ROD MOSS
Born in Ferntree Gully, Victoria. 29 April 1948

EDUCATION:
1995 Master of Visual Arts, Monash Gippsland University College. Documentation: Dwelling in Arrernte Country
1992 Monash Gippsland University, Graduate Diploma Course Examination
1991 exhibition of paintings ; Documentation of course work including Research Paper, “White Art Through White Gate”
1974-78 Chisholm Institute, Diploma of Art and Design (Painting)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2007 The Heart of the Matter, City Lending library, Melbourne
2007 Even as we Speak, Uber Gallery, Melbourne
2005 The Hard Light of Day Fireworks gallery Brisbane 2005
2004 Big Country; Small Histories ARC1 @ Span, Flinders Lane Melbourne
2000 Once Upon a Time in the Centre, Fireworks, Brisbane
1999 Whitegate Mob,Kluge-Ruhe Foundation, Charlottesville VA
1999 Outback Art, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia,
1998 Where Do You Come From Brother Boy?Araluen
1998 Where Do You Come From Brother Boy? Fireworks, Brisbane
1997 Rocks & Hard Places, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
1997 Rocks & Hard Places Port Nourlunga Arts Centre, SA
1996 Pushing Up River, Fireworks, Brisbane
1995 Dwelling in Arrernte Country, Araluen, Alice Springs
1995 Dwelling in Arrernte Country, Fireworks, Brisbane
1995 Dwelling in Arrernte Country, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland
1995 Territorial Bodies, Tin Sheds, Sydney
1994 Rod Moss Paintings Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1994 Rod Moss Paintings Fireworks, Brisbane
1993 Smack Daub in the Middle, The Residency, Alice Springs
1992 Territory Perspective's Artist of the Month, April, Development House, Darwin
1992 24-Hour Contemporary Art Space, Darwin
1992 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1990 Showcase Gallery, Darwin
1990 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1990 The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1987 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
1986 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1984 Manuka Galleries, Canberra
1983. Profile Gallery, Melbourne
1978 Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2006 The Sound Of The Sky, 200 years of non-indigenous visual response to the N.T Museum & Art Gallery of the N.T
2005 Seeing The Other, Kluge-Ruhe Foundation, Charlottesville VA
2005 Alice Spring's Artist's Survey Show,Araluen Cultural Centre
2005 2005 The Dark & The Light III, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane
2004 Contemporary Australian ART, Ian Potter NGV Melbourne
2003 People Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2003 True Blue, Framed Gallery, Darwin
1999 Big Smoke, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
1996 Wijay Na, 24 Hr Art, Darwin
1996 Eyes on the Ball, Waverly City Gallery (Curator Chris McAuliffe)then Touring '97)
1996 Sub-Urban Fremantle Arts Centre(Curator Thelma John)
1994 Contemporary Territory (Curator Dawn Mendham)
1994 Faces and Figures The Araluen Centre (Curator Alison French)
1992 Graduate Exhibition, Monash University College, Gippsland, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Commercial Road, Morwell
1991 National Students Show, Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne
1990 Balance 1990 Queensland Art Gallery
1990 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1990 Outback Originals, Outback Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
1989 One Country, Two Views, The Araluen Centre (Curator Joanne Boniface)
1988 Fletcher Jones Invitation, Warnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warnambool

AWARDS
2002 Tennant Creek Art award
2001 Tammy Kingsley Award, & Highly Commended, Alice Prize
1998 Outback Art Award Broken Hill
1992 Professional Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
1991 Painting and Residency Prize: Inaugural National Student Art and Design Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
84-2008 Since 1984 the artist has won or been acquired for the various awards in the Alice Springs region: the Alice Prize, the Tennant Creek Prize, the Centralian Advocate Prize and the Northern Territory Art Award. In 1998 he won the Broken Hill Outback Art Award. In 1999, he accepted a residency there as part of the prize, having earlier in the year accepted a residency at Columbus State University, Georgia and followed his exhibition there with an exhibition at the Kluge Ruhe Foundation, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA.

PUBLISHED ESSAYS
2007 Even As We Speak, Arena Mag no.87
2005 Stumbling Into Dreamtime,Arena Mag. No.79 Oct/Nov PP 44-45
2003 Hunting On The Sabbath, Overlander, Spring issue no 72 PP70-72
2002 Sacred Space; Catalogue notes Henry Smith’s exhibition at Araluen
1997 Elegy UTS Magazine, Nov
1996 NT Govt 1997 Calendar September
1996 Transcendental Landscape Revisited Oz Arts, Issue No 13
1996 Towards a Realism,Conference Paper at Wijay Na? (NT Museum)
1995 The Stones Just Keep on Coming Barking Dogs p7
1994 Scottish Narratives of the Centre Oz Arts, Issue No.11
1993 Only Yesterday Oz Arts, Issue No.5, p.60.
1993 John Anderson: The Figurative Tradition, Catalogue, Mornington Regional Gallery.
1992 On the East Side of Alice's Face, Catalogue essay 24-Hour Art, Darwin.
1992 A Softer Blanket of Ruin — 1985-92, Catalogue essay, Stuart Gerstman Gallery.
1992 Catalogue essay, Graduate Exhibition, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell.
1992 Interview with Mandy Martin in Periphery.
1990 B1990: Views Visions, Influences Catalogue notes, Queensland Gallery.
1988 Catalogue essay, Fletcher Jones’ Invitation, Warnambool Regional Art Gallery.
1987 Catalogue essay, Warwick Armstrong's Survey Show, Devise Gallery.
1987 Cover Art for Tim Rowse’s Indigenous Futures & Micky Dewar’s Never Never (survey of Territory Literature) Will Dobby’s music cassette This Piece of Dirt

PUBLISHED MATERIAL
2007 Myths, Stereotypes and Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture,Traudi Allen, MacMillan
2006 The Sound of the Sky,Daena Murray pp185-194
2006 Cover for Globalism Institute RMIT
2005 Sylvia Kleinert & Rex Butler's catalogue essays for, The Hard Light Of Day, Fireworks
2005 Naked In Alice, Barry Hill Arena Magazine no 75.pp36-38 (Front & Rear Covers)
2005 Crash Sites, Sylvia kleinert Artlink vol 25 no 2 pp30-35
2004 The MakersJulia Copeland July 23rd on Radio Nationa
2004 Art Almanace June p49
2004 The Colour of Rupture,Robert Nelson The Age, June 30th
2004 The White Gaze on Aborigines The Age July 3rd
2004 Rod Moss’s Royal Portraits Rex Butler Australian Art Collector 28 pp98-101
2004 Catalogue 2004 p33 & p173
2004 Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss. Rex Butler catalogue notes for Arc 1 show
2003 Working Backwards Daena Murray Conference paper, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2002 This is not an Aborigine, Rex Butler. Paper for NSWG Art Historian’s Conference Dec 6-7
2001 The Hottest Gallery in the World p45
2000 Cultural Insight,Brisbane News, Phill Brown
2001 Once upon a Time in the Centre, Eyeline Summer Edition. P44 Alison Lee
1999 Artist breaks New Ground Kelly Chapman Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Georgia
1998 John Morton The Horses Mouth Museum of Victoria publication
1998 Them & Us Cuts Both Ways, Kieran Finnane Alice Springs News
1998 Art Monthly April
1997 Many Rivers To Cross Stephanie Radock Adelaide Review
1997 Saltwater, Freshwater, Borewaterpp 12-14 Campfire group
1996 Central Psyche Kieran Finnane Art in Australia Vol34 PP40-4
1996 Peripheral Visions Charles Green P130
1996 Black & White Art Mick Paskos, Fremantle Gazette 12th July
1996 Wijay Na? Daene Murray, Art Monthly No 92 August
1996 Radio National Arts Interview with Martin Portus & Peter Adsett
1996 Wijay Na Suzanne Spunner , Real Time, July/August
1996 Wijay Na? Papers Pp34-38 24Hr Art ed. Jackie Wurm
1995 Territory Picture Show, catalogue article Dawn Mendham
1995 Brush Power John McDonald SMH 21 Oct Spectrum 15
1995 Who's Who of Australian Visual Arts Thorpe P220
1995 Contemporary Territory Maurice O'Riordan Eyeline 25 P46
1994 Contemporary Territory Dawn Mendham Catalogue
1994 Rethinking Regionalism Terry Smith Art in Australia,
1993 Art in Australia, Vol. 30 N3, Autumn, p 386.
1992 Lancashire, Rebecca, “Gallery Scene”, Sunday Age, 16 April, p.26
1992 Gotham City Gossip, 3RRR, interview with Roger Taylor.
1991 Reines, Rosalinde, “Isolation Art”, Mode, August, p.81.
1990 Kane, Dr June,“Choice of Three Styles”, NT News, 10 April.
1990 McDonald, John, “Purity Calls May Be Paternalistic”, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 March.
1983. Art in Australia, Vol 20 N 3, Autumn, p.395.

COLLECTIONS
Private collections Australia wide including Alice Springs, Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne
The Howard Black Collection Sydney University Union
Northern Territory Museum of Arts & Sciences, Darwin
Anglicare, Darwin
Alice Art Foundation, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
Artbank, Sydney
BHP Billinton, Melbourne
Alice Art Society, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
Charles Darwin University
Tennant Creek Civic Centre
Q.L.D Art Gallery
Maree Plains Regional Art Gallery
Alice Springs Centrelink Building
Prospect Council Chambers, Adelaide
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Kluge Rhue Foundation, University of Virginia, U.S.A
Columbus University, Georgia. U.S.A