October 2017
In his childhood Jordan Marani’s parents were the proprietors of The Hi-Way Snack Bar in Clayton North. He attended Oakleigh High School and his first job was at the Notting Hill Hotel, before he attended Prahran Technical College in State Victoria, Australia.
From 2008-2011 Jordan was co-founder and director of Hell Gallery. His work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, the National Gallery of Victoria, Static Gallery Liverpool, Shepparton Art Museum, Switchback Gallery, 200 Gertrude Street, Daine Singer, Neon Parc, Utopian Slumps, Ryan Renshaw, Ray Hughes Gallery, Powell Street Gallery and at ARIs including Death Be Kind, Inflight, Seventh, and West Space. In 2016 Jordan exhibited at Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Daine Singer, SPRING 1883 and Spinnerei Leipzig in Germany, undertook a public art project for ACCA and published his first book, EGGS, which launched at the NGV Art Book Fair.
Education/ Professional
1988 – 1990 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victoria College, Prahran
2008 – 2011 Founder/ Co-director, Hell Gallery, Melbourne >>
Solo exhibitions (abridged)
2016 SHIT Happens, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat
2016 Plonk, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2015 Drawing Wall commission, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton
2014 Colourful Language: The Charm Offensive, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2013 Idiot as an Artist, West Space, Melbourne >>
2013 Xmas is a Four-Letter Word, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2011 Ten Pound Poms and Other Stories, Static Gallery, Liverpool
2011 The Rest is Silence, Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2010 Who cut the cheese? Two giants of contemporary art talk frankly of monumental tasks, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2009 Home is Where My Hell Is, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (with Jess Johnson)
2009 Hell is Other People, Inflight Gallery, Hobart (with Jess Johnson)
2009 Flippin Heck, Hell Gallery, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2008 Hellraiser: The Directors Cut, Hell Gallery, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2007 This is Not a Love Schlong, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (with Jess Johnson)
2001 Recent Works by Jordan Marani, Yelza, Melbourne
1996 For Your **** Pleasure, West Space, Melbourne
1994 Liquid Assets, Saratoga Night Club, Melbourne
1993 Binge, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1992 Head, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Group exhibitions (abridged)
2017 Affects on Absorption, LIA Leipzig, Germany
2017 Open House, True Estate, Melbourne
2017 Icon, Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne
2017 Restless, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2016 ACCA in the City, public art, ACCA, Melbourne
2016 Invited, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2016 Is this thing on? Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Science Friction, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney
2015 The 3rd Bus Projects Editions, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2014 I Probably Don’t Like You, curated by Nick Devlin and Fergus Binns, The Alderman, Melbourne
2014 Faux Museum, c3, Melbourne
2014 Spring 1883 Art Fair, Melbourne
2014 Melbourne Art Fair Pop-Up, curated by Barry Keldoulis, Melbourne Art Fair at Cutler & Co, Melbourne
2014 No Werk, curated by Ace Wagstaff, Trocadero, Melbourne
2014 Industrial Estate, curated by Kym Maxwell, Melbourne
2014 Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Drunk vs. Stoned III, curated by Geoff Newton, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2012 Deakin Small Sculpture Prize, Finalist, Deakin University Gallery, Victoria
2010 No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London
2010 Harrell Fletcher: The Sound We Make Together, National Gallery of Victoria
2010 NotFair, Block Projects, Melbourne
2010 The Memorial, Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Lorne Sculpture Exhibition, Lorne
2008 Honk If You Love Contemporary Art, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Flux Capacitor, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2008 Dirty Popsicles, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2008 Informal Rituals, TCB Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Cut n’ Paste, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2000 – 2006 Helen Gory Gallery, Artists Garden, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Victoria Park Gallery
1990s National Gallery of Victoria, George Paton Gallery, West Space, 200 Gertrude Street, Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Linden Gallery, Monash Gallery of Art,Tolarno Gallery, Deutscher Gallery, Ray Hughes Gallery
Grants/ awards
2016 Bayside Prize finalist
2015 Darebin Art Prize finalist
2013 Australia Council Mid-Career Grant
2012 Deakin Small Sculpture Prize, Finalist, Deakin University Gallery, Victoria
2011 Australia Council Liverpool Residency
1991-1993 200 Gertrude Street Studio Resident
Bibliography
2016 Sarah Werkmeister, ‘Jordan Marani paints four-letter words’, Art Guide, Australia >>
2016 Claire Capel-Stanley, ‘Jordan Marani: Shit Happens’ Art Almanac, Australia >>
2014 Roger Taylor, State of the Arts, PBS FM, 25 November 2014
2014 Steven Rendall, ‘Painting, writing, colour and profanity’, catalogue essay, Daine Singer, 2014
2014 Madeleine Dore, ‘Pop-ups level the playing field’, ArtsHub, 4 November 2014 >>
2014 Dan Rule, ‘Furniture makes way for fine arts in Heidelberg West factory exhibition Industrial Estate’, The Age, 8 January 2014, p.20 >>
2013 Robert Nelson, ‘A year of visual-arts invention from here and afar’, The Age, 27 December 2013>>
2013 Jonathan Nichols, ‘Xmas: Jordan Marani’, Stamm, October 2013 >>
2013 Dan Rule, ‘Xmas is a Four-Letter Word’, The Age, 7 September 2013 >>
2013 Dylan Rainforth, ‘Take a larrikin tour’, The Age, 4 September 2013 >>
2013 Ace Wagstaff, Smartarts, RRR FM, 12 September 2013 >>
2013 Roger Taylor, State of the Arts, PBS FM, 7 September 2013
2013 Nat Thomas, ‘Dodging a Bullet and Going Straight to Hell’, catalogue essay, Xmas is a Four-Letter Word, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2013 ‘Jordan Marani: Xmas is a Four-Letter Word’, The Thousands, 31 August 2013 >>
2013 Xmas is a Four-Letter Word, catalogue, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2013 Meg Watson, Concrete Playground >>
2010 ‘Hell Gallery Headed for London‘, Stateline Victoria, ABC >>
2010 Art Nation, ABC TV, 9/5/2010; 7.30 Report, ABC TV, 1 May 2010 >>
