Fergus Binns
Born 1980, Lismore NSW, Australia. Lives and works in Melbourne.
Education
2000-2002 Bachelor of Fine Art(painting) at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1999 Art, Design and Photography Program Elwood College, Elwood.
EXHIBITIONS
Past
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Memory Cleaner, Mary Cherry, Collingwood
Medicine Walls, TCB art inc, Brunswick
2016
To the right music, the Diamond Will Orbit The Moth 
, Long Division Gallery (Schoolhouse Studios), Collingwood
2015
Possibly etc, TCB art inc, Melbourne
2014
Spinifex Songs, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
Rarities, Scarities, Ruins and Ripe Fruit, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2012
Ali Baba Squinting and The Watership Windband, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2011
Toy Paintings, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Toy Paintings, Chalkhorse Gallery, Sydney
2009
In A Heartbeat (Minnie Expressions of a Distant Airshow), Inflight, Hobart
2008
Missing Bushwalkers On Found Landscapes, Uplands Gallery, Prahran
Work From Garage, Chalkhorse, Sydney
2007
The Wilderness, Uplands Gallery, Prahran
Fergus Binns, Chalk Horse, Sydney
2005
Fergus Binns, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Paintings, TCB art inc, Melbourne
2003
Galerie Vege, TCB art inc, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Accession, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora
2017
Waves, Honeymoon Suite, Brunswick
Open House, True Estate, The Alderman Bar, Brunswick
9 x 5, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2016
Can’t Look, Can’t Look Away, curated by Amelia Winata, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Bus Projects Editions, Bus Projects, Collingwood
Lots Of Nudes, LON Gallery, Collingwood
Re-visioning Histories, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora
West Space 2016 Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne
In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse, Collingwood
Be The Person Your Dog Thinks You Are, LON Gallery, Collingwood
Elastic Field, Strange Neighbour, Fitzroy
2015
TCB Fundraiser, TCB art inc, Melbourne
Groupgrope, Incidents Above A Bar, The Alderman, Brunswick
2014
Faux Museum, C3 Contemporary Artspace, Abbotsford
Martin Kippenberger, Neon Parc, Melbourne
Loose Canon, Artbank Gallery, Sydney
FIN, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2013
Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Synergism, Rudder Exchange Visual Arts Mentor Partnerships exhibtion, The Front, Docklands
Gertrude Studios 2013, Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy
Sub12, The Substation, Newport
DECLINE, curated by Harriet Morgan, Top Shelf Gallery, Melbourne
Like Mike, curated by Jan Duffy and Geoff Newton, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, St Kilda
Guirguis New Art Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2012
Gertrude Studios 2012, Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy
On The Y-Axis: Considering Vertical Perspective, curated by Venita Poblocki, First Draft, Sydney
2011
Impossible Objects, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
Thank you for the days: My Teenage Years, curated by Djon Mundine, Lismore Regional Gallery
2010
Dot Dot Dot, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
Dot Dot Dot, Pelaton, Sydney
2009
Problem Solving: Espress Yourself, Uplands Gallery, Prahran
2008
Home, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
Man Depicting Masculinity, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
Group Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2006
Primavera 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Big in Japan, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
Single Currency, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Real. Not Real, 5 Kent Street, Henley Beach, Adelaide
2003
Unsigned Artists (in association with Pav Modern), Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2002
Fallout, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
Line Up, Mansour Gallery, Melbourne
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2008 Metro 5 Award
2003 Matthew Teleskivi, Memorial Sculpture Prize
TCB 2003 VCA Graduate Award
COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Sydney MCA, Epworth Hospital Collection and various private collections in Australia and over seas