Staff profile

Mr Kristian Haggblom

Lecturer, Honours Coordinator

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Mildura Staff and Research Office, Mildura

 

Qualifications

BA (Photography-RMIT), Bach Fine Arts (First Class Honours-Hobart School of Art, University of Tasmania), PhD candidate (Monash University).

Membership of professional Associations

Deputy Chair: Arts Mildura Palimpsest Biennale board.

Area of study

Visual Arts

Brief Profile

After graduating from RMIT (photography) in 1997, Kristian Haggblom won the CCP/Leica Documentary Award and held his first solo exhibition. In 1999 he moved to Tokyo where he lived for six years. During this time he established and ran an experimental art space and exhibited extensively. In 2007, Haggblom travelled through west and central America and most recently did the inaugural Australia Council for the Arts, Helsinki residency. Haggblom also works as an independent curator and has curated a number of cross-cultural exhibitions including re-socialization: the Wentworth Gaol Project, as part of the Murray Darling Palimpsest, Silent Ruptures (CCP, Melbourne and 24HR Art, NT) and Paper Bridges (CAST, Tasmania). He is presently a PhD candidate through Monash University investigating his project A Landscape of Events: A Photographic Investigation of Australian Tourist Locations.

Research interests

Lens-Based Practice

- Lens-based cross-cultural international collaboration,

- Lens-based installation and site-specific practices

Teaching Units

 

VPA2MWC/D - Visual Arts Media Workshop. VPA3MWE/F - Visual Arts Media Workshop. VPA2TMC/D - Theories and Methodologies in Studio Practice. VPA3TME/F - Theories and Methodologies in Studio Practice. VPA4RVA

Recent Publications

Exhibitions  

 

2009

Murray Darling Palimpsest, re-socialization: Wentworth Gaol Project, Wentworth N.S.W. (curator and exhibiting artist).

 

Creative Imperatives, (Group exhibition 21 artist) Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Latrobe University.

 

2008  

Silent Ruptures, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (curator and exhibiting artist).    

 

Silent Ruptures, 24HR Art NT Centre of Contemporary Art, Darwin (curator and exhibiting artist).     

 

Collapsing Horizon, Criterion Gallery, Tasmania.                                  

 

(Untitled) u=______, Fette’s Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles.

 

some other place than here, (with Tomoki Imai) Stefano’s Gallery 25, Mildura, Victoria (2-person collaborative exhibition).

 

2007

We are all photographers now! Musee de I’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

promiscuous paul knight + kristian haggblom with sound by Philip samartzis, Galerie Omotesando, Tokyo (curator and exhibiting artist.

 

2006

outdooring - 6 australian photomedia artists, Gallery Senkukan, Tokyo (curator/artist).

 

Paper Bridges – A conference of folding spaces, CAST, Tasmania (curator and exhibiting artist).

 

2005

inexterior, (with Tomoaki Makino), Area Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne (2-person collaborative exhibition).

 

Siri Hayes + Kristian Haggblom, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne (2-person collaborative exhibition).

 

2004

Hatched – National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

 

de/construct, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne  Entrepot Gallery, School of Art, University of Tasmania (solo exhibition).

 

2003 

Scape, CAST, Tasmania.

 

de/construct, Entrepot Gallery, School of Art, University of Tasmania (solo exhibition).

 

Energex Arbour Contemporary Art Prize, Southbank, Brisbane (finalist).

 

2002

Photographs by the Next Generation, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Kiyosato, Japan.

 

Heterotopias, Gallery K, Ginza, Tokyo (solo exhibition).

 

Aokigahara Jukai (The Blue Sea of Foliage (with Warren Fithie)), Galerie Omotesando, Tokyo (2-person collaborative exhibition).

Research projects

 

PhD project, Monash University: A Landscape of Events: A Photographic Investigation of Australian Tourist Locations.   Curatorial Project: Suomi; an exhibition of lens-based Finnish contemporary art (exhibition forthcoming)  

Curatorial Project: Mildura Palimpsest Biennale