SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
un/spoken, M16 Artspace, ACT
2023
Day Dreamer/Night Thinker, Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, ACT
2019
Score No. 0019, Sydney Non Objective, NSW
920.01.SHA, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, ACT
2018
Action Printing, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2016
Score No. 0013, M16 Artspace, ACT + Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, TAS
Prelude, Chutespace, ACT
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Arts Centre, TAS—opening and announcement 14 March, continues until 17 May
DISRUPTION, WEBB Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD
2024
MOVING PICTURES, collaboration with soundscape artist Fever Dream Archive (TAS), Civic Art Bureau, ACT
Futile Futures, Civic Art Bureau—a satellite event to Fantastic Futures at the National Film and Sound Archive, ACT
SYRUP_004: Diffraction, SYRUP Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Disruption, King Mongkut Institute of Fine Arts, Bangkok, Thailand
Edition Five, curated by More Than Reproduction, Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
2023
61st Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
Situated / text and textuality, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, TAS
DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange, 16albermarle Project Space, Sydney, NSW
Show Offs, M16 Artspace, ACT
Wish You Were Here: Megalo Artists in Residence 2013-2023, Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, ACT
Re-dAct I, collaboration with author Jane Rawson (TAS), ACT Hub, ACT
2020-21
UN/KNOWN, collaboration with soundscape artist Fever Dream Archive (TAS), PhotoAccess, ACT
Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Date Night at The Wheaty, The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide, SA
Poetry Paste Ups + Haiku 4 You, Poetic City Festival, ACT
Unsolicited Proposals Unit, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
Screen On Fabric Online Exhibition, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, ACT
Broken Hill Street Biennale, Broken Hill, NSW
Iso Topics: UC Faculty of Arts & Design, collaboration with artists Dr Caren Florance + Dr UK Frederick + Nicci Haynes, hosted online by Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT
2019
EXTRA! EXTRA! a response to Making Art Public: 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects, collaboration with artists Caren Florance, Lucas Ihlein (NSW) + The Rizzeria Print Collective (NSW), Art Gallery of NSW
Dark Mutter, collaboration with artist Nicci Haynes, dancer Debora di Centa + musican Sia Ahmad, You Are Here Festival, ACT
FORMFULL : FORMLESS, Project Space, ANU School of Art & Design, ACT
Elegy for Winter, M16 Artspace, ACT
Art. Letter. Home, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang + Suzhou Art Museum, Jiangsu, China
BLAZE XIII, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
Here Now, ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, ACT
HERstory, M16 Artspace, ACT
2018
Art. Letter. Home, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Chongqing, China
Collaborative Variations, collaboration with artist Simone Tippet, Gallery 1855, Adelaide, SA
Non Objective Writing, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, NT
CONTOUR 556, FLOOD performance, collaboration with author Jane Rawson (VIC), East Space, ACT
Postcard: A Lost Art, Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, ACT
2017
Art. Letter. Home, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, ACT
Call that Printmaking?, Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, ACT
Fake News, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
The Garage Gallery: A Walking Exhibition, You Are Here Festival, ACT
Making Design Research, ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, ACT
2016
Untaming the Urban: a visual art response, part of Untaming the Urban symposium, ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society, Sculpture Gallery, ANU School of Art, ACT
M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, ACT
SOUNDCHECK—with Random Choir + Random Poets performances, collaboration with artist Nicci Haynes, ANCA Gallery, ACT
Speak Uneasy, collaboration with author Jane Rawson (VIC), Noted Festival, Smith’s Alternative, ACT
Artist Books, Chifley Library, ANU, ACT
Prior
Collected Resonance: Session 1, Experimental Music Studio, ANU School of Music, ACT
Underground Prints, part of the Eighth Australian Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia
Savage Pencils, Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Cut’n’paste—the travelling zine show, LOUD! Festival, National
Animate, The Tea House, Melbourne, VIC
Crep, Yume Ya Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Performance art, S.M.A.F Naughty Dwarf Party, Melbourne CBD, VIC
AWARDS, PRIZES + RESIDENCIES
2025
Finalist, Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Arts Centre, TAS—announcement 14 March
2024
Finalist, Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2023
Finalist, 61st Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
First prize, For the Record, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
Recipient, inaugural Studio Residency Program, M16 Artspace, ACT
2022
Finalist, Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Artist in Residence, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, ACT
2021
Artist in Residence, The Unconformity, TAS
2018
Funding recipient, Capital Chemist Award, Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation (CAPO), ACT
2017
Finalist, M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, ACT
Recipient, ANU School of Art & Design Emerging Artist Support Scheme Awards:
Ampersand Duck Broadside Residency, NSW
Canberra Contemporary Art Space Emerging Artists' Exhibition and Residency, ACT
Inaugural Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Exhibition Award, NSW
Megalo Print Studio Residency Award, ACT
First prize, Fake News, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
2016
Winner, Eckersley's materials prize, M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, ACT
COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Art Library, USA
Insitut Seni Surakarta, Indonesia
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, ACT
National Art School, Sydney, NSW
National Library of Australia
Quarantine Public Library, USA
Queensland College of Art & Design, Brisbane, QLD
Spare Room 33 + other private collections
SELECT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2024
Artist (book cover), Later Unearthed, Dr Paul Magee, ACT
2023-24
Digital Content Coordinator, Art Collections, Depatment of Parliamentary Services, Australian Parliament House
2023
Panel speaker, Back and Forth: An Intergenerational Conversation, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, part of UNCHARTED TERRITORY, Events ACT
2022
Artist, Art Steps, National Gallery of Australia
Artist, Make your own printed notebook, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Printmaking Lecturer (Sessional), National Art School, NSW
2018-24
Marketing and Communications Officer, National Portrait Gallery of Australia
2018
Research Assistant (images), How Local Art Made Australia’s National Capital, Dr Anni Doyle Wawrzyńczak, ACT
Gallery Manager, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
Artist, Small Stories: low-fi bookmaking, six-week course, Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT
2017-18
Studio Assistant, Dr Raquel Ormella, ACT
2015-16
Printmaking Assistant, Outreach Programs, ANU School of Art, ACT
Intern then Volunteer, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
Prior
Studio Assistant, Aether & Hemera, Enlighten Festival, ACT
Curatorial + Events team, BucketJuice—the history of Canberra music at:
BucketJuice Festival, ANU Bar, ACT
Canberra Fringe Festival, Street Theatre (twice), ACT
Christmassacre, Ground Floor, Belconnen, ACT
National Youth Week, Civic Youth Cafe, ACT
Multimedia Designer, Canberra Region Graphic Arts Awards, held at the National Museum of Australia
Artist + Musician, zine workshop + lyric-writing panel-speaker, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, NSW
Artist, comics workshop, National Young Writers’ Festival, Newcastle, NSW
Work experience + Animator (program ID), Recovery, ABC TV, Melbourne, VIC
PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS + INTERVIEWS
2024
“SYRUP_004”, Diffraction exhibition catalogue, SYRUP, p47-48, 13 July
“Arts Cafe: un/spoken”, interview by Neil Doody, ArtSound FM, 25 January, duration 00:05:08
2023
“Profiles: Saskia Haalebos”, More Than Reproduction, 20 September
Fairley, Gina, “Seven career lessons from intergenerational artists”, ArtsHub, 20 August
“Arts Cafe: Day Dreamer/Night Thinker”, interview by Neil Doody, ArtSound FM, 31 July, duration 00:05:34
Rawson, Jane, Opening speech for Day Dreamer/Night Thinker, delivered at Megalo Print Studio, 12 July
“Day Dreamer/Night Thinker: Saskia Haalebos”, Print Council of Australia, 8 July
Florance, Caren, “Catching something ‘before absence becomes absolute’”, Day Dreamer/Night Thinker exhibition essay, Megalo Print Studio, p2-8, 8 July
2022
Haalebos, Saskia, “Wayfinding in the west”, Western Echo, May 2022, p5
2021
Musa, Helen, "Arts in the City", CityNews, 17 August
Samaras, Denholm, “Two local artists chosen for Tasmanian residency”, Canberra Weekly, 12 August, p31
“What’s on in Canberra’s arts scene from August 14, 2021”, The Canberra Times, 11 August
Chaplin, Darren, “Artist Interview: Saskia Haalebos”, YouTube, 23 February, duration 00:19:05
Mandryk, Chloe, “The Unsolicited Proposals Unit – Exhibition Preview”, A Rich Life, 8 February
Haynes, Peter, “Review: The Unsolicited Proposals Unit at Canberra Contemporary Art Space”, The Canberra Times, 23 January
2020
Scicchitano, Eleanor, "The Unsolicited Proposals Unit", Issuu, 5 December, p20, 22-25
“Saskia Haalebos - Australia”, Screen on Fabric Online Exhibition, Megalo Print Studio, 2020, p9
Fairley, Gina, "8 curators pick artists to watch in 2020", ArtsHub, 22 January
Dunford, George, "Where do ideas come from?", Our new podcast: the ArtsHubbub. ArtsHub, duration 00:23:27, 13 January
2019
Shags and Florance, Caren, "Choosing how to feel", EXTRA! EXTRA!, Rizzeria Collective + AGNSW, 10 December
Kenna, Francis, “Porosity", Formfull Formless, Canberra, Australian National University, 2019, p6-10 + p21-22
Musa, Helen, "Putting theories into practice", CityNews, 25 June
“CAPO to celebrate emerging artists at ANU”, Canberra Weekly, 13 June, p47
Broker, David, "BLAZE THIRTEEN", Issuu, 15 March, p2-6, 8
Haynes, Peter, "Edgy work from emerging artists challenges views of the world", The Canberra Times, 1 March + in print
Wong, Mei Sheong, "Collaborative Variations", Print Council of Australia, 8 January
2018
Florance, Caren. "Out of the book: artists and bookplates", Imprint magazine, Melbourne, Print Council of Australia, 2018, vol 53 no. 1, p36-39
Prior
Malins, Jacqui. "Review: speak uneasy and flood", Lip Magazine, 13 April 2016
Shakalis, Chris, “Interview: 20 July 2013”, Head Full Of Flames: Punk In The Nation’s Capital 1977-1992. Canberra, self-published, 2013, p279-280. In conjunction with the exhibition at Canberra Museum and Gallery
"Artist profile", BMA, Canberra, 2011, issue 374, p25
Bigna, Dan, “Crankiness in all band’s song lyrics”, FLY, The Canberra Times, 2008, p6
Hill, Michael, "Sick puppies with pencils", Savage Pencils. Sydney, Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery publication, 2001, p15-19