William Breen        
CV          
Born 1972, Melbourne, Australia

EDUCATION
1992    Graduated Victorian College of the Arts. Bachelor of Fine Arts.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011    Hot Bargain & Milk, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2010    Solo Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2010    View From Here V, Flinders Lane Gallery
2009    New Paintings, Flinders Lane Gallery
2008    Here & Now, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2008    Sarah Roney Gallery, Sydney
2007    Faster Pussycat, Solo, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2007    The View From Here II, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2006    The View From Here, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2005    Solo Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2005    Tattersalls Art Prize Exhibition
2003    Solo Exhibition, The Church Gallery, Art Angels Residency Programme
2003    Solo Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2002    Solo exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2001    Exploration 2, Group Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2001    Solo exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1997    Solo Exhibition, Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne
1996    Group Exhibition, Stripp Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

PRESS                      
                 
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The Age
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Inside/Out Blog
November 2011
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Australian Art Review
             
                       
               
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The Age
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Art Korea
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Gallery publication
         
                       

PRIZES AND AWARDS
2011    Invited to participate in the Tattersalls Art Prize
2010    Finalist 2010 John Leslie Art Prize
2010    Finalist 2010 Nillumbik Art Prize
2006    Finalist Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize
2006    Finalist Geelong Art Prize
2006    Finalist Wynne Landscape Prize, AGNSW
2002    Invited to participate in the Church Gallery Art Angels Incorporated 2003
2000    Nominated by the Australia Council for the Arts for the register of artists for the Historic Memorials Committee.
2001    Finalist Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Goldcoast City Art Gallery, Qld
2001    Finalist Brett Whitely Scholarship
2001    Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1999    Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1998    Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1992    Awarded Christopher James Blyth Memorial Prize

COLLECTIONS
Gippsland Art Gallery
Artbank
National Australia Bank
Loyola College
La Trobe University
City of Whitehorse
City of Perth, Macquarie Group Collection
Deakin University
Represented in corporate and private art collections in Australia, United States, United Kingdom.

PUBLICATIONS
2011  Gregg, Simon, New Romantics, Darkness and Light in Australian Art, Australian Scholarly Publishing, p135, 161-162, 165
2011   Rule, Dan, Around the Galleries, A2 Saturday October 9
2011   Grishin, Sasha, Painter of Light, Australian Art Review issue 26, pp 66- 68
2011   Lam, Lee Tran, Inside Out magazine blog November 2011
2010   Rule, Dan, Around the Galleries, A2 Saturday October 9
2010   Art Korea Magazine, November , pp 114 - 115

2008   Crawford, Ashley, Here and Now exhibition catalogue, pp 4-9