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1967
Born Adelaide, South Australia. Lives Adelaide.
1989
Bachelor of Design (Ceramics), SA School of Art, University of South Australia
1990
Graduate Diploma of Arts (Visual Art), SA School of Art, University of South Australia
2000
Residency, Ceramics Department, University of South Australia
2004
Master of Visual Arts (MA), SA School of Art, University of South Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2001
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2000
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1999
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1998
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1996
Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia
1995
Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1994
Public Domain Art Projects Exhibitions
1993
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and After Science, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2008
Uneasy – recent South Australian art, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2006
Imagine…the creativity shaping our culture, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Things Will be Great, MOP, Sydney, Australia
2004
2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
MCA Unpacked II, Selections from the MCA Collection by Michelle Nikou and Joan Grounds, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide; Bendigo Art Gallery; Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Revenge, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
Manifesto, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2003-2004
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, touring National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Australia
2003
MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Mystic Medusa on Art, New Contemporaries, Sydney, Australia
2001-2002
Home is where the heart is, South Australian touring exhibition, Burra Regional Art Gallery, Adelaide Art Museum, University of SA, Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, Port Augusta Fountain Gallery, Australia
2001
Jamboree Clay, The Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia
2000
Chemistry – Art in South Australia 1990-2000. The Faulding Exhibition. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Genespill, Imperial Slacks, Sydney, Australia
1998
Defiling the Object, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide, Footscray Community Art Centre, Melbourn, Australia, The Substation, Singapore
Strange Brew, Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia
1997
Comfort, First Draft, Sydney, Australia
North Adelaide School of Art, South Australia
1996
Brisbane Art Fair, Greenaway Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1994
Fania, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, Australia
1993
Side Step, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
1992
The China Cabinet, Jamboree Workshop, Adelaide
1990
Post Graduate Exhibition, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, Australia
Frank, The Bullring, Adelaide, Australia
AWARDS
2010
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
2004
SALA monograph, 2005
2003
MF & MH Joyner Scholarship of Fine Arts
Australian Post Graduate Award (APR)
University of South Australia Post Graduate Research Award (USAPRA)
Catalogue funding, Arts SA, South Australia
2000
Project Grant, Arts SA, South Australia
1998
EVA Art Prize, Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide, Australia
Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant
1995
Santos Sydney Studio Scholarship
Department for the Arts and Cultural Development, Arts Project Grant
1990
Kym Bonython Art Prize, Adelaide
RESIDENCIES
2001
AIT Arts Foundry, Roma Mitchell Arts Education Centre
2000
Ceramics workshop, University of South Australia
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia
University of South Australia Art Museum
National Gallery of Australia
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bolton, K. Michelle Nikou, Wakefield Press, Adelaide 2006
Bolton, K, Sculptures, Agenda, Melbourne October 1995
Day, C & Tutton, S. Before and After Science, 2010 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. 2010.
Eagle, M, What differentiates art from everyday making?, Home is Where the Heart is, Catalogue Essay, Country Arts S.A., 2000
Hart, D, Home Sweet Home: an artist-collector’s passion, Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, 2003
Hill, P, On their selection, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, October 18-19 2003
Keneally, C, Where are we now, Broadsheet, Vol 23, No.3
McDonald, J. The meaning of colour Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum 31 March – 1 April 2007, p. 17
Morrell, T. Michelle Nikou in Uneasy – recent South Australian art, exhibition catalogue, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 2008, pp.38 – 39.
Nelson, R. Imagining the forces that shape our artistic culture, The Age Metro, review, 26 July 2006, p. 22
Newell, M, Michelle Nikou: Two Spoons, Broadsheet Vol. 30 32, 2001
Newell, M. (Foreward), catalogue essay, Michelle Nikou, 2004
Radok, S, A Woman’s Touch, Home is Where the Heart is, Catalogue Essay, Country Arts S.A., 2000
Radok, S, The Adelaide Review, July 1995
Radok, S, Here and Now, The Adelaide Review, Vol. 23 NOl3, Sept. 94
Sheedy, M, For Art’s Sake, Elle, May 1998
Stanhope, Z. (Ed.) IMAGINE… the creativity shaping our culture, exhibition catalogue, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2006
Valamanesh, A, Self Determination, Artlink, Vol.14, No.4