



I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke
Performance Document 2020
Georgia Banks is working on the sacred Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) and Boon Wurrung land in Naarm/Melbourne. They acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands and waters where we live, learn, work and create, and pay their respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.
Residencies & Programs
Gertrude Contemporary Studio Program, 2019 – 2022
Community Transmissions, Digital Residency Program, 2020
Dual Existence, Digital Residency Program, 2020
Dramaturgy X Curation Research Residency, Siteworks, Melbourne, Victoria, 2019
Studio Residency, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland, 2019
Midsumma Futures (mentorship with Chris Kraus), Facilitated by Midsumma Festival, 2019
Intensive with La Pocha Nostra, Facilitated by Bon Mott and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Second Space Projects, Melbourne, Victoria, 2018
Body Politics, Facilitated by Zoë Bastin, Shelly Lasica, Bridie Lunney and Eugenia Lim, Bus Projects, Melbourne, Victoria, 2018
Project Anywhere Digital Residency Program, 2018
Selected Solo Exhibitions
‘Remains To Be Seen’, 2021, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne, Victoria (Forthcoming)
‘A Four Letter Word’, 2020, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria
‘The Waitress’, 2019, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland
‘Get Some’, 2017, Sister Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
‘On Parr’, 2017, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, Victoria
‘LOADED’, 2016, FELTspace, Adelaide, South Australia
‘So Help Me’, 2016, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Drip’, 2015, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Famous Persons, Atrocious Crimes, Superhuman Devotions’, 2014 Seventh Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
Selected Group Exhibitions
'Death Tech', 2021, curated by The DeathTech Collective, Meat Market, Melbourne, Victoria (Forthcoming)
'Stimulus Package', 2021, curated by Madé Spancer-Castle, 'Fuse Festival', Multiple Sites, Melbourne, Victoria (Forthcoming)
‘Farewell to Darkness’, 2020, curated by Mark Feary, Multiple Public Sites, Melbourne Victoria
'Dial An Artist', 2020, curated by Anna Nalpantidis, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Victoria
‘Eat Your Heart Out’, 2020, Curated by Gxrl on Grill, Pete’s Candy Store, New York, New York
‘Studio Group Show’, 2019, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Victoria
‘The Birthday Party’, 2018, Curated by Stigma Unbound, Wild EmbeddingS, New York, New York
‘Feminist Artists Anonymous’, 2018, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Double Bind’, 2018, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria'
‘Committed’, 2017, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne Victoria
‘An Act of Showing’, 2017, Curated by Annabelle Lacroix, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria
‘#exstrange’, 2017, Curated by Marialuara Ghindi and Rebekah Modrak, Ebay
‘Hidden Agenda’, 2017, Curated by Casey Jenkins, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne Victoria
‘At The End of The World’, 2017, M Contemporary, Sydney, New South Wales
‘Double Bind’, 2016, Curated by Nick Waddell Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Femme Fatale’, 2016, Arcade, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Standing Ovation’, 2016, Curated by Narinda Cook, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Who is Mr Favisar’, 2015, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne Victoria
Selected Performances
Miss Young Juicy & Malleable Is Bearly Legal, 2021, 'Stage Fright', Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Victoria
Miss Young Juicy & Malleable Packs It In, 2020, ‘Goodbye’, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, Victoria
Miss Young Juicy & Malleable Gets Wet, 2020, ‘Raindance’, Grey Gardens Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Miss Young Juicy & Malleable Comes Out, 2019, ‘Studio Group Show’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Victoria
The Party, 2018, ‘ One Night in Footscray’, Bad Love Club, Melbourne, Victoria
the cherry on top, 2018, ‘Wellcum to Miami’, Wild EmbeddingS, New York, New York
Every Performance Artist Remembered (Performance Lecture), 2018, presented at ‘ANYWHERE & ELSEWHERE’, Parsons New York School for Design, New York, New York
Please Tell Me What My Work is About, 2018, ‘Melbourne Fringe Festival’, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Siteworks, and Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria
Hello Boys, 2018, ‘The Other Art Fair’, Melbourne, Victoria
Missed Connection, 2018, ‘Site and Sound Arts’, Leichardt Town Hall, Sydney, New South Wales
Intercourse with the Artist, 2018, ‘Festival of Live Art’, Arts House, Melbourne, Victoria
Rip Off, 2018, ‘Feminist Artists Anonymous’, Curated by Banks, Georgia, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, Victoria
Dear Dick (Performance Lecture), 2018, presented at ‘Women and Feminist Art Since 1970 Symposium’, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria
Blood Begets Blood Begets Blood Begets Blood, 2018, ‘Double Bind’, Curated by Banks, Georgia and Waddell, Nick, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria
Naked Banquet (with oysters and song), 2017, ‘One Night in Footscray’, Melbourne, Victoria
Food Descending Staircase (Performance Lecture), 2017, presented at FRAN Festival, Sister Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
looking for Dick (in all the wrong places), 2017, ‘Melbourne Fringe Festival’ Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria
whoisspitman, ‘An Act of Showing’, 2017, Curated by Lacroix, Annabelle, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria
I Object Series, 2017, ‘Hidden Agenda’, curated by Jenkins, Casey, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
Brand, ‘On Parr’, 2017, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, Victoria
Lumen, ‘Loaded’, 2016, FELTspace, Adelaide, South Australia
Fixed, 2016, Broken Hill, New South Wales
S.O.S, ‘So Help Me’, 2016, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Her, ‘Standing Ovation, 2016, Curated by Banks, Georgia and Cook, Narinda, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria
Monster Mash, in collaboration with Kate Just, 2015, ‘I Steadied Myself for Her Lines’, ‘FOUND Festival’, Directed by ad hoc and Connolly, Catherine, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria
Selected Awards, Grants & Commissions
'City of Yarra Small Projects Grant', 2021, Yarra City Council, Melbourne, Victoria
'Art For Social Change Award', 2020, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne; Victoria; Finalist
‘Dear Darebin’ New Work Commission, 2020, Darebin City Council, Melbourne, Victoria
‘City of Yarra Small Projects Grant’, 2019, Yarra City Council, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Socially Engaged New Work Commission’, 2018, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland
‘Emerging Artists Award’, 2017, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria (Finalist)
‘National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award’, 2015, MFA Graduation Exhibition, Victoria College of the Arts
‘Postgraduate Scholarship’, 2014, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
Festivals Biennales & Art Fairs
'FUSE Festival, 2021, Melbourne Victoria
'Melbourne Fringe Festival', 2020, Melbourne, Victoria
‘One Night in Footscray’, 2018, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Melbourne Fringe Festival’, 2018, Melbourne, Victoria
‘The Other Art Fair Presented by Saatchi Art’, 2018, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Biennale of Australian Art’, 2018, Ballarat, Victoria
‘Site and Sound Arts’, 2018, Sydney, New South Wales
‘Festival of Live Art’, 2018, Melbourne, Victoria
‘One Night in Footscray’, 2017, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Feminist Renewal Art Network (FRAN) Festival’, 2017, Adelaide, South Australia
‘Melbourne Fringe Festival’, 2017, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Due West Festival’, 2017, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria
‘FOUND Festival’, 2015, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria
Education
MFA Visual Arts, Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2014 – 2015
BVA Hon, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2008 – 2011