Christopher Beaumont (b.1961)

Biography

1961 Born Melbourne
1980-83 MB,BS Medicine, University of Melbourne         
1984 Dip. TOP Art & Design, Prahran College of TAFE
1985-87 BA. Painting & Sculpture, Victorian College of Arts
1997 Grad Dip. Multimedia Software Development, Swinburne University of Technology 

Solo Exhibitions

1990 Pinacotheca Gallery, Victoria
1991 Botanical Gallery, Victoria
1992 Botanical Gallery, Victoria
1995 Scope Gallery, Victoria
2004 Forty Five Downstairs, Victoria
2005 Cobalt Gallery, Victoria
2006 Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Group Exhibitions

1987 Graduate Show, Victoria College of the Arts, Victoria
1988 'Site of Execution', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria
1989 'From the Collection', Monash University Gallery, Victoria
1989 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australia    
1989 Group Show, Pinacotheca Gallery, Victoria
1990 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australia
1990 'Art with Text', Victoria
1990 'Good for Football', Punter's Club, Victoria
1991 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
1991 'Out of our Oeuvre', Gallery at Tolarno's, Victoria
1992 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
1992 Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection, National Gallery of Victoria
1992 Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection, McClelland Gallery, Victoria
1992 'Summer Group Show', Botanical Gallery, Victoria
1992 'St. Kilda Festival-Food', Gallery at Tolarno's, Victoria
1993 'Arrangement, Australian Still Life 1973-1993', Museum of Modern Art at   Heide, Victoria
1993 'Group Show', 135 Fitzroy St Gallery,Victoria
1993 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
1994 'Sport the Greatest Theatre of All', Adelaide Festival Centre Art Space, National touring exhibition
1994 Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction, Sotheby's, Victoria
1994 'Still Life', Eva Bruer Art Dealer, NSW
1994 'Love and Ruin', St Kilda Town Hall, Victoria
1994 'Conrad Jupiter's Acquisitive Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
1994 'Re Production', Gallery at Tolarno's, Victoria
1994 'The Monster Footy Show', Artist's Garden, Victoria
1995 'Australia Felix', Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
1995 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
1996 'Food in Art', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
1999 'Postcard Show', Linden Art Gallery, Victoria
1999 'Exposure', Linden Gallery, Victoria
2000 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
2000 'St Kilda Artists' Group Show', Patrizia Autore Gallery, Victoria
2002 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
2002 JNF Genus Art Auction, Patrizia Autore Gallery, Victoria
2003 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
2003 'St Kilda Artists' Group Show', Patrizia Autore Gallery, Victoria
2003 'St Kilda Art Supplies 10th Anniversary Show', Metropoli Gallery, Victoria
2003 'Compendium', Platform Artists' Group, Spencer Street, Victoria
2004 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
2004 '120' of Separation', Linden Gallery, Victoria
2005 'Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2005 'Neo-Millenium', Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Victoria
2005 'Postcard Show', Linden Gallery, Victoria
2005 'Artists for Kids Culture', Prahran Town Hall and Jackman Gallery, Victoria

Selected Awards and Prizes

1987 Hans and Sylvia Sumberg Prize
1989 Finalist, Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
1990 Finalist, Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
1991 Postcard Prize & reproduction, St Kilda Council, Victoria
1994 Conrad Jupiter's Prize, Gold Coast City Council, Queensland
1999 Sweet Design Acquisitive Prize, Linden Gallery, Victoria
2000 Art Spectrum Finest Artist Colours Prize, Linden Gallery, Victoria
2005 People's Choice Award - Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Collections

National Gallery of Victoria, Margaret Stewart Endowment
Monash University Collection
BHP Collection
Western Mining Collection
Malleson Stephen Jaques Collection
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Australian Gallery of Sport & Olympic Museum