Resume

Pamela Rataj

Born Essen, Germany; lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Education 

2000-2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture). Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

    1991 Beaux Arts de Paris

1987 Beaux Arts de Paris

Selected Grants and Awards

2021 Finalist, Fisher's Ghost Award.  

2018 Finalist. Wyndham Art Prize.

2017 Finalist. Wyndham Art Prize.

2016 Finalist. Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards.

2016 Shortlisted. Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 

2013 Finalist. Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award.

2012 Finalist. Wilson Art Award. 

2011 Shortlisted. Australia Council Berlin Residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien.

2003 Finalist. Baldessin Sculpture Award.

2002 City of Melbourne Cultural Development Grant. Melbourne, Australia

2001 City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Grant. Melbourne, Australia

1998 Project Development Grant. ARTSA in conjunction with the Adelaide Festival of Arts and the Adelaide City Council, Adelaide, Australia

1997 Project Development Grant. ARTSA, Adelaide, Australia

Collections

Artbank, Sofitel, Corporate and Private Collections internationally.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019 Echo. West End Art Space, Melbourne.

2017 Interstices of Content. West End Art Space, Melbourne.

2012 Netz. Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne.

2012 Ryoan-ji. Earin Festival, ABC studios, Adelaide.

2010 The Morphology of Forgetting. Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne. 

2008 Greenwich Mean Time. Anita Traverso Gallery.

2006 Without Subtitles. Red Gallery, Melbourne.

2005 Roger McGovern and the Sparrows of Dresden. Red Gallery, Melbourne.

1999 – 2002 The Light Piece. Dancers: Lynn Santos, Gretel Taylor. In collaboration with Gavin Blake and composer David Harris. Festival Theatre Adelaide, Adelaide Laneway Festival, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. 

1998 Compossible. In collaboration with Gavin Blake and composer David Harris. Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Kairos – Perfect Timing, Kinross House Gallery

'Black and White: Group Show, West end Art Space

2021 Homologies of Hope, online exhibition West End Art Space, Artsy

Fisher's Ghost Award Finalist Exhibition, Campbelltown Art Centre

2020 Layers of Time. West End Art Space, online exhibition, Artsy

2019 Poetic symbol. West End Art Space, Melbourne

2018 Wyndham Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Wyndham Art Gallery

BONANZA, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

2017 Wyndham Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Wyndham Art Gallery

2016 Yarra Valley Arts/Yering Station Sculpture Awards Finalist Exhibition

2014 Salon 2, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne

2013 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University 

Selected Publications

Wyndham Art Prize Catalogue 2018

Wyndham Art Prize Catalogue 2017

Yarra Valley/Yering Station Sculpture Award Catalogue 2016

ART Web Radio, August 2013 official selection

https://www.flickr.com/photos/104207922@N02/10126139503

Catalogue Essay, Anna Briers, Anita Traverso Gallery 2012

Art Blart Dr. Marcus Bunyan 2010

https://artblart.com/tag/pamela-rataj

Martk Holsworth, Black Mark, Daily Archives, April 16 2008

Rosalie Ham, Catalogue Essay, Anita Traverso Gallery 2008

Stephanie Radok, Blue Note The Adelaide Review, 1999