Mason Kimber is a Perth-born, Sydney-based artist who makes paintings that extend into sculptural relief and installation to look at how the histories within surfaces can speak to the memory of place.
Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Art (Honours) from Curtin University, Perth in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the National Art School, Sydney, in 2013. He's currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Art + Design, Sydney. After graduating with his MFA, Mason was awarded a three-month studio residency at the British School at Rome, Italy, the following year. It was here that he studied ancient fresco painting, which led him to look closely at the various connections between painting and the built fabric of cities.
Selected exhibitions include: MCA Collection: Perspectives on place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2021); Lustre at Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne; Strata at Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney; Prologue: Tongue on tongue / nos salives dans ton oreille at Galerie Allen, Paris (2019); Slanted Mansions at COMA, Sydney (2018); and NEW16 at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2016).
Mason has been a finalist for the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and the New South Wales Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at Artspace, Sydney, among others. His work is held in the collections of Artbank and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Mason is also a sessional Painting Lecturer at the National Art School, Sydney, and a Lecturer at UNSW Art + Design.
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