Kailana.Sommer(KK)
b. 1988
Education
2011 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts
2011 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Exchange), Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam
Exhibition History
2015 Satellite Suburbs, Desktop Magazine, Melbourne (KK+JLD)
2014 A Temporary Wriggle, group show, Firstdraft, Sydney (KK+JLD)
2014 KK+JLD x Center for Style x Kate Macdonald, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2014 Hurts lots / Well Trodden Fantasies, 55 Sydenham rd, Sydney (KK+JLD)
2013 Conquest of the Useless (with SuperKaleidoscope), Sydney Guild, Sydney (KK+JLD)
2013 ROCK SWAP, Tiny Stadiums, Sydney
2013 Mono No Aware, Linden Contemporary Arts Center, Melbourne (KK+JLD)
2013 Double Whammy, Platform 72 as part of ArtMonth, Sydney
2012 Can’t Melt Cheese Twice, Mori Gallery, Sydney (Curator)
2012 Innocent Children, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2011 TACO STAND!, Piet Zwarts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2011 The Second, V2 Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010 So Tell Me, Blankspace, Sydney
Awards
2014 ArtStart, Australia Council for the Arts
2011 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship (FLMAES)
2011 International Exchange Scholarship
Residencies
2015 Bundanon Trust, Illaroo (forthcoming)
2014 Ace House Collective, Yogyakarta
Publications
2015 Thinking between two points, exhibition text for Nadia Hernandez, Mild Manners gallery, writer
2014 Doh la, mm goi (到了, 唔該) or Here is good, Thanks., Un Magazine, co-writer
2014 Going to sleep in a city that doesn’t exist yet, Tryhard Magazine, photographer/writer (KK+JLD)
2014 Wechat: spaces, histories, production, artists, nowness, Beijing and Australia, Runway Magazine
2014 Micro Wave Short Change, editorial for Oyster Magzine #105, photographer (KK+JLD)
2014 Everyone is ok with ghosts, Un Magazine, writer
2014 I think: Christmas, Stilts journal, co-writer (KK+JLD)
2013 Time Capsule (downloadable submission for Runway Magazine), artist/writer (KK+JLD)
2013 FUZZY LOGIC, catalogue text for Hyper Spectral Display, 55 Sydenham rd, writer
2012 Can’t Melt Cheese Twice, exhibition catalogue, writer/designer