| Born Brisbane, Australia. Lives Berlin, Germany. |
| 2007 | Bachelor of Fine Art, First Class Honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University |
| 2004 | Bachelor of Fine Art Queensland College of Art, Griffith University |
| 2003 | Semester study at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, United States of America |
| 2021 | Sugar Fever Dream Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2019 | To proceed within a trap Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2018 | Floral Atlas Artscape Contemporary, Luxembourg Gold Standard Helmut, Leipzig, Germany Fools Gold Das Giftraum, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | After Nature Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2015 | Vivarium Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2014 | Here nor there Australian High Commission, Singapore and Chan Hampe Galleries, Raffles Hotel Arcade, Singapore |
| 2013 | Hang-Ups Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia Every moment lives together Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | To have and to hold Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia Finders Keepers Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia Recent Paintings Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2011 | Deterior Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2010 | Left Behind Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2008 | Interiors Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Dwelling Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2020 | Floral Obsession, Artscape Contemporary, Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg Tondo, InFormat, Projektraum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin An Australian Spring, Michael Reid, Berlin Five Years, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne Built Forms, Redcliffe Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia The Family Home, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 2019 | Female Gaze, Artscape Contemporary Art Luxembourg at the Foundry, Luxembourg Re_wild, Artscape Contemporary Art Luxembourg at CMS, Luxembourg Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia VIS-IBLITY, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Outmoded, Nachtspeicher23 Hamburg, Germany |
| 2018 | Almost Nature, Caves Bernard Massard, Luxembourg. Neue Echtheit, 48 Stunden Neukolln, Berlin, Preview, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2017 | Artscape Contemporary, Luxembourg Art week, Luxembourg Raze Raise, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany Scenes of our city, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2016 | 100% Brisbane, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia Frieze, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany Bayside Acquisitive Art Award, Brighton, Victoria, Australia Summer Show, Michael Reid Berlin, Berlin, Germany A Conversation about Portraiture, Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2015 | Panorama, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany Wandering Archive, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award finalist exhibition,touring Regional Australia |
| 2014 | David Malouf & Friends, Museum of Brisbane, Australia Triptych, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton, New South Wales, Australia and touring Double Trouble, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 | Archival Wandering: Karla Marchesi, Clare Rae, Melanie Jayne Taylor, Scope Miami, Miami, Florida, USA Heuriges 013, Ausstellungsraum.at, Vienna, Austria Triptychon (phase 2), Pavillon am Milchhof, Mitte, Berlin, Germany Triptychon (phase 1), Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany 20 Jahre Ateilerhaus Mengerzeile Housesalon, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Australia |
| 2012 | Orientation, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2011 | Together in Harmony, The Korea Foundation Cultural Centre, Seoul, Korea Our Place, touring regional Queensland Winning Works, Pine Rivers Art Gallery People and Places, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2010 | Gaze: people, relationships and place, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Australia Weapons of Mass Consumption, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia Something or other, Old Space ARI, Brisbane, Australia The Stanthorpe Art Festival, Stanthorpe, Australia The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, QCA Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Australia |
| 2009 | World's Best Practice, Old Space ARI, Brisbane 12+ Queensland Artists, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2008 | 15 Artists, Redcliffe Regional Art Gallery, Australia Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia 16th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards, Australia |
| 2007 | 15th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards, Australia |
| 2019 | Finalist - Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
| 2017 | Finalist - Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
| 2016 | Finalist - Bayside Acquisitive Art Award, Brighton, Victoria, Australia |
| 2014 | Finalist - Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton, New South Wales, Australia |
| 2013 | Recipient - Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant – Early Career Finalist - Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Australia |
| 2012 | Winner - Wilson Visual Arts Award Highly Commended - Spirit of Youth Awards Recipient - Career Development Grant, Arts Queensland |
| 2011 | Shortlisted finalist - Australia Council for the Arts, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Residency |
| 2010 | 1st Prize - Redland Art Awards, Queensland Regional Art Awards Young Artist Prize Recipient - Career Development Grant, Arts Queensland Finalist – The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, QCA Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2009 | Recipient - Young Artist Mentoring Program, Youth Arts Queensland - mentor Anne Wallace |
| 2008 | Runner-up 2D Category, 16th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards |
| 2007 | Recipient - University Medal for Academic Excellence over 4 years of study Recipient - Honours Thesis Prize, Art Theory, Queensland College of Art Recipient - First Prize 2D Category, 15th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards Recipient - Griffith Award for Academic Excellence |
| 2004 | Recipient - Highly Commended Prize, The Thiess Art Prize, Griffith Award for Academic Excellence |
| 2003 | Recipient - Philip Bacon Galleries Prize for Excellence in Drawing, A scholarship sponsored by Philip Bacon Galleries, valued at $5000, to study at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA |
| 2012-13 | 6-month studio residency at Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin, Germany |
| 2020 | Album cover: Grief Scene Bad Times |
| 2019 | Single cover: Dead for ages In defence of an ordinary life |
| 2014 | David Malouf & Friends, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2018-current | Artist Assistant for Studio Martin Eder, Berlin |
| 2016-17 | Artist Assistant for Studio Anslem Reyle, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | Artist Assistant work for Iris Van Dongen and Alex Tenningkeit |
2020 to present: Proxi Projects, Berlin-Exhibitions: There Was a Sense that No One Was Going to Leave the Room, Ever - Multi-disciplinary Groupshow (2021); Moon Spill - Arryn Snowball and collaborators (2020)
InFormat Berlin Painting collective, Berlin, Germany 2014-2020
Australian Catholic University Art Collection
Central Queensland University
Gadens Lawyers
Griffith University Art Collection
Lady Cilento Children's Hospital
Museum of Brisbane
Pine Rivers Shire Gallery
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum Collection
Redcliffe City Gallery
Redland Art Gallery
Southern Downs Regional Art Collection, Stanthorpe
St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, Brisbane
Swiss Re
University of Queensland Art Museum
University of the Sunshine Coast
Phil Brown 'Brisbane framed: ‘Bill Robinson said that if you paint your life you can’t go wrong', Brisbane News (online) June 20, 2017
Nicole Ferrie (ed.) 'Art Prize Finalists Announced', Bendigo Advertiser (online) May 19, 2017
Philip A Hartigan 'A view from the easel', Hyperallergic (online) November 12, 2014
Jonathan Tan 'Basic Instinct', Gallery and Studio, September 2014, Issue 2, page 20-25
Dan Pike 2014 'From Brisbane to Berlin and Beyond', AusInfront, July 11, 2014
Sharne Wolff 'David Malouf and Friends – artistic collaboration a Brisbane state of mind', The Guardian, Australian Culture Blog, May 12, 2014
Yvonne Wang 'Artist Karla Marchesi and Her Berlin Wanderings', The Muse, July 4, 2014
Louise Martin-Chew 'David Malouf and Friends', Art Guide Australia, May 22, 2014
Susan Carson 'David Malouf and Friends explores tricks of memory and place', The Conversation May 21, 2014
Review by Dan Rule The Age Life&Style page 5, Online & Print, October 18, 2013
Dylan Rainforth 'Artist Nurtures Complexity of Nature' The Age p.42 October 2, 2013
Exhibition preview by Toby Fehily Three Thousand October 4, 2013
Every Moment Lives Together, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin Exhibition Essay Carmen Ansaldo, 2013
Phil Brown 'Clean Sweep' Brisbane News page 33 Issue 886, June 13-19, 2012
Sally Browne 'Peace among chaos' U on Sunday, Sunday Mail page 38, June 10, 2012
Hayley Haynes 'Talking Rubbish with Karla Marchesi', The Flaneur art blog, June 12, 2012
Penny Webb 'The Ticket - Pick of the month' The Melbourne Magazine, The Age page 66, March 30, 2012
Ronnie Girdham 'Still life rebellion' Sunday Mail EVENTS page 16, September 5, 2010
Suzanna Clarke 'The stuff of art' Courier Mail ETC, page 2, September 4, 2010
Australian Art Collector 50 OF AUSTRALIA'S MOST COLLECTABLE ARTISTS, page 195, Issue 47, January-March 2009