Valentina La Piana

STUDIES
1984-87   Bachelor of Fine Art Printmaking Royal Institute of Technology
1999-00   Advanced Diploma Electronic Design & Interactive Media Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1995       Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne
1996       Scope Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004       The UFO Show, Yarra Sculpture Space, Abbotsford, Vic On The high Wire, PB Gallery Prahran, Vic
2001       'Pact – The Ambience of gesture', Out Door Video Projection, Corporation Lane September / October, Fringe Festival, Melbourne
              PNP (partners in print) Artist Exchange Port Folio 2001
2000       “A Riddle” Experimenta – Waste, Short Film Screening, Cinema Nova, Carlton, Vic, travelled Perth WA, Montreal, Canada
             Pixel Paradiso, graduate Exhibition, PB Gallery, Prahran, Vic
1999       'Sepia Screen' Interactive, Cinimedia Digital Media Fund, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, Vic
             'Sepia Screen' Interactive, St Kilda Film Festival, George Gallery, St Kilda, Vic
1998       Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Geelong, Vic
             Hi / Lo Exotico, Gallery Stop 22, St Kilda, Vic
             PNP (partners in print) Artist Exchange Port Folio 1998
1997       13th Biennale Drawing Exhibition, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic
             PNP (partners in print) Artist Exchange Port Folio 1997
             Ostrow Weilkopolski (invitation) VII Biennale Exhibition of Small prints & Ex-Libris, Ostrow Museum, Poland
1996       Postcard Show, Linden gallery, St Kilda, Vic
             Mixed Lollies, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Vic, Travelled Regional Victoria
             International Miniature Biennale, Salle Augustine-Chenier, Quebec, Canada
             The First Toowoomba Biennale Acquisitive Award exhibition, Toowoomba Regional gallery, Toowoomba
             12th Biennale Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsular Regional gallery, Mornington, Vic
             Emerging Visual Art, Wyatt Hall Pulteney Grammar, Adelaide, SA
             Works on Paper, Benalla regional Gallery, Benalla, Vic

AWARDS AND PRIZES
1988       RMIT, Travelling Scholarship Award
1994       Pat Corrigan Artist Grant
1996       Postcard Show Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Vic

COLLECTIONS
Melbourne High Court public collection
Melbourne State Library
Somerset Papers Collection
Print Council of Australia
London Print workshop
Edinburgh Print workshop
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Elwood Secondary College
The Museum of Ostrow Weilkopolski, Poland
Salle Augustine-Chenier, Quebec, Canada
Corporate Collections, Melbourne, Vic
Private collections, Australia, Italy, England, Ecuador, Sweden