BIO:
Evangeline Cachinero’s work encompasses a range of mediums including painting, digital, textile, drawing and photography which are then combined into on-site or digital installations. She is currently exploring ‘whimsy’.
Evangeline Cachinero is an Australian born artist who spent the majority of her childhood in Spain and the US. She has been living in Australia since 1999 and currently lives in Naarm (Melbourne).
Cachinero has exhibited her work throughout Australia, the US and Europe, including large festivals like Print Screen and Electrofringe. Her work was chosen to be displayed at projects run in major museums including MoMa and Tate Britain. She has appeared in publications including Frankie Magazine and participated in public speaking events on radio, gallery talks and panels. She has been a finalist in various art prizes, most notably The Alice Prize, Maritime Art Award, Heysen Prize and the Sunshine Coast Art Prize as well as winning highly commended at the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award in 2021. Her works are held in numerous private collections internationally.
Education:
2013 Master of Visual Arts, Monash University, AU (painting)
2002 BA, University of the Sunshine Coast, AU (art & design)
1996-7 Columbus College of Art & Design, USA (fine arts)
1995-6 University of Nevada Reno, USA (fine arts)
Awards:
2023 – FINALIST – Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award
2022 – FINALIST – The International Art Textile Biennale
2022 – FINALIST – The Lake Art Prize
2022 – FINALIST – The Alice Prize
2021 – HIGHLY COMMENDED – Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award
2014 – FINALIST – St George Art Awards
2014 – FINALIST – Maritime Art Awards
2014 – FINALIST – arc Yinnar Biennial Drawing Prize
2012 – FINALIST – Heysen Prize for Interpretation of Place
2011 – FINALIST – ‘Connection’ Queensland Regional Art Awards
2010 – FINALIST – Kenilworth Art Prize exhibition
2010 – WINNER – Best emerging artist – Immanuel Arts Festival
2008 – FINALIST – Sunshine Coast Art Prize
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 – The Four Pillars, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta
2022 – I AM, Montsalvat, Melbourne
2022 – Divine Discontent, Sandbox, Melbourne
2021 – Digital Exhibition ‘Hysterical Painting’
2020 – Digital Exhibition ‘The Moment’
2020 – Digital Exhibiton ‘2020’
2018 – Walker St Gallery ‘Women Helping Women’
2015 – Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery ‘Surrender’
2013 – Graydon Gallery ‘Consuming, Laughing, Forgetting’
2012 – Lust for Life Gallery ‘the Girl I used to know’,
2012 – Immanuel Arts Festival ‘Resident Artist Exhibition’
2011 – Noosa Regional Gallery – Monobrow
Selected Two Person and Group Exhibitions:
2015 – William Jolly Bridge Art Projections (public art), Brisbane
2014 – Tate Gif Party, Tate Modern (callout project)
2014 – Print Screen Festival ‘14, Holon Mediatheque, Israel
2013 – Abstract Currents, MoMa, New York (callout project)
2013 – Papertrail, Asnuntuck Community College, Connecticut
2013 – 120 Seconds, Federation Square, Melbourne
2013 – Electrofringe, This is Not Art, Newcastle
2013 – Summertime, Studio 87, Gold Coast
2012 – S.W.A.M. (work entered in Sulman, Wynne, Archibald and Moran Prizes), Noosa
2012 – Touring exhibition for ‘Connection’ Queensland Regional Art Awards (Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy; Elizabeth Guzley Gallery, Cooktown; John Flynn Place Museum and Gallery, Cloncurry; Mt Isa Civic Centre, Mount Isa, State Library of Queensland, Melbourne; Tyto Regional Art Gallery, Hinchinbrook)
2011 – Artist by Artist (screening), State Library of Queensland, Noosa J, rabbit + cocoon multi arts hub
2011 – Double Entendre, White Canvas Gallery, Melbourne
2010 – Ground Zero Gallery – Explicitly Graphic, Nambour
Residencies:
2012 – Resident Artist, Immanuel Arts Festival
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books & Magazines:
– Evans, Daniel, ‘Featured Artist’, Frankie Magazine, 2011
– Cachinero, Evangeline, ‘Featured Article’, Weekender Mag, 2011
Selected Newspaper & Radio:
– 4ZZZ, Guest Speaker for Artifact, 19 June 2011
– Campbell, Kieran, ‘Artist Trades Oils for Garret’, Sunshine Coast Daily, 19 June 2011
– Cachinero, Evangeline, ‘Art for Art’s Sake’, Weekender Mag, 2011
– Voss, Ben, ‘Monobrow Depicts a Mixed Bag’, Noosa Journal, 4 March 2011
– ‘A unique take on Artwork’, Gympie Times, 20 July 2010
– French, Michele, ‘Visual Appeal’, Weekender, March 2010
– ABC Radio, ‘Interview’ for Scap ’08, 2008
Speaker:
– 2023 – Artist Talk, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta
– 2013 – Artist Talk, Graydon Gallery, Brisbane
– 2011 – Art Over Coffee, Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin
– 2011 – Pecha Kucha, Nambour Civic Centre, Nambour
Selected Online Features & Video:
– Lamar, Eva, ‘Una artista lanza el reto por internet, http://www.ztuka.com/arte-de-interes/398-una-artista-lanza-el-reto-por-internet-ise-puede-sobrevivir-pintando.html, 2011
– Miller, Carolyn, ‘Project Feature’, moon.com.au, 2011
– http://blog.moon.com.au/post.cfm/cause-marketing-local-style#commentForm
– Stone, Rochelle, ‘Interview’, Barefootbasics.com, 2011
– ABC Open, ‘art project blog’, 2011 http://open.abc.net.au/openregions/05du9hn/posts/10sy5dt,
– Erbacher, Adam, ‘The Monobrow Art Project’ http://vimeo.com/20827165, 2011
– HipsterTribe, Artist Profile, http://www.hipster-tribe.com/2011/06/09/evangeline-cachinero-australian-visual-artist/, 2011
– Artdesign&stuff, Featured Artist, http://artdesignandstuff.com/?paged=7, 2011
– SophismPress, Featured Artist, http://sophismpress.blogspot.com/2011/03/highbrow-lowbrow-no-its-monobrow.html, 2011
– ABC Radio, ‘Interview’, http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2011/04/13/3190570.htm, 2011
Art Projects:
– 2011 – artformyrent
– 2011 – ABC OPEN artist by artist: http://open.abc.net.au/openregions/05du9hn/posts/10sy5dt
– 2010-11 – Explicitly Graphic Artist Group