Liang Luscombe’s practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and moving image that engage in a process of generative questioning of how images and film affect audiences. She received her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. She has been included in screenings at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Artists Space, NYC; The Capitol, Melbourne; Table, Chicago; The Sunview Luncheonette NYC; ACMI, Melbourne; Composite, Melbourne; and the 51st Athens International Film + Video Festival. She has undertaken residencies at EXPAND Adelaide Film Festival Lab, Adelaide; Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts, 2022; Chicago Artist Coalition’s HATCH residency program, Chicago, 2019; SOMA Summer, Mexico City, 2018; Australia Council Studio, British School at Rome, 2013; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Studio Residency, Perth, 2011.

Contact: lluscombe@gmail.com

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EDUCATION

2024 - Current
PhD Candidate, Department of Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

2018
Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

2010
Bachelor of Arts (Visual), with Honors First Class, School of Art & Design, The Australian National University, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

2024
Leave, Screams on Screen: Dark Desire, The Capitol, Melbourne as part of ACCA's exhibition From the other side.
Programmed by Jessica Balanzategui, Elyse Goldfinch, and Jessica Clark.

Sweaty Scales, Watch & Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspence as part of NGV Triennial EXTRA, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Curated by Amita Kirpalani and Timothy Moore.

2023
Leave, Night Gallery, Los Angeles (in colaboration with Cara Benedetto)
Leave, Artists Space, NYC (in colaboration with Cara Benedetto)

2022
Malamadre, Composite, Melbourne
Malamadre, ACMI, Melbourne
Malamadre, The Front, New Orleans
Malamadre, The Sunview Luncheonette, NYC
Malamadre, Table, Chicago

2021
Itchy IOUs, Recess, Melbourne
Itchy IOUs, Open Television, Chicago
Mono-Poly-March, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne

2020
Sweaty Scales, MetroArts, Brisbane
Sweaty Scales, OTVTonight, Open Television, Chicago

2019
Sweaty Scales, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Sweaty Scales, VEHICLE, Sunview Luncheonette, New York, hosted by Camel Collective
She inches glass to break, Comfort Station, Chicago, curated by Zachary Hutchinson

2018
She inches glass to break, VCUarts MFA Graduate Exhibition, Richmond, VA

2016
A tall painter, Yarra Flats Park, Salon Gallery, Melbourne
Table Talk, Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane

2014
Sailors Three, Sutton Project Space, Melbourne

2013
Non in Casa, 157 Blyth Street, Melbourne

2012
Bauhaus Fisher Price, TCB art inc., Melbourne

2011
String Strung Out, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Melbourne Now, Recess Artist Film Program, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Watch & Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspence, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul

2022
Class Issues—Art Production In and Out of Precarity, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Circle, Centre for Projection Art, Canberra

2021
Petty Cash, Working at Heights, Melbourne

2020
recess presents, ACE Open, Adelaide, curated by Olivia Koh

2019
Portals, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, curated by Elliot Reichert
Phone Home, EFA Project Space, New York, curated by Wendy Vogel

2017
The Candidates, The VCUarts PAPR Master of Fine Art Candidacy Exhibition, Richmond

2016
Affect and Exchange, Kings ARI, Melbourne, curated by Benison Kilby (in collaboration with Sean Dockray)

2015
Gong-bath Mountain at Wellness and Wild, Brunswick Sculpture Center, Melbourne
Gertrude Studios 2015, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia, curated by Biljana Ciric (in collaboration with 3-Ply & Lisa Radford)
Object Lessons 1: Painting, Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, curated by Gemma Weston
Che Cosa, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, curated by David Capra

2014
3-Ply Remote Residency, Good Press Gallery, Glasgow
No fond return of love, I.C.A.N., Sydney
Medium, Moana Project Space, Perth, curated by Gemma Weston
Dear Masato, all at once, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Lisa Radford
Interrupted Expenditure, RM, Auckland

2013
brimming dissolution, buoyant expenditure, Dog Park, Christchurch
Synonyms for Sincerity, Alaska Projects, Sydney
Please be quiet, The British School at Rome, Rome
Signature Style, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, collaboration with Dan Bell, curated by Nella Themalios and Kim Brockett
Navel Gazing, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, curated by Brooke Babington and Melissa Loughnan

2012
Ménage a Trois, XYZ Gallery, Tokyo
Fresh Paint, Sutton Project Space, Melbourne

2011
Impossible Objects, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, curated by Helen Hughes and Melissa Loughnan

2010
HP 2010, Foyer Gallery ANU, Canberra
This Way Up, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Joint Flux Pus, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, Canberra
Slo Mo Demo, TCB art inc., Melbourne

EXHIBITIONS CURATED

2016
The trouble with remuneration, West Space, Melbourne (co-curated with Patrice Sharkey)

2015
Support materials, soft furnishings, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne (co-curated with Lisa Radford)

2014
Factory Fetish, West Space, Melbourne (co-curated with Joshua Simon)
The Museum is the Region, the Region is the Museum, The Living Museum of the West, Melbourne (co-curated with Danny Lacy and Patrice Sharkey)
Why not walk backward?, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (co-curated with Brooke Babington)

2013
The Knock-off Show, Slopes, Melbourne (co-curated with Brooke Babington)
FX, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (co-curated with Patrice Sharkey)

2012
No reasonable offer refused, West Space, Melbourne (co-curated with Patrice Sharkey)

2011
Hidden Definition, Sutton Project Space, Melbourne (co-curated with Patrice Sharkey)
The Zero Dollar Show, The West Wing, Melbourne

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cher Tan, '5 Questions with Liang Luscombe, 5 July 2022, https://www.liminalmag.com/5-questions/liang-luscombe
Amber Essieva, "Itchy IOUs," exhibition text, 2021, http://recess.net.au/index.php/2021/
Kyle B. Johanson, "Sweaty Scales" in Recess Presents exhibition text, 2020, https://aceopen.art/exhibitions/recess-presents/
Rosemary Forde, "Liang Luscombe, Sweaty Scales" in ArtReview Asia, Winter Issue 2019, p. 100.
Isabelle Sully, Thoughts for a tall painter, exhibition map and catalogue, 2016.
Dan Rule, "In the galleries, Liang Luscombe: Sailors Three" in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 November 2014. Maura Edmond, "Liang Luscombe | Sailors Three @ Sutton Projects" in Primer, 31 October 2014.
Kyla McFarlane, "Critic’s choice" in Art Collector, Issue 68, April 2014, p. 154.
Georgina Criddle and Angela Brennan, Non in Casa, 2014.
Kim Brockett and Nella Themalios, Signature Style catalogue, Craft Victoria, 2013.
Lisa Radford, "Beam me up Scotty (1): eulogy for a leader" in Stamm, March 2013.
Ménage a Trois catalogue, TCB art inc., XYZ Collective and Enjoy Gallery, 2013.
The British School at Rome, Fine Arts 2012-2013 catalogue, British School at Rome, 2013.
Brooke Babington, "Don’t go changing" in Bauhaus Fisher Price catalogue, 2012.
Yolande Norris, "This Way Up: romancing the paint," Art Monthly Australia, Issue 241, July 2011, p. 33 – 36.

SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITINGS

Liang Luscombe, 'Tired of The Future: Techno-Orientalism and the Trappings of Speculative World Building' in Mirrors, Liminal, 19 October 2022, edited by Jon Tjhia, https://www.liminalmag.com/mirror/tired-of-the-future
Liang Luscombe, 'Using the slippery prop to steal the master's tools,'in 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State, exhibition catalogue, 2022, p. 46-59.
Liang Luscombe, "George Egerton-Warburton: Dingo 2014" November 2018, Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, https://www.monash.edu/muma/collection/100-works-of-the-monash-university-collection/100-works/george-egerton-warburton
Liang Luscombe and Patrice Sharkey, "What it’s Like to Dance Naked in the Museum and Other Thoughts: Stuart Ringholt’s Kraft" in Discipline 4, 2016, p148-157.
Liang Luscombe and Joshua Simon, Factory Fetish catalogue, West Space, 2015.
Liang Luscombe, "Lost and Profound" in Artlink, Issue 35:3, September 2015, p75.
Liang Luscombe, "Studio Profile: Sarah crowEST" in Raven, 24 November 2014.
Liang Luscombe, Danny Lacy & Patrice Sharkey, The museum is the region, the region is the museum catalogue, West Space project at the Living Museum of the West, 2014.
Liang Luscombe, "The Golden Age of Sims FreePlay" in West Space Journal, Issue 3, Autumn 2014.
Liang Luscombe, "Price Point, Interview with Isabelle Graw" in un Magazine, Issue 6.1, p58-64.
Liang Luscombe, "Walking is not a medium, it’s an attitude" in un Magazine, Issue 5.2, 2011, p.6 – 13.
Liang Luscombe, "Pagina Uno" in (), Benjamin Forster catalogue, Fremantle Arts Centre, 2011.
Liang Luscombe, "Burros Ballet, Ry Haskings" in un Magazine, Issue 4.2. p.91-93.

SELECTED AWARDS, PRIZES, AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023
EXPAND Adelaide Film Festival Lab, Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide

2022
Artist-In-Residence Program, Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts, Omaha

2021
Arts Grant, City of Melbourne

2020
Create Grant, Australia Council of the Arts

2019
City of Yarra Small Project Grant, City of Yarra
SPARK Grant, Chicago Artist Coalition

2018-2019
HATCH Residency Program, Chicago Artist Coalition

2018
SOMA Summer, Mexico City

2017
VCU Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University Curatorial
Graduate Assistant, Institute of Contemporary Art VCU
VCUarts Travel Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University

2016
Dame Joan Sutherland Fund Grant, American Australian Association
Teaching Assistantship, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University
Australia Council, New Work Grant

2015
Banyule Art Grant, City of Banyule
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
Lou Hubbard: Dead Still Standing, West Space publication, Editor
The Expanding Universe of Painting round table, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (co-organised with Fayen d’Evie)
Stopping Short: NGV Book Fair public discussion, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (co-organised with 3-Ply)

2014-2016
Program Curator, West Space, Melbourne
Un Magazine Advisory, Committee Member

2014
DAS Super Paper Guest Editor, Issue 31 (co-edited with Brooke Babington and Pip Wallis)

2013
Emerging Curator Program, Gertrude Contemporary and Next Wave
Australia Council Studio Residency, British School at Rome
JUMP Mentorship recipient, Australia Council, mentored by Angela Brennan

2012-2014
Lecturer of Professional Practices, Drawing & Graphic Design History Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Department of Visual Arts and Department of Graphic Design

2012
Un Magazine, Sub Editor, Issues 6.1 & 6.2.
TCB art inc. Committee member, TCB art inc., Melbourne

2011
PICA Studio Residency, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

2010
ArtStart Grant, awarded by the Australia Council
Writer in Residence, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra