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Vanessa Stockard
Vanessa Stockard (born 1975,Sydney, Australia) is a Austrian contemporary artist. Vanessa's paintings are transformations of everyday items, animals, and people. She is known for having a little black cat called Kevin in her paintings. The cat is based on her own cat but also ties her fascination with Halloween.

Vanessa's Instagram: @vanessastockard

Vanessa's Artsy:https://www.artsy.net/artist/vanessa-stockard

Early Life
Vanessa grew up with her grandmother who was a amateur painter and her mother who studied at Julian Ashton. She spent formative years in a small country town in the Mid-Marth Coast of New South Wales. So she would spend hours drawing and at three she was learning the piano and drawing so she had two ways of letting her creativity flow. At 12 she returned to Sydney as a boarder at Abbotsleigh. After graduating from the College of Fine Arts (COFA) Sydney in 1998 with a BFA, she exhibited locally and internationally.

Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
 * 2019 Van Rensburg Galleries, New York
 * 2019 Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney


 * 2019 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne


 * 2018 Vanessa Stockard, 3:33 Art Projects, Clayton Utz, Sydney


 * 2018 Vanessa Stockard, Feature Artist, Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley


 * 2017 Cold comforts, curated by Amber Cresswell Bell, Sheffer Gallery


 * 2016 Vanessa Stockard, A.K. Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
 * 2015 Halcyon, Sydney


 * 2015 La Vie en Rose, Art2Muse, Sydney


 * 2014 Textura, Art2Muse, Sydney


 * 2013 Inside, Outside, Charles Hewitt, Sydney


 * 2013 The Garden, Maunsell Wickes, Sydney
 * 2012 Untethered, Maunsell Wickes, Sydney


 * 2012 Tenebrism, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney


 * 2011 Vanessa Stockard, Artist’s Deli, Bowral


 * 2010 Quiesce, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney


 * 2009 Siren’s Song, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney


 * 2009 Taree Regional Gallery, Taree


 * 2007/8/9 Murdoch Collections, Portland, USA


 * 2007 Cork, Portland, USA


 * 1999 Dendy Cinema Sydney

Group Exhibitions


 * 2019 Moran Portrait Prize - Finalist


 * 2019 The Archibald - Finalist


 * 2018 The Archibald - Finalist


 * 2018 Cat Show LA, Los Angeles


 * 2018 Van Rensburg Galleries, Hong Kong


 * 2018 Van Rensburg Galleries, New York
 * 2017 The Archibald - Finalist


 * 2017 Portia Geach - Finalist


 * 2017 A.K.Bellinger Gallery


 * 2016 Birds Gallery, Melbourne
 * 2016 Walcha Gallery, Walcha


 * 2016 Van Rensburg Galleries, Hong Kong


 * 2016 Van Rensburg Galleries, New York


 * 2016 Equus, Olsen Irwin, Sydney
 * 2016 Birds Gallery, Melbourne


 * 2015 Project 504, Sydney


 * 2015 Stones, Berrima


 * 2015 The Moree Gallery, Moree


 * 2014 Space Matters, ION, Kings Street Wharf, Sydney*


 * 2014 Autumn show, Bradman Art Gallery Centre, Bowral


 * 2014 Murdoch Collections, Portland, Oregon.


 * 2013 Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn (award, highly commended)


 * 2013 BCAG, Bradman Art gallery Centre, Bowral


 * 2013 Sydney Children's Hospital, (permanent collection)


 * 2013 Something Small, Charles Hewitt, Marrickville


 * 2013 Is it a bird, Is it a plane, Charles Hewitt, Marrickville


 * 2013 Wombat Hollow, Mausell Wickes and Michael Yabsley, Kangaloon


 * 2012 A Painterly Selection, Artist’s Deli, Bowral


 * 2012 Views and Visions, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney


 * 2011 Think Big, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney


 * 2011 Mythos Fine Art, California, USA


 * 2011 Murdoch Collections, Portland, USA


 * 2010 About Flowers, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney


 * 2010 Something Personal, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney


 * 2009 Don Capon, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney


 * 2009 Blank_Space Art Gallery, Sydney


 * 2009 Perlcontemporaryart, Vaucluse, NSW


 * 2008 Taree Art Show, Taree, NSW


 * 2007 Katayama, Portland, USA


 * 2006/7 Guestroom Gallery, Portland, USA


 * 2005 The Art Lounge, Sydney


 * 2005 The Brush Gallery, Wingham, NSW


 * 2005 Kelmans Winery, Hunter Valley, NSW


 * 2003 Walcom Manning Art Prize


 * 2003 Moulton Art Gallery Mona Vale, NSW


 * 2002 Applause Gallery, South Melbourne


 * 1998/9 Woollahra Art Show


 * 1997-2004 Taree Art Exhibition


 * 1997 Seal Rocks Show, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, NSW