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Curriculum Vitae      JAN  RAE
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022    La Bohemia Tango Festival  Bangalow and THOM Gallery Byron Bay
2021    WATERWORLD                  Artist Studio Gallery Byron Bay
2019    COAST paintings               Lennox Head Art Collective, guest artist
​2018    TRAVEL SKETCHES            Byron Bay Community Centre 
2016    COAST-LINE                       LONE GOAT Gallery, Byron Shire 
    
2009    Expresiones Tangueras    C.C.Borges Gallery, Buenos Aires  
2008    The Dance Show               Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay
2005    The Art of Tango               Commerford Gallery, Sydney     
                                    
2005     A Tango Journey               Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane  
2002     Recent Works                    Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
​2001     Works on Paper                Fox Galleries, Brisbane
2000     Big Faces                            Crawford Gallery,  Sydney

1999     Quintessence                    Fox Galleries, Brisbane                                                        
1990     The Magic Show                Network Galleries, Byron Bay

 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
​2022     THOM Gallery                    for La Bohemia Tango Marathon, Byron Bay
2014    'Sydney Contemporary Abstraction'    Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2013     'Elephant, Water, Tango'  Lust for Life Galleries, Brisbane
2012     'Seascapes'                         PoPuP Gallery, with John Dahlsen, Byron Bay
2007     'The Red Shoes'                 ArtsNest ,ABC travelling NSW Regional Galleries
2006     'Dance Paintings'               Agora Galleries, New York
1988     'Landmark'                          Lismore Regional Art Gallery      
1987      'DownUnder in Disneyland' (with Offart) SPARC Galleries. Los Angeles
1985, 87 Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries (with Offart)  Sydney


 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2018/2019  Dance/Draw workshops Byron Bay Tango Festival (projections, drawing and dancing)
2017         Dance/Draw workshop "Drawing the Language of Dance" for Australian Tango Festival, Sydney
2017         Dance/Draw workshop and' Light Dance Performance' at Byron Bay Tango Festival
2017         'DRAW to PERFORM' Symposium , performance and workshop ,Brighton U.K.
2008-13    Teaching and coordinating events, ByronTango
1995-98    Designer and Mural painter  DIEMME Pty Ltd, Sydney
1984-89    Coordinator and Mural painter Offart group

1981-85    Director, Lismore Regional Art Gallery

 GRANTS and AWARDS:
2021          finalist  BIBLIO Art Prize, Port Fairy, Victoria
2020          winner Video Award c.a.s.e. Northern Rivers
​2017          finalist Noosa Regional Gallery Drawing Prize
2016          invited artist and highly commended, Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Kudos Gallery, Sydney​
2016          winner Waverley Drawing Prize
2016          finalist Noosa Regional Gallery Drawing Prize
2010          Byron Arts Classic Art Prize
2009          finalist Country Energy Art Prize  Lismore Regional Art Gallery
2007          finalist ABC Artnest awards for best emerging screen artist  'The Red Shoes' 5min short film
2007          winner Australian Tango Championships (Sydney Opera House)
2005          winner Dance Art Prize Sydney
2000          Mosman Art Prize (popular vote)
1999          Easter Art Acquisition Art Prize Byron Bay
1987          Peter Browne Memorial Fellowship   (with Offart)

  STUDIES:
2014- 16      Master of Art   UNSW Art & Design
2007             Media & Performance Lismore TAFE
1998             Art History (British Institute, Florence, Italy)
                      Life Drawing (Florence, Italy)                                                                       
1972-75        Fine Arts, Queensland College of Art 

  PUBLICATIONS:

2020            complete series of 12 contextualised video tango lessons on www.youtube.com/jalexrae
2019            'TRAVEL SKETCHES: the illustrated observations of a tango dancer in Buenos Aires' by Jan Rae
2018             PAJ: A Journal of Performance & Art, New York; ed: Bonnie Marranca
2016             RIPE   UNSW Art&Design 
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