About Lilyillo

Lilyillo (born 1981, Sydney) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Canberra, Australia, working across traditional mediums of watercolour & drawing as well as digital AI mediums. Her work explores personal stories, family history & memories, concepts of identity, notions of craftsmanship & acts of making and unmaking.

Her work has been exhibited extensively across Australia, and internationally at venues including Artmatr (Brooklyn NYC), the Constantin Brancusi Centre of the Craiova Art Museum (Romania), The Canvas 3.0 (New York), Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris), Contemporary Art Academy of China (Beijing). She has minted work across the Etherium, Tezos and Cardano blockchains.

She was the recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts: 'New Work Emerging Artist Grant and undertook artist residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, and at Deveron Arts, Huntly, Scotland. In addition, she has worked for the Australia National Association for the Visual Arts, and held the position of director at the artist-run space Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney.

Lilyillo completed a Bachelor Art History & Theory, a Masters of Art Administration & Curatorial Studies and a Masters of Fine Arts (majoring in drawing), all from the College of Fine Arts (CoFA), University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Education

2007-2009 - Master of Fine Arts (Drawing), College of Fine Arts (CoFA), University of New South Wales
2002-2004 - Master of Arts Administration & Curatorial Studies, College of Fine Arts (CoFA), University of New South Wales
2000-2003 - Bachelor Art History & Theory, College of Fine Arts (CoFA), University of New South Wales 

Residencies

2008 - Deveron Arts Artist in Residence, Huntly, Scotland, October 2008
2008 - Cite Internationale des Arts & UNSW Studio Residency, Paris, October to December 2008

Awards

2006 - New Work Emerging Artist Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2008 - Inaugural winner of the College of Fine Arts Arts Administration Scholarship

Publications/Press

Exhibitions/Collections

2024 
Portraits from the Memory Palace, Colonna Contemporary, minted on FOUNDATION, ETH Blockchain
ART MARKET, Fakewhale Gallery's debut format on-chain exhibition, minted on FOUNDATION, ETH Blockchain
Simulacra, curated by ForeverProjs x Foundation, work minted on Base L2 blockchain.
Plans for future forms, Fellowship curated by Alejandro Cartagena, as part of Post-Photographic Perspectives III, work minted on Ethereum blockchain
ART MARKET, Fakewhale Gallery's debut format on-chain exhibition, minted on Tezos Blockchain
ArtBeez Curated, IHAM Paris curated by None32x32, as part of NFT PARIS

2023 
Architects in Chairs, Foundation, work minted on ETH Blockchain
Hive Mind, collection as part of Reflections Exhibition: new painterly AI portraiture series by 9 Artists, curated by TENDER, 26th October - 2nd November 2023, Artmatr in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, works minted on Ethereum Blockchain
Woodside, SkaldaAI, curated by 0009 / Chris Maestas, works minted on Ethereum Blockchain
HOMAGE, Brancusi Museum, Romania curated by None & Claire Silver, work minted on Ethereum Blockchain
Co-Sign curated by 0009 / Chris Maestas & Transient Labs & Super Rare, The Canvas 3.0, New York, work minted on Ethereum Blockchain
NFT NYC as part of the Tez Art Connect showcase at The NFT Gallery4 curated by Victoria West, work minted on Tezos Blockchain
BE·COM·ING, Nifty Gateway exhibition curated by 0009 & BLAC, work minted on Ethereum Blockchain
Further/Closer, Objkt, work minted on Tezos Blockchain

2022
The Makers, Objkt, work minted on Tezos Blockchain 
Fervour, Objkt, work minted on Tezos Blockchain
My New Sublime, Objkt, work minted on Tezos Blockchain
Winter Women, Opensea, work minted on Ethereum Blockchain

2013
Patchworking, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2010
Paperworks, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2009
Claiming Ground (or filling in the blanks), MFA Exhibition, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

2008
Dots and Boxes, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
Matchbox Projects, Nagoya Institute of Design, Japan
Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
The Hunter and the Hunted, By George/Laneways Project, Hunter St, Sydney

2007
Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Raise High the Roof Beams, BUS, Melbourne
Works on Paper, Contemporary Art Academy of China, Beijing
The Infinite Lawn, MOP Projects, Sydney
Anno, BUS Gallery, Melbourne

2006
2006: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Better Than it Really Is, Inflight Gallery, Hobart
The Ceiling Project, Firstdraft Gallery, Surry Hills
Matchbox Projects, Nagoya Institute of Design, Japan
The Drawing Show II, April, g&A Studios, Surry Hills
Sometime, April, MOP Projects, Sydney
Sometime I Might, March, Umbrella Studio, Townsville 

2005
A4 Exhibition, December, Westspace, Melbourne
Traced, solo exhibition, First Draft Gallery, Surry Hills