KARAN HAYMAN CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATIONAL / BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
1959 Born Melbourne.
1980-82 Diploma of Fine Art, R.M.IT Melbourne..
1981 Founding Artist. Roar Studios Artist Co Operative and Gallery. Melbourne.
1983 Travelled Europe.
1987 Living and Working in Kyneton. Victoria.
1989 Travelled Italy, England and Japan. Solo show Ginza Tokyo.
1992 Post Graduate Diploma of Fine Art. R.M.I.T.
1995 Living and Working in Melbourne.
2002 Travelled Woomera for Anti Nuclear Exhibition Gould Galleries.
2003 Travelled Japan.
2013 Living and working Kyneton.
2014 Travelled Japan and Exhibited Sangi Collection. Ginza Tokyo.
2017 Artist in Residence, Murals Project. Candlebark School. Kerrie. Victoria.
2017 Travelled Vietnam.
2018 Travelled Japan. Artists in residence. Shark Island Institute. Kangaroo Valley.
2019 Artist in residence exhibition. Shark Island Institute. Kangaroo Valley NSW.
2024 Artist in residence Shark Island Institute. Kangaroo Valley NSW.
Travelled Japan.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Amongst Water’ &Gallery Australia. Sorrento. Vic.
2022 ‘Cross Currents’ &Gallery Australia. Sorrento. Vic.
2019 ‘Quiet Escapes’ Fletcher Arts. Melbourne.
2018 ‘Soliloquy’ Franque. Melbourne.
2017 ‘Sentio’ Stevens Street Gallery. Yandina Qld.
2012 Paintings. Vosti House. Melbourne.
2009 Recent works. Vosti House. Melbourne.
2003 ‘Heartlands’ Nellie Casten Gallery. Melbourne.
1999 Paintings. The Continental Café. Melbourne.
1998 ‘Interludes’ William Mora Galleries. Melbourne.
1992 Paintings. William Mora Galleries. Melbourne.
1990 Paintings. William Mora Galleries. Melbourne.
1989 Paintings. Gallery Zenta. Ginza Tokyo.
1988 Paintings. William Mora Galleries. Melbourne.
1983 Roar Studios. Brunswick St Fitzroy. Melbourne.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Bay of Fires Painting Prize Finalists. St Helens. Tasmania.
2024 Castlemaine Art Museum Finalists. Len Fox Painting Prize.
2022 ‘Only Human’ &Gallery. Federation Square Melbourne. .
2021 ‘Roar Collection Exhibition’ The Australian Club Melbourne.
2020 Gippsland Art Gallery, Bushfire Benefit Exhibition.
2019 Artist in Residence Exhibition. Shark Island Institute. Kangaroo Valley NSW.
2019 ‘Covett and Collect’ Fletcher Arts. Melbourne.
2018 Franque. Melbourne.
2017 ‘Ponyland’. Logan Regional Gallery. Qld
Photos by Martin Kantor, Art by subjects. Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Artists for Kids Culture Trust, Brightspace Galllery, Melbourne
Franque, Melbourne.
2015 Franque, Melbourne.
2014 Karan Hayman and Mark Howson. Sangi Collection.
40 Year Company Celebrations. Tokyo, Japan
2013 Spring Salon Franque Gallery. Melbourne
Winter Salon Franque Gallery. Melbourne. 1
2012 Two By Four, Salt Gallery. Queenscliff.
Artists For Kids Culture. Brightspace. Melbourne.
10 Years Brightspace Gallery. Melbourne.
Roar Show, Art Images Gallery. Adelaide.
2011 Roar Reviewed 30 Years On. Melbourne.
Artists for Kids Culture Trust. Brightspace Gallery. Melbourne
Seven Seas, Salt Gallery. Queenscliff, Vic
2010 Brightspace Gallery. Melbourne.
2010 Brightspace Gallery. Melbourne.
2009 Brightspace Gallery. Melbourne.
2008 Art Fair Melbourne, Melbourne.
2007 Etchings. Port Jackson Press. Melbourne.
2005 Artists’ Garden Show. Melbourne.
Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition. Melbourne.
2004 Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition. Melbourne.
2003 Paintings, Michael Carr Gallery. Sydney.
2002 ‘Secret Country’ Gould Galleries. Melbourne.
‘Erotica Today’ Metro 5 Gallery. Melbourne.
2001 ‘Roar Again’ Metro 5 Gallery. Melbourne.
Metro 5 Christmas Show. Metro 5 Gallery. Melbourne.
2001 ‘My Room’ Crown Casino. Melbourne.
2000 ‘We Are Australian’ Touring Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide,
Perth, Brisbane etc.
‘The Art of Saving Lived’ Sothebys, Melbourne.
1999 Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition, Melbourne.
1998 Kyneton Art Fair. Kyneton.
1997 ‘The Melbourne Group’ Coventry Gallery. Sydney.
‘Roar 15 Years’ Roar Studios. Melbourne.
1996 Celebration of the Horse, KDRT. Kyneton.
Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition. Melbourne.
‘Paintings’ Vosti House, Melbourne.
1995 ‘Works on Paper’ Kyneton Collection Exhibition. Kyneton.
Greenpeace ‘Non – Artists against Nuclear Testing’ Ether Ohnnetitel. Melbourne.
1994 1st Annual Kyneton Collection. Kyneton.
‘Six Women Artists’ Art Center. Kyneton.
1993 R.M.I.T. Post Graduate Exhibition. Monash Studios. Collingwood Melbourne.
Kyneton Art Fair. Kyneton Racetrack. Kyneton. Robb Street Gallery. Bairnsdale.
The Mill Exhibition, Kyneton
1992 ‘Roar Studios Touring Exhibition’ Heide Park & Art Gallery Touring Shepparton Art Gallery,
Benalla Art Gallery and Ballarat Art Gallery.
ROAR 82-83 NOW.
9 Roar Artists, William Mora Gallery. Melbourne.
“10 Square Works for Wilderness” Linden Gallery Melbourne.
1991 ‘Works on Paper’ William Mora Gallery. Melbourne.
‘Seven Roar Artists-Ten Years On’ Gallery 2, Launceston.
1990 ‘Works On Paper’ William Mora Gallery. Melbourne.
‘Greenpeace Benefit Exhibition’ Linden Gallery, Melbourne.
‘Artists Against Animal Experimentation’, Deutcher Gallery, Melbourne.
1989 ‘Australian Art’ Caz Gallery. Los Angeles USA.
‘Heidleberg And Heritage 9x5’ Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Group Show. Robb St Gallery. Bairnsdale.
Preview 1990. William Mora Gallery. Melbourne.
1988 ‘A New Generation’ Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases 1983-88
Australian National Gallery. Canberra.
‘ ‘Work from the Studio’ Coventry Gallery. Sydney.
‘Group Show’ William Mora Galleries. Melbourne.
1987 ‘Colour 1’ Coventry Gallery,.Sydney.
1986 ‘A First Look’ recent purchases, Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
‘Colour 2’ Coventry Gallery. Sydney.
‘Winter Collection’ Rhumbarellas. Melbourne.
1986 Drawings’ Coventry Gallery. Sydney.
1985 ‘Raw Reality’ Realities Gallery. Melbourne.
1985 ‘The Melbourne Group’ Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
Drawing Exhibition Coventry Gallery. Sydney.
1984 Group Show, Roar Studios. Melbourne.
1983 ‘Two Person Show’ Roar Studios. Melbourne.
Group Show. Roar Studios. Melbourne.
1982 Opening Exhibition. Roar Studios. Melbourne.
Roar Studios Almost Christmas Show. Roar Studios, Melbourne.
1981 Benefit Exhibition for Roar Studios, Green Street Studios, Melbourne.
COLLECTIONS
Art Bank. National Gallery of Australia Canberra. National Gallery of Victoria. New Parliament House Canberra. RMIT Collection. Baillieu Myer Collection. Gaden's Collection Sydney.
Shire of Kyneton, Sangi Collection Tokyo, Zurich Insurance Melb Collection.
Private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe and USA.
COMMISSIONS
2023 Swimming Pool Commission. Phillip Island Vic.
2017 External Mural at ‘Candlebark School’ Kerrie Vic.
2011 Six Large Paintings for Asia Pacific P/L.
1986 Restaurant Murals, National Gallery of Australia. Canberra.
Canberra Phillip Morris Arts Grant.
1985 Dynamite Stores. Melbourne & Sydney.
PRIZES
2025 Bay of Fires Painting Prize Finalist. st Helens Tasmania.
2024 Castlemaine Art Museum, Len Fox Painting Prize Finalist.
2021 Kangaroo Valley Art Prize Finalist. NSW.
2021 Maritime Art Prize and Exhibition. Finalist. Seafarers Mission. Melbourne.
2021 Lethbridge Painting Prize Finalist. Qld.
2000 John Leslie Art Prize Finalist. Gippsland Regional Gallery.
2000 Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize Finalist. Williamstown.
1997 Nillumbik Art Award Finalist. Eltham.
Darebin Latrobe Art Prize Finalist. Darebin.
1996 Working Art Prize Finalist. Steps Gallery. Melbourne
1994 Prime Painting Prize Finalist. Newcastle Regional Gallery and Touring
Orange Regional Art Gallery and Tamworth Regional Art Gallery.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 ‘Roar Reviewed’ 30 Years On, Denise Morgan, Macmillan Publishing
2006 ‘Directory of Australian Art’, Dr Ashley Crawford, Craftsman House
2006 ‘The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Susan McCulloch, Allen & Unwin
2002 Review Jeffrey Makin, ‘The Sun’ Melb 25 November
2001 Review ‘Roar Again’ Herald Sun, Melbourne
‘Roar To The Fore’ Herald Sun, Melb
Roar Metro 5. David Thomas.
1995 ‘Roar…And Quieter Moments from A Group Of Melbourne Artists’ Traudi Allen, Craftsman House.
1994 ‘Images 2’ Contemporary Australian Painting, Neville Drury, Craftsman House.
1994 ‘The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Allen McCulloch, Revised and Updated by Susan McCulloch, Allen & Unwin
1993 ‘New Art Eight’, Profiles in Contemporary Australian Art, edited by Neville Drury, Craftsman House
1992 bROARd Sheet, Roar 82-83 Now, 26 May-4 June
1992 Roar Studios Touring Catalogue, Joe Pascoe and Katrina Fraser, Shepparton Art Gallery.
1991 ‘The Artists that Roared’ The Age, Peter Wilmoth, Melbourne
1991 Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, Germaine Max
1998 ‘Fantastic View’ Herald Sun, Jay Carter Melbourne
1989 ‘Raw Art’ The Express, Jeanie Heynats, Bairsdale, Vic
1988 ‘Expressionism Attained’ The Herald Melbourne
1988 ‘Dealing With Willy Mora’, The Age’ Jenny Brown, Melbourne
1987 Reviews Sydney Morning Herald,
1985 ‘Art Network’Melbourne Group Show Review, Sydney, Cathy Lumby & John Ferris
1985 ‘Roar Reality’ The Age, Melbourne
1982 ‘Roar Something to Shout About’ The Age-Weekender