Curriculum Vitae
Bettina Kaiser
Awards
2005 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Winner Contemporary Art Prize
Grants/Residencies
2007 I/B KAPITAN KHLEBNIKOV, Antarctica, Artist in Residence
2007 Milparinka, NSW Outback, Artist in Residence
2007 M/V LYUBOV ORLOVA, Antarctica, Artist in Residence
2004 Arthur and Yvonne’s Bundanon, Artist in Residence
2004 NAVA Marketing Grant (w/Jacqui Cavallaro)
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Natura Morta, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown/Australia
2009 Concrete Paddock, Sheahan Galleries, Wollongong/Australia
2008 Notes from the Ice, Vision & Space, Wollongong/Australia
2008 Concrete Paddock, Blckmrkt, Gold Coast/Australia
2007 The Works, Music Farmers, Wollongong/Australia
2007 Discoveries in Terra Incognita, M/V LYUBOV ORLOVA
& I/B KAPITAN KHLEBNIKOV, Antarctica
2006 Colonial=Waaren, Gallery Linda, Hamburg/Germany
2004 Over the Seven Seas, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney/Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Greenway Art Prize, Finalists, Sydney/Australia
2022 Antarctic Futures, University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong/Australia
2022 Northern Beaches Environmental Arts Prize, Finalists, Sydney/Australia
2019 Small Works, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney/Australia
2019 Greenway Art Prize, Finalists, Sydney/Australia
2017 Being Shaunak, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong/Australia
2010 Sydney Fringe Festival, Carriageworks, Sydney/Australia
2009 local:current, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong/Australia
2007 Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Art Award Exhibition, Sydney/Australia
2006 Staff Show, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong/Australia
2005 Fishers Ghost Art Award, works on paper & contemporary (winner)
Campelltown Bicentennial Gallery, Sydney/Australia
2005 When Eros Bites, Gallery Philip Neville, Darwin/Australia
2004 Übern See Überm Wind, formlabor, Hamburg/Germany
2004 Fresh Paint, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney/Australia
2003 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Works on Paper
Campelltown Bicentennial Gallery, Sydney/Australia
2003 New Work at Clifton, Clifton School of Arts, Wollongong/Australia
2002 Senses, Selected Semi-Finalists, TAFE Arts Prize, Seymour Centre,
Sydney/Australia
1998 Ora et Labora, formlabor, Hamburg/Germany
1997 Bixt und Teld, Katholische Akademie, Hamburg/Germany
1996 8 Positionen zwischen Kunst und Design, Kunstverein Kehdingen,
Kehdingen/Germany
1995 Inner Spaces – installation works, Poznan/Poland
1994 Skizzen einer Begegnung, Evangelische Akademie,
Hamburg/Germany
1993 Ausstellung der Werke der Maler aus Deutschland,
National Gallery, Cheboksary/Russia
1992 Figures Future, Salon de Livre Jeunesse, Paris/France
Education
2002 – 03 West Wollongong TAFE
Advanced Diploma Fine Arts
1990 – 96 Fachhochschule für Gestaltung, Hamburg
MA in Communications DesignDesign/Illustration (German “Diplom”)
1993 École des Arts Deco Strassbourg, France
Guest Semester
1989 Heisenberg Gymnasium
Abitur (eq. A-Levels)
Teaching/Facilitation
2018-2023 Teaching Risograph Printing with the Rizzeria coop
2014-15 Mama’s Creative Endeavours, creative time for mothers
of small children, SQ1 studio
2008 Drawing Workshops, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art
2006 -08 TAFE design fundamentals, TAFE Illawarra Institute
2007 workshops and lectures aboard I/B KAPITAN KHLEBNIKOV and M/V LYUBOV
ORLOVA as part of the polar arts artist-in-residence program