EDUCATION

2017
PhD, UNSW Art and Design,
2007
Master of Fine Art, UNSW Art and Design
1998
Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020
Space for Time, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney               
2018
The Thinking Image, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2017
Reimagining seventeenth-century Dutch still life: through a contemporary painting practice, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
2016
The Hunt, Verge Gallery, Sydney
2011
Standing Still, Gallerysmith, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2010
Double Dutch, Breenspace, Waterloo, NSW, Australia
1 Malaysia, Rimbun Dahan Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2009
Have Your Cake and Eat it Too, Gallerysmith, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Salad Days, National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW, Australia
2008
Hush Historical – Rehearsing the Australian History Wars, Gallerysmith, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Battle Nullius, FirstDraft Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
2007
Silent Bang, Ivan Dougerty Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Spellbound, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Summer Group Show, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
Territory, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
Autumn group show, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
Auckland Art Fair, Martin Browne Contemporary
Sydney Art Fair, Martin Browne Contemporary
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2018
Analogue, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (curated by Sam Leach and Tony Lloyd)
Summer Group Show, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Martin Browne Contemporary
Auckland Art Fair, Martin Browne Contemporary
Sydney Art Fair, Martin Browne Contemporary
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2017
Seventeen17, Galerie Pompom
Nobody’s Baby, Central Park, Sydney
Hyperbotanica, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2016
EMSLA, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2014
Painting Now, Galerie Pompom, Sydney
Fleet, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2013
Sulman 2013, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Portia Geach 2013, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2012
Archibald 2012, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Portia Geach 2012, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
R & M Mc Givern, Maroondah Art Gallery Melbourne
We Australians, Federation Square, Melbourne
2011
Zooplasty, Helen Gory Galerie, Prahran, VIC
2010
Small, Breenspace, Waterloo, NSW
2009
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Group Show, Breenspace, Waterloo, NSW
Origami High Street, Horus & Deloris, Sydney, NSW
2007
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Girl Band, Deloittes, Sydney, NSW
Primavera 2005 (touring), Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook, NSW
2005
Primavera 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, NSW

SELECTED AWARDS & GRANTS

APA 2013 -2016
2013
CAL Grant
2010
Australia Council New Work Grant
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2007
Australia Council New Work Grant
2005
Viktoria Marinov Scholarship in Art

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
UBS Art Collection, Brisbane
Artbank, Melbourne and Sydney
Hijjas Kasturi Associates, Malaysia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Andrew Frost, Interview: Monika Behrens’ thinking images, Feb 2018
https://theartlife.com.au/2018/interview-monika-behrens-thinking-paintings/
Anna Dunhill, Monika Behrens, Art Guide Australia, Jan/Feb 2018, Issue 111, p.48
Behrens, ON Objects: Rediscovering the Real: Object Oriented Ontology and Still Life, Interview with Graham Harman, ON Journal, 2014
Behrens, A Delay in Time: The Political Still Life, DasSuperpaper Issue 32, 2014
Sapna Chandu, Manifestations of Now, Artlink Magazine, Vol 32 #3 2012, p.63
Paul Flynn, “Profile: Monika Behrens” Artist Profile Magazine, issue 17, p.89-92
Gina Fairley “Monika Behrens at Gallerysmith”, Art Asia Pacific, 7/8 2011, p.92-93
Robyn Stuart, “The Viewer’s View” Das Superpaper, December 2010, p.76
Runway, Issue 15: Lies, November 2009 – March 2010
Australian Art Collector, “What Now?” Issue 49 July – September 2009
Runway, Issue 12: Make Believe, December 2008 – March 2009, Cover work
Holly Williams, “Emerging Art: It’s Not Simply Young Talent Time”, Art Market Report, Spring 06 p.36
Brad Hatch, “The Company Curator”, Financial Review (Boss Magazine) 11/06 p.20
Barbara Flynn, “Girl Band”, (Catalogue), October 06 p.1
Dougal Phillips, “Interesting Times and Primavera”, Art and Australia, Autumn 06 p.440
Melanie Watkins, “COFA Cleans up”, COFA Magazine, 01.06 p.21
Craig Scutt, “Blind leading the blind, Censorship of the visual arts in Australia”, NAVA
Quarterly,12.05, p.4
Robert Buratti, “Strokes from the Primavera”, Drum Media. 10.05
Tracey Clement, “Cleanse the palette”, Sydney Morning Herald (Metro)29.09.05, p26
Sunanda Creagh, “Young artists redraw perceptions of the land”, Sydney Morning Herald, 08.09.05, p.14
Sarah Ranawake “Timeout”, City Weekly, 08.09.05, p.23
Shaun Ellis “Left by the wayside”, Wentworth Courier, 07.09.05, p.50
Adam Bennett, “Artists develop palette for a brush with tradition”, MX, 06.09.05, p.2
Felicity Fenner, Primavera 05 Exhibition by Young Australian Artists, (Catalogue) p.14-15, p20-23