2024
Creative Victoria, Creative Projects Fund
THE WATCHER – in-development
2023
Creators Fund, Creative Victoria
CURRENT
Artist-in-Residence, Enough Room for Space, Brussels, Belgium
2022
Gertrude Studios Exhibition 2022, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Creative Residency Program, Emporium Creative Hub, Bendigo
Regional Arts Victoria Funding
Director of Photography and editor, Andy Butler, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2021
Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Projects Funding
31-Days Without Light, solo exhibition, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
PICA 2021 Studio and Residency Program, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Contributor, Fayen d’Evie, We get in touch with things at the point they break down // Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates…, West Space, Melbourne
Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change finalist exhibition, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
Director of Photography and editor, Andy Butler, Deep Clean, Arts House, Melbourne
2020
Gertrude Studio Program 2020 – 2022, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
CREATE Resilience Fund, Australia Council for the Arts
Sustaining Creative Workers, Creative Victoria
Quick Response Arts Grant, City of Melbourne
Artist-in-Residence, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Australia
Artist-in-Residence, Enough Room for Space, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Darebin Art Prize Finalist. Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
A way to sync, live in the world, and the opposite of relax, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Artist-in-Residence, Parramatta Artists Studios
Artist-in-Residence, Enough Room for Space, Brussels, Belgium
Create NSW, Artists Support Grant
2018
Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Projects Funding
Artist-in-Residence, Enough Room for Space, Brussels, Belgium
Research and production assistant, Anna Craycroft, Motion Into Being, New Museum, New York
Cinematography and editor, Frances Barrett, Handle, Hessel Museum, New York
2017
The symbol for silence is called zero. Enough Room for Space, Brussels, Belgium
Research Residency, Enough Room for Space, Brussels, Belgium
Vagabond Time Killers, The Wassaic Project, New York, USA. Commissioned project, Summer Festival and
Exhibition program
Cementa17 Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos, NSW, Australia
2016
Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow. Gertrude Contemporary, curated by Mark Feary, Melbourne , Australia
Justin Balmain, Too Lose Focus, Runway, Issue #30: [ECOLOGIES], 2016
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Australia
Writer-in-Residence, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Artist-in-Residence, Cementa17, Kandos, NSW, Australia
2015
The symbol for silence is called zero, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Darebin Art Prize Finalist Exhibition. Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Victoria, Australia
At Length : Italian baroque (SLUSH). Minerva Gallery, Sydney, Australia
NSW Artist Grant, National Association for Visual Arts, Australia
Artist-in-Residence, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, USA
The Career Fund, Copyright Agency, Australia
Tonia Shoumatoff, Sydney Artist Comes to Wassaic Project, The Millbrook Independent, 30 December 2015
Stella Rosa McDonald, The symbol for silence is called zero | Girls Girls Girls, The Art Life, 15 June 2015
2014
As Long as it La Las (sts). NEAR/AFAAAR, Sydney, Australia
Note to self. The Walls, Miami Beach, QLD, Australia
Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board New Work Emerging Artist Grant
THE CLOSED DOOR/THE OPEN DOOR. Justin Balmain/JD Reforma. ALASKA Projects, Sydney, Australia
Artbar. Curated by Marian Tubbs and Caitlin Franzmann. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Artbar. Curated by Hossein Ghaemi and Nick Dory. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Hercules & Aphrodite presents, curated by Juz Kitson and Philjames. 525 King St. Newtown, Australia
John Fries Award Exhibition. Galleries UNSW, Sydney , Australia
Substation Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition. The Substation, Melbourne, Australia
Speculative Everything (SLUSH). Curated by Amelia Wallin. Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Rebecca Ross, Text to speak: Justin Balmain, ABC Open, 14 October 2014.
Stella Rosa McDonald, The John Fries Award 2014, The Art Life, 18 August 2014
NSW Artist Grant, National Association for Visual Arts, Australia
Artist-in-Residence, Waverly Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
2013
Firstdraft Gallery Board of Directors
Master of Fine Arts by Research, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
Parlour, curated by SuperKaleidoscope. Kaldor Public Art Projects, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia
Home Is Where One Starts From (SLUSH). Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Mono-no-aware Curated by SuperKaleidoscope. Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
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