CV
Born Melbourne Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
Education
2013 Doctor of Philosophy, RMIT University
2003 Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts
2001 Graduate Diploma in Education (Visual Art), University of Melbourne
1999 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours), RMIT University
1998 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Monash University
Grants, Awards, Residencies
2024 The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, New York, USA
2016 Australia Council for the Arts, Development Grant
2016 Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Moya Dyring Memorial Studio Residency at the Cité International des Arts, Paris
2013 The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation Residency Program, New York, USA
2011 Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2009 Australian Postgraduate Award, Commonwealth Government of Australia
2002 Australian Education Union Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Flying Colours, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Shifting Structures, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre
2020 Sinuous Spheres, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Spatial Persuasions, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Mixed Conditions, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2015 The Beautiful Corner, Gallery 9, Sydney
2014 The Beautiful Corner, Langford120, Melbourne
2013 Thresholds for Disorientation, Langford120, Melbourne
2008 Aspects III, Gross Gallery, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
2007 Aspects II, Gadens Lawyers, Melbourne
Aspects I, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Iridescent Atmosphere, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2003 New Order, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Fragments, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Abstraction 24, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
Bayside Painting Prize, Bayside Art Gallery, Brighton
+- Geometric Abstraction, MAGMA Gallery, Collingwood
ARTitecture, Justin Art House Museum, Prahran
40th Anniversary Exhibition: Gallery Artists Group Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Of Colour and Light, West End Art Space, Melbourne (curated by Anna Prifti)
Omnia Art Prize, St Kevins College, Toorak
2023
Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery, Town Hall Gallery, Boroondara Arts, Hawthorn
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2023, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood
Abstraction 23, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2022
A thousand different angles, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin (curated by Simon Lawrie)
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2022, Deakin University, Burwood
Abstraction 22, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Of Colour and Light, West End Art Space, Melbourne (curated by Anna Prifti)
Art & Gender, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
2021
SPRING 1883, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Of Colour and Light Women Abstract Artists biennial (Victorian Artists - Australia), West End Art Space, Victoria
2020
Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, NSW
Abstraction 20, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Out of the stockroom and onto the walls, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Art Month Sydney, Collectors' Space - Finders, Lovers, Keepers, Shapiro, Sydney (curated by Rowena Talacko)
2019
The Paul Guest Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
SPRING 1883, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne at The Establishment Hotel, Sydney
Works on Paper Annual Summer Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Hazelhurst Works on Paper Art Award, Hazelhurst Sutherlandshire Arts Centre, Gymea, NSW
Collection based exhibition, Jewish Museum of Australia (curated by Sandy Saxton)
The Backroom, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (curated by Sadie Chandler and Richard Dunn)
Gallery Artists, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2018
The drawing is just not there, West Space, Melbourne (curated by Patrice Sharkey and Christopher L G Hill)
Of Colour and Light, West End Art Space, Melbourne (curated by Anna Prifti)
Beyond the Field (Still), Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart (curated by Anne Mestitz)
Tape, Arcade, Melbourne (curated by PJ Hickman [exhibition catalogue])
St Kevin's College Art Show, St Kevin's College, Melbourne
Abstraction TwentyEighteen, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
Edge, Langford120, Melbourne (curated by Irene Barberis)
2017
Abstraction 16, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundara Regional Gallery, Queensland (exhibition catalogue)
Chromatopia, Tacit Gallery, Melbourne (curated by David Coles and Louise Blyton)
St Kevin's College Art Show, St Kevin's College, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Drawing #7, Langford120, Melbourne
2016
Open Studio, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
Justin Collection, Justin Arts House Museum, Melbourne
2015
Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Banyule Works on Paper Award - In Space, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne
Abstraction 14, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Sweet Relief, Gallery 9, Sydney
Little Pictures and Sculptures, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Neo-0-10 Works on Paper Twentyfifteen, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne (curated by Stephen Wickham)
Group Show, Gallery 9, Sydney
2014
Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Abstraction 13, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
Made In Paint, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, New York, USA (curated by Jim Walsh [exhibition catalogue])
Tangible, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne (curated by Louise Blyton and Ian Wells)
Fourteen: Trajectories, Langford120, Melbourne (curated by Irene Barberis and Wilma Tabacco)
2013
Open Studios, The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, New York, USA
Abstraction 12, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
Draw Like You Talk - Make It Happen! Drawing Out International Symposium presented by RMIT University and the University of Arts London, RMIT University Design Hub Project Space
2012
Redland Art Award 2012, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland (exhibition catalogue)
Frames of Reference, Langford120, Melbourne (curated by Wilma Tabacco [exhibition catalogue])
2011 Stan & Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize 2011, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
My Australia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei University of Fine Arts, Taiwan (curated by Shiau-Peng Chen and Meng Shu-You [exhibition catalogue])
Agendo, St Heliers Street Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
Prometheus Visual Arts Award, All Saints Anglican School, Gold Coast (exhibition catalogue)
2010 The Secret Life of the City, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
2009
The Opposite of Forgetting: An exhibition of memory and identity, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne (curated by Leah Crossman [exhibition catalogue])
Artworkers Alliance Art Leasing, Carter Newell Lawyers, Brisbane
City of Darebin La Trobe University Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
2008
Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition, Anglican Church Grammar School, East Brisbane
2007
MLC Acquisitive Art Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne
Prometheus Art Exhibition, All Saints Anglican School, Gold Coast (exhibition catalogue)
New Days, Toyota Community Spirit Emerging Artist Award, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
2006
Summer Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Willoughby Art Prize, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney
R & M McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition, Anglican Church School, Brisban
2005
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
City of Darebin La Trobe University Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
Williamstown Festival − Tattersall's Contemporary Art Prize, Melbourne
2004
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2003
Summer Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award, ANZ Bank Melbourne
2002
Mirá Fine Art, Melbourne
Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2001
Williamstown Festival − Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize, Melbourne
Mirá Fine Art, Melbourne
2000
Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Fin, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
Emerging Artist Program 1999, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
RMIT Fine Art at Yuan Ze University, Yuan Ze University Arts Centre, Taiwan
Commissions
2024 Private Commission: Flying Colours, 2024, Piece 1: 46.2 x 21.3 x 25.3cm, Piece 2: 49.9 x 30 x 25.9cm, Piece 3: 31.7 x 28.2 x 28cm
2023 Private Commission: Shifting Structures 4, 2023, acrylic, iridescent acrylic and metallic acrylic on canvas, 183 x 122cm
2022 Public Gallery Commission: two small-scale sculptures: Around the Corner 9, 2021, acrylic, iridescent acrylic and fluorescent acrylic with UV gloss on ABS resin (SLA), 55.2 x 75.0 x 37.5cm and Around theCorner 10, 2021, acrylic, iridescent acrylic and fluorescent acrylic with UV gloss on ABS resin (SLA), 52.8 x 71.7 x 35.8cm for McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
2021 Public Gallery Commission: two small-scale sculptures: Around the Corner 7, 2021, acrylic, iridescent acrylic and fluorescent acrylic and UV gloss on ABS resin (SLA), 43 x 28 x 42cm and Around the Corner 8, 2021, acrylic, iridescent acrylic and fluorescent acrylic and UV gloss on ABS resin (SLA), 27 x 55 x 27cm, and seven small-scale paintings: Try-angles 1-7, Acrylic, iridescent acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Topcoat with UVLS on wood, 40 x 40 x 40cm each for The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn
Private Commission: Curved Gravity 1, 2020, acrylic, iridescent acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Topcoat
2016 Private Commission: two large-scale paintings: Torsion, 2015- 2016 and Tilt, 2015-2016, 183 x 183cm each and acrylic on canvas for Australian Senior Trade Commissioner and Consul General to Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
2016 Private Commission: Light Axis, 2016, one medium scale painting, 102 x 66cm, acrylic on canvas
Bibliography
2025 Charles Justin AM, Flying Colours, Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Rober Buratti, Samara Adamson-Pinczewski: Flying Colours, Art Collector #113 July-September 2025, p.79
2024. Anna Nodrum, 40th Anniversary Exhibition: Gallery Artists Group Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Duro Jovicic, Shifting Structures, Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Michaela Bear, forecast: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Vault Australian, Issue 42 May to July 2023, pp.158-159
2022 Jane O'Neil, A thousand different angles, Catalogue Essay, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
2021 Rachel Keir-Smith, Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Catalogue Essay, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre
Rachel Weinberg, Interviews on Legacy, BULLET:N, Issue no. 70, July 2022, pp.13-15
Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski video, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, 2021
Helen McKenzie, SPRING 1883 Art Fair, Art Collector, Issue #97 July-September, 2021, p.86
2020 Louise Martin-Chew, Getting into Shape, Art Collector, Issue 93 July-September 2020, pp. 131-137
2019 Ashley Crawford and Kirsty Grant, The Paul Guest Collection, Exhibition Publication, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria, 2019, p.16, p.24, pp.34-35
Artists of Boroondara Video, Boroondara Arts, The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, In the Studio with Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, 2019
2018 David Coles, Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour, Thames and Hudson, 2018, p. 205
Kate Nodrum, Spatial Persuasions, Introductory Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Jane O'Neil, Not to be missed, Art Collector, Issue 83 January March 2018, pp.52-53
2017 Abstraction 16, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland
2016 Charles Nodrum, Mixed Conditions, Exhibition Catalogue, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Camilla Wagstaff, For the Diary, Art Collector, Issue 76 April - June 2016, p.205. 2015
Dr. Andrew Frost, 2015 Undiscovered Artists, Art Collector, Issue 72 April - June 2015, pp. 96-99
Dr. Andrew Frost, The Beautiful Corner, The Art Life, 6 February 2015 The Beautiful Corner, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery 9, Sydney
2014 Dr. Kristen Sharp, The Beautiful Corner, Exhibition Catalogue, Langford120, Melbourne
Mark Golden, Golden Foundation, Made In Paint 2013, Exhibition Catalogue, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, New York, USA
2013 Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Thresholds for Disorientation, Exhibition Catalogue, Langford 120, Melbourne
Inga Walton, 'Melburnin', Trouble, Issue 100, April 2013
2012. Dr. Wilma Tabacco, Frames of Reference, Exhibition Catalogue, Langford 120, Melbourne 2011
Phillipa Lean, Stan & Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
Shiau-Peng Chen and Meng-Shu You, My Australia, Exhibition Catalogue, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art Taipei University of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2009 Leah Crossman, The Opposite of Forgetting: an exhibition of memory and identity, Exhibition Catalogue, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
City of Darebin La Trobe University Acquisitive Art Prize '09, Exhibition Catalogue, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2007 Ken Wong, New Days, Toyota Community Spirit Emerging Artist Award, Exhibition Catalogue, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Dr. Sheridan Palmer, Re-Union: Cities & Natural Sites, 2006 R & M McGivern Art Prize, Exhibition Catalogue, Maroondah Art Gallery
2005 City of Darebin La Trobe University Acquisitive Art Prize '05, Exhibition Catalogue, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Collections
Australian Senior Trade Commissioner and Consul General to Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
Paul Guest Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Private collections in Australia, USA and Singapore
Studio Bright, Melbourne
Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne
Professional Appointments
2024 - Melbourne Art Class, Abstraction Adult Art Classes
2024 Glen Eira City Council, Vibrant Paper Sculptures, Children’s Workshop
2023 Exhibition Tour, Our Pace 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery, Town Hall Gallery
Competition Jury, Contemporary Drawing Biennale 2023, Polish Art Foundation Incorporated
Guest speaker official opening launch, Contemporary Drawing Biennial 2023, Polish Art Foundation Incorporated
2022 Artist Interview, RMIT University Media Partnership Undergraduate Students Media Content in association with A thousand different angles, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
2021 Exhibition Tour, Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Town Hall Gallery
Described Tour Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Town Hall Gallery
Panel Discussion, Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Town Hall Gallery
Young Curators Workshop, Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Town Hall Gallery
2019 Competition Jury, In One Voice Exhibition Festival, With One Brush Exhibition
Guest speaker official opening launch, Competition Jury, In One Voice Exhibition Festival, With One Brush Exhibition
2018 Artist Talk, Arts Forum, University of Tasmania, Tasmania
2014 Artist Talk, RMIT University, Melbourne
2013 Artist Talk, Thresholds for Disorientation, Lunchbox Forum, RMIT University
2009-2018 Artist Representative, Town Hall Gallery Collection Advisory Committee
Samara Adamson-Pinczewski
Photo by Zan Wimberley