Marian Tubbs

Biography

BFA (Hons) RMIT, MFA (UNSW), PhD (UNSW)

Marian Tubbs is an artist living and working across the land of Bundjalung/Northern Rivers and Kabi Kabi/Sunshine Coast. Her broad research interests include vision technologies, poor materialities and language or text in art.

Marian holds a PhD from UNSW Art & Design and is a Senior Lecturer in Art and Design, at Southern Cross University, previously she was Lecturer in Photomedia at National Art School.

Selected Exhibitions

• new images, STATION, Sydney, 2024
• reversible destiny, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, 2023
• Know my Name: Australian Female Artists 1900-now, National Gallery of Australia
• resort work, STATION, Melbourne, 2022
• a complicated good time, STATION, Sydney, 2021
• we need privacy guys here too, Sunshine Coast University Gallery, 2020
• Berlin Art Weekend, Arndt Art Agency, 2019
• Condo Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai
• Pleasure Plants, Station Gallery, 2019
• Looking But Not Seeing, Benalla Regional Gallery, 2018
• Thank you for coming, Nice, France, 2018
• Currency at Lilac City Studios, 2018
• Infrastructural Inequalities, Artspace, 2018
• Hypersea, Monaco, 2018
• STATION, Sydney, 2018
• Another Dimension, McClelland Gallery, 2018
• Apocalypse Summer, ltd los angeles, LA, 2017
• In Practice, SculptureCenter, NY, 2017
• quiet revolutions and les enfants terribles, Station, Melbourne, 2017
• Zona Maco, ltd los angeles, Mexico City, 2017
• Contemporary Monsters, Minerva, Sydney, 2016
• Abstract Sex*, Bard CCS, New York, 2016
• Pleasure and Reality, National Gallery of Victoria, 2015-16
• Contemporary Print Culture, National Gallery of Australia, 2015
• riven, Station, Melbourne, 2015
• Relational Changes, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, 2015
• NADA, New York, Minerva, 2015
• Hairy Plotter and the Polygrapher's Tones, Toves, Copenhagen, 2015
• Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists, MCA, Sydney, 2015
• Quake 2, Arcadia Missa, London, 2015
• Glean, Minerva, Sydney, 2014

Selected Collections

• Australia National University, Canberra
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Sunshine Coast Regional Gallery, Caloundra

Research

In 2021 Marian won the Sunshine Coast Art Prize. A monograph on her work was 'we need privacy guys here too' was published by ArtInk in 2020. In 2017 Marian was the recipient of the Marten Bequest for sculpture, and in 2015 MCA's Online Commission. In 2017 her work was included in the anthology Australiana to Zeitgeist published by Thames and Hudson. In 2014 she contributed as an author to the philosophy volume Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts: Intensities & Lines of Flight published by Rowman & Littlefield International.

Community engagement

In 2024 Marian has public speaking engagements with Lismore Regional Gallery, Radio National, Elevator ARI, & Northern Rivers Community Gallery.

Supervision

Supervises Masters and PhD candidates.