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Garry Trinh is an artist working in photography, video, painting and works on paper. He makes art about the uncanny, unexpected and spontaneous moments in daily life. He is inspired by his surroundings and from the vast visual output of mass culture. He is perplexed by the perception of artists as coffee-drinking loafers who work whenever they feel like it. He doesn't even drink coffee. His works are about a way of looking at the world, to reveal magic in the mundane. He is never bored and never late. He holds a BA in Psychology and a BA in Visual Communications / Photography and Digital Imaging from the University of Western Sydney. Trinh was the winner of the Sydney Life photography prize in 2007 and won the Auburn Mayoral Photographic Prize in 2009 and 2010. His photo book Just Heaps Surprised to be Alive was nominated for Photography Book of the Year at the 4th International Photo book Festival at Kassel, Germany. He has been a finalist in the Fisher's Ghost art prize, Olive Cotton Portrait Prize, National Portrait Prize and the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award. From 2017-2019 Trinh was a full time tenant at Parramatta Artists Studios. His work is collected by the Art Gallery of NSW and Artbank. He has been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Blacktown Arts Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Stills Gallery, Gallery 4A and many others. Trinh is currently a member of the Powerhouse Museum Photography Advisory Group and a exhibition selection committee member for the HeadOn Photography Festival. Trinh lives and works in Sydney Australia. |
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Exhibitions Granville Centre Art Gallery, artist in residence June 2023 - November 2024 Fisher's Ghost Art Award Finalist | November 2024 National Portrait Prize Finalist | June 2024 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award Finalist | September 2023 Pen Tests Presented by Damien Minton Sheffer Gallery | August 2023 The Great Granville Garden Show Granville Centre Art Gallery | July 2023 Olive Cotton Award Finalist | July 2023 MÌNH Fairfield City Museum & Gallery | April 2023 Flight Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | January 2023 Keeping Score: Tracing Time Mosman Art Gallery | October 2022 Concordia Art Gallery, artist in residence February - May 2022 Time Pass Bankstown Arts Centre | July 2021 Fisher's Ghost Art Award Finalist | November 2020 Sydney Metro Art Finalist | July 2020 Light Matter Australian Centre for Photography Sydney | August 2019 Surburbia Cement Fondu Sydney | March 2018 Something Else is Alive Sydney and the Animal Instinct Customs House Sydney | August 2017 Synthetic Australian Centre for Photography Sydney | July 2017 It's Our Thing More History from Australian Hip Hop, part 2 Blacktown Arts Centre Sydney | June 2017 PAS 17.2 Parramatta Artists Studios Sydney | May 2017 Singular/Plural 107 Projects Sydney | June 2017 Your Past in not Your Present Wedge Gallery Sydney | September 2016 Objects in Space: Artists in the Garden Peacock Gallery Sydney | August 2016 Don't Worry No One's Watching Peacock Gallery Sydney | May 2015 On This Site Verge Gallery Sydney | May 2015 Let's Get Lost Alaska Projects Sydney | February 2015 Season 14 Stills Gallery Sydney | December 2014 Deeds, Not Words 2 RVCA Corner Gallery Melbourne | November 2014 The Boondocks Experiment 2014 Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Sydney | February 2014 Cross Projections Tusculum House Sydney | November 2013 Don't Forget Your Beginner's Spirit Australian Centre for Photography Sydney | November 2013 Pigeon Auction Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Sydney | May 2013 Snake Snake Snake City of Sydney, Sydney Town Hall | February 2013 Season 12: Garden of Earthly Delights Stills Gallery, Sydney | December 2012 Atget Competition (winner) Art Gallery of NSW | November 2012 Within Walking Distance (Tracing the Parklands) Museum of Contemporary Arts Australia C3West, Western Sydney Parklands Trust November 2012 Sydney Life, Art & About (finalist) Hyde Park North, Sydney | September 2012 Within Walking Distance, Slot Gallery Sydney | July 2012 The Creative Exchange, Head On Photo Festival Sydney | May 2012 PhotoGraff, Art Atrium Sydney | May 2012 Ingrained, Kind Of Gallery Sydney | May 2012 Independent Photo Festival Tinning Street Gallery Melbourne | April 2012 New Neighbours Project Pop Up Space Parramatta, Sydney | December 2011 Reading Room First Draft Gallery, Sydney | November 2011 Sydney Life, Art & About (finalist) Hyde Park North, Sydney | September 2011 End Of The Roll Kind Of Gallery, Sydney | September 2011 1.85 Million: Art Peripheries Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney | August 2011 Bad Angle Stills Gallery, Sydney | July 2011 4th International Photobook Festival (finalist) Kasseler Documenta-Halle, Kassel, Germany | June 2011 Yes I Can/No Can Do Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney | March 2011 Back in 5 Monster Children Gallery, Sydney | December 2010 Dream Home Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney | September 2010 Friends TCB art inc. Melbourne | September 2010 Auburn Mayoral Photographic Prize (winner) Auburn Town Hall, Sydney | August 2010 Captured, Collected, Categorised Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney | July 2010 Just Heaps Surprised To Be Alive China Heights Gallery, Sydney | May 2010 Tangents Lifetime Space, Vancouver | November 2009 Sydney Life, Art & About (finalist) Hyde Park North, Sydney | October 2009 Auburn Mayoral Photographic Prize (winner) Auburn Town Hall, Sydney | August 2009 Print Matters Chauvel Cinema Gallery, Sydney | July 2009 Suspension Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney | May 2009 Same Same Gallery 4A, Sydney | November 2008 The Queue Australia Centre for Photography, Sydney | July 2008 Five Pockets The Lee Gallery, Melbourne | June 2008 Various Photographs - Curated by Tim Barbar New York Photo Festival, New York | May 2008 I Love Pho Breadbox Gallery, Perth | May 2008 Five Pockets Monster Children Gallery, Sydney | April 2008 Always Driving into the Sun Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney | March 2008 I Love Pho Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne | February 2008 Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Photo Exhibition Montreal & Toronto, Canada | October & December 2007 Sydney Life, Art & About (winner) Hyde Park North, Sydney | October 2007 Tiny Vices Kansas City, Missouri | October 2007 Tiny Vices St. Louis, Missouri | September 2007 Tiny Vices Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City | July 2007 Tiny Vices Gallery Soho, London UK | June 2007 Tiny Vices Colette, Paris France | February 2007 Tiny Vices Studio Bee, Tokyo Japan | December 2006 I Love Pho Liverpool Regional Museum | June 2006 The Drawing Show G&A Studios | March 2006 Buddha in Suburbia Liverpool Regional Museum | September 2005 Get it Louder Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen China | April 2005 When was the Last Time you Looked up? Margot Hardy Gallery, Bankstown | November 2003 Five Dollars Paris Sydney Tokyo Gallery | July 2003 Creating Paradise on Earth Casula Powerhouse Art Centre | January 2003 Those Who Can, Teach Campbelltown Art Gallery | December 2002 1.5 Generation Casula Powerhouse Art Centre | September 2002 Anti Racism Billboard and Sound Project Information Cultural Exchange | August 2002 VietPop Liverpool Regional Museum | June 2002 Viet Casula Powerhouse Art Centre | November 2000 Loud Media Festival January 1998 Imerge UTS Gallery | 1997 Legal Walls Arts Project Casula Powerhouse Art Centre | 1994 |
Teaching, Visiting Artist, Lectures Newington College | Visiting Artist September 2024. Mosman Art Gallery | Artist Workshop November 2022. Newington College | Artist in Residence Summer 2021. National Arts School | Artist Lecture May 2019. Published Works Beauty Bonsai: Sydney's New Suburban Street Art | by Robin Powell, September 2021. Discover Parramatta Artists Profile | Edited by Ally Howell, February 2018. Civic Actions. Artists' Practices Beyond the Museum | Edited by Blair French and Anne Loxley May 2017. Eye Occupy (remixed) | Self published photo book. March 2017. Nobody Knows | Self published photo book. December 2016. Eye Occupy | Self published photo book. March 2015. Onlookers | Self published zine. April 2014. Das Superpaper | Issue 28, August 2013. Guest edited by David Capra. Interview by Sophia Kouyoumdjian. Monster Children Photo Annual 2011 | November 2011. Edited by Chris Searl. Art Park Journal #2 | October 2011. Edited by Craig Rochfort. New Planes Public Press - (Issue 2) | September 2011. Edited by Lisa Lerkenfeldt. Kunapipi - Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Culture (Vol.XXX11 No.1 and 2) | 2010, written by Boitran Huynh-Beattie. Friends | November 2010, published by Blurb. Runway - An Australian Contemporary Art Magazine (issue 16) | July 2010, written by Ivan Ruhle & Tom Melick. Just Heaps Surprised To Be Alive | May 2010 Smoke Bath Book Project Edited by Peter Sutherland | April 2010 New York Minute Book | November 2009 Various Photographs Edited by Tim Barber | October 2008 Avant Card Featured Artist | September 2008 Empty Magazine | September 2008 ANP Quarterly / RVCA Magazine Vol.2 No.1 | August 2008 Monster Children Magazine | January 2008 BN Magazine | 2005, 06 Sneaker Freaker Book | November 2005 Empty Magazine | November 2005 Empty Magazine | July 2005 Semi Permanent Book | April 2004 Australian Skateboarding Magazine | Sept, Oct 2003 Semi Permanent Book | April 2003 Desktop Magazine, Debrief | April 2003 STU Magazine (issue 22), On Location | March 2003 Desktop Magazine, UNseeN Review | November 2002 Desktop Magazine, UNseeN Profile | October 2002 Fidget Magazine, Interview | May 2002 Playstation Magazine | August 1999 Australian Digital Camera (issue 8) | July 1998 Australian Skateboarding Magazine | 1996, 97, 98 |