JOSEPH BREIKERS
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EDUCATION

2012 Master of Arts (Research), Queensland University of Technology
2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.) (2nd Class Division A), Queensland University of Technology
2001 Certificate III in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft (Photography), Wide Bay TAFE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
Three Conceits, Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam     

The Shape of the Joke, Institut für Alles Mögliche: Hauptstadt Studio, Berlin

2017  
No Joke/End Times: A listening party, Boxcopy, Brisbane

2016
Eight Embarrassed Males, Metro Arts, Brisbane (collaboration with Timothy Kerr)
The Absolutely Calculated Risk That Something Can Go Wrong, Studio 3.7, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Terror and Hubris in the House of Charles Bongdelaire 2: 172 Honest Ways to Acquire Other People’s Property, Studio 3.7, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Under the Surface, Studio 3.7, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Bigfoot is Blurry, Studio 3.7, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2015
Joke Trading, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2014
Intellectual Disasters, Oral, Brisbane
Summer is also a Season that is Coming, Rasey Park, Brisbane
Moments of Idleness, Harrisville Town Hall, Harrisville

2013
Brown Stagemaker, Bus Projects, Melbourne
V and B; or; B and B, Boxcopy, Brisbane (collaboration with Timothy Kerr)

2012
Come Back Alone, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
Night of Terror: 3 Hours of Heavy Metal and Demonic Ales, 3 Projects, Scratch Bar, Brisbane

2011
Moments of Idleness, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Qaphqa, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
Regards, the Pit, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2010
Acoustic and Luminous Effects, DB Projects, Sydney (curated by Amanda Rowell)

2009
Terror and Hubris in the House of Charles Bongdelaire, No Frills*, Brisbane

2007
Leatherneck, Boxcopy, Brisbane

2006
Thick As Thieves: Never Let The Truth Stand In The Way Of A Good Story, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
LOL, Metro Arts, Brisbane
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2020

Melbourne Fringe Festival: Night Works, The Wandering Room, Melbourne (as Ryan Bloate)
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2019
Victoria St, Victoria, The Wandering Room, Melbourne
Tiny World Reunion, The Wandering Room, Melbourne

2017

Brave New World, Jacob’s Ladder, Brisbane
An Act of Showing: Rethinking Artist Run Initiatives through Place, Testing Grounds, Melbourne

2015
Life, Death, Miscellaneous, A-CH Gallery, Brisbane
Goma Q: Contemporary Queensland Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane (contributing artist for David M. Thomas)

2014
An Occasion, White Lady Funerals, Brisbane

2013
Fresh Cut 2013: Part 1, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Mess Between, Blindside, Melbourne

2012
Supporter, The Wandering Room, Brisbane
A Ship Called She, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2011
Whatever Works, DB Projects, Sydney
Invisible Structures: Australian Artist Collectives in Tokyo, Singapore and Yogyakarta, Post Museum, Singapore

2010
NextWave: Structural Integrity, Arts House, Melbourne
NextWave: The Ultimate Time Lapse Megamix, Federation Square, Melbourne
Some Absolute Beauties, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (collaboration with Boxcopy)
Not Apt to Disclose Secrets, RawSpace Gallery, Brisbane (collaboration with Boxcopy)

2009
Versus, Kings ARI, Melbourne
Recessional Art and Other Strategies, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Sweet Lip, Accidentally Annie Street Space, Brisbane
Sketch Pad, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane
This is what the edge of your seat was made for, Boxcopy, Brisbane (as Bart Weiss)

2008
The Art Resort, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Great Expectations, Federation Square, Melbourne
Perfection: Human Action as Performance as Human Behaviour, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2007
I Want to Believe, TC Burns Retail Centre, Brisbane
The Christmas Special, Boxcopy, Brisbane
Home Improvement, Boxcopy, Brisbane

2006
2006, The Block, QUT, Brisbane
Exercises in Freedom, Queensland State Library, Brisbane


AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2018
Arts Queensland Individuals Fund Recipient 
Foundation B.a.d. Residency, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Institut für Alles Mögliche Residency, Berlin, Germany

2017
InSide Zone Research Residency, Borsec, Romania

Project for Future Alternatives Residency, Boxcopy, Brisbane

2016
Metro Arts Artist in Residence Program, Brisbane

2015
Arts Queensland Individuals Fund Recipient 
Production Residency (with David M. Thomas), MAAP Space, Brisbane

2014
Moments of Idleness Residency, Harrisville Town Hall, Harrisville

2013
Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award: Queensland Recipient

Boxcopy Artist Residency, Boxcopy, Brisbane (with Timothy Kerr)

2011 
Arts Queensland Career Development Grant Recipient

Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Invisible Structures Residency, Post Museum, Singapore


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2009
Super Vanitas: Stephen Russell, Boxcopy, Brisbane
This is what the edge of your seat was made for, Boxcopy, Brisbane

2008
The Art Resort, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane (co-curator)
Great Expectations, Federation Square, Melbourne (co-curator)

2007
I Want to Believe, TC Burns Retail Centre, Brisbane (co-curator)
The Christmas Special, Boxcopy: contemporary art space, Brisbane (co-curator)
Home Improvement, Boxcopy: contemporary art space, Brisbane (co-curator)


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2018
‘May, 1968’, catalogue essay for ‘Benjamin Crowley: Location Solutions for General Anxieties’, Stable Artspace, Brisbane


2017
‘Home Grown Phantom Lim (sic)’, catalogue essay for ‘Ben Landers: Vacationer’, Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane


2016
‘Five Ways: Number Three’, October 2016, Brooke Ferguson (editor), Boxcopy online publication


2015
‘Art Escape from Work: Baysider Exhibits at GOMA’, Wynnum Herald, August 19, p. 35


2013
‘Brisbane Artist Joseph Breikers Unveils Three-Level Outdoor Dunny’, Courier Mail Online, August 2

‘Interview with Joseph Breikers’, No Brow, 4ZZZ Radio, aired April 21

2012
‘Wes Hill in Conversation with Joseph Breikers’, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine, number 75, pp. 19-22


2011
‘Why So Serious?’, Sunday Mail, U on Sunday, March 20, p. 32

Artist Page, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine, number 67, p. 17

2009
‘Martin Smith: I am Fortunate and Bored’, catalogue essay for Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane


2008
‘Review – Perfection: Human Action as Performance as Human Behaviour’, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine, number 63, p. 66


2007
​Artist Page, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine, number 62, p. 18
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