Sarah Goffman (b. 1966, Sydney)
Education
Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW
2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney
2000
Diploma of Arts with Distinction (Photography), East Sydney Technical College, National Art School, Sydney
1994
Awards and Prizes
NAVA Visual Arts Fellowship
2017
Still: National Still Life Award 2017, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2017
Studios and Residencies
Asialink Residency Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2011
Life 3 an off-site Yokohama Triennale project in Shin-Minatomura, Japan
2011
ART CAMP, Marrickville Council,
2011
Sydney Fraser Studios, Sydney
2011
Performance Space, Sydney
2010
Australia Council for the Arts, Studio, Tokyo
2009
LARQ Residency, Queenstown, Tasmania
2009
Stonevilla, Sydney
2009
Fraser Studios, Sydney
2009
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
2007
Artspace, Sydney
2006
Public Collections
Arbank, Sydney
Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, The University of Western Australia, Perth
Monash University Museum of Art Melbourne
National Art School, Sydney
Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
Selected Bibliography
Tracey Clement, ‘2017 NAVA Visual Arts Fellowships go to Sarah Goffman,
2017
Sonia Leber and David Chesworth’, Art Guide Australia, 6 December
2017
‘Sarah Goffman Wins the 1st Still Life Award’, Artist Profile, 30 November
2017
‘Sarah Goffman wins National Still Life Award 2017’, Art Guide Australia, 29 November
2017
HR Johnston, ‘Sarah Goffman: waste not...’, Art Guide Australia, feature, 12 June
2017
Sarah Price, 'Recycling Artist Sarah Goffman', The Saturday Paper, 27 May,
2017
Gina Fairley, ‘Plastic replicas make an art form of the copy’, ArtsHub, 20 March
2017
Desiree Savage, ‘Sarah Goffman explains her plastic art, on show at Wollongong Gallery’, Illawarra Mercury, 8 March
2017
2015 Andrew Frost, ‘Sarah Goffman: Trash Converter’, Artlink, Vol. 34, No. 4
2015
Jeff Kahn, ‘Critic’s Choice’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 72, April-June, 2015, p125
2015
Chloe Wolifson, ‘Review: Sarah Goffman - Maximalist-Tokonoma & Paul Williams – Hello Ritual!’, Raven Contemporary, Dec 5, 2013 (online)
2013
Pedro De Almeida, ‘Everything Falls Apart’, un Magazine, issue 6.2, pp118-121
2013
Felicity Clark, ‘Festival Micro Parks’, Realtime Arts, online, issue 113
2013
Charlotte Day, ‘The Year in Review: Charlotte Day’, frieze, No.152, p118
2012
Adam Geczy, ‘Everything Falls Apart’, Art & Australia, Vo.51, No. 6, Autumn, p474
2012
Eleanor Ivory Weber, ‘Everything Falls Apart, Part I’, this is tomorrow, 8 August 2012, online
2012
Helen Molesworth, ‘Best of 2012: Everything Falls Apart, Part 1’, Artforum, Vol. 51, No. 4, p243
2012
Ann Finegan, ‘Coming soon (near you) BIG MINING and the question of scale’, Artlink, Vo. 32, No.4
2012
Christopher Allen, ‘Keeping it together as society falls apart’, The Australian, July 14 Mark Feary, ‘Everything Falls Apart Part 1’, Column 10, Artspace, Sydney, pp22- 23
2012
Jacqueline Milner, ‘Undiscovered Artists’, Australian Art Collector 2012, pp102- 103
2012
Toni Bailey, ‘Panorama Are we there yet?’, exh. cat., Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2012
John Cruthers, ‘Home is where the art is: the rise of home-based galleries’, Art
Monthly, Issue 246, Summer
2011
Bec Dean, Sarah Goffman – Trashcan Dreams, exh. cat., Performance Space, Sydney
2010
Elvis Richardson, Memorial, exh. cat., Death Be Kind, Melbourne
2010
Bec Dean, ‘Lies Forgery and Uttering in Blue and White’, Runway, Issue 15, pp10-13
2010
Sarah Goffman, ‘Make Believe’, Artist Pages, Runway, Issue 12, pp44-49
2010
Ann Finegan, Brett Jones, ‘Time and space : art & artist run spaces 1970 to now’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney
2010
Ron and George Adams, ‘Our Lucky Country (still different)’, exh. cat., Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Sydney
2007
Catriona Moore and Jo Holder, ‘Woolloomooloo and the Expanded Neighbourhood of Process-driven Art Practice’, Artspace Projects, Sydney
2006
Tracey Clement, ‘Woolloomoo-Louvre’, The Sydney Morning Herald Metro Art, Dec 8
2006
Tracey Clement, ‘Shelf Life’, The Sydney Morning Herald Metro Art, Sept 15
2006
Ann Finnegan, ‘Good Times & Friendship: Artist Initiatives and Relational Aesthetics’, Art Monthly, June No.190, pp18-24
2006
Russell Storer, ‘Curating A Situation’, Artfairs International Magazine (USA), July, pp88-89
2005
Bec Dean, ‘Situation’, un Magazine, Issue 5, Spring
2004
Ann Finnegan, ‘Elastic: Printed Project’, review, Eyeline, No.55, pp11-14 Roman Danylak, ‘Briefcase’, Object Magazine, No.301, p14
2003
Jay Balbi, Deej Fabyc, Sarah Goffman, Andrew Hurle, Leah McLeod, Elizabeth Pulie, Elivis Richardson, Elastic Printed Project, Sydney, pp90-101
2002
Chris Chapman, ‘Art Round-Up: Sydney’, Art Monthly, August, No.152, p25
2002
Tim Hilton and Jason Markou, ‘Sarah Goffman’s SWELL (just some shit) a grouped show’, Lives of the Artists #1, Elizabeth Pulie, Sydney Lisa Byrne, ‘Plant Room’, Eyeline No.46, pp52-3
2002
Alex Gawronski, ‘Now You See It...’, Broadsheet, Vol. 30/2
2001
Exhibitons
Solo Exhibitons
Bridge to Asia, Murray Art Museum (MAMA), Albury
2019
National Art – Part One, with Michael Snape, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2018
Border Designs, True Estate Gallery, Melbourne I am not Gina Rinehart, 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney
2018
Ōi Goffman / Not My Place, KNULP, Sydney
2017
I am a 3D Printer, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
2017
Marrickville Opium Den, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
2016
City of Plenty, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
2015
Blue and White Car, Cementa 2015, Kandos, NSW
2015
HERE, Kandos Projects, Kandos
2014
New Digital Media, Artereal, Sydney
2014
Maximalist Tokonoma, Gallery 9, Sydney
2013
Plastici, Lewers House, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
2012
Intercourse, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2011
Trashcan Dreams, curator Bec Dean, Performance Space, Sydney
2010
Plastic Arts, Artroom5, Adelaide
2010
Fatty and Slender, Institute for Contemporary Art Newtown, Sydney
2010
Big in Japan, MOP Projects, Sydney
2010
Paradise Found, Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney, Sydney
2008
Green Work, Artroom5, Adelaide
2008
Victoria, Ocular Lab, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2007
Excess, curator Margaret Roberts, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
2007
S.N.O.W., curated by Scott Donovan Projects, Black Box, Sydney
2005
I Wish I Were Bigger, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
2003
Hotel Module, Cube Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2003
Swell, Block Gallery, Sydney
2002
XXXXXXXL, Front Room, Sydney
2002
Caravan Carry Me Home, Elastic Projects, Free Space Scots Church Sydney
2001
Sticks and Stones, Blaugrau, Sydney
2000
Do You Want To Go Back?, Elastic Project Space, Sydney
2000
Blueprint, South, Sydney
1998
Come Visit Lucy for a Lucky Charm: Visions of Australasia, Firstdraft, Sydney
1997
Stamp (The Art of Postage), Airspace, Sydney
1995
The Art of War, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
1994
Performances
Psychiatrist 50c, Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
2018
Psychiatrist 50c, MCA Artbar, curated by Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
2017
Fat Massage, Free Fall, curator Alex Wisser, The Cube, Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
2014
Oki-do Yoga, Workout, curator Anna Davies, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney
2013
Wabi-Sabi Afternoon Tea, Micro Parks, Sydney Festival, Performance Space, Sydney
2013
Wabi-Sabi Afternoon Tea, Cementa, Kandos Projects, Kandos
2013
Art Massage, 20/20, Damien Minton’s Annexe Space, Sydney
2012
Psychiatrist 7c, curator Nat Thomas, Hell Gallery, Victoria
2010
Psychiatrist 7c, curator Carla Cescon, Loose Project Space, Sydney
2006
Lard, curator Penny Thwaite, Performance Space, Sydney
1998
A Progressive Dinner, Performance Space, Sydney
1997
Selected Group Exhibitions
Materiality, Home@735, Sydney
2018
Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
2017
Still: National Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour (winner)
2017
Home@735 Invitational, Home@735 Art Gallery, Sydney
2017
Baby High Speed, curated by Lisa Andrew, Pablo Gallery, Manila 2017
Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize curated by Mikala Dwyer, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2017
Playing with Perspectives: New views from emerging artists, curated by Art Pharmacy, Deloitte, Sydney
2017
Impossible Exchange, curator Alex Gawronski and Knulp, FUZZYVIBES, Auckland
2015
MCA ArtBar, curated by Tom Polo, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
2015
Paramor Prize, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2015
Animal/Mineral/Physical/Spiritual, curator Chloe Wolifson, The Bearded Tit, Sydney
2015
Vibrant Matter, The Bearded Tit, Sydney
2015
Pretty Shit, curator Colleen Ahern and Mark Hislop, The Alderman, Melbourne
2015
Daisy Chain, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
2014
Nocturnal Windows, curator Ian Geraghty, 67 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
2014
Plastics ONO, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
2014
Strange Histories, curator Sandra De Palma, Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, Sydney
2014
Grace Cossington Smith Art Prize, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
2014
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Cambelltown Art Centre, Sydney
2014
Selfish, curator Jane Polkinghorne, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
2014
+1, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
2013
Useful, curator Liane Rosler, Carriageworks, Sydney
2013
Evolution, curator Emily Hunt, 55 Sydenham Road, Sydney
2013
Bookish, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
2013
JANIS II, curator Amanda Rowell and Kelly Doley, The Commercial and McLemoi Gallery, Sydney
2013
Op-Shop, curator Fiona Davies, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Sydney
2013
Camouflage, curator Nicholas Tsoutas, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney
2013
Art on Paper: Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
2013
Bridge to Asia in Low Relief, curator Connie Anthes, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2013
Panorama, curator Toni Bailey, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2012
Occupy Sydney, curator Jo Holder, Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2012
Still Life, curator Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Parramatta Artists Studios Gallery, Sydney
2012
Karaoke Queenz, Artbar with Justene Williams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2012
Lab work, curators Lisa Andrew and Bronia Iwanczak, Appin Motel, Sydney
2012
Ceramica, Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown, Sydney
2012
Subject to be, curator Maria Cruz, DAGC Gallery, Philippines
2012
Sense of Place, dLux Media Arts Tour, Toowoomba and Broken Hill Regional Galleries, Casula Powerhouse, Raglan Gallery, New South Wales
2012
Lab Failure, Frasers Studios, Sydney
2012
Everything Falls Apart, curator Mark Feary, Artspace, Sydney
2012
20/20, Damien Minton Annexe, Sydney
2012
Panoply, Sawtooth ARI Inc., Hobart
2011
Set in Stone, National Art School, Sydney
2011
20/20, Damien Minton Annexe, Sydney
2011
Pulp Tongue, SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney
2011
Life 3, BankART, curator Bec Dean, Shin-Minato Mura, Japan
2011
Almost Down, curator Yu Araki, Tayuta Gallery, Japan
2011
Chain Letter , Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2011
Clean-up, Tokyo streets, Tokyo
2011
Memorial Show, curator Elvis Richardson, Death be Kind, Melbourne
2010
Covers, Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown, Sydney
2010
Girl Show, curator Jess Johnson, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Time and Space, curator Michael Rolfe, Hazelhurst Regional Arts Center, Sydney
2010
Group Show, Breenspace, Sydney
2009
Cryptophilistinism, curator Amita Kirpalani, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne and CAST, Hobart
2009
Vortex Outdoor Art Prize, Stone Villa Studios, Sydney
2009
Hokey Pokey, curator Agatha Gothe Snape and Mitch Cairns, The Cosmic Battle for your Heart, Sydney Push Me, Locksmith, Sydney The Good, the Bad, the Muddy, Mori Gallery, Sydney I’m worse at what I do best, curator Tom Polo, Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney
Elastic Online Project
2008
Bazarre!, Terminus Project, curators Clalre Lewis and Sarah Rawlings, Biennale Satellite Show, Broadway Credit Union, Sydney
2008
The Shit Show, Loose Projects, Sydney
2007
In Every Dream Home a Heartache, curator Sophie O’Brien, SCA Gallery, Sydney College of Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney
2007
Nightime #4, Carriageworks, Sydney
2007
Small Mall, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Sydney
2007
Our Lucky Country (still different), Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Sydney
2007
What Form Would A Life Take?, curated by Maria Cruz and Reuben Keehan
MOP Projects, Sydney
2006
Cones of Zontact, Loose Projects, curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham, MOP Projects, Sydney
2006
New Social Commentaries, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Melbourne
2006
Someone Shows Someone Something, curator Mark Hislop, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2006
It’s A New Day, curator Sally Breen, Artspace, Sydney
2006
Shelf Life, curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham, MOP Projects, Sydney
2006
Elastic Archive Show, Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2005
Situation, curator Russell Storer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2005
Seven Beauties, Tin Sheds, Sydney
2005
The Wild Boys, Mememe Gallery, Sydney
2005
Alien Invasion, curators Ron and George Adams, MOP Projects, Sydney
2005
Down The Road from the Studio, with Lisa Kelly and Josie Cavallaro, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney
2004
Fantasy Island, A Block Project, curator Hany Armonious, Michael Lett, Auckland
2004
The Sleeper, curator Jane Barney, Canberra Railway Museum, Canberra
2004
Elastic Group Show, Elastic Project Space, London
2004
Picturing Paradise, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2003
Shangri-La Project, curator Maria Cruz, Artspace, Sydney
2003
After You, Front Room Kitchen Space, Sydney
2003
Plastic Reality, curator Koji Ryui and Vicky Browne, MOP Projects, Sydney
2003
Marineland, curator Philipa Veitch, Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney, Sydney
2003
Plantroom, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
2002
Lightweight, curator Anne Kay, Lime Gallery, USA Greenview, curator Jason Markou, Block Gallery, Sydney
2002
Eco-Boutique, with J. Cavallaro and L. Kelly, 24 Hr Art, Darwin
2002
Briefcase 50, curator Simon Barney, Boutwell Draper, Sydney
2002
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney
2002
Swamp, KWL Joint Project, Shepard Street Car Park, Sydney
2001
Gettin’ Lucky, curator Josie Cavallaro, Lewers Bequest, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
2001
Hollywood Show, curator Simon Barney, Hollywood Hotel via Briefcase, Sydney
2001
Science Experiment, Briefcase, Sydney Offman, Squatspace, Sydney
2001
Add Life Plantroom, with Lisa Kelly and Carla Cescon, Gallery 4A, Sydney
2001
Zine Show, Briefcase, Sydney Boot Camp, curators Jason Markou and Joerg Hubmann, Block Gallery, Sydney
2001
Dead Freight, curator Lisa Kelly and Alex Gawronski, Imperial Slacks, Sydney
2001
Physique, curator Ian Geraghty, Grey Matter, Sydney
2000
The Tie Show, Briefcase, Sydney
2000
Ten Day City, a Joint Project with Joerg Hubmann, Jason Markou, Anne Kay Gallery 9, Sydney
2000
One Last Show, Herringbone, Sydney Taxi, Elastic Project Space, Sydney
2000
Perspecta, Artspace, Sydney
1999
Green & Gold, Firstdraft, Sydney Store, Herringbone, Sydney
1999
Evergreen, curator Lisa Kelly, Platform Inc., Melbourne
1999
In The Piss, Gunnery Studio, Sydney
1998
Injection, curator Penny Thwaite, The Performance Space, Sydney
1998
Salon Show, ACP, Melbourne Mondo Cane, curator Mark Hislop, Herringbone, Sydney
1998
Glovebox, curator Simon Barney and Chris Fortescue, Wilson St. Car Park, Sydney
1998
Outhaus, Sculpture Symposium, Sydney Park, Sydney
1998
Showcase, Side-On Gallery, Sydney
1997
Between Art and Nature: Perspecta, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney Pin Show, curator Chris Fortescue and Simon Barney, South, Sydney
1997
10th Anniversary Show, Firstdraft Sydney
1996
Diaspora, curated By Franz Ehmann, Whitebox Gallery, Brisbane
1996
Publicaart, cnr.Mc Donald and John Street, Erskineville Sydney
1996
Walking the Street, Newtown, Sydney
1996
Combination Style, Palace Café, Sydney
1995
Trap, Cell Block Theatre, Sydney
And An Image..., curator Peta Morris, Glebe Catacombs, Sydney
1994