Tonee Messiah

BIOGRAPHY
Resides in Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
2001-2004  Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 I Picked Cotton, First Draft Gallery, Surry Hills
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Overt Compensation Reloaded, The Depot Gallery, Danks Street Depot, Waterloo
2005 AMP Capital Investors Art and Sculpture Expo, AMP Centre, Sydney 
Open Gallery, Art & About Festival, banners exhibited along streets of Sydney CBD
A Short Survey On Making Pictures, Co-Curator, Phatspace Gallery, Darlinghurst 
The Thin Lead Line, Phatspace Gallery, Darlinghurst
Overt Compensation, The Depot Gallery, Danks Street Depot, Waterloo
2004 Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle
What The World Needs Now III, Anniversary Show, Phatspace Gallery, Darlinghurst
Counter Art, Sydney Affordable Art Show
Fingerprints, Sydney Writers Festival, Bangarra Dance Theatre
2003 Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle
Knot: An Exhibition, Australian Council for the Arts, Surry Hills
Girls Night Out, Newspace Gallery, Rozelle
2002 In-Habit-Ants, Knot Gallery, Surry Hills
2001 Sophomore, Newspace Gallery, Rozelle
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
2005 Artist Profile, Sydney Central Courier, Vol.1, Issue 34, October 5, 2005
Exhibition Review, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, October 1, 2005
2004 Artist Profile/ interview, Empty Magazine, Issue Two
2003 Artist Profile, Lilacmenace Magazine, Issue Four
2001 Exhibition Review, The Sun Herald, May 26, 2001
COLLECTIONS
Private collections throughout Australia
AWARDS/GRANTS
2005 Zelda Stedman Young Artist Scholarship 
William Fletcher Trust Artist Grant
2004 NAVA Visual and Craft Artists' Grant
2003 Sir William Dobell Arts Foundation Scholarship