Jo Chew
Born 1978 Nipaluna/Hobart, Lutruwita/Tasmania
Education
2018-2022 PhD, CAM, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2018 Honours in Painting (First Class), CAM, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2008-2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart (Dean’s Honour Roll)
Solo Exhibitions
2025. Piecework and parts - Edwina Corlette Gallery, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland
2024 One for Sorrow, Two for Joy - Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2022 Displacement, repair, and the painted collage - PhD exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2021 A Song for the Unsettled - Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, Tasmania
2020 Everything is going to be alright - Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Farm, Tasmania
2019 The Wanderer, the Fool, and the Refuge - Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2017 Numbering Stars - Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
2014 Cain - Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2012 It’s Gonna Be (Alright) - Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2011 In media res - Entrepot Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Tasmani
Recent Group Shows
2025 Contemporary Tasmanian Women Artists, Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2024-2025 Discovery Collection 23/24, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, lutruwita/Tasmania
2024 Figure Holding Ground, Contemporary Art Tasmania, curated by Fernando do Campo and Michael Edwards
2024 Sleepwalkers, Moonah Arts Centre, curated by Sean Kelly
2023 figment, Lady Franklin Gallery, Lenah Valley, curated by Eliza Burke and Maria Kunda
Prizes and Awards
2024 Finalist in the Incinerator Art Award: Art for social change
2023 Winner of the Glover Prize for Landsacape
2022 Finalist in the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Launceston, Devonport, Hobart, Tasmania
(Winner of the Zonta Emerging Artist Prize)
2022 Finalist in the Churchie Emerging Art Prize, IMA, Brisbane, Queensland
2022 Finalist in the Glover Prize, Evandale, Tasmania
2021 Finalist in the Henry Jones Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania (Highly Commended)
2019 Finalist in HATCHED - National Graduate Show, PICA, Perth, Western Australia
2019 Finalist in the Henry Jones Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2018 Finalist in the Henry Jones Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2018 Finalist in the Bruny18 Art Prize, Bruny Island, Tasmania
Residencies
2025 Artist in residence Launceston Church Grammar School, Launceston.
2024 Artist in residence, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
2023 Q Bank Residency, Queenstown
Bibliography
2024 Artist Profile, Issue 68, Jo Chew – stitches held fast by a brush, Lucy Hawthorne
2023 Alumni Magazine, Issue 54, A tender examination of life’s precariousness, interview by Katherine Johnson
2022 Island Magazine, Issue 165, Jo Chew – displacement, repair and the painted collage