Domenico de Clario was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1947 and migrated to
Australia in 1956 He studied Architecture and Town Planning at the
University of Melbourne and was awarded an Italian Government
Scholarship to study Painting at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. In
1998 he completed an MA (Performance Studies) in the Faculty of Human
Movement at Melbourne’s Victoria University, and in 2001 he completed a
PhD in the same Faculty. He has variously taught Painting, Drawing,
Sculpture, Performance and Installation at RMIT in Melbourne (previously
PIT), from 1973 until 1996. In 2001 he was appointed Head of the School
of Contemporary Arts at Perth's Edith Cowan University. Since august
2006 he has served as Head of the Department of Fine Arts at Monash
University's Faculty of Art and Design.
Since 1966 he has held more than 150 solo exhibitions of paintings,
drawings, prints, installations and performances, and has been invited
to exhibit in more than 120 group shows presented worldwide and in major
Australian cities. He has been awarded numerous international
residencies and 5 grants by the Australia Council, including the
Australia Council Fellowship in 1996-8. He is represented in all major
public and private collections in Australia, including the MOMA in New
York, as well as in numerous private collections worldwide. |
