Violeta Capovska

Violeta Čapovska is an Australian/Macedonian interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media including installation, video, photography, printmaking and performance. She received a BA in Fine Art from the Faculty of Fine Art at the University of 'Cyril and Methodius’ in Skopje in 1991 and an MFA from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1995. In February/March 2022, she was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Since her first exhibition at the National Gallery of Macedonia in 1991, Čapovska’s work has been shown at private and public galleries and museums, including the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne, Australian Print Workshop, The National Gallery of Australia, MUMOK Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art-Skopje and the Museum of the City of Skopje. Čapovska’s work is held in many international, national and state collections, such as: the National Gallery of Australia, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Macedonia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje and the Museum of the City of Skopje. In 2016 she was a recipient of the ‘James Northfield Lithography scholarship’, and in 2020 she won the 18th ‘Grand Prix Biennial Award’ (DLUM-The Association of Macedonian Artists). Her work features in the ‘Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s', by Sasha Grishin (Craftsman House) and the ‘VISUAL ARTS in Macedonia-20th century/Book 2: MULTIMEDIA ART’ by Abadzieva Sonia (OSTEN).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS 2020 SALT , Open Graphic Studio, Museum of City of Skopje, Macedonia 2018 Land Print Project 3 ‘Salt’, Small Lake, Pelister, R. North Macedonia 2012 Testimonies and Confessions, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Name Day, fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne 2011 Familia, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje 2004 The Love Sick Girl, Series on Hysteria, Aikenhead Gallery, St Vincent’s hospital, Melbourne 1999 Bodily fluids, CIX Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia 1996 Duality, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne Snow, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje Land Print Project 2 ‘I and the eye’, Pelister National Park (el 2180 m), Macedonia 1994 Land Print Project 1 ‘Small Lake’, Pelister, National Park (el 2180 m), Macedonia Conversation in the garden, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne 1992 Recent works, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS 2021 Traces and Memories, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia 2020 18th Winter Saloon, DLUM, NGM, Skopje, R. North Macedonia 2019 Perceptions Engendered, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje 2017 Dual Narrative, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne 2016 Imago Mundi, LucianoBenetton Collection, imagomundiart.com 2011 Fragments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong 2009 Gender Check, MUMOK, Museum Moderner KunstStiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria 2008 Silk Cut Award for linocut prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery 2003 Fifth International Women’s Art Festival, Aleppo, Syria 2002 III International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Balkan Art ‘02, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 2001 Perfect Match, Capital and Gender, Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia Shining the site, Museum of Contemporary Art, Public Art Project, Skopje 2000 Artists and Refugees, Museum of City of Skopje, Macedonia The first Peep Show in the city, CIX Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia 1998 Distance, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia 1997 28th Alice Prize, Alice Springs, Australia I Darebin - La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne, Australia 1996 Inhales-Exhales, II Yugoslav Art Biennial, Vrsac, Yugoslavia 13th Biennial Prints Acquisitive, Mornington 1995 Video Space, Festival of Performing Art, Kapolch, Hungary

BA in Fine Art at the University of 'Cyril and Methodius' Skopje in 1991 MA in Fine Art at RMIT, Melbourne in 1995