Juan Ford

BIOGRAPHY

Juan Ford has shown extensively throughout Australia, as a regular participant in eminent group and survey exhibitions. His work appears in significant collections across the country.

Ford has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and prizes including the 2006 Fisher's Ghost Art Award (acquisitive $25,000); the 2004 Fletcher Jones Art Prize ($25,000); the 2003 Conrad Jupiters Art prize; the 2004 Salon des Refuses; an Australia Council Studio Residency in Rome in 2006; an Australia Council New Work Grant in 2002; and the 2001 Whyalla Art Prize.

Commissioned portraits include:; Professor Richard Larkins AO (Monash University Vice-Chancellor) 2007, Professor Ruth Dunkin (RMIT University, Melbourne, former Vice Chancellor), 2006 and Professor Fay Marles AM (University of Melbourne former Chancellor), 2005.

In 2010, Juan Ford's work in the Basil Sellers Art Award won the People's Choice award and in 2011 Ford travelled to New York to undertake a residency at the OMI International Arts Center, Columbia County, N.Y. U.S.A.

Ford has recently exhibited at the Footscray Community Arts Centre and had a retrospective exhibition at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo.

dianne tanzer gallery + projects are proud to announce the Parliament of Victoria has selected Juan Ford to paint the offical portrait of the former Premier, the Honourable John Brumby.The portrait will be hung in the Victorian Parliament House and will form part of the collection of Victorian Premiers' Portraits.

Juan Ford's practice has consistently been engaged with opening up new possibilities for realism in painting. He has employed many strategies that argue around the theoretical 'problems' of realism in painting. Ford enjoys exploiting the limited shortcomings of the dull, officially sanctioned dialogue between painting and it's would-be executioner, photography, in order to develop new potential for realism. While his work evolves and varies across time, it characteristically involves an examination of the human figure and its relationship to its environment.


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ARTIST NEWS

February 2, 2012

Juan Ford is exhibiting at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC as part Lie of the Land: New Australian Landscapes. Curated by Alex Taylor, the exhibition features a selection of the hottest Australian contemporary painters. The exhibition features a new … Continue reading →

January 19, 2012

Double Vision The Elisabeth Murdoch Gallery and French Gallery 5 December 2011 – 18 March 2012 Double Vision exuberantly explores contemporary art with ideas of portraiture and the body as the focus. Representing through a myriad of mediums what it … Continue reading →

September 14, 2011

dianne tanzer gallery + projects and Victoria Reichelt have packed their bags and are off the the Korea International Art Fair. From 22 – 26 September we will be exhibiting in Seoul along with 192 other galleries from all over … Continue reading →

September 5, 2011

Welcome to Michael Cook – He has had a very successful year, as a finalist in both the 2011 Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards and the 2011 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. Michael has now joined the gallery … Continue reading →

May 27, 2011

The countdown has begun for Korean International Art Fair 2011! In late September the gallery team and Victoria Reichelt will be heading to Seoul for the gallery’s first international art fair. 2011 is the Australian and Korean year of friendship … Continue reading →

March 9, 2011

March is gearing up to be a busy month here at dtg+p, and to kick it off we have an opening and a cause for congratulations: Roh Singh’s exhibition Inaudible Sounds, presented courtesy of dianne tanzer gallery + projects for … Continue reading →