2010	solo exhibitions a small metal pin, a piece of rubber, a section of metal pipe with securing nut, two red engine plugs and red ribbon, a reverse thruster hatch stopper bush, some down strapping, a signal horn, a piece of brake lining, a screwdriver, a broken omni directional threshold light, multiple bird, bat and turtle carcasses, a plastic water bottle, a block of wood, a beer can and a piece of paper - Blue Oyster - Dunedin - New Zealand (forthcoming August) group exhibitions Between the Tides - organised by jersey - Westmere Beach - Auckland - New Zealand curatorial Sculpture Season 2010 - ST PAUL St Gallery Three - Auckland - New Zealand - Febuary 11 - May 01 writing Dk'D, Catalogue text for Dk'D - exhibition catalogue for Dk'd - an exhibition by Jersey at Artstation - Auckland - New Zealand Managing Our Fear of Disaster Through Simulation, Catalogue text on Simon Glaister for the exhibition ‘I try to help them give form to the many options available to them.’ curated by Daniel Munn at A Centre For Art - Auckland - New Zealand Into a Void - in Revolutions per Minute - a catalogue on the work of Paul Cullen - Narrow Guage & Paul Cullen (forthcoming December) reviews JOHANNES KLABBERS - Not the void exactly: Species of Spaces - Art Monthly Australia (#229, May 2010) PDF lecturing Guest lecturer - Sculpture department - School of Visual Arts - AUT University - Auckland - New Zealand
	2009	group exhibitions Species of Space - Westspace - Melbourne - Australia Between the Tides - organised by jersey - Westmere Beach - Auckland - New Zealand festivals Sydney Festival First Night - performer in The Hoofer by the Fondue Set - Sydney - Australia publications Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence - Proceedings of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) - Miegunyah Press - Melbourne University - Australia conference presentations Managing Our Fear of Disaster Through Simulation - AAANZ: Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference - ANU - Canberra - 26 to 28 November 2009 - Session 15: Real Emergency: Art And The Crises Of The Contemporary World Museums in Transit: An Examination of the Growing Collaboration Between Museums and Airports - AAANZ: Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference - ANU - Canberra - 26 to 28 November 2009 - Contemporary Space in Crisis
	2008	solo exhibitions Melissa Laing : Thirty Two Heavy - PhD degree show - SCA Galleries - University of Sydney - Australia festivals Underbelly - Limn file presents Banal Peepshow Obsession - Carriageworks - Sydney - Australia presentations Crossing Cultures - 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) - University of Melbourne, Australia tertiary qualifications PhD - Sydney College of the Arts - University of Sydney - Australia - awarded December 2008
	2007	group exhibitions Postgraduate Degree Show - Sydney College of the Arts - Sydney - Australia Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 07 - At the Vanishing Point - Sydney - Australia Limn file : exhibition two - High St Project - Christchurch - New Zealand Limn file : exhibition one - China Heights - Sydney - Australia Drawing Show - Peloton - Sydney - Australia performances A Turbulent Mind - Direction and Sound: Melissa Laing - Performance: Paul Gonzalez and Nick Nestorovski - Night time #1 - A night of short works - Performance Space - Sydney - Australia Happiness in two parts - video with live monologue - Vive le Bonheur - Workshop Showroom - Sydney - Australia publications Z/X - Contemporary Landscapes - Issue 3 presentations PhD and Academic Staff Seminar Series - Sydney College of the Arts - Sydney - Australia tertiary qualifications PhD candidate - Sydney College of the Arts - University of Sydney - Australia lecturing Experimental Drawing - Sydney College of the Arts - Sydney - Australia residencies Trinity Grammar School - Sydney - Australia collectives Limn file
	2006	group exhibitions Post it - Peloton Gallery - Sydney - Australia JOC Jewelry Out Of Context - The Muse - Sydney - Australia publications Jewellery out of Context : An exhibition of New Zealand artists - First Edition Ltd - Wellington - 2006 - ISBN 1-877391-46-8 "Liminal Art in the Transit Zone", an short excursion published in Philament - an online postgraduate journal : http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/issue9_contents.htm presentations 2006 AAANZ conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Trans : A visual culture conference, Universtiy of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Critical Animals - Creative Research Symposium - The University of Newcastle - Australia PhD and Academic Staff Seminar Series - Sydney College of the Arts - Sydney - Australia projects Shopping Mall (2002)  also titled Teil 6 - 2.30 min section of Track 2 from - Trip - remix your experience - a visual music-film with live performance which was shot over 4  years in 12 countries and incorporates 4 feature-length films, 36 directors and 14 musicians. Directed by Frank Otto and Bernt Koehler-Adams - Premiered Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan - Hamburg Film Festival 2005 - European premiere, 59th Festival de Cannes, Marché du Film, 2006 - Toured Germany 2006. www.tripmovie.de tertiary qualifications PhD candidate - Sydney College of the Arts - University of Sydney - Australia Collectives Limn file
	2005	group exhibitions Quinta-essentia - PPg Gallery - Auckland - New Zealand Armchair Collective - Newspace - Sydney - Australia residencies/scholarships University Postgraduate Award - University of Sydney - 2005 - 2007 tertiary qualifications PhD candidate - Sydney College of the Arts - University of Sydney - Australia
	2004	solo exhibitions A video, a tent and accessories - Rm 103 - Auckland - New Zealand group exhibitions Tourist City - Kulturzentrum Schlachthof - Bremen - Germany tertiary qualifications Masters candidate - Sydney College of the Arts - University of Sydney - Australia (subsequently changed to Phd candidature)
	2003	solo exhibitions Harbouring I by Tentline - Damm4 - Vienna - Austria Transit Survival 1 - Blick Box - Berlin - Germany Shifted Rotating Door - Mercer Union - Toronto - Canada group exhibitions International Stopover - Pugh Pugh Barney McGrew Cuthbert Dibble Grubb - Berlin - Germany Experimental - Museu de Arte Contemporãnea do Ceará - Fortaleza Ceará - Brazil Surviving Berlin - Jewelbox Projektraum - Berlin - Germany artist run initiatives Blick-Box - Co-curator - Friedrichshain - Berlin - Germany
	2002	solo exhibitions The City’s Open Spaces - Einsichten Ausblicke - Display Window - Kastanienallee - Berlin - Germany Untitled - Einsichten Ausblicke - Display Window - Kastanienallee - Berlin - Germany group exhibitions Sempur Sursam - Te Manawa - Palmerston North - New Zealand Ritual Comforters - Collaborative exhibition with Robyn Laing - High St Project - Christchurch - New Zealand publications Physics Room Year Book - Physics Room - New Zealand artist run initiatives Einsichten Ausblicke - Co-curator - Kastanienallee Berlin - Germany
	2001	solo exhibitions Epic(2) - Physics Room - Christchurch - New Zealand group exhibitions Starting Now - Four gallery exhibition - Sixty4Steps - Toronto - Canada Hide and Seek - Villa Weiner - Ochtrup - Germany Goggle Box - Light Box - Auckland - New Zealand residencies/scholarships Goethe Institute - Scholarship for Language and Cultural Exchange - Berlin - Germany Huygens Scholarship - Postgraduate Study in the Netherlands - Dutch Art Institute - Enschede - The Netherlands tertiary qualifications One year of postgraduate study - Dutch Art Institute - The Netherlands
	2000	solo exhibitions The Interior, The Trace - rm212 - Auckland - New Zealand Epic/Episch - Video Screening - Basis Wien - Vienna - Austria group exhibitions Rezone: Our Generation - Central Post Office - Auckland - New Zealand Traces - ASA Gallery - Auckland - New Zealand Open Studios - Artists in Residence House - Vienna - Austria Up and Coming - Articule Gallery - Montreal - Canada residencies/scholarships Artist's Residency - Federal Chancellery of Austria & UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists - Vienna - Austria publications Log Illustrated - Lest We Forget - Issue 11 - New Zealand - 2000 - ISSN 11742216 artist run initiatives Rezone - Co-curator - An ongoing public art exhibition project - Auckland - New Zealand - 1998 to 2000 lecturing Eastern Institute of Technology - Lecturer in Visual Arts - Taradale - New Zealand Auckland University of Technology - Guest lecturer professional practice - Auckland - New Zealand
	1999	solo exhibitions He regarded the elements of fiction as the cards in the pack. They were always all there. There was no surprise; solitaire always came out if you cheated - Lift Space - High Street Project - Christchurch - New Zealand group exhibitions reAnimator - rm3 - Auckland - New Zealand Fairytale - Centre for Metamedia-Plasy - Czech Republic We Really Care - rm3 photography show - rm3 - Auckland - New Zealand Inappropriate Occupations and Transient Preservations: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - Public Art Project - Rezone - Auckland - New Zealand residencies/scholarships Artist's Residency - Centre for Metamedia-Plasy - Czech Republic publications Fairy-tales - Exhibition Catalogue - Centre for Metamedia-Plasy - Czech Republic Gal, Violet Faigan - the Pander online edition (exhibition review)
	1998	solo exhibitions Always a Body : Always a Dame - Mt Roskill Library - Auckland - New Zealand Small Change - Lift Space - High Street Project - Auckland - New Zealand group exhibitions Group Show - ASA Gallery - Auckland - New Zealand Rezone 3 - Grey Ave Car Park - Auckland - New Zealand Rezone 1 - Portage Rd - Auckland - New Zealand
	1997	solo exhibitions Retract - rm3 - Auckland - New Zealand group exhibitions The Polaroid Show - High Street Project - Christchurch - New Zealand a/v - Moving Image Show - Pilot Project Room - Auckland - New Zealand intercourses - Pilot Project Room - Auckland - New Zealand tertiary qualifications 1995 - 7 - Bachelor of Visual Arts - Auckland Institute of Technology - New Zealand
	1994	tertiary qualifications Certificate in Intermediate Studies - ASA School of Art - Auckland - New Zealand