Denis Beaubois
Denis Beaubois (AU) is a conceptual and video artist.
Denis Beaubois; in his work "ATM family portrait" (1997)
Denis Beaubois, born in Mauritius, has trained and worked as a performer he was a
member of performance ensemble Gravity Feed and the Post Arrivalists. He
has performed with Japanese company Gekidan Kaitaisha in the
Drifting View X in Tokyo. He holds an MA in photography and performance
as well as an MFA in Time Based Arts from COFA, UNSW, where he also
lectures in video art. He lives in Sydney.
His works have been exhibited internationally including The
TATE Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010), The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2009), The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the Zero One Biennale in San Jose (2008),
The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei and Wood St Galleries in
Pittsburgh (2007). His works have also been included in The SCAPE
Biennale of Art in public space, New Zealand, The Rencontres
Internationale Paris, Berlin festival, The Koldo Mitxelena Kulturnea in
San Sebastian (2006), The Santiago Biennale in Chile, The Adelaide film
festival in Australia (2005), and as part of the Transmediale program,
Berlin (2004).
He has received numerous awards for his works most notably
winning the 1998 Bonn Videonale (Germany), and receiving the Judges
special prize for the Internationaler Medien Kunst Preis 2001, ZKM
(Germany).
