Sue Beyer
Born 1969, Australia
Lives Melbourne and USA
Qualifications
Current Doctor of Visual Art candidate, QCA, Griffith University
2019 Master of Fine Art (research), VCA, University of Melbourne
2010 Bachelor of Fine Art with Class I honours, QCA, Griffith
University
Selected Solo exhibitions
2025 Personality Test - NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2022 We Are Data - Box Gallery, Melbourne
2018 MFA Graduate Show - Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
2018 Your neon lights will shine - George Paton
Gallery, Melbourne
2018 A million lights are dancing - Sawtooth ARI,
Launceston
2017 A place where nobody dared to go - SEVENTH,
Melbourne
2014 Betwixt and Between - Spiro Grace Art Rooms,
Brisbane
2013 Open Studio Exhibition - Point B Worklodge,
Brooklyn, New York
2013 Memory Palace - Logan Art Gallery
2012 Dwell - Redland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Selected group exhibitions
2024 The Indistinct Ephemera of Now - Sol Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia
2024 Pritty Shriny - with Thang Do, Wandering Room,
Melbourne, Australia
2024 Another Green World - Red Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
2024 Hello Brooklyn! - Kingsborough Art Museum, NY
2024 Press, curated by Simone Hine - Griffith University for ISEA2024, Brisbane, Australia
2024 Speculative Futures ACM SIGGRAPH - 29th
International Symposium on Electronic Art - Brisbane, Australia
2024 Oderwane - Galeria S35, Łódź, Poland
2023 Group exhibition - DigiAna Studio, Queens, NY
2023 Mirror, Portal: Season IV Residency Exhibition -
NARS Foundation, Brooklyn
2023 FW/23 - Otras Formas, New York
2023 Mark Rothko 2023 International Painting Symposium -
Mark Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia
2023 Artificial Interference - SPRING/BREAK Art Show,
625 Madison Ave, New York
2023 A sky the colour of a dead channel! - Brunswick
Temporary, Melbourne
2022 Lonely.Rocks - Untitled Art Fair at Miami Art Week
2022 G Biennale 22 Metaverse - online
2022 IDMAA 2022: Weird Media - Winona State University,
Minnesota
2022 Victoria St - The Wandering Room, Melbourne
2022 Techspressionism - Southampton Arts Center, New
York
2022 In-between - Last Frontier NYC, New York
2021 Critical Abstraction - University of Wyoming, USA
2021 Moreland Summer show - Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Straight Through The Wall - Brooklyn, New York
2021 NFT Now - Techspressionism.com & Kunstmatrix,
USA
2020 Glitch Art Brazil - www.glitch.art.br, Brazil
2020 Creative Code Festival - Lightbox, New York
2019 Friends and Family - Daine Singer, Melbourne
2019 Rules of engagement - The Substation, Singapore
2019 Victoria Street - The Wandering Room, Melbourne
2019 Divergent - Assembly Point, Melbourne
2019 Awkwarder - The Wandering Room, Melbourne
2018 Out Front - Here we see, Gallery There, Melbourne
2018 Universal Personal - VCA Artspace, Melbourne
2017 Scenes of our city - Museum of Brisbane
2016 17.08.16 - Home@735, Sydney
2016 Collectibles V - Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane
2015 Closing/Opening party - PointB Worklodge,
Brooklyn, New York
2015 18 x 8: From Point A to PointB and back again... -
PointB Worklodge, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Collectibles IV - Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane
2014 Planes of reality - Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
2013 +1 - Garage ARI, Sydney
2011 Check in - Brisbane Emerging Art Festival - Metro
Arts, Brisbane
2010 NetWork - The Art Gallery of Ballarat
2010 Suburbia - Redcliffe City Gallery
2010 Test Pattern 2010 - Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane
2008 Digital Fringe - Melbourne Fringe Festival
2008 Illusion - SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
Awards
2018 The National Gallery of Victoria Women's Association Award
2014 Winner of the Emerging Artist category - Stanthorpe Art Prize
2013 Winner - The Milburn Art Prize - Brisbane
2009 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence - Griffith University
2008 Winner - RBWH art award – Brisbane
Selected Prizes (Finalist)
2021 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize -
Ravenswood School For Girls, NSW
2020 Sunshine Coast Art Prize - Caloundra Regional
Gallery
2020 Moreland Summer Show - Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2017 15 Artists - Redcliffe City Gallery, Redcliffe
2016 National works on paper - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
2016 The M Collection Art Prize - Gallerysmith,
Melbourne
2014 The Redland Art Prize - Redland Art Gallery,
Brisbane
2014 The Stanthorpe Art Festival - Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery
2013 The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize -
Griffith University Art Gallery
2013 The Wilson Visual Arts Award - Lismore
2012 Albury City Art Prize - Albury City Gallery,
Albury
2011 Sunshine Coast Art Prize - Caloundra Regional
Gallery, Caloundra
2011 Moreton Bay Region Art Awards - Pine Rivers Art
Gallery, Strathpine
2011 Clayton Utz Art Prize - Clayton Utz Lawyers,
Brisbane
2009 15 Artists - Redcliffe City Gallery, Redcliffe
2007 Stillwell Show - SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San
Francisco
Selected Press
Nayyar, R 2023, "Highlights From Brooklyn’s Sunset Park Open Studios" Hyperallergic, https://hyperallergic.com/850813/highlights-from-brooklyns-sunset-park-open-studios-fall-2023/,
viewed October 19, 2023
Kalinovski, R 2023, “New Faces and Voices at SPRING/BREAK 2023.” Arcade
Project, https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/features/new-faces-and-voices-at-springbreak-2023,
Viewed September 8, 2023
Dooney, H 2023, ‘In conversation with Sue Beyer’, After Hours, https://hazeldooney.substack.com/p/in-conversation-with-sue-beyer,
Viewed July 31, 2023.
Pickup, J 2023, Sharp rise of AI: artists’ friend or foe?, Arts Hub, 7 June
2023. Viewed June 7, 2023
Sessums, Z 2022 “Tour a Tropical Brutalist Waterfront Home in Sydney.”
Architectural Digest. October 10, 2022. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/tour-a-tropical-brutalist-waterfront-home-in-sydney,
viewed 11 September 2023
Byrne, T 2021, Melbourne’s augmented reality: is public art the remedy to the
city’s pandemic malaise?, The Guardian, 6 July 2021. Viewed June 11, 2021
Hendry, K 2021, Transformer: an essay by Kate Hendry, Melbourne, May, 2021
Spalter, A 2021, NFT
Now – Exhibition Essay, New York viewed 2 May, 2021
Kennedy, A 2020, Sue Beyer, A-OK, Melbourne viewed 7 June, 2020
Smith, S 2016, SUSIE
SMITH REVIEWS 17.08.16, Home@735 Gallery viewed 17 September, 2016
Documentor 2016, Editorial:
Sue Beyer: disPLACE, Documentor viewed 30 June, 2016
Nelson, I 2015, Interview: Sue Beyer, One Four Four, Melbourne viewed 8
January, 2016
Eskola, M 2014, Betwixt
& Between, Catalogue essay, 2014
Clarke, A 2014, Review of Betwixt & Between, Six to Eight, Sydney
viewed 16 October, 2014
Cha, M 2014, What's your topography, Moustache Magazine, Brisbane viewed 23
September, 2014
Bridge, C 2014, Sue Beyer Now, Art World Women, Melbourne, viewed 5
February, 2014
Browne, S 2013, Mapping creativity, U On Sunday, 19
May, p. 30.
Selected Grants
2021 Sustaining Creative Workers Program - Creative Victoria
2020 National Assistance Program for the Arts - Sidney Myer Fund
& The Myer Foundation
2018 Faculty Small Grants Scheme - The University of Melbourne
2013 Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) Grant
2010 ArtStart Grant - Australia Council for the Arts
2007 International Experiences Incentive Scheme Grant, Griffith University
Residencies
2025 The Oolite Arts' Live.In.Art Residency Residency Program, Florida, USA
2023 Mark Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia
2022 University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
2022 Mothership - Brooklyn, New York
2016 Green Rooms, London, UK
2014 Imaging the land International Research Initiative (ILIRI), Fowlers Gap, UNSW, Australia
2013 Point B Worklodge - Brooklyn, New York
2013 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence, Australia
Public Art Commissions
2021 Flinders Quarter Augmented Art Walk - Flinders
Quarter in partnership with Metro Tunnel Project & Cross Yarra Partnership, Melbourne
2012 - 2013 Our Place – This is where we live - Ipswich Hospital Expansion project - managed by Project Services, Qld State Government
2009 I'll tell you on the way home - Project Services,
Qld State Govt. Bike Centre - 61 Mary Street, Brisbane
Publications and peer reviewed essays
Beyer, S. 2024 Fantasyland Autofiction: The Use of AI in Contemporary Art-Making , M/C Journal, vol. 27(5) doi: https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3104
Beyer, S. 2023 Deep Story 3A, Screen Thought, vol. 7. ISSN 2206-6225
Beyer, S. 2023 “Metamodern Spell Casting: The Blockchain as a Conceptual
Medium for Contemporary Visual Artists”, M/C Journal, 26(5).
doi: 10.5204/mcj.2999.
Beyer, S 2022, ‘Digital Combines: A Metamodern Oscillation of Oppositional
Objects and Concepts in Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art Practice’, International
Journal of Contemporary Humanities, vol. 6. ISSN: 2207-2837
Beyer, S 2022, DIGITAL:
How artists use 'the digital' to talk about being human, RPI Print,
Inc, San Francisco. ISBN: 9798211638501
Beyer, S 2022, Binary Portrait: Volume 1, RPI Print, Inc, San Francisco. ISBN: 9798210498175
Beyer, S 2022, Binary Portrait: Volume 2, RPI Print, Inc, San Francisco. ISBN: 9798210498182
Beyer, S 2022, The Book of History Volume 1-12, RPI Print, Inc, San Francisco.
Selected Collections
Artbank, Brisbane Grammar School, Hilton Hotels, Jupiters Casino, Mark Rothko Center, Latvia, Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital, The Mater Private Hospital
