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Zhu Ohmu (b. Taipei, Taiwan). Currently based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia.

I acknowledge and am grateful to the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land that I live and work on. I would like to reflect that within acknowledgement there should be action. How do we act in solidarity with First Nations peoples to end the history of silence and oppression that has resulted in Indigenous disadvantage today?

Education
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts (honours), Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.

Solo/Two Person Exhibitions

2023 (upcoming) Freudenfruede, McLeavey Gallery, Wellington

2022 A Long-Term Longing, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney

2020 If not you, who? If not now, when?, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney

2019 Showcase #23: Way to your heart, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton

2015 Spring, in an upstairs room, LOFT Jervois, Auckland - curated by Hannah Valentine

Group Exhibitions

2024 (upcoming) Aotearoa Art Fair, Auckland

(upcoming) The New Generation: Asian Heritage in Ceramics, Bunjil Place Gallery, Melbourne - curated by Vipoo Srivilasa

2023 JOY, McLeavey Gallery, Wellington - curated by Grace Ridley-Smith

Vessels; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne - curated by Craft Victoria

2022 Melbourne Design Fair, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, 28 Duke St Abbotsford, Melbourne

Melbourne Art Fair, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Melbourne

Testing Ground, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui - curated by Milly Mitchell-Anyon

2021 Mercury in Retrograde, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland - curated by Chloe Geoghegan

Crafted Technology, JamFactory, Adelaide - curated by Caitlin Eyre

2020 Life with Objects, online

Auckland Art Fair, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, online

2019 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert Booth E11, Carriageworks, Sydney

A taste of what’s to come, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney

Collectively: an exhibition by West Space volunteers, West Space, Melbourne

2018 Rigg Design Prize 2018, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

ALLEGORY, Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne

Relics Today, Modern Times, Melbourne

2017 thing in itself // das Ding an sich, Wellington St Projects, Sydney – curated by Elyse Goldsfinch

Craft Regale, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

Victorian Craft Awards, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

2016 Wonky, Tinning St, Melbourne - curated by Sophia Cai and Caitlin Shearer

2015 Pleasure Planet, Roll Over Beethoven, Melbourne

2012 ARE YOU TOGETHER, Knight St Art Space, Melbourne

Interventions Rejecting the Spectrum, Level 6 Curtin House, Melbourne - curated by Shelly Graden and Bianca Tainsh

Expatriate Consolation Relations, 173 Brunswick St, Melbourne - curated by Sophie Bannan and Bridget Riggir

2011 Elam Graduate Show, Auckland

Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Watercolour Scholarship finalist exhibition, projectspace B431, Auckland

Commissions
2021 Public foyer sculpture for 9-11 Prospect St, Melbourne – fabricated by UAP

Collections
Works held in Shepparton Art Museum; Artbank, Australia and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Korea, France and the United States.

Curatorial Projects
2013 Censored, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne

Awards

2022 Shortlisted finalist in the Victorian Craft Awards, Australia

2019 Runner up in the Earth Partner #createCOP25 art contest

2017 Shortlisted finalist in the Victorian Craft Awards, Australia

Shortlisted finalist in the Greenway Art Prize, Australia

2011 Winner of Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Watercolour Prize, New Zealand

2007 Ara Lodge No. 348 Irish Constitution Fine Arts Students Award, New Zealand

Pat Henly student membership, New Zealand

Bibliography

2023 Experience Clay (3rd edition) by Maureen Mackey, Davis Publishing

2022 Artists at Home: Inside the creative spaces of 32 female artists in Australia by Karina Dias Pires, Thames & Hudson

The Makers by Monique Hemmingson, Beatnik Publishing

2021 1000 Vases: 300 Designers, 35 Countries, 1000 Vases Unique Pieces, Skira Editore

2019 Material Design Process, Sandu Publishing, 2019

Press

2023 Union Magazine, Hive Hands: In an ongoing collaborative project, three artists explore new modes of (re)use through the expansive possibilities of beeswax, algae and clay, Emma Pegrum, Issue 03

The Australian Financial Review, From the humblest to the unique, vessels reveal much about us: Melbourne based ceramicist Zhu Ohmu is among 15 artists, craftspeople and designers in a first-time collaboration between the National Gallery of Victoria and Craft Victoria, Paul Best, March 28

The Age, Ten things not to miss at the NGV’s Melbourne Now blockbuster, Andrew Stephens, March 23

ArtZone, Fairooz Samy, Autumn issue

Vogue Australia, March issue

2022 Curated Magazine, Seval Akbulak issue 17 (Turkish translation)

2021 Naïf Magazine, issue 00 (French translation)

Broadsheet x Tiffany & Co: Inside the Bold, Sensual Practice of Zhu Ohmu, Elizabeth Flux, July 2

Vogue Living, July issue

L’Officiel Belgium, February 15

L’Officiel Singapore, February 5

L’Officiel Mexico, February 1 (Spanish translation)

MutualArt, Clay: Finding art in Australian Ceramics, Emma-Kate Wilson, January 6