VIPOO SRIVILASA
1969
Born Bangkok, Thailand
1994
Bachelor of Art (ceramic), Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand
1996
Arrived in Australia
1998
Graduate Diploma of Arts (Ceramic Design), Monash University, Melbourne
1999
Master of Fine Art and Design (Ceramic), University of Tasmania, Hobart
SELECTED AWARDS
2023
Award, Winner, Make Award, Australian Design Centre
Recipient, VACS Major Commissioning Projects, Australian Council for the Arts
2022
Award, Highly Commended Acquisitive prize, Lake Art Prize
2021
Award, Ceramic Artists of The Year 2021, The American Ceramic Society
2020
Recipient, Sustaining Creative Workers Grant, Creative Victoria
Recipient, Resilience Fund, Australian Council for the Arts
2019
Award, Highly Commended, The Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Prize
Award, Honourable Mention, the Korean International Ceramic Biennale Competition, South Korea
Finalist, Whitegold International Ceramic Prize, UK
2018
Winner, National Sports Museum Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellowship
2017
Winner, 44th Muswellbrook Art Prize Ceramic
Award, Highly Commended, Deakin Small Sculpture Award
Award, People Choice Award, Clunes Ceramic Award
Award, Honourable Mentions, Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award
Recipient, Career development Grant, Australian Council for the Arts
2015
Recipient, Cultural exchange project Grant, Australian Embassy Seoul
Recipient, Skill and ArtsDevelopment Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2014
Winner, Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award
Recipient, Lighton International Artists Exchange Grant, USA
Recipient, Australia - Korea Foundation Grant
2013
Recipient, Cool Japan Fund, Japan
Recipient, International Program Grant, Arts Victoria
Recipient, Skill and Arts Development Grant, Australian Council for the Arts
2012
Recipient, Creative Industries Fund, Copyright Agency Limited
Recipient, Australia – Thailand Institute Grant
Recipient, Australia International Cultural Council Grant
2011
Recipient, International Program Grant, Arts Victoria
Recipient, New Work Development, Australian Council for the Arts
2009
Recipient, Skill and Arts Development Grant, Australian Council for the Arts
2008
Recipient, International Program Grant, Arts Victoria
Winner, Suncoast Clayworkers Sculpture Award
2007
Recipient, New Work Development Grant, Australian Council for the Arts
Award, Honourable Mention, World Ceramic Biennale, South Korea
2005
Recipient, Australia – Thailand Institute Grant
Recipient, International Program Grant, Arts Victoria
2001
Winner, City of Redcliffe Excellence in Craft Award
1998
Recipient, Honorary Research Associate, School of Art University of Tasmania
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
AUSTRALIA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
Australian Sports Museum, Melbourne
Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, Yapang, New South Wales
Rockhampton Museum of Art, Queensland
Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Australian Arts Bank, Melbourne
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Victoria
City of Darebin, Victoria
City of Port Phillip, Victoria
Deakin University, Melbourne
Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland
Manningham City Council, Victoria
Merri-bek City Council, Victora
Muswellbrook Shire City Council, New South Wales
Nillumbik Shire City Council, Victoria
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Whitehorse City Council, Victoria
Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales
ASIA
Australia Embassy, Seoul, South Korea
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, South Korea
Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, China
Korean Ceramic Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
Roopanakar Museum of Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India
EUROPE
Craft Council, London, The United Kingdom
NORTH AMERICA
College of Arts and Humanities, University of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA
The American Ceramic Society, USA
The Birmingham Alabama Art museum
The Burger Collection, USA
The Kamm Teapot Foundation, California, USA
The Rosenfield Collection, Texas, USA
The Shaw Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, Medalta, Canada
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Solitude and Connection, Edwina Corlette, Brisbane
Positive Dinning: From Clay to Cuisine: a collaboration with chef Clement Hernandez, Workshop restaurant, Bangkok
2022
Always Better together, Olsen gallery, Sydney
Hungry Ghosts, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
The Tangible Tales, Art Jakarta 2022, Jakarta, Indonesia
Have You Eaten: a collaboration with Sai-Wai Foo, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Collection Focus, Rockhampton Art Museum, Queensland
2021
My Sunshine Doesn’t Come From The Sky, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
COVID Superheroes, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
Re/JOY, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Wellness Deity, Linden New Arts, Melbourne
2019
They Fill Your Heart Without Trying, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
The Marriage of Sangthong, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
The Marriage of Sangthong, S.A.C. Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2018
Everyday Shrines, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Everyday Shrines, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2017
Happy Together, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
This Might Be The Place, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
Super Hero, Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne
2016
Red-Eared Slider, S.A.C Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Deity, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2015
Happy Land, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
Collective Reef, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2014
Equilibrium, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2013
How to Make a Million Before Dinner, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
Red Room, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2012
Indigo Tomb, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Indigo Monster, La Lanta Fine Art, Bangkok, Thailand
Thai Na Town - Little Oz, Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Ready to Play, Maunsell Wickes Galleries, Sydney
2011
Symbols, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2010
Aftermath, in collaboration with the Pottery Workshop, PWS Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
2009
Indigo Kingdom, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne Colonies, Surapon Gallery, Bangkok
Colonies, Surapon Gallery, Bangkok
Monster by Hands: collaboration project with Thai Celadon factory, Pong Noi Art Space, Chiang Mai
2008
For The Future, Über Gallery, Melbourne
Roop, Root, Ruang (Taste-touch-tell) 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2006
My Self : My Other, Über Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Lai Krarm, Surapon Gallery, Bangkok
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design 2023, MUZA, Eretz Israel Museum, Israel
Melbourne Now, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Portrait23: Identity, The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Jugs, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
Flourish: Explore a Re-Imagined Natural World, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, VIC
The Great Granville Garden Show, Granville Centre Art Gallery, NSW
Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, VIC
Make Award, Australian Design Centre, Sydney
2022
Social Ceramics, Shepparton Art Museum, VIC
Art Can Die, River City, Bangkok
Finalist, Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, Yapang, NSW
Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Award, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, NSW
Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
2021
Clay Dynasty, Powerhouse Museum, NSW
The 4th CHINA CHINA Ceramic Art and Design Exhibition, Shangyu, China
Time-Lapse Reflecting on Thai Art, 333 Anywhere, Bangkok
Ceramix, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, NSW
Cloudy – A Few Isolated Showers, Castlemaine Art Museum, VIC
2020
Bharat Bhavan International Ceramic Exhibition, Roopanakar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal, India
Maker’s Eye, British Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK
Indigo Monster Return, La Lanta Fine Arts, Bangkok
Inaugural Exhibition, Alan Finkel Room's, Monash University Museum of Art, VIC
Modern Mysticism, Craft Victoria, VIC
Finalist, McClelland National Small Sculpture Awards, VIC
2019
Finalist, Deakin Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, VIC
All That’s Gold Does Glitter, Venetian Macao, China
Gaia Reborn, Urban Nation, Project M, Berlin
The Great Race, Clay Art Centre, New York
Tea for Twenty, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
Open Door: Contemporary Makers and designers, Craft Victoria, VIC
ASEAN Crafts: Place, Scent and Atmosphere, ASEAN Culture House, Busan, South Korea
Cheongju Craft Biennial, Korea
2018
Pavilion of Art & Design London, Adrian Sassoon, UK
Australian Collection, Queensland Art gallery, QLD
Obsessed: Compelled to make, Australian Design Centre, NSW
Hyphenated, The Substation, VIC
Lucky Hall, The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, VIC
Devil in the Detail, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
Finalist, Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture, NSW
Finalist, The Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Prize, NSW
2017
Art Stage, S.AC Gallery, Singapore
Sydney Contemporary, Edwina Corlette, Carriageworks, NSW
Empty Vessels, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VIC
Animal Kingdom, The Johnston Collection, VIC
Finalist, Coffs Harbour National Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, QLD
Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize Works, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, NSW
Finalist, Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
Finalist, Deakin Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, VIC
Finalist, Clunes Ceramic Art Award, VIC
Finalist, Manningham Ceramic Art Award, VIC
2016
Sugar Spin - You Me and Everything, Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art, QLD
The First Central China International Ceramics Biennale, Henan Museum, China
Function, Form, and Fantasy: Ceramics from the Burger Collection, The Flint Institute of Arts, USA
Masterpiece, Adrian Sassoon, London
Animal, Nicolas Project, VIC
Art Taipei, S.A.G Gallery, Taiwan
The Texture of Sensation, CC Gallery, Taiwan
Wired Ceramic, Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC
Finalist, Fleurieu Art Prize, Samstag Museum, SA
Finalist, The Basil Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, VIC
Finalist, 15 Artists 2016, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Q:D
2015
Beyond Limitations, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, South Korea
Collisions: Cross-Cultural Collaborations, Shepparton Art Museum, VIC
Imaging the Blue and White, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
More Love Hours, The Ian Potter Museum, The University of Melbourne, VIC
Imagining Ned, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Everything Is All White, Kasher Potamkin, New York
Leaders, Craft Victoria, VIC
Two of A Kind, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, VIC
COLLECT, Adrian Sassoon, Saatchi Gallery, London
2014
Contemporary Porcelain, Gallery of Modern Art, QLD
artKamp: Indigo Mass, Art Project, Massachusetts, USA
Made In China, Art Project, Massachusetts, USA
Earth and Fire: Southeast Asian Ceramic, Workhouse Art Centre, Virginia, USA
The XXIIIrd International Biennale of Vallauris Biennale, France
Masterpiece, Adrian Sassoon, London
COLLECT, Adrian Sassoon, Saatchi Gallery, London
Melbourne Art Fair, Edwina Corlette Gallery, VIC
Inquiring Finds, Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, Hawaii
Mythology Meets Archetype, Northern Clay Centre, Minneapolis, USA
The European Fine Art Fair, Adrian Sassoon, Maastricht Exhibition Centre, The Netherlands
2013
The Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, South Korea
SEXSE@Medalta, Medalta Gallery, Medalta, Canada
Ceramic Top 40, Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, USA
Sydney Contemporary, Edwina Corlette Gallery, NSW
3x3 Project, the National Gallery, Bangkok
Finalist, Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
New Blue and White, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
New York Ceramic Fair, Ferrin Gallery, New York, USA
The Hua Krathi Project, RMIT University School of Art Gallery, VIC
Modern Masters, International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany
Crafting Design/Designing Craft: 40 Years of JamFactory, JamFactory Gallery, SA
Finalist, Manningham Victorian Ceramic Award, Manningham Gallery, VIC
2012
Art Miami, Ferrin Gallery, Midtown, Miami, USA
New World: Timeless Visions, New Mexico Museum of Art Santa Fe, USA
Jakarta Contemporary Ceramic Biennale 2012, Indonesia
Pavilion of Art & Design, Adrian Sassoon, London, UK
Masterpiece London, Adrian Sassoon, London, UK
COLLECT, Adrian Sassoon, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Pacific Rim Connection, Azuma Gallery, Seattle, USA
The Pottery Workshop 25th Anniversary, Seattle Design Centre, USA
On Kindness: an Australia India Culture Exchange, Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
2011
SOFA Chicago, John Natsoulas Gallery), USA
Ceramic Annual of America, San Francisco, USA
Finalist, Manningham Victorian Ceramic Award, Manningham Gallery, VIC
SOFA New York, Ferrin Gallery, USA
East-West Ceramic Collaboration, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Monoa, USA
2010
Finalist, International Ceramics Competition of L'ALcora, L’Alcora Ceramics Museum, Spain
A New Insight of International Contemporary Ceramics, Degas Arts Space, Shanghai, China
Elegant Monsters, Gallerie Philosophie, Taipei, Taiwan
Finalist, Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, The Art Centre, VIC
Ceramic Now?, Whitehorse Art Space, MVIC
Finalist, Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
In the Family Unity - Unity of the World, Khanty-Mansiysk city, Russia