Curriculum Vitae
Born in Melbourne (1976)
After graduating from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1997, Kristian Haggblom won the CCP/Leica Documentary Award at the Centre for Contemporary Photography and had his first solo exhibition in 1998. Bored in Melbourne, he then moved to Japan where he lived for seven years between 1999 and 2008 and co-established and curated RoomSpace gallery in Shinjuku. In 2003 he spent a year in Tasmania at the School of Art doing Honours and graduated with a first class result. In 2007 Haggblom made an influential road-trip from California to Texas and produced the series Taming Horses which was exhibited at 24HR Art, Darwin, and the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne in the exhibition he curated Silent Ruptures. He has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally in Japan, America and Switzerland. He is presently a PhD candidate through Monash University and based in Mildura, Victoria, where he lectures at La Trobe University. In early 2010 Haggblom was the inaugural artist in residence at the Australia Council for the Arts Finland Studio.
| Education | |
| 2009 - | PhD candidate Monash University, Australia (supervised by Daniel Palmer) |
| 2003 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Australia (First Class Honours) |
| 1995 - 97 | Bachelor of Arts Photography, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia |
| 1994 | Photographic Imaging Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
| Solo exhibitions | |
| 2011 | Saddam's Arse, Whitecubemildura, Victoria |
| 2011 | Suomi, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne |
| 2011 | Suomi, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Western Australia |
| 2010 | Suomi, Visual Arts Centre, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria |
| 2004 | de/construct, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne |
| 2003 | de/construct, Entrepot Gallery, School of Art, University of Tasmania |
| 2002 | Heterotopias, Gallery K, Ginza, Tokyo |
| 2001 | Apogee, Nikon Salon, Tokyo and Osaka |
| 2000 | Knot, We Road, Ikebukuro Station (public installation), Tokyo |
| 1998 | Construction Site, Span Galleries, Melbourne |
| Two person collaborative exhibitions | |
| 2011 | Wish you were here... (with Tuomas Laitinen), The Kar-Rama Motel Project, Mildura Palimpsest #8, Victoria (live video installation in room 25, see more at Laitinen's website HERE) |
| 2008 | some other place than here, (with Tomoki Imai) Stefano’s Gallery 25, Mildura, Victoria |
| 2007 | promiscuous paul knight + kristian haggblom (with sound by Philip Samartzis), Galerie Omotesando, Tokyo |
| 2005 | Siri Hayes + Kristian Haggblom, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne |
| inexterior, (with Tomoaki Makino), Area Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne | |
| 2002 | Aokigahara Jukai, (with Warren Fithie), Galerie Omotesando, Tokyo |
| 1999 | Project 1, (with Juan Ford), George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne |
| Selected group exhibitions | |
| 2011 | Worldwide@Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan |
| 2009 | re-socialization: The Wentworth Gaol Project (Murray Darling Palimpsest #8), The Old Wentworth Gaol, N.S.W. |
| 2008 | Silent Ruptures, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne and 24HR Art NT Centre of Contemporary Art, Darwin |
| Collapsing Horizon, Criterion Gallery, Tasmania | |
| (Untitled) u=______, Fette’s Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles | |
| 2007 | We are all photographers now! Musee de I’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert National Photographic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland | |
| 2006 | Photographic Industry Exposition - ipod folio library, Tokyo Big Site |
| 2005 | outdooring; 6 australian photomedia artists, Gallery Senkukan, Tokyo |
| Paper Bridges – a conference of folding spaces, CAST, Tasmania | |
| 2004 | Hatched – National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia |
| Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert National Photographic Award,Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland | |
| 2003 | Scape, CAST, Tasmania |
| Energex Arbour Contemporary Art Prize, Southbank, Brisbane | |
| 2002 | Photographs by the Next Generation, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Kiyosato, Japan |
| 2000 | Photographs by the Next Generation, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Kiyosato, Japan |
| 1998 | Transit Lounge, Smith & Stonely Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1997 | Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France |
| Housing Poverty Then and Now, St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne | |
| Grants and awards | |
| 2011 | Perth Centre for Photography, The Judges Commendation Prize, CLIP Award |
| 2010 | Australia Council for the Arts studio residency, Suomenlinna, Finland |
| 2007 | Pro-Helvetia Foundation, Swiss Arts Council, support for Silent Ruptures exhibition |
| 2005 | The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Japan, exhibition fund for Paper Bridges |
| 2004 | Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant (Emerging Artist) |
| 2003 | Exhibition Development Fund for Paper Bridges, exhibition, CAST, Tasmania |
| 2003 | Energex Arbour Contemporary Art Prize, Brisbane, (Finalist) |
| 2003 | The Walkom Manning Regional Art Gallery Prize, N.S.W. (First Prize) |
| 2002 | Project Wall, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney |
| 2001 | Juna 21 Exhibition Grant, Nikon Cameras, Tokyo |
| 1998 | Centre for Contemporary Photography/Leica Documentary Photography Award, Melbourne (First Prize) |
| Conference papers / Discussions / Guest lectures | |
2011
2010
2009 | Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Mapping Terrain: Australian Artists on Landscape (in conjunction with the Shaun Gladwell exhibition Stereo Sequences), with Gary Simmons and Brendan Lee Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland, Landschaft; Kalle Kataila in conversation with Kristian Haggblom. Discussion based on the reemergence of contemporary landscape photography and Kataila's exhibition Landscape Cognizance Art Association of Australia & New Zealand, Contemoprary Photography, Landscape & History session, convened by Dr Rosemary Hawker & Dr Janda Gooding: Aokigahara Jukai; The Japanese Suicide Forest, Australian National University, Canberra |
| Selected bibliography | |
| 2011 | Rule, Dan. Arts & Entertainment, In the Galleries Kristian Haggblom: Suomi, The Saturday Age, Oct 1 |
| 2009 | Vivian, Helen. Palimpsest #7 – Displacement, Art Monthly, June 2009 #22 |
| 2008 | Nelson, Robert. A rear-ended Salute for the Departure of US Troops, The Age, Metro Arts & Culture, July 23 |
| O’Riordan, Maurice. Previews: Silent Ruptures, Photofile #83 | |
| 2007 | DiPietro, Monty. Breaking into the “tea-drinking club”, Japan Times, Feb 23 (link to article here) |
| Houghton, Max. Jisastu, EI8HT, Photo Journal, London, Vol. 6, NO 1, MIND | |
| 2006 | McFarlane, Kyla. Kristian Haggblom, un magazine, issue 7 (issue downloadable here) |
| McFarlane, Kyla. Landscapes and the Renewal of Social Space Photofile 76 | |
| 2005 | Rankin-Reid, Jane. A Celebration of Differing Perceptions, The Mercury, Tasmania |
| 2003 | Lendis, Celia. Scape, exhibition catalogue, CAST, Tasmania. |
| The Energex Arbour Contemporary Art Prize, exhibition catalogue and Brisbane Courier Mail, Nov 1 | |
| 2002 | DiPietro, Monty. Taking a Balanced View of Life and Death, Japan Times, New Art Seen, July 17 (link to article here) |
Collections
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art (Japan), Tasmanian Department of Tourism, Parks, Heritage and the Arts, Monash University Museum of Art, Australian Parliament House Collection, international and national private collections.