SELECTED PROJECTS/EXHIBITIONS:
2023 The Sokhumi Elegies, Kino House, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 We Have Never Been Modern, Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
On Shamanism, with Liudmilia Nikakorova, CCA, Tbilisi, Georgia
Rare Earth, Stray Voltage, KINGS Artist Run, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Rare Earth, Asia Pacific Triennale, QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia
Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Bogota Experimental Film Festival, Bogota, Colombia
2021 Rare Earth, Prototype 2021 Season, Melbourne, Australia
Taklamakan Highway, Discostan, NTS Radio, London, UK
2018 Doraskhaiveli Shankaracharya, Aqtusheti Residency, Tusheti, Georgia
2017 Black Garden: Agdam City Number One, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, AU
The Sokhumi Elegies, Kings Gallery, Melbourne, AU
The Sokhumi Elegies, Trocadero Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, AU
2016 Svaneti, Kochi A.I.R, Pepperhouse Studios, Kochi, Kerala, India
2015 Sixty-Five Abstracts 2015, NIICE Public Education, Otar Karalashvili, Tbilisi Art Books, Kiev, Ukraine
Reflection and Proposal on Death and Possible Futures, Shen Shaomin’s There is No Problem, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Natasha’s House, Art Nova 100, Agricultural Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
2014 …And Which Has Left In You An Infinity of Traces, Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tanpura Study, Pepperhouse Residency Exhibition, Pepperhouse Studios, Kochi, India
A Chance Operation of Minor Histories, Moon Lairs, Little Woods Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Limbang Study #2, Bivouac Et. Al., Video Art Screenings, George Revival, Melbourne, AU
Tunnel Study #4, Love/City Festival, Toote Fanute, Melbourne, AU
2013 Bivouac, Video Art Screenings, Melbourne, AU
John Cage 101: Past, Present, Future Conference, UPSI, Tanjong Malim, Malaysia
Luminescence, Hotel Windsor Art Prize, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, AU
VCA Honours Group Exhibition, VCA and MCM, Melbourne, AU
2012 .MOV, New Low Gallery, Melbourne, AU
TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Museum of Art, VIC, AU
AUDIO RECORDINGS:
2012 ‘Unfinished Studies’ 12” LP, ANG01, Angklung Editions
2008 ‘Trans-Substantiation’, Independent Web Release
2005 ‘Untitled’, Independent Web Release
EDUCATION:
2019 Graduate Diploma (Advanced) (Anthropology), University of Melbourne
2017 Graduate Diploma of Arts (Anthropology), University of Melbourne
2013 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts – University of Melbourne
2010-2012 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, AU
AWARDS:
2015 – 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s Beijing Residency Studio Program with Shen Shaomin
PRESS:
Voyages dans les systemes obscurs, 23 November, 2023
Planetary efficiency and the inorganic demon - Guillaume Boissinot
https://guillaumeboissinot.net/Planetary-efficiency-and-the-inorganic-demon
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, April 23, 2021
Can Cinema Exist Without the Story? Bold New Visons Break the Mold - Jake Wilson
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/can-cinema-exist-without-the-story-bold-new-visions-break-the-mold-20210419-p57kjo.html
Melbourne Art Review, July 20, 2017
http://mattolucas.com/melbourne-art-review/trocadero-five-walls-20-07-17#item-20
New Indian Express, July 7, 2014
Baker Fish, Bob. Cyclic Defrost Magazine, February 4, 2013 :
http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2013/02/robert-mcdougall-unfinished-studies-angklung-editions/
Olewnick, Brian. Just Outside, November 18, 2012 :
http://olewnick.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/robert-mcdougall-unfinished-studies.html
Prescott, Shaun. Crawlspace Magazine, January 22, 2013 :
http://crawlspacemagazine.com/2013/01/22/robert-macdougall-unfinished-studies-lp/
Pescott, Steve. The Sound Projector, November 2, 2013:
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2013/11/02/gauzy-dreams-that-melt-away/
Harwood, Mark. Selected Records 2012, Secret Thirteen, December 18, 2012 :
http://secretthirteen.org/selected-records-2012-by-various-artists/
De Waard, Frans. Vital Weekly, no. 855, November 1, 2012:
http://www.vitalweekly.net/855
Lanoe, Cyril, Revue et Corrigee, no. 95, March 2013
http://www.revue-et-corrigee.net/?v=parutions&parution_num=95
Masurock, Doug, Still Single, July 18, 2013
http://still-single.tumblr.com/post/54969456693/robert-mcdougall-unfinished-studies-lp-angklung