Biography
JC is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Inspired by his great uncle Anton David Riebe, an Australian landscape painter, JC followed his footsteps into art by beginning his vocational training at the Southbank Institute of Technology in Brisbane, before going on to complete his Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
His practice navigates the ongoing internal dialogue around the formation of his cultural and social identity, shaped by his Australian upbringing, mixed Asian (Filipino) and Caucasian heritage, and experiences with queerness. Influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Maximalism, and his cultural heritage, JC uses dynamic mark-making, personal and cultural symbolism, and bold colour to create emotional projections. His current practice continues to explore language of abstraction as a means of articulating his identity between stereotype, heritage, otherness and ambiguity as well as inviting an open dialogue around transformation, tension, and belonging. In particular, people who are the product of mixed Asian heritage and Asian diaspora.
JC's work is held in private collections in Brisbane and Melbourne.
CV can be downloaded here
Education
2014
Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing)
Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Rejected/Projected - Gallery 1, RED Gallery, Melbourne
2024
Become Whatever - Gallery 1, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Assembly - Jacky Winter Gallery, Melbourne
All The Leaves Are Brown - BSIDE Gallery, Melbourne
Catalyst - Gallery 3, RED Gallery, Melbourne
Pocketful of Sunshine - Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
RED Salon - RED Gallery, Melbourne
RED Collection - Gallery 1, RED Gallery, Melbourne
SOULS - SOL Gallery, Melbourne
2024
Essence - Gallery Unbound, Melbourne
Merri-bek Summer Show: (Be)longing- Counihan Gallery - Melbourne
You Look Good On Paper - RED Gallery - Melbourne
Emerge: OUT - Brunswick Street Gallery - Melbourne
2023
60BYSIXTYFOR60 - RED Gallery – Melbourne
BUY OR CRY - SOL Gallery, Melbourne
2022
Emerge: Tenth Edition - Brunswick Street Gallery - Melbourne
2012
RAW Brisbane: Radiate - Oh Hello! - Brisbane
2011
Transit - Brunswick Arts Space - Melbourne