CARRICULUM VITAE

JAMES DEUTSHER
Born in California in 1984, James Deutsher lives in Melbourne. He studied at the VCA and has exhibited in various group and solo shows in Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand, Singapore and China. Collaboration, publishing, film making, performance, instillation, painting and 3D animation combine in open and explorative ways through his practice. James watches and plays football, waters his plants and reads a lot. In 2008 James founded Evergreen Terrace, a collaborative publishing and design project, with Liv Barrett.

www.evergreenterrace.info
www.evergreenterrace.info/jamesdeutsher.html
http://jahjahsphinx.blogspot.com

EDUCATION
2005 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, AUS. 2007 Cert. 3 in Screen, Documentary Production, Open Channel Melbourne, AUS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 ‘FOTO-OGRAPHY’, with Chris Kraus, Chris Hill and Liv Barrett, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, ‘UPS, DOWNS, INS, OUTS’ with Christopher l.G. Hill, Rise and Fall Gallery, Melbourne ‘Evergreen Terrce002 in love and bondage’ curated by Jeff Khan, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 2007 ‘SUB-devide and concrete’with Chris L.G. Hill , Joint Hassles, Melbourne
‘Haircut No.6, Mass Haircut’, with Hao Guo, presented by CLUBS projects Inc., Melbourne
‘Oh, baby, I want to touch you + Play Possum’, with Hao Guo and Liv Barrett, Westspace Inc. Melbourne 2006 ‘Cosmic Divisions’, TCB art Inc., Melbourne ‘CLUBS and Chris L.G. Hill present Chris L.G. Hill and James Deutsher’, Enjoy public art gallery, New Zealand ‘Peace, Love & BBC world’, Westspace Inc., Melbourne ‘Got no PuppaMumma’, with Hao Guo, p-10, Singapore 2005 ‘Harvest Moon’, CLUBSproject Inc. Melbourne ‘Infinity Snake Gardening’, Slide, Gertrude Contemporary Art, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 ‘Axis Bold As Love’, curated by Evergreen Terrace, Le CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, ‘Y2K Melbourne Biennale’, T.C.B. Art Inc. and various locations, Melbourne, ‘You Can’t Steal A Gift’, Gambia Castel, New Zealand, ‘Evergreen Terrace with UPLANDS Gallery’, Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Melbourne, ‘Jarrod Rawlins’, Joint Hassles, Melbourne, ‘Informal Rituals’, curated by Helen Johnson and Alex Vivian TCB art inc. Melbourne 2007 ‘Airport: some flying thoughts…’, SPACE E6, Shenzhen, China ‘GROUP SHOW’, curated by Matt Hinkley, Neon Parc , Melbourne ‘SPOKE’, Don’t Come gallery, Melbourne ‘GOING UNDER’, Joint Hassles, Melbourne ‘OMNIPRAXIS’, (performance and sculptural inclusions in Chris L.G. Hill’s outstanding solo show), Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne 2006 ‘ESCAPE’ (artist run artist party), SCAPE 2006 Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch, New Zealand ‘Openings’, Joint Hassles, Melbourne, ‘GREETINGS’, curated by Nick Selenitch, Ocular Lab, Melbourne ‘CLUBSproject at Ocular Lab’, Ocular Lab, Melbourne ‘Friends’, Special Gallery, New Zealand 2005 ‘Slave’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne ‘Melbourne vs New York’, Kaleide Theatre, RMIT, Melbourne, Screen Gallery, New York ‘Friends’, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

PUBLISHING PROJECTS
2008 ‘Evergreen Terrace Vol. 2’, with Chris Hill, Evergreen Terrace, ‘Bable Weiwei’, MHI,L,YM Publications, ‘Dudahh, Sawheetah’ MHI,L,YM Publications, ‘EVERGREEN001’, Evergreen Terrace ‘Evergreen Terrace Vol. 3’, Evergreen Terrace, in conjunction with the Library Project curated by Pat Foster and Jen Berean ‘Evergreen Terrace Vol. 1’, Evergreen Terrace 2007 ‘SD&C’, James Deutsher with Christopher L.G. Hill 2006 ‘Cosmic Divisions’, James Deutsher 2005 ‘Harvest Moon Journal’, James Deutsher

ARTIST PAGES AND PUBLICATION INVOLVEMENT
‘Axis Bold As Love’, WON Magazine, issue 4, 2008
‘You Can’t Steal A Gift’, Reader, issue 4, New Zealand, 2008
‘Errors, Deceits, Mistakes’, A Constructed World publishing project, Paris, 2008
‘Evergreen Terrace’, Creative Aggression Magazine, 2008
‘World Food’, WON Magazine, issue 1, 2007
‘Small gardening: cultivating unsophisticated practice’, Overcoming Loathing pamphlet series by Natural Selection, Documenta 12, 2007
‘FOOTBALL ESTATE OF MIND’, HAO GUO magazine, 2006
‘Hair Cut revolutionaries’ with Hao Guo, HAO GUO magazine, 2006
‘Harvest Moon Garden Journals’,Natural Selection magazine, No.5, 2006

CURITORIAL PROJECTS
2008 ‘Axis Bold As Love’, curated by Evergreen Terrace, Le CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, ‘Y2K Melbourne Biennale’, T.C.B. Art Inc. and various locations, Melbourne, ‘You Can’t Steal A Gift’, Gambia Castel, New Zealand Melbourne 2007 ‘SUB-devide and concrete’with Chris L.G. Hill , Joint Hassles, Melbourne 2006Melbourne ‘CLUBS and Chris L.G. Hill present Chris L.G. Hill and James Deutsher’, Enjoy public art gallery, New Zealand 2005 ‘Nebula Cart’, VCA Gallery, Melbourne

PERFORMANCES
2007 ‘Estatic Melbourne’, with A Constructed World and Liv Barrett, ACCA (Australian Centre For Contemporary Art), Melbourne ‘Haircut No.6, Mass Haircut’, with Hao Guo, presented by CLUBS projects ‘Pack-Up’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne ‘MFFRUFC’, as part of ‘Workshop non-stop’ Loose Projects, Sydney

VIDEO
‘Insane Clown Pouch’, with Christopher L.G. Hill, 3min, 2008
‘…in love and bondage’, with Liv Barrett, HDV, 8min, 2008
‘Hao Guo, an art documentary”, 12min miniDV, 2007
‘Haircut No.5 SHEEP’ 26sec, miniDV, 2007
‘Michael Gec;, 5min miniDV, 2007
‘Hair cut No.4’, with Hao Guo, 7 min, miniDV, 2007
‘Hair cut No.3’, with Hao Guo, cinematography by Chris L.G. Hill, 3 min, miniDV, 2007
‘Hair cut No.2’, with Hao Guo, 47 min, miniDV, 2007
‘Snow Fight’, with Hao Guo, 10sec loop, 3D animation, 2006
‘Hair cut No.1’, with Hao Guo,34 min, miniDV, 2005
‘Bamboo Garden’, with Liv Barrett, 56min, miniDV, 2004

BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘REVIEWS: Photo-Ography’, UN.MAGAZINE issue 2.2, Andrea Bell, 2008
‘Seeing things in Black and White: Deutsher and Hill’, whitehot magazine of contemporary art, (http://www.whitehotmagazine.com/whitehot_articles.cfm?id=958), Helen Johnson, October 2007,
‘AINTGOTNOPUPPAMUMMA’, exhibition catalogue, published by Hao Guo and Liv Barrett, 2006
‘CULBS presents; Chris L.G. Hill and James Deutsher’, exhibition publication, 2006
‘Cosmic Divisions’, exhibition catalogue, Olivia Barrett, published by James Deutsher, 2006
‘Plant transplant’, Natural Selection magazine, No.5, Olivia Barrett, 2006
‘Talking about gardens’, RUNWAY ISSUE 7: COPY, p72,Olivia Barrett, 2006
‘HARVEST MOON JOURNAL’, exhibition catalogue, published by James Deutsher, 2005