Zhu Ohmu (b. Taipei, Taiwan).
Currently based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia.
Education
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts (honours), Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
Solo/Two Person Exhibitions
2023 (upcoming) Freudenfruede, McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
2022 A Long-Term Longing, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2020 If not you, who? If not now, when?, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2019 Showcase #23: Way to your heart, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton
2015 Spring, in an upstairs room, LOFT Jervois, Auckland - curated by Hannah Valentine
Group Exhibitions
2024 (upcoming) Aotearoa Art Fair, Auckland
(upcoming) The New Generation: Asian Heritage in Ceramics, Bunjil Place Gallery, Melbourne - curated by Vipoo Srivilasa
2023 JOY, McLeavey Gallery, Wellington - curated by Grace Ridley-Smith Vessels; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne - curated by Craft Victoria
2022 Melbourne Design Fair, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, 28 Duke St Abbotsford, Melbourne Melbourne Art Fair, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Melbourne
Testing Ground, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui - curated by Milly Mitchell-Anyon
2021 Mercury in Retrograde, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland - curated by Chloe Geoghegan
Crafted Technology, JamFactory, Adelaide - curated by Caitlin Eyre
2020 Life with Objects, online Auckland Art Fair, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, online
2019 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert Booth E11, Carriageworks, Sydney
A taste of what’s to come, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
Collectively: an exhibition by West Space volunteers, West Space, Melbourne
2018 Rigg Design Prize 2018, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
ALLEGORY, Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne
Relics Today, Modern Times, Melbourne
2017 thing in itself // das Ding an sich, Wellington St Projects, Sydney – curated by Elyse Goldsfinch
Craft Regale, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
Victorian Craft Awards, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2016 Wonky, Tinning St, Melbourne - curated by Sophia Cai and Caitlin Shearer
2015 Pleasure Planet, Roll Over Beethoven, Melbourne
2012 ARE YOU TOGETHER, Knight St Art Space, Melbourne
Interventions Rejecting the Spectrum, Level 6 Curtin House, Melbourne - curated by Shelly Graden and Bianca Tainsh
Expatriate Consolation Relations, 173 Brunswick St, Melbourne - curated by Sophie Bannan and Bridget Riggir
2011 Elam Graduate Show, Auckland
Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Watercolour Scholarship finalist exhibition, projectspace B431, Auckland
Commissions
2021 Public foyer sculpture for 9-11 Prospect St, Melbourne – fabricated by UAP
Collections
Works held in Shepparton Art Museum; Artbank, Australia and private collections in Australia,
New Zealand, Korea, France and the United States.
Curatorial Projects
2013 Censored, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne
Awards
2022 Shortlisted finalist in the Victorian Craft Awards, Australia
2019 Runner up in the Earth Partner #createCOP25 art contest
2017 Shortlisted finalist in the Victorian Craft Awards, Australia
Shortlisted finalist in the Greenway Art Prize, Australia
2011 Winner of Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Watercolour Prize, New Zealand
2007 Ara Lodge No. 348 Irish Constitution Fine Arts Students Award, New Zealand
Pat Henly student membership, New Zealand
Bibliography
2023 Experience Clay (3rd edition) by Maureen Mackey, Davis Publishing
2022 Artists at Home: Inside the creative spaces of 32 female artists in Australia by Karina Dias Pires, Thames & Hudson
The Makers by Monique Hemmingson, Beatnik Publishing
2021 1000 Vases: 300 Designers, 35 Countries, 1000 Vases Unique Pieces, Skira Editore
2019 Material Design Process, Sandu Publishing, 2019
Press
2023
Union Magazine, Hive Hands: In an ongoing collaborative project, three artists explore new modes of (re)use through the expansive possibilities of beeswax, algae and clay, Emma Pegrum, Issue 03
The Australian Financial Review, From the humblest to the unique, vessels reveal much about us: Melbourne based ceramicist Zhu Ohmu is among 15 artists, craftspeople and designers in a first-time collaboration between the National Gallery of Victoria and Craft Victoria, Paul Best, March 28
The Age, Ten things not to miss at the NGV’s Melbourne Now blockbuster, Andrew Stephens, March 23
ArtZone, Fairooz Samy, Autumn issue
Vogue Australia, March issue
2022
Curated Magazine, Seval Akbulak issue 17 (Turkish translation)
2021
Naïf Magazine, issue 00 (French translation)
Broadsheet x Tiffany & Co: Inside the Bold, Sensual Practice of Zhu Ohmu, Elizabeth Flux, July 2
Vogue Living, July issue
L’Officiel Belgium, February 15
L’Officiel Singapore, February 5
L’Officiel Mexico, February 1 (Spanish translation)
MutualArt, Clay: Finding art in Australian Ceramics, Emma-Kate Wilson, January 6
2020
Belle Magazine, December/January issue
AD Spain, October 16
Aje Insider, August 30
Monster Children Magazine, Monique Penning, July 6
Studio Gabrielle Issue #01, July 5
Urbis Magazine, March 23
Vogue Italia, January issue
2019
Elle Belgium, Dec 19
Residence Magazine Stockholm, nr 9
Yellowtrace, Sept 16
Shepparton News, Aug 29
The Advisor, Shepparton, Aug 21
Milk Decoration, No 6 April
2018
Green Magazine, Issue 63
North Journal, Monique Penning, Issue 17 Spring
AD Magazine, Marina Hemonet, March 14
Ignant, Alice Harrison, Jan 3rd
Booooooom, Jan 4th
2017
Milk Decoration, August 28th
Milk Decoration, No 20 June
2016
The Design Files, Lisa Marie Corso, June 30th
Frankie Magazine, September 17th
Habitus Living, Naomi Russo, October 18th
Related Professional Practice
2021 selection panel, “Fresh! 2021”, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2020 guest speaker, “Ceramics Today Round Table- Craft Contemporary”, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
guest speaker, “Zhu Ohmu on Sculptural Ceramics”, OnProcess podcast, Brisbane
selection panel, “Fresh! 2020”, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2018 panellist, "On Insect Hotels and Beehives in the city: An Urban Ecology Discussion", MPavilion, Melbourne
2015-current- beekeeper, Honey Fingers Collective, Melbourne
2014-2015 data collection and surveyor of micro-plastics, Port Phillip EcoCentre, Melbourne
2013 curatorial intern, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne
2012-2013 volunteer, Westspace, Melbourne
2009 volunteer, ARTSPACE, Auckland