Zoë Croggon

Melbourne-based artist Zoë Croggon works with sculpture, video, drawing and primarily, collage. Her practice considers the relationship between the kinetic body and its surroundings, contemplating the role we play in our environment and how deeply our surroundings inform the cadence of our lives. The body has long been the focus of Croggon’s work, presenting the trained body and modern architecture as fascinating counterparts; each unyielding, severe, and rigorously functional in form. Created primarily from found photographs, her works study texture, light, and form, examining the possibilities and limits of pictorial abstraction and metamorphosis.

Zoë Croggon completed a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts with First Class Honours in 2011. She has held solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Peckham 24 (London), Silver Eye Centre for Photography (Pittsburgh), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Perth Centre for Photography, the Melbourne Art Fair, and has had eight solo exhibitions with Daine Singer gallery since 2012.
Croggon has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Monash University Museum of Art, Samstag Museum of Art, Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.   Croggon has been awarded the Maddocks Art Prize (2019), Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2018), ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award (2014), the Asia-Pacific Photobook Prize (2015) and the ACACIA Art Award (2010). She has also been shortlisted for the Churchie Art Prize, Basil Sellers Art Prize at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Wallara Travelling Scholarship. Her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, MUMA, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Horsham Regional Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery and Artbank.
Kate Kelley, Zoe Croggon ‘Pale Horse Pale Rider’ Catalogue Essay, 2021
Podcast, David Oresick and Zoe Croggon, Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, October 2020
Podcast, Gillian Brown and Zoe Croggon, Samstag Museum of Art, May 2020
Zoe Croggon (b.1989, Melbourne, lives Melbourne)
Education
2011 Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts 
2008-10 Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts

Solo Exhibitions
2024 Chamber Dance, PHOTO 2024, Melbourne Arts Precinct
2024 Magazines, Melbourne Art Fair
2022 Mother Tongue, PHOTO22, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2021 Pale Horse Pale Rider, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2021 Pale Horse Pale Rider, Silver Eye Centre for Photography, Pittsburgh 
2019 Olga, CCP, Melbourne 
2018 luce rossa, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2018 Arc, Peckham 24, London 
2017 Deep Cuts, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria 
2017 Tenebrae, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 
2017 In the Back of My Mind, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2016 Kiri, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2016 Pool, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth 
2015 Meridian, Daine Singer, Melbourne 
2014 Concrete, Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne 
2014 Apex, Transit Gallery, The Substation, Melbourne 
2013 Deuce, Daine Singer, Melbourne
 2013 Pool, West Space, Melbourne 
2012 Zoë Croggon, Daine Singer, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions 
2024 Both Body & Not, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, curated by Leah Ferguson
 2024 A Space Between, Heide Modern, curated by Laura Lantieri and Chloe Jones
2024 Photography Real and Imagined, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2023 Circles of Dialogue, LaTrobe Art Institute, curated by Amelia Wallin
 2023 Daine Singer at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2022 Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange 2021 SPRING1883, Melbourne
 2021 Presence/Absence: Australian Photography from the collection, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham 
2020 Daine Singer at FAIR PRESENTED BY NADA 
2020 Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
 2020 Adelaide//International, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide 
2020 Fifty, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
 2019 In Her Words, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
 2018 SPRING1883, Daine Singer at The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne 
2018 Odile, City of Greater Dandenong, Melbourne 
2017 Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 
2017 From the Darkness, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
 2016 New Matter, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2016 The Substation Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne 
2016 SPRING1883, Daine Singer at The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
 2015 Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
 2015 Grey Matter, Artbank, Sydney
 2015 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
 2015 Daine Singer at Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Establishment, Sydney
 2014 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne 
2014 The Sievers Project, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 
2014 Daine Singer at Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne 
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2012-2013 Future Now, The Substation, Melbourne; Cowwarr Art Space, Gippsland 
2012 Liquid Archive, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2012 Dodecahedron, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne 
2012 Exploration 12, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 
2012 Splitting Image, Tinning St Gallery, Melbourne
 2012 Tenancy 3, blackartprojects, Melbourne 
2012 Entry 2012, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne 
2011 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts 
2011 Consultancy, National Gallery of Victoria Studio, Melbourne 
2011 Mainly Everything, TCB Gallery, Melbourne 
2011 Here Is Where We Meet, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne 
2011 Honourable Discharge, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne 
2011 Triple Double, The Mill Gallery, Tasmania 
2011 Totes West, Basement Lounge Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne 
2011 Because We Are All Animals, Disco Beans Art Space, Melbourne 
2011 Debut VII, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
 2010 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne 
2010 Best Years of Our Lives, VCA Student Gallery
 2010 Wallara Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 
2010 Proud 2010, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 
2009 Stay Golden, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne 
2008 Habitat, Geidai University Gallery, Tokyo
 2008 Pimp My Paper, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne 
2008 Proud 2008, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne  
Awards
 2024 Finalist, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, National Works on Paper Prize 
2024 Finalist, Omina Art Prize 
2019 Winner, Maddocks Art Prize
2018 Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2017 Finalist, Maddocks Prize
2016 Finalist, The Substation Art Prize 
2015 Winner, Asia-Pacific Photobook Prize 
2014 Finalist, The Churchie 
2014 Winner, ARTAND Australia/ Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award 
2014 Finalist, The Basil Sellers Art Prize 
2010 Shortlisted for the Wallara Traveling Scholarship 
2010 Winner, ACACIA Art Award

Collections
 National Gallery of Australia 
National Gallery of Victoria 
Art Gallery of New South Wales 
Heide Museum of Modern Art 
Artbank
 Gippsland Art Gallery 
Acacia Art Collection 
Art and Australia 
Monash University Museum of Art Museum of Australian Photography
Horsham Regional Art Gallery 
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery