paper Book, curated by Dell Stewart, Bus Projects, Collingwood, VIC
States of Disruption, CCP Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC
2021 Not for the Sake of Something More, curated by Kiron Robinson, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne
2020 The National Photography Prize, MAMA Murray Art Museum, Albury, NSW
2019 Still Life, Pt. III, curated by Adam Stone, Lon Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
St Francis, curated by Tristian Koenig and Black Arts Projects, Collingwood, VIC
The Turn, (w/ Kym Maxwell), Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds, VIC
. The Utopian Object, c3 Annual Fundraiser, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford, VIC
Melbourne Comes to Sydney, Home@735, Sydney, NSW
Sun Celebrates Her, Sun Studios Gallery, South Melbourne, VIC
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Double Bay, NSW
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award Exhibition, Deakin University, VIC
Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2018 Fabrication, Hamilton Gallery, Hamilton, VIC
L'Appartement: Louis Vuitton Exhibition, Chadstone, VIC
2016 What Can We All Agree On?, VCA Student Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Butchery, curated by Vivian Cooper Smith, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford, VIC
2015 Turn Up Your Radio, curated by Brendan Lee, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, VIC
2010 Rock Chicks: An Exhibition - Women in Australian Music, curated by Janine Barrand, The Arts
Centre, Melbourne, VIC
2009 Unhistorical, curated by Dougal Phillips, Chalk Horse, Sydney, NSW
Johanna Billing: Tiny Movements, Performance/Recording with Beaches, Toff in Town/ACCA,
Melbourne, VIC
2008 Rookie Show, curated by Barbara Flynn, Deloitte Foundation, Sydney, NSW
2007 In the Company of the Dead, China Heights, Sydney, NSW
No Fun Without You, curated by Christian Thompson, Mahoneys Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Obscura, Curated by Tim Hillier, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, VIC
2006 CCP Kodak Salon, CCP, Fitzroy, VIC
Brand Project, Heroes, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Insert Image Here, curated by Tristian Koenig, #48 Tram, Melbourne (off-site project for the CCP Centre for Contemporary Photography in association with the Next Wave Festival), VIC
White Hot, curated by Christian Thompson, City Lights, Melbourne, VIC
2002 B-Sides, Bus, Melbourne, VIC
Awards/ Prizes / Grants
2024 MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize, MAMA, Albury, NSW (Finalist)
2022 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA, QLD (Finalist)
2021 Sustaining Creative Workers Program grant, Regional Arts Victoria & Creative Victoria
2020 MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize, MAMA, Albury, NSW (Finalist)
2019 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, NSW (Finalist)
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, VIC (Finalist)
2017 Hamilton Art Gallery Exhibition Award, VIC
2017 Global Scholars Award, University of Melbourne, VIC
2017 Go Go Art Series Award, VIC
2006 CCP Kodak Salon, Recipient of the Most Emotionally Intense Award, VIC
Press
Knezic, Sophie. ‘Melbourne Now: Bling and exuberance at the NGV’, Australian Book Review (online), https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/101-arts-update/10223-melbourne-now-bling-and-exuberance-at-the-ngv-by-sophie-knezic, April 11, 2023
Modern lens: the best of Australian contemporary photography – in pictures, Guardian (online) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/oct/01/modern-lens-the-best-of-australian-contemporary-photography-in-pictures, Sat 1 Oct 2022
Moran, Michael, ‘Fixing Photography’, National Photography Prize exhibition catalogue, 2020 MAMA Murray Art Museum, Albury, NSW, pp. 15
O’Sullivan, Jane, ‘Artists: What Next | Ali McCann’, Art Collector, Issue 92, April-June, 2020, pp. 86-87
‘A Room with a View: In Conversation (with Emma Thomson)’, https://www.correspondences.work/a-room-with-a-view-artist-page-ali-mccann, June 2020
Nelson, R. ‘Anyone for Tennis? Art meets sport at Gertrude Contemporary’, The Sydney Morning Herald , March 4, 2019
‘Discovery: Ali McCann’, Artist Profile, Issue 43, pp. 146, 2018
Collections
NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
MAMA Murray Art Museum, Albury, NSW
Artbank, Sydney, NSW
National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Private Collections
Residencies
2022 Campus: a study of educational, domestic and deep, dark space (in perpetual flux), Correspondences Studio, Brunswick, VIC
Selected Artist Talks & Panel Discussions
In conversation with Daniel Boetker-Smith for ‘States of Disruption’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, VIC, September, 2022
In conversation with physicist Raghda Abdel Khaleq and curator, Emma Thomson on the intersections of art and science, correspondences, Brunswick, VIC, November, 2022
Artist Talk, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, VIC, November, 2022
‘Not for the Sake of Something More’ (PHOTO 2021: International Festival of Photography), Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, VIC, February, 2021
‘Photography Research Discussion Series’, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, May, 2020
‘Ode to the Camera’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC, July 2019
Education
2017 Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2003 Graduate Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne