Dani Marti



1963 Born in Barcelona, Spain
1978-1979         studies in tapestry technique, Barcelona, Spain
1982-1988MBA, Esade, Barcelona, Spain
1990-1991Diploma Fine Arts, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, Australia
1991-1992Fine Arts Course, Art Students League, New York, USA
2000Master of Arts, majoring in sculpture and installation, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2006Master of Fine Arts, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2007Newcastle Regional Gallery Residency, Newcastle
Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant- Established artist
2009    Gallery of Modern Art residency in conjunction with Gay Men‟s Health, Glasgow, Scotland
2010Residency at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
New York Studio Residency for 2012, Australia Council for the Arts
2011Creative Scotland, professional development grant


Lives in Melbourne, Australia.


Solo Exhibitions

2015Slow Show, GAG Projects, Adelaide, Australia
2014Run, Run, Run, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012Mariposa (Butterfly), BREENSPACE, Sydney, Australia
Against Day, Peleton, Sydney, Australia
2011And that's it, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
TOUCH; The portraiture of Dani Marti, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Australia
Book of miracles, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2010Bacon’s Dog, Breenspace, Sydney, Australia
2009Insideout, off site venue: 4 Parnie street, GoMA and Glasggay, Glasgow, Scotland
Time is the fire in which we burn, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008One breath below consciousness, Breenspace, Sydney, Australia
2007Glitering Shadows, The Studio, Glasgay Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Closer, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Off my noodle, Live Sites, Newcastle Region Art Gallery and Newcastle City Council, NSW, Australia
2006Dark Bones, Citric Gallery, Brescia, Italy
The Seven Pleasures of Snow White, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005There is nothing at the end of the rainbow, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Viewing Gallery, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Orifices 2000–2004 and Looking for Felix 2000, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2004-2005Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, travelling to Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney; Port Macquarie Hastings Regional Gallery, NSW; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW; La Trobe Regional Gallery, VIC; Monash University Art Museum, VIC, Australia
2004 Looking for Rover, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Orifices 2000–04,The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
2003Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Portrait of a young man returning a ladybird to the grass, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002Blue angels, Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
Mother is crying, Briefcase Project and Block, Sydney, Australia
2001You make me feel like love, peace and happiness, Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia
I am forever blowing bubbles, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia
missing spain, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Enhance Systems and Orifices,Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Jamón, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain
2000Thin Wall PB-I,Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Coco, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sorry I just dropped my guts, The Lounge, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool, Australia
Looking for felix, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1999 WS-S#, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia


Group Exhibitions (selection)

2015Obey!, curated by Paco Barragan, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Chile
Video Stage- Art Stage Singapore 2015, curated by Paul Greenaway, Singapore
Cementa 15, Kandos, NSW, Australia
2014DARK HEART: The 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
2013Fractures, PINTA, New York, Butterfly Man video program, curated by Octavio Zaya, USA
Weight and Measure with Lee Cavaliere and Andreas Siegfried, satellite exhibition, Frieze London, GB
The 62nd Blake Prize, COFA Galleries, Sydney, Australia
The Fleurieu Art Prize, Adelaide, Australia
Woolahra Small Sculpture Award, Sydney, Australia
VIDEONALE.14, Moscow tour, Russia
From Madonna to Madonna, Domus Artium (DA2) Salamanca, Spain, curated by Paco Barragán
MARKED – drawing now, Cessnock Regional Art Gallery
14th VIDEONALE, Kunstmuseum Bonn
ECONOMY, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and Stills: Scotland’s Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011 Group Show, Breenspace, Sydney, Australia
Lets the healing begin, IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
INHABIT, Third floor, building 2, 92 White Post Lane, London, GB
Art of the Ordinary,  Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Espiritu de Epoca, Una Decada de Pintura, MIAC, Lanzarote, Spain
Highly Strung, Peter Potter Gallery, Scotland
2010Social Documents: The Ethics of Encounter, Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
CinemaX: what I like to watch, MOCCA, Toronto, Canada
100 YEARS: Highlights from the University of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane, Australia
Vocal Thoughts, CACSA, Adelaide, Australia
Cine the Barrio: La Velada de Santa Lucia, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Hands On, Hazelhurst Reegional Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2009Non Age, Kunstalle Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Runing Time: artists films in Scotland: 1960 to now, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Biennal de Lazarote: Energy, Crisis, Creation, MIAC, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
Ou va la video?, Kaunas In Artm Lithuania, Tina B festival, Prague; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
The University of Queensland National Artists' Self-Potrait Prize 2009, UQM, Brisbane, Australia
2008 New, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane,. Australia
50x50, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Jam, Peloton, Sydney, Australia
IDENTIDADES: Arte y sexos, Sala Astragal, Gijon, Spain
Festival SOS 4.8, Dept. of Culture Region Murcia, Spain
Gifts to the collection, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
Glasgow International, GI 2008, Glasgow, Scotland
Australian, Casula Powerhouse, Liverpool, Australia, Australia
Plastic Theory, Peloton, Sydney, Australia
2007 M.A.S.H. Expanded Painting, coinciding with Miami Basel, Miami, USA
Trouble with the weather, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Cornice Art Fair, Venice, Italy
He dominates all, Black Box, Puerto Rico
2006-2007Strange Cargo: Contemporary Art as a State of Encounter, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, touring regional galleries in NSW, VIC and QLD, Australia
2006 Tomorrow Now, Foundation Bevilacqua Lamasa, Venice, Italy
The Projection Room, coinciding with the Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, GB
A man's world, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia
Love Video 2006, Gallery Sad- Artunison-, Moscow, Russia
VADS Festival Internacional de Video i Arts Digitals, Girona, Spain
Iondromo Film Competition, M+B studio, Venice, Italy
Goods to Declare: MFA International, Bezalel Art School, Tel Aviv, Israel
Celeste Art Prize, Goldsmiths University of London, The Old Truman Brewery, London, GB
Marks and Comments, MFA degree show, Tramway, Glasgow and MoCa, Roskilde, Denmark
Gridlines, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW, Australia
Il Premio Internacional de Pintura de Castellon, Fundacion Astroc, Madrid, Spain
SCREAM Sounding Images, in collaboration with Diana Simpson, CalArts, Los Angeles, USA
2005 POST, Residence Gallery, London and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, GB
Il Premio Internacional de Pintura de Castellon, Espai, Castellon, Spain
Glad Wrap-up, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
VAD Festival Internacional de Video i Arts Digitals, Girona, Spain
Academy Now!, sound collaborations with Diana Simpson and Vivian Barty-Taylor, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland
Good and gruseom, CCA Student Lab Night, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
Arafura Craft Exchange, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia
New Town Pasadena, in collaboration with Diana Simpson, Armory Centre for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, USA
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
2004One Of: Festivus 04, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
PistilsI Petals, Pundacio Espais Conteporanis, Girona, Spain
2003Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Summer Show, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
25 years of Mardi Gras, Tin Shesd Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
The Canberra Contemporary Art Space and The Arts Store Award 2003, CCAS, Canberra, Australia