JOHN ASLANIDIS was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1961. He is a graduate of the University of New South Wales (1989) and is a former co-director of Stripp Gallery, an artist-owned-and-run exhibition space in Sydney from 1998-1999. Mr. Aslanidis has received several grants and awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Award for 2004. His work was included in Good Vibrations: A Legacy of Op-Art in Australia, the first major international survey of op-art in Australia at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne (2002). He currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

EDUCATION:

1999    Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
1989    Bachelor of Visual Arts, City Art Institute

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007    John Aslanidis, Mahoneys Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2005    Sonic Fragments, Criterion Gallery, Hobart, Australia
          Sonic Fragments, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2004    Sonic Wrestling, Fox Galleries, Brisbane, Australia
          Grappling with Judith Duquemin Peleton, Sydney, Australia
2003    Sonic, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2002    Dislocation Network No. 3, PB Gallery Swinburne University, Melbourne,
   Australia
          Dislocation, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2001    Rubber Ball, The Eisenberg Gallery, The Museum of Experimental Art of
   Victoria, Australia
1999    Dislocation 2, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne, Australia
1998    The Home, The Museum of Dirt, Melbourne, Australia
          Dislocation (a selection of paintings from 1991/98), Stripp, Melbourne,
   Australia
1997    The Champions Cafe, Diva, Melbourne, Australia
          Reverberation Network, (two-part exhibition) 151 Regent St., Sydney,
   & Stripp, Melbourne, Australia
1996    Reverberation, Pendulum, Sydney, Australia
1995    Crosscurrent Series, The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
          The Transit Zone Series to the Crosscurrent Series (two-part exhibition),
   Two Walls Gallery, University of Western Sydney, & HR Gallop Gallery, Wagga
   Wagga NSW, Australia
1993    Alternation Series, Pendulum, Sydney, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007    VERUS PAINTERS, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
          Points of Departure, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2006    Progressive Painters, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2005    Dreams in the Abstract: Paintings 1933 – 2005, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
          Phallus… Vagina… Tomb…, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
          Group Action, Criterion Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2004    Pure Painting II, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
          DISORIENTATE, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
          Conceptual Crochet, curated by Christopher Dean, The Cross Art Projects
   Sydney, Australia
          Vibration, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003    Abstraktion: 100 Years Later, Pt. II, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
          Abstraktion: 100 Years Later - Moscow, Union of Moscow Artists,
   Moscow, Russia
2002    Abstraktion: 100 Years Later, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
          Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op-Art in Australia, Heide Museum of
   Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
          Summer Slam 2002 International, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
          Lines 2, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2001    Everybody Gets Laid, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
          Prints from the Aftermath, PB Gallery Swinburne University, Melbourne,
   Australia
         FOUR (with Chris Bell, Phil Edwards, and Simon Kilvert), Eckerselys Openspace
   Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2000    Lines, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
          Stuffed, STUFF Gallery, London, UK
1999    Contemporary Art Sale, Newspace, Sydney, Australia
          Victoria Ministry of the Arts, (courtesy Stripp Gallery), Victoria, Australia
1998    Optics, The Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney, Australia
          The Brian Niland Collection, Lewers Bequest Gallery, Penrith NSW, Australia
   Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
1997    Electronic (with Pierre Stokx and Kazumichi Grime), Pendulum, Sydney,
   Australia
          No Holds Barred 2, (exhibition of wrestling images), Stripp, Melbourne,
   Australia
          Echoes of an Era, Carnivale of Sydney, Main Hall Addison Road Community
   Centre, Sydney, Australia
          Art Supermarket, 151 Regent St. Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1996    On Ya Bike, (exhibition of cycling images), The Dispensary, Sydney, Australia
          4 Sydney Artists, Ether Ohne Titel, Melbourne, Australia
          The Bat and Ball Crick Art Show, Bat and Ball Hotel, Sydney, Australia
1995    Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst NSW, Australia
          No Holds Barred (exhibition of wrestling images), Airspace, Sydney, Australia
          NSW Travelling Art Scholarship, Cofa Gallery, Sydney, Australia
          Reel No.8 Spazioblat, Corato, Italy
1994    Art of Our Age (curated by Peter Daly), Airspace, Sydney, Australia
          Feed (traveling exhibition: Argyle St. Studios, Melbourne; Spiral Arm, Canberra;
          Airspace, Sydney; Lismore and Townsville, Australia
          Flux, Airspace, Sydney, Australia
1993    Teach Your Budgie Astrophysics, Ten Taylor at Sydney, Australia
         Flux, Airspace, Sydney, Australia
          Tempest, Legge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1992    Network (with Phil Grover), Airspace, Sydney, Australia
          Calculations of Transience (with Phil Grover and Steven Cramb), Airspace,
   Sydney, Australia
          Thisness, Legge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1991    Between Cultures, Gallery 88, Sydney, Australia
          Aeroplanes and Aftermath, Airspace, Sydney, Australia
1990    Telecom Fine Art Scholarship, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1989    City Art Institute Exchange, Dublin, Limerick, and Cork, Ireland
          Grand Finale Exhibition of Sporting Images, EMR Gallery, Sydney, Australia

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Artbank                   
Sydney University Students Union
Allen Allen and Helmsley           
Westmead Children’s Hospital Sydney
New England Regional Art           
TNT
Gallery Armidale NSW           
Nortel