JENNIFER GOODMAN
Born, 1956, lives and works in Melbourne
Education
1975-76 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) –
Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Further to Fly, Gallerysmith,
Melbourne
2020 Colour, Gallerysmith, North Melbourne,
Victoria
2019 Inner Responses, Turner Galleries,
Perth, Western Australia
2017 The Long Wait for the Angel,
Gallerysmith, North Melbourne, Victoria
2015 Apropos, Gallerysmith, North
Melbourne, Victoria
2014 COUNTER-CURRENT, Gallerysmith, North
Melbourne, Victoria
2012 Senses & Thoughts, John
Buckley Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
2010 Ocular Spectra, John Buckley Gallery,
Richmond, Victoria
2008 The Edge of Time, John Buckley Gallery,
Richmond, Victoria
2006 The Balance of Asymmetry, John
Buckley Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
2004 New Work, John Buckley Fine Art,
Prahran, Victoria
2002 Chromatic Progressions, John
Buckley Fine Art, Prahran, Victoria
Curated Group Exhibitions
2021 I Am Here, curated by Katherine
Hattam, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2020 Modernisters for Barpirdhila, online
Instagram exhibition, @modernisterfor
2020 Of Light & Colour-Women Abstract
Artists Biennial, West End Art Space, West Melbourne, Victoria
2020 Art Aid Gippsland,
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2019 Abstract Salon, Langford
120, Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Of Colour & Light 2018, West End
Art Space, West Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Abstraction#TwentyEighteen,
Langford 120, North Melbourne, Victoria
2017 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize,
The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Victoria
2017 ATWAIR16, Australian
Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne, Victoria
2016 0+1 Digital Prints,
Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
DENFAIR, Gallerysmith stand, Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
McClelland Collection, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria
2015 Sydney Contemporary 15,
Carriageworks, Sydney
Winter Solstice,
Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Two of a Kind,
Bundoora Homestead,
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition
Building, Carlton
2013 COPY CUT PASTE: Contemporary Collage,
John Buckley Gallery, Prahran
2012 A Private View: Art Collecting in the City
of Glen Eira, Glen Eira City Council Gallery
Frames of
Reference, Langford 120, North Melbourne
Winter
Collectors’ Exhibition 2012, John Buckley Gallery, Richmond
2011 Conversations, John Buckley Gallery,
Richmond
2009 Winter Collectors’ Exhibition 2009,
John Buckley Gallery, Richmond
2008 This Way Up: Abstract works from the La
Trobe University Art Collection, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
The Contemporary
Collage: Australian collage and assemblage, John Buckley Gallery, Richmond
2007 The Summer Exhibition, John Buckley
Gallery, Richmond
2006 A4 Art-Reunion, West Space Gallery,
Melbourne
Snapshot,
John Buckley Gallery, Richmond
2005 The Chandelier Show, Ladner &
Fell Gallery, Armadale
Winter Collection,
Port Jackson Press Gallery, Armadale
2003 Spring Exhibition, John Buckley Fine Art,
Prahran
2000 Recent Geometric Abstraction: Robert Jacks and
Beyond, John Buckley Fine Art
Award Exhibitions
2022 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize 2022,
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Finalist, Lethbridge 20000
Small Scale Art Award, Paddington, Queensland
Selected, Omnia Art Award, St
Kevin’s College, Toorak, Victoria
2019 Artist in Residence, Turner Galleries Art
Angels Artist in Residence Program, Perth,
2018 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland
Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2017 WINNER, Local Art Prize, Bayside Acquisitive
Art Prize, Bayside Gallery, Victoria
2016 Finalist, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize,
Bayside Gallery, Brighton, Victoria
Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Finalist, The 39th Alice Art Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Artist in Residence, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2015 Finalist, Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast
City Art Gallery, Qld
Finalist, Bayside
Art Prize, Bayside Gallery, Brighton, Victoria
2012 Finalist, National Works on Paper Award,
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2011 Finalist Fleurieu Art Prize, Hardy’s
Winery, McLaren Vale, South Australia
2011 Finalist, The Substation Contemporary Art
Prize, The Substation, Newport, Victoria
2011 Finalist, Muswellbrook Open Art Prize,
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW
2007 WINNER, City of Darebin La Trobe
University Acquisitive Art Prize 2007, Victoria
2007 Finalist, Stan and Maureen Duke Gold
Coast Art Prize, Queensland
2007 Finalist, Banyule City Council Works on
Paper Art Award, Victoria
Articles, Essays, Reviews and Publications
Andrew Browne, In the Abstract Realm, Further to Fly, ex.cat. 2022
Tess Maunder, Thinking in Folds, Colour, ex.cat. 2020
Alan R. Dodge, Jennifer
Goodman ‘Colour’, The Review Board website, April 2020
Chloe Wolifson, The Long Wait for the Angel, ex.cat. 2017
Ted Snell, The Long Wait for the Angel, Artist Profile, November
issue, 2017, pp 118-121
Sharon Green, ‘Artist from Brighton wins local award in Bayside Acquisitive
Art Prize’, The Discoverist 8 June 2017
‘Jennifer Goodman’, Art Collector Special Edition Sydney Contemporary
2015, pp.36-37
Adrian Goodman (film maker),’COUNTER-CURRENT’, short film, November 2014
Dr Wilma Tabacco, ‘COUNTER-CURRENT… and all that jazz’,
COUNTER-CURRENT,
ex.cat.
Megan Backhouse, ‘PREVIEWS: The Art Guide Australia Shortlist, Art Guide
Australia, November / December 14, p.51
Dan Rule, ‘CUT COPY PASTE: Contemporary Collage’, The Age, Life
& Style – In the Galleries, 25 May 13, p.5
Dan Rule, ‘Senses & Thoughts’, The Age, Life & Style – In
the Galleries, 10 Nov, 12, p.7
Alan R. Dodge, Senses & Thoughts, exhibition catalogue, John
Buckley Gallery, Oct 12
Penny Webb, ‘The best of art’, The (Melbourne) Magazine, October
2012, p.88
Robert Nelson, ‘Geometric Progression’, The Age, 20 November 2010,
p.20
Julie Karabenick, Ocular Spectra, exhibition catalogue, John
Buckley Gallery, Oct 10
Cynthia Wynhoven, ‘Form, shape and colour in conversation’, Lorne
Indepn’t, Aug 09,
Robert Nelson, ‘Air of trepidation in world of contrast’, The Age,
22 Oct, 08, p.18
Jeffrey Makin, ‘Jennifer Goodman, The Edge of Time’, The Herald Sun,
13 Oct, 08, p.34
Ashley Crawford, ‘Around the Galleries’, The Age, 11 October, 2008,
p.20
Simon Gregg, The Edge of Time, ex. cat., John Buckley Gallery,
September 2008
Ted Snell, ‘Jennifer Goodman’ in Untitled. Portraits of Australian
Artists, Payes S. (Ed.) Macmillan Art Publishing, 2007 p.134
Zoe Turner, ‘Art: Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists by Sonia Payes’,
M/C Reviews, 30 September 2007
Melinda Marshall, ‘Mastering art’s tightrope act’, The Stonn’ton Leader,
4 Sept, 07 p.12
Megan Backhouse, ‘Best on show’, The Age, 15 August, 2007 p.17
Julie Karabenick (Ed.), Geoform: Geometric form and structure in
contemporary abstract art, www.geoform.net
Ted Snell, The Balance of Asymmetry, exhibition catalogue, John
Buckley Gallery, August, 2006
Jeffrey Makin, ‘Shining light in our art market, The Herald Sun, 15
May 2006
Narelle Curtis (Ed.), Art For Science, exhibition catalogue,
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, 2005, p.14.
James Makin (Ed.), Winter Collection 2005: Port Jackson Press Gallery,
Port Jackson Press, Melbourne, 2004, pp.21-22
Jeffrey Makin, ‘Review: Visual Arts’, The Herald Sun, 3 June 2002
Collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank
City of Darebin
City of Fremantle
City of Melville
City of Wanneroo
Embassy of Australia, Washington, USA
Edith Cowan University
Geelong Gallery
Gippsland Art Gallery
Intrapac, South Melbourne, Victoria
John Curtin Gallery
La Trobe University Art Museum (gifted from the Dr Joseph Brown Collection)
McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park
Monash University Collection
Murdoch University
North Metropolitan College of TAFE
Skin and Cancer Foundation of Victoria, Carlton, Victoria
University of Western Australia
