Heescok

Heesco was born and raised in Mongolia, and moved to Australia in 1999. Heesco's been active in the gallery circles in Melbourne and Sydney for over a decade. His work can be found on snowboards and t-shirts for Koast Kollektive, on pages of Vice Magazine, as well as on the streets of Melbourne, and in his self-published zines. Recognisable by his precise linework and dark subject matter, Heesco is creating ripples around Australian art scene with his multicultural, experimental, and genre defying artworks.

He currently lives and works in Melbourne.

Heesco: CURRICULUM VITAE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Mongo Hustle, At Large Gallery, Melbourne

2009 Souls End, Somedays Gallery, Sydney

2008 Six Feet Over, Hellen Rose Schauersberger LabOratorium, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011      Surface Tension, aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney
2011      Board, NGV Studio Fed Sq, Melbourne
2011      Outpost Project, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
2011      Paper Thin, Colour by Numbers gallery, Lo-Fi Collective, Sydney
2011      High Definition: The State of Australian Painting in a Neo-Digital Age, Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne
2011     ArtBoy Vs Fanboy, ArtBoy Gallery, Melbourne
2011     Up Close, Colour By Numbers Gallery, Lo-Fi Collective, Sydney
2011     Urban Art ThrowUp, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2011     High Definition: The State of Australian Painting in a Neo-Digital Age, Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne
2011     Get Trucked, No Vacancy Project Space, Melbourne
2011     100 Fires, Rites of Passage Tattoo convention, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
2010     Blender Studios Christmas Exhibition, Michael Koro Gallery, Melbourne
2010     Fit to Print, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
2010     A3 - Small Art Show, For Walls Gallery, Melbourne
2010     Sweet Streets Festival of Urban and Street Art, Melbourne
2009     Koast Launch, Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery, Sydney
2009     Parasol (Matthys Gerber), Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2009     Arch is Balding, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
2009     Wet Patch, World Bar, Sydney
2009     Action V Action, Gallery 4A, Sydney
2008     11th Annual Members' Exhibition, Gallery 4A, Sydney
2005     Art Under the Hammer, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
2003     Young Beautiful Wife, Newspace Gallery, Sydney
2003     I Never Promised to Make Any Sense, Space 3 Gallery, Sydney

AWARDS

2011 Secret Wars Australia, Series 3 Champion.

PUBLICATIONS

Vice Magazine Australia, March 2011
Feature artist, Invurt.com, January 2011
Vice Magazine Australia, December 2010
WeAreTheImageMakers (www.watim.com), issue 23, 2010
Feature Artist, Design Federation (designfederation.net), 2010
Feature Artist, Koast Kollektive (koastkollektive.com), 2009
Blood & Thunder – a new anthology of Australian Comics, 2010
Beef Knuckles, issue 3-4, 2010
976 Magazine, 2010
The Locksmith Project Publication vol. 2, 2008.
Razorback, Cult Fiction Comics Australia, Sydney, 2003
Dark Animus Magazine, Katoomba, 2003 - 2004
Featured Artist, Epitaph online magazine, 2002
Kaffeinii Dutagdal (Caffeine Deficiency), 1999

EDUCATIONS

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting, Printmedia) -
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2002 – 2005

Diploma of Business Management - Central College (Sydney),
1999 - 2001

School of Foreign Relations, National University of Mongolia. 1997 - 1999