Zoë Croggon completed a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts with First Class Honours in 2011. She has held solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Peckham 24 (London), Silver Eye Centre for Photography (Pittsburgh), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Perth Centre for Photography, the Melbourne Art Fair, and has had eight solo exhibitions with Daine Singer gallery since 2012.

Croggon has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Monash University Museum of Art, Samstag Museum of Art, Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

Croggon has been awarded the Maddocks Art Prize (2019), Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2018), ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award (2014), the Asia-Pacific Photobook Prize (2015) and the ACACIA Art Award (2010). She has also been shortlisted for the Churchie Art Prize, Basil Sellers Art Prize at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Wallara Travelling Scholarship. Her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, MUMA, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Horsham Regional Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery and Artbank. 

Kate Kelley, Zoe Croggon ‘Pale Horse Pale Rider’ Catalogue Essay, 2021 >>

Podcast, David Oresick and Zoe Croggon, Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, October 2020 >>

Podcast, Gillian Brown and Zoe Croggon, Samstag Museum of Art, May 2020 >>

Zoe Croggon (b.1989, Melbourne, lives Melbourne)

Education
2011 Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts
2008-10 Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts

Solo Exhibitions
2024 Chamber Dance, PHOTO 2024, Melbourne Arts Precinct >>
2024 Magazines, Melbourne Art Fair >>
2022 Mother Tongue, PHOTO22, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2021 Pale Horse Pale Rider, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2021 Pale Horse Pale Rider, Silver Eye Centre for Photography, Pittsburgh
2019 Olga, CCP, Melbourne
2018  luce rossa, Daine Singer, Melbourne >>
2018  Arc, Peckham 24, London
2017  Deep Cuts, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
2017  Tenebrae, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2017  In the Back of My Mind, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2016  Kiri, Daine Singer, Melbourne2016  Pool, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2015  Meridian, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2014  Concrete, Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2014  Apex, Transit Gallery, The Substation, Melbourne
2013  Deuce, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2013  Pool, West Space, Melbourne
2012  Zoë Croggon, Daine Singer, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions
2024 A Space Between, Heide Modern, Laura Lantieri and Chloe Jones >>
2024 Photography Real and Imagined, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne >>
2023 Circles of Dialogue, LaTrobe Art Institute, curated by Amelia Wallin
2023 Daine Singer at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney >>
2022 Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
2021 SPRING1883, Melbourne
2021 Presence/Absence: Australian Photography from the collection, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham
2020 Daine Singer at FAIR PRESENTED BY NADA
2020 Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2020 Adelaide//International, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2020 Fifty, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
2019 In Her Words, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
2018 SPRING1883, Daine Singer at The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2018  Odile, City of Greater Dandenong, Melbourne
2017  Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2017  From the Darkness, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
2016  New Matter, Art Gallery of New South Wales2016  The Substation Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne
2016  SPRING1883, Daine Singer at The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2015  Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2015  Grey Matter, Artbank, Sydney
2015  Basil Sellers Art Prize, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2015  Daine Singer at Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Establishment, Sydney
2014  Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2014  The Sievers Project, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2014 Daine Singer at Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2013  Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne2012-2013  Future Now, The Substation, Melbourne; Cowwarr Art Space, Gippsland
2012  Liquid Archive, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne2012  Dodecahedron, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2012  Exploration 12, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2012  Splitting Image, Tinning St Gallery, Melbourne
2012  Tenancy 3, blackartprojects, Melbourne
2012  Entry 2012, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne
2011  Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts
2011 Consultancy, National Gallery of Victoria Studio, Melbourne
2011  Mainly Everything, TCB Gallery, Melbourne
2011  Here Is Where We Meet, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2011  Honourable Discharge, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2011  Triple Double, The Mill Gallery, Tasmania
2011  Totes West, Basement Lounge Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
2011  Because We Are All Animals, Disco Beans Art Space, Melbourne
2011  Debut VII, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2010  Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2010  Best Years of Our Lives, VCA Student Gallery
2010  Wallara Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2010  Proud 2010, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2009  Stay Golden, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2008  Habitat, Geidai University Gallery, Tokyo
2008  Pimp My Paper, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2008  Proud 2008, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Books

Zoë Croggon, How to Cut an Orange, Perimeter Editions (Melbourne), 2024

Zoë Croggon, Arc, Perimeter Editions and Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive (Melbourne), 2015

Bibliography

2024
Sabrina Caires, ‘Artist Zoë Croggon on PHOTO 2024, the Creative Process, and Her New 20-Metre-Long Collage in the Arts Precinct’, Broadsheet, 21 March, 2024 >>
Zoë Croggon on the Metamorphosis of the Image, interview for Melbourne Art Fair >>

2021
Kate Kelley, Pale Horse Pale Rider, Silver Eye Centre for Photography, Pittsburgh, April 2021

2020
David Oresick and Zoë Croggon, Podcast: Studio Visits w/ Silver Eye, October 2020 >>
Gillian Brown, ‘Ep.10 Zoë Croggon / The Magazine Series’, Samstag On Art Podcast, May 2020 >>

2017
Kerrie O'Brien, 'Rising star Zoë Croggon talks about her art and inspiration', The Age, 26 May 2017 >>
Will Cox, 'Slicing and Splicing with Zoë Croggon', Broadsheet, Melbourne >>
Gabriella Coslovich, 'A celebration in photography', The Age, 26 March 2017 >>
Penny Webb, 'NGV Festival of Photography review: Shining a light on strangeness and passion', The Age, 20 March 2017 >>
Nicholas Carolan, 'En pointe: Zoe Croggon cuts a fine form', Grazia, Sydney >>

2016
Susan Van Wyk, Zoe Croggon interview, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne >>

2015
Zoë Croggon, Arc, Perimeter Editions & Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive, Melbourne'Zoë Croggon’s choreography through collage' Buro247, Australia >>
'Zoë Croggon', La Vida, UK

2014
Ray Edgar, ‘The Sievers Project’, Art Guide, 6 June 2014 >>

2013
Dylan Rainforth, ‘Moving images, The Age, 13 November 2013
Penny Webb, The Age Melbourne Magazine, 25 October 2013
Toby Fehily, ‘Zoë Croggon, ‘Deuce’ opening at Daine Singer’, Three Thousand
Maura Edmond, ‘Deuce, Zoë Croggon’ PRIMER, November 2013
Saskia Tillers, ‘Zoë Croggon’, Art & Australia, Sydney, Vol 51, No.2, Summer 2013
Dan Rule, ‘Zoë Croggon’, Vault Magazine, Issue 5, November 2013
Natasha Bullock, ‘Aspects of recent photography’, Photofile, 93, Spring/Summer 2013/14, Sydney, pp.116-7
Dan Rule, ‘Zoë Croggon: Deuce’, The Age, 30 November 2013, Life & Style p.5 >>
Art Calendar, Vogue Living, November/December 2013, p.84
Penny Webb, The Age Melbourne Magazine, 25 October 2013
Shareen Joel, ‘Deuce by Zoë Croggon at Daine Singer Gallery’, Share Design, 11 November 2013
Dan Rule, ‘Zoe Croggon: Pool. In the Galleries’, The Age, 3 August, 2013 >>
Artist pages, Discipline, Issue 3, Melbourne 2013
Maggie Finch, ‘Melbourne Now Countdown’, NGV Blog, 24 August 2013
Eloise Grills, ‘Zoe Croggon’, Grilling Me Softly 

2012
Dan Rule, ‘Zoe Croggon: In the Galleries’, The Age, Life&Style, 17 November, 2012, p.5
Dan Rule, ‘Body Building’, The Age, 31 October, 2012, p.13
‘Zoe Croggon,’ The Weekly Review, 31 October, 2012, p.16
Patrice Sharkey, Zoe Croggon, cat. essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne, 2012
Alexandra Spangaro, ‘Zoe Croggon Collage Exhibition’, Milk Bar Magazine, 29 October, 2012
Geraldine Barlow, Liquid Archive, cat. essay, MUMA, Melbourne, 2012
Bella Arnot-Hoare, ‘Splitting the Image’, Broadsheet, Melbourne, 13 April, 2012
Dana Tomic Hughes, Yellowtrace, 5 November, 2012

2011  
Shae Nagorcka, Debut VII, exh. cat., Blindside, Melbourne, 2011

Awards
2019 Maddocks Art Prize
2018  Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2017  Finalist, Maddocks Prize
2016  Finalist, The Substation Art Prize
2015  Asia-Pacific Photobook Prize
2014  Finalist, The Churchie
2014  ARTAND Australia/ Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award
2014  Finalist, The Basil Sellers Art Prize
2010  Shortlisted for the Wallara Traveling Scholarship
2010  ACACIA Art Award

Collections
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Artbank
Gippsland Art Gallery
Acacia Art Collection
Art and Australia
Monash University Museum of Art
Monash Art Gallery
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery