Lane Cormick
Lane Cormick’s work draws from a wide array of influences including the aesthetics of the industrial and functional, investigation of skill and technique, performance, music, modernist and contemporary culture. These influences feed into an art practice that is open-ended and without predictable outcome. Previous works have been created through endurance-based performance or procedure, with a commitment to impractical or unreasonable projects that test him physically and mentally, exposing the limits of his skills and the enormity of his attempts.
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Cormick has previously exhibited at Melbourne Art Fair, Daine Singer, Tristian Koenig, Neon Parc, CCP, RMIT Project Space, Gertrude Contemporary and the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art in Melbourne; and at Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney; UKS Gallery, Oslo; Art Forum Berlin; Artspace, Sydney. He has also exhibited at various artist-run initiatives such as Hell, Plinth Projects, Platform, Bus, Penthouse and Pavement, Kings, TCB and First Floor. Cormick has been the recipient of an Australia Council residency in Los Angeles and a Gertrude Contemporary residency in Melbourne. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999.
In 2017 VERSION published the limited edition artist book, Lane Cormick: NOHARDATTACK. Cormick was included in the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2023 Melbourne Now exhibition. In 2025 Cormick was the inaugural presentation in the Linden New Art’s mid-career artist series, with his first major survey exhibition Smoking will never die but you will.
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Lane Cormick (born 1975 Melbourne, lives Melbourne)
Education
1997-9 BFA (drawing), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1995-6 Western Tafe, MelbourneSolo Exhibitions
2026 I Lije Night Clubs Before the Night Starts, Cafe Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
2025 nicola daniel otellario, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2025 Smoking will never die but you will, Linden New Art, Naarm/Melbourne
2022 Lane Cormick with Raafat Ishak, Dean Barry, Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
2022 George, PHOTO22, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2018 Lane Cormick, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2015 MBARZALONA, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2015 Lack (with Andrew Long) Bus Projects, Naarm/Melbourne
2014 Lane Charles, (with Charles O’Loughlin) Chapter House Lane, Naarm/Melbourne
2014 Hell’s Flags II, commission for Hell’s Kitchen, Naarm/Melbourne
2014 Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Naarm/Melbourne
2013 Bulc Public, Plinth Projects, Naarm/Melbourne
2013 Chalmers, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2013 Janis, TCB, Naarm/Melbourne
2012 Club, Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
2012 Lane Cormick, Meyers Place Art Space, Melbourne
2011 Hey Moses, (with Tony Garifalakis), Bus Projects, Melbourne
2010 Real Bos(e), Neon Parc, Art Forum Berlin 2010
2009 Cook Beale Mustard Swan, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2008 Unearthing The Hawke, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Only one way out of here, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
2007 Only one way out of here, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006 Stress less (with Rob McHaffie), Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2006 (with Tony Garifalakis), Ocular Lab, Melbourne
2004 Lovethethird, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2003 Brazilian Wax Museum, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2003 Fordarsefalcon, 24/7 Melbourne
2002 VIVA, TCB art inc., Melbourne
2002 Vanilla Sigartje, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2002 Blues Mama, First Floor, Melbourne
2002 Paisano Amigo, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2000 Iʼm Gonna Buy Me A Horse, Penthouse and Pavement, MelbourneSelected group exhibitions
2025 1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025, curated by Helen Hughes and Spiros Panigirakis, Gertrude Contemporary
2025 Pervert, Peepshow, Melbourne
2023 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2018 Stephen Bram and Lane Cormicj, CAVES, Melbourne
2017 Every Brilliant Eye: Art of the 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2017 Umwelt Mode, Basel, curated by Thomas Jeppe
2016 Negative Approach, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
2016 Sparkasse Bossard, Kunsthaus Jesteburg, Germany
2014 Framed Movements, curated by Hannah Mathews, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2014 Daine Singer at Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2014 Uneducated, curated by Kym Maxwell, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Dear Masato, all at once, curated by Lisa Radford, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Industrial Estate, curated by Kym Maxwell, Melbourne
2013 Decline, curated by Harriet Morgan, Joint Hassles at Top Shelf Gallery, Melbourne
2013 The Big East, curated by Kiron Robinson, Melbourne
2013 Pivotal, curated by Drew Pettifer, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2013 Action/ Response, curated by Hannah Mathews, Melbourne
2013 Interpreting Variable Arrangements, curated by Jessie Bullivant and Isadora Vaughan, Supermarket 2013 – Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Sweden
2013 Drunk vs. Stoned III, curated by Geoff Newton, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2012 Un Magazine launch, The Alderman, Melbourne
2012 Art LA, Tristian Koenig
2011 Explaining colours to the blind, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne
2011 Body Language, curated by Drew Pettifer, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2011 Whatever doesn’t work, Stockroom Kyneton
2011 Endism, curated by Tony Garifalakis, 24hr Art, Darwin
2010 Autumn Masterpieces, curated by Mark Feary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2009 +/- , curated by Danny Lacy, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2009 Coates, Cormick & Vascellari, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2009 Cross Colouring, Hell Gallery in association with Gambia Castle and Joint Hassles
2009 Blue Sunshine, curated by Charles O’Loughlin, TCB Arts Inc, Melbourne
2009 Don’t Worry It’s Only Money, City Art Rooms, Auckland New Zealand
2009 Texticles, curated by Rob McHaffie, TCB Arts Inc, Melbourne
2009 AUSTRALIA?, Mildura Art Centre, Mildura, Victoria
2008 Little Deaths, Apartment Space, Melbourne
2008 Bad Brains, curated by Peter McKay, CACSA, Adelaide
2007 New Work – Expanded and Compressed, curated by Danny Lacy, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2006 One God, No Masters, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2006 Man/Trouble, curated by Peter McKay, Downtown Gallery, Adelaide
2006 New Work, curated by Danny Lacy, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
2006 Kids Stay Free, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006 PROJEKT Video, curated by Brendan Lee, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth (traveling)
2005 RE/Thinking, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2005 The Beast With Three Backs, (with Tony Garifalakis & Matt Griffin), RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
2005 A portable model of… Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart & Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morewell
2005 5uper MUSEUMSQARTIER, 5uper, Vienna
2003 Something Something Video Something, curated by Jarrod Rawlins, Artspace, Sydney
2002 Something Something Video Something, curated by Jarrod Rawlins, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Gertrude Studio Artists 2001, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2001 Five, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Blink, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2000 Blockbuster 99, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2000 Gertrude Street Studio Artists 2000, Gertrude Contemporary, MelbourneBibliography
2025 Michael Ascroft, ‘Smoking will never die but you will’, review, Memo, 21 June 2025
2017 Daine Singer (ed.) Lane Cormick, NOHARDATTACK, VERSION, Melbourne, 2017
2014 Dan Rule, ‘Furniture makes way for fine arts in Heidelberg West factory exhibition Industrial Estate’, The Age, 8 January 2014, p.20 >>
2013 Harry Azidis, Chalmers (catalogue essay), Daine Singer, 2013
2013 Amita Kirpalani, ‘Obiter dickta’, Stamm, May 2013 >>
2013 Dan Rule, ‘In the Galleries – Lane Cormick: Chalmers’, The Age, 26 October 2013
2012 cover image, un Magazine, issue 6.2, Melbourne, 2012
2012 Dan Rule, ‘In the Galleries – Lane Cormick: Club’, The Age, March 17, 2012 >>
2012 Amita Kirpalani, Lane Cormick, Club (catalogue essay), Daine Singer, 2012
2011 Tim Richards, ‘On the creative trail’, The Age, March 19, 2011
2010 Astrid Mania, ‘Where the eagle melts,’ Artnet, 2010
2010 Dan Rule, ‘Broadening their horizons’, The Age, October 13, 2010, p.21
2010 ‘Codes, Patterns and Material Catalysts: Haskings, Takasaka, Radford, Cormick, Macfarlane, Banks’, Golden ArtNet, 2010
2009 Dylan Rainforth, ‘Taking a crack at Aussie blokes,’ The Age, July 1, 2009 >>
2009 Danny Lacy, +/- (exhibition catalogue), Monash Museum of Modern Art, 2009
2009 Brendan Lee, AUSTRALIA? (exhibition catalogue), 2009
2009 Amita Kirpalani, ‘Fail More, Fail Better’, Un Magazine, Issue 3.1, 2009 pp. 12-13 >>
2008 Megan Backhouse, ‘Lane Cormick: Cook Mustard Beale Swan’, The Age, April 12, 2008
2008 Tony Lloyd, ‘Review: Benevolent Terrorist Siege at Neon Parc’, Art Info, 2008 >>
2008 Dylan Rainforth, ‘Cook Mustard Beale Swan’, M Magazine, The Age, April 13, 2008
2008 E Maudie, ‘Mags To Riches: Lane Cormick’, Dazed & Confused Vol 1 #8
2007 Nadia Saccardo, Only One Way Out Of Here, Threethousand.com.au, March 7, 2007
2006 Stephanie Raddock, ‘Man/Trouble’, The Adelaide Review, October 20, 2006
2006 Peter McKay, Man/Trouble, (exhibition catalogue), Downtown Art Space Adelaide, 2006
2006 Danny Lacy, New Work , (exhibition catalogue), George Paton Gallery, 2006
2005 Jensen Tjhung, & Soo Soo Kee, Beast with Three Backs (exhibition catalogue), RMIT Project Space, 2005
2005 Tristian Koenig, A portable model of… (exhibition catalogue), Plimsoll
Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart & Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morewell, 2005
2004 Danny Lacy, ‘Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic’, Un Magazine, Issue 1, 2004, p.13Residencies
2000-2 Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, studio residency
2005 Australia Council for the Arts, Los Angeles studio residencyCollections
Artbank
Scanlan & Theodore
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand and United States
