Bio

Born Melbourne, Australia

travels

Japan, France, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Portugal, Malta, New York, LA, San Francisco, Morocco, India, Thailand, China, East Silk Road, Singapore, Bali, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Greece

art residencies

2019-21 Dunmoochin Art Foundation, Victoria Australia
2018 Szent András castle, Hungary
2016-17 MANK, Artist Colony, Szentendre, Hungary
2016 Budapest, Hungary
2016 318 International Art Village, Beijing, China
2015 John Robinson Studio, Rural Bendigo, Australia
2013 Songzhuang Artist Village, Beijing, China
2012 Assisi, Italy
2012 Bialik College, Melbourne, Australia
2010 La Muse, Artist and Writers Centre, Carcassonne, France
2007 Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China
2003 Oncology Ward, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia

solo exhibitions

2018 An Other View, Szent András Castle, Hungary
2017 Inner Space/ Belso Tér, Art Capital Festival, Szentendre, Hungary
2017 Inner Space, Inner Voice/ Belso Tér, Belso Hang, Ars Sacra, Szentendre, Hungary
2016 Ink, Tea, Coal, Gold Leaf and Silk on Mulberry Paper, Matthias Kueper Gallerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2016 Infinite Distance Immediate Presence, Green T House, Beijing, China
2016 Dawn Csutoros, The Showroom in association with Geoff Raby, 318 Artist Village, Beijing, China
2015 Elemental: Time, Space, Presence, Langford 120 Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2014 Luminosity, Cyclone Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Infinite Distance, Immediate Presence, Santa Caterina’s chapel, NUN, Assisi, Italy,
Motherhouse of the Good Shepherd Sisters, Angers, France
Sister Carmel Curtin Crypt, Abbottsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Black Diamonds, Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 Ink, Tea, Coal, Australian Embassy, Beijing, China
2007 Ink, Tea and Coal, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing China
2007 Poetics of Space, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
2005 Liminal, Thresholds of Being, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Place of Mind, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Dawn Csutoros, Genkan Gallery, Tokyo America Club, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Liminal, Thresholds of Being, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia
2001 Illumination, Mira Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2001 New Works, Australian Embassy Tokyo, Japan
2001 New Works 2000, Gallery Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan
2001 New Works on Paper, El Patio Gallery, Kurashiki, Japan
2000 Silent Friction, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2000 Silent Friction, Soho Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1999 Edge of Possibility, Bulle Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Of Silence, Solitude and Roses, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1994 Paintings 1989-94, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

group exhibitions

2026. Women of the Badlands, Montsalvat Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2023 ABSTRACTION 23, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Black and White, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Substrate 23, Tacit Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Bienalle, West End Art Space, Melbourne,
2020 Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Bienalle, West End Art Space, Melbourne,
2020 Convergence, Colour and Sound, Abstract Project Gallery, Paris, France
2020 Quiet Complexity, YAVA, Australia
2019 Now Change, YAVA, Australia
2017 ArtofKindness, White Space, London, UK
2017 Die Poesie des Wenigen 11, Abstraktion, Reduktion auf das Wesentliche bis zum Minimalismus, Artmark galerie, Vienna, Austria
2017 Koyeledjetek…111 / Come Closer Together, Ars Sacra, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Vale Street Studio Artists, Bright Space Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2016 Universal, Unique, Untitled, The Showroom, Beijing, China
2015 Artpeace, Sagra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Hutchins Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2015 Shared Experience, Inqubator Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection: Australian Contemporary Art, Milan Italy
2015 International Slow Art Day, Langford120 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Trajectories, Langford120 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Blue on Blue, Langford120 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Quiet Noise, Chapman and Bailey, Melbourne Australia
2014 Degeneration, ACAF Art Terminal T1, Sydney, Australia
2013 A4 for 4A, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney Australia
2013 Vale St Artists, St Kilda, Open Studios, Beijing China
2013 Because Mountain, Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 Suspended Time Part 1, Catherine de France, Beijing, China
2013 Suspended Time Part 2, Montpelier, Beijing, China
2013 Time, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Australia
2011 Covering Ground, Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Covering Ground, University of La Verne, California, USA
2011 Nu Yishu, Veriditas, International Women’s Day 100th Anniversary touring:
-Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China
-Redtory Art Centre, Guangzou, China
-Manningham Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Imagine Colour, Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 Woman, Environment, Fashion City, International Fashion Week, World Expo, Shanghai, China
2009 Hutchins Art Prize, Finalist Exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2007 Built Perceptions, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 The Winnowing of the Grain, Red Wall Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2005 Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2005 Art and the Sacred and Tasmania, Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Historic Centre, Hobart, Australia
2005 Hutchins Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Long gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2004 Barking up the Wrong Tree, touring:
-Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
-Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2003 Barking up the Wrong Tree, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003 Future Perfect, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2003 Tasmania Living Artist’s Week, Hobart, Australia
2002 Tachikawa festival, International Artists, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Synergy, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia
2002 Works on Paper, Mira Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Arts Access: Contemporary Art, ANZ Pavilion, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Joyeux Noel, Gallery Chika, Tokyo, Japan
2001 3D Exhibition, Mira Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2001 The Next Exhibition, Gallery Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Food in Art, Devonport Regional Gallery, Ten Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania, Australia
2001 Postcard Show, Tasmania State Library, Hobart, Australia
2001 Southern Island Art Prize, Ten Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania
2000 Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Melbourne, Australia
2000 Axis, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2000 Bulle Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1999 The 10th Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Australia
1999 CAST Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1999 New Abstractions, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Folksong, collaborative performance with Brigita Ozolins, Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Australia
1999 Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1999 Hutchins Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1999 CAST members exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1999 A Flourishing Ecology, a Survey of Tasmania Printmakers, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1997/8 Odyssey, Schoolof Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
1998 Affinity, Fine Arts Galler, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
1998 Hues Hue? Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1998 Consuming the Feminine, Recital Hall, Conservatorium of Music, Hobart, Australia
1998 Have a Seat, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1996 Pilgrimage, series of landscape installations from Hobart – Launceston
1996 Exhibition of Essence, Swingbridge Gallery, Tasmania, Australia
1995 Fringe Festival, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

study and professional experience

2020-21 Coaching for Creativity
2000-2016 Arts Educator: CAE -Hobart, Adult Ed, FCAC Melbourne
2003 Art Project Coordinator – Mangkaja Arts Centre, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia
2003 Tree Hugs Project Creator and Coordinator – Wilderness Society, Hobart, Australia
2002/3 Creative Guru, (Art Program Director) Strathcare, Tasmania, Australia
1995/98 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Art, University of Tasmania, Australia
1982/85 Art Teacher and Classroom Primary Teacher, Victoria, Australia
1979/81 Diploma of Teaching (Primary), State College of Victoria, Australia

community art and public art projects

2010 Infinite Distance, Immediate Presence Italy, France, Hungary, Melbourne, China, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
A visual and sound art installation touring to sacred places
2003 The River, Life Force of Fitzroy, Fitzroy Crossing, WesternAustralia.
Giant ground painting (380 sq meters) at Guwardi Ngadu Frail Aged Hostel, Fitzroy Crossing involving four different indigenous language groups in the Fitzroy and Kimberley communities.
2003 Liminal, Thresholds of Being, Hobart, Australia
Eight-week residency involving patients in the Oncology Ward in the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, Filmed by Stateline, ABC TV, Tasmania.
2003 Tree Hugs, Knitted Art Installation in the Styx Forest, southern Tasmania, with Wilderness Society and involving participation around the world including, US, UK, Europe and Asia.
2003 Kosagi, Little Egret, Bridge to Japan, Australia / Japan
International art collaboration between elderly residents from aged care facilities in Akashi, Japan and Strathcare, Hobart, Australia. Involving elderly residents, school children and the local community.
2002 Mountain Magic, Hobart, Australia
Art project with elderly residents from Vaucluse Gardens Lodge and Students from Goulburn Street Primary School
2000 The Visitors – Elizabeth College Hobart, Australia
Large mural in Elizabeth College, measuring 34 x4 metres

public collections

Ferenczy muzeum, Szentendre, Hungary  
Redtory Art Centre, Guangzhou, China  
Australian Embassy, Beijing, China  
Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan  
ARTaccess, Tokyo, Japan  
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia  
CSIRO, Hobart, Australia  
JW Marriott Hotel, Beijing, China  
Elizabeth College, Hobart, Australia  
Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia  
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia  
North West Regional Hospital, Burnie, Australia  
Cambridge Fire Training Service, Hobart, Australia  
Northbank Terrace, Melbourne Australia  
Bocskai Hungarian Cultural Centre, Melbourne, Australia  
City Limits Hotel, Melbourne, Australia  
La Muse, Carcassonne, France  
Healthy Outlook, Australia  

grants & awards

2015 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Australia
2009 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Australia
2005 Art for Public Buildings Scheme, Arts Tasmania (Tasmanian Fire Service Training Commission, Tasmania, Australia
2005 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Australia
2003 Export Marketing Assistance Scheme, Development Grant for Tokyo, Department of State Development, Tasmania, Australia
2003 Tasmanian Export Awards Finalist, Department of State Development, Hobart, Australia
2003 Arts Tasmania Grant, for the Artists in Hospitals program, a project in Royal Hobart Hospital
2002 Arts for Public Building Scheme, Arts Tasmania, North West Regional Hospital, Burnie, Australia
2002 Tasmanian Export Awards Finalist, Department of State Development, Hobart, Australia
2001 Export Marketing Assistance Scheme, Development Grant for Tokyo, Department of State Development, Tasmania, Australia
2000 Research and Development Grant, for Tokyo, Department of State Development, Tasmania, Australia
1999 Travel Grant, (Melbourne exhibition), Arts Tasmania, Australia
1999 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart Australia

television and radio

2017 Inner Space / Belso Tér, M5 TV, Budapest, Hungary
2013 Newsline, (interview) Beijing, ABC news
2013 Time Exhibition, ABC on Air, Hobart, Australia
2008 Australian Art Exhibition during Beijing’s Olympic highlights (interview), ABC TV news, China / Australia
2006 Sunday Arts Program (interview), ABC TV, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Tree Knitters (interview), Sunday Morning Arts, ABC Radio National, Australia
2003 Hospital Artist (documentary), Stateline, ABC TV, Hobart, Australia
2003 Saving the Styx Forest (interview) ABC and channels 9, 7 TV News, Hobart, Australia
2001 Life of an Artist, (documentary), Hungarian magazine Community Television, Melbourne, Australia

bibliography

2017   Ablakokat nyitni és felakat bontani, Budapest, Art Capital 2017, Eged Dalma, Hungary
2017   Új M?vészet, Magyar M?vészeti Akadémia, October. 2017, Budapest, Hungary
2017   Munkáimban a Dualitás Feloldására Törekszem, Alkotó Muvészet 2017, MANK nonprofit kft, Budapest, Hungary
2017   Közeledjetek – kiálitás nyilik a Zichy majorban, Eller Ertsebet, Budapest, Hungary
2015   Elemental. The Art and Perceptions of Dawn Csutoros, Jennifer Choat, The North West Melbourne News, Australia
2013   It’s Time to Reflect on Art, Rebecca Fitzgibbon, The Mercury, Hobart, Australia
2012   Global Impressions, Voice, The Magazine of the University of La Verne, California, USA
2011   International Artists Cover New Ground, Campus Times, University of La Verne, California, USA
2011   Covering Ground Exhibition at Harris Gallery showcases work by Artists from Los Angeles and Melbourne, University of La Verne News, California, USA
2011   Nu Yishu- from 1 to 5, Redzine, Redtory, Issue 02, Guangzhou, China
2011   Nu Yishu – series V: Veriditas, Broadway to Vegas, USA
2010   Abstract Paintings, China Daily, Beijing, China
2010   Black Diamonds, Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China
2009   Art and About, Broadway to Vegas, USA
2009   Black Diamonds, The Play Network, China
2009   Beijing Today, Beijing, China
2007   Ink, Tea and Coal, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China
2007   Red Sweaters: Maximal and Minimal Knittivism, Tikkun Knits, USA
2005   Hungarian World in Australia and New Zealand, Panorama Media Mix, Budapest, Hungary
2004   Art, Craft and Ecology Meet at the Styx Forest, Adam Geczy, Art Monthly Australia, May 2004, No 19 Art Monthly
2004   Dawn Csutoros: A L’aube d’une Nouvelle Creativite, jean francoise Vernay, Correspondences Oceaniennes, Revue Culturelle Neo-Caledonienne, La Creation, Avril, New Caledonia
2003   Art reaches out to Community, Penny Thow, Glenorchy Gazette, Hobart Australia
2002   A Creative Guru is Helping Revolutionise Aged Care, Margaret Pos, The Mercury, Hobart, Australia
2002   Synergy, Collaboration between Artists and Scientists, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia
2002   Art in Health, Dawn Csutoros, Australian Network Art and Health Journal, Australia
2002   Art Monthly, July Australia
2002   Art in Palliative Care, Dawn Csutoros, Palliative Care, Australia
2002   Magic Happens in Art Collaboration, Danny Rose, The Mercury, April 19, Hobart, Australia
2001   A Sense of Heightened Experience, Naohiko Doki, Asahi Newspapaer, July 5th, Tokyo, Japan
2001   Sea of Calm Washes over Drab Grey Walls, Patrick Cranny, The Saturday Mercury, July 21, Hobart, Australia
2000   Silent Friction, Joerg Andersch, The Saturday Mercury, May 27, Hobart, Australia
1999   Hungarians in Focus, Marffy Attila, Magyar Élet, Budapest, Hungary

book covers & authored articles

2013   In the Vineyard of Art, The Story of Art and Tasmania, A History. michael Denholm, Carlton Street Press (cover image) Hobart, Australia
2006   The Winnowing of the Grain, Art and Craft Magazines in Australia 1963-1996, Michael Denholm, Carlton Street Press, (cover image) Hobart, Australia
2004   Antipodes, A North American Journal ofAustralian Literature, December (cover image and article) New York, USA
2004   Correspondences Oceanienes, Revue Culturelle Neo Caledoniene, New Caledonia (cover image and article), New Caledoia
2002   Human Sexuality, Simon LeVay, Sharon M Valente, Sinauer Associates Inc, (cover image), New York, USA
2002   Artwork, Artes: Tidskrift for Litteratur, Konst och Musick, Press Data, Stockholm (image)
2002   Art in Palliative Care, National Palliative news, (article), Palliative Care, Australia
2001   Antipodes, A North American Journal of Australian Literature, (cover image), New York, USA