McCosh is a retired as a Senior Lecturer of Deakin University, where she worked largely as Team Leader in the Visual Arts Department at the Institute of Koorie Education. She also founded and continues to be Director of SCOPE Galleries Warrnambool, a contemporary art gallery where she implemented a national biennial art award, Art Concerning Environment. Her professional practice has included in excess of twenty-three solo exhibitions and numerous pre-selected national award exhibitions. She has been the recipient of several awards, grants and residencies, which include an Arts Victoria Grant from the International Cultural Exchange Program (2001, United Kingdom), a Deakin University Research Travel Grant (2001, New York) and an Arts Victoria Research and Development Grant (1997). She has also presented at arts based conferences in Melbourne and Berlin. Her artwork is held in the collections of Artbank, Bundanon Trust, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Deakin University Art Collection and the Epworth Art Collection. McCosh has a studio in Warrnambool where she resides and continues to operate SCOPE Galleries where her work can be viewed http://www.scopegalleries.com

Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

PhD, The Sublime: Process and Mediation, Deakin University 2004: Master of Arts (research), The Interpretation of Nature as Spiritual Content in Painting, Deakin University 1997; Bachelor of Arts Hons, Deakin University 1994; Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Deakin University 1993

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Liminal, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne 2017, Merge, Montsalvat, Eltham Melbourne 2016; Nexus, Tacit Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2015; York Studios, Berlin Germany 2014; Recent Work, SCOPE Galleries Warrnambool 2012; Abstraction in Focus, McGee’s Gallery at 27 Gipps Street Richmond 2010; Aqueous 2, SCOPE Galleries Warrnambool 2010; Fusion, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood 2009; Volcanic Series, Qdos Arts, Lorne 2009; ICON: Responses to Tower Hill, Warrnambool Art Gallery 2007-8; Subduction, SPAN Galleries Melbourne 2007; Transmutation, Gardner Galleries Melbourne 2005; Aqueous, Geelong Art Gallery 2004; Threshold, SPAN Galleries Melbourne 2003; Imprint, George Lance Gallery – Warrnambool Art Gallery 2001; Fragment 2, Queenshall Arts Centre, Hexam England 2001; Fragment, Beachhead Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warrnambool 2001; Continuum, SPAN Galleries Melbourne 1999; Recent Paintings, Lunch on Bank, Port Fairy 1999; Mediation, Warrnambool Art Gallery 1998; Recent Work, Qdos Arts Centre, Lorne 1998; Dissolution, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne 1998; Dissection, Lunch on Bank, Port Fairy, 1998; Merging Perceptions, Chapel on Chapel, Prahran 1996; Recent Work, Qdos Arts Centre, Lorne1996; Synergy, Alan lane Gallery – Warrnambool Art Gallery, 1995; Echo Alan Lane Gallery – Warrnambool Art Gallery, 1993

Collaborative Project/Exhibitions

Hybrid 2, collaborative multi-media with Carmel Wallace, George lance Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery 1998; Hybrid, collaborative multi-media with Carmel Wallace, West Space Gallery, Footscray 1997

National Art Awards (Pre-selected Finalist)

Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Centre 2021; John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery 2018; Corangamarah Art Prize, Red Rock Gallery 2017; Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Centre 2016; Corangamarah Art Prize, Red Rock Gallery 2016; Swan Hill Drawing and Print Prize, Swan Hill Art Gallery 2014; Casella Art Prize, Griffith Regional Art Gallery 2011; Corangamarah Art Prize, Colac 2010; Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery 2007; John Leslie Art Prize (acquired and highly commended), Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 2006; Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi NSW 2004; Great Southland Art Award, Sydney 2003; Environmental Art Award (winner), Warrnambool Art Gallery 2000; Great Southland Art Award (winner), Sydney 2000; 30th Alice Prize, Arleen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs NT 1999; Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Award (acquired), Toowoomba Art Gallery 1998; Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart 1997; Outback Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery 1997; Logan Art Award, Logan City Art Galley QLD 1997; Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery 1996; Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Prize, Grafton Art Gallery NSW 1996; Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery 1996; Bathurst Art Prize, Bathurst Regional Gallery NSW; Fifth Annual Drawing Award (winner), Splash Studios Warrnambool 1992

Selected Group Exhibitions

Face to Face Revisted, Deakin University Art Gallery Melbourne 2025; Time, South-West Printmakers, Project Warrnambool 2025; Renewal, South West Printmakers, F Project Warrnambool 2024; Sky, South West Printmakers, F Project Warrnambool 2023; Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Centre 2021; Trees, South West Printmakers, F Project Warrnambool 2021; Water, South West Printmakers, F Project 2020; John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery 2018; Corangamarah Art Prize, Red Rock Gallery 2017; Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Centre 2016; Corangamarah Art Prize, Red Rock Gallery 2016, Projected, Project Space, Deakin University Geelong 2015; South West International Women’s Day Art Prize, The Artery, Warrnambool 2015; The Representation of Possibility: Understanding Change and Continuity through the Image, York Studios, Berlin Germany; Trajectories (travelling exhibition), Deakin University Art Gallery Burwood, SCOPE Galleries Warrnambool, Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library Geelong Waterfront campus, Deakin University 2014; Swan Hill Drawing and Print Prize, Swan Hill Art Gallery 2014; Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award (online) 2014; ABAD (A Book About Death) Tweed River Regional Art Gallery 2013; Casella Art Prize, Griffith Regional Gallery 2011; Conceit: Corangamarah Art Prize, Colac 2010; Recent Work, Gallery Oscar, Turramurra Sydney NSW; Art Melbourne, McGee’s Gallery, Exhibition Building Melbourne 2009; Summer Show, McCulloch Gallery Melbourne 2008; Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery 2007; John Leslie Art Prize (acquired and highly commended), Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 2006; Survey, Warrnambool Art Gallery; Abstract Landscapes, Discover IT Exhibition Space Portland 2005; Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi NSW 2004; Great Southland Art Award, Sydney 2003; Art of the Great Southland, Hotel Sofitel Melbourne 2002; Reciprocal Moves, Warrnambool Art Gallery 2000; Great Southland Art Prize (winner) Sydney 2000; 30th Alice Prize, Arleen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs NT 1999; Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Award and Exhibition (acquired), Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery 1999; Daffodil Day Art Award, St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne 1999; Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery Hobart 1997; Outback Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery1997; Logan Art Award, Logan City Art Gallery 1997; World in a Matchbox, International exhibition, Grand Central Melbourne 1997; Postcard Show, Linden Gallery St Kilda, Melbourne 1997; Gold Coast Conrad Jupiters Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery 1996; Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Prize, Grafton Art Gallery NSW 1996; Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery 1996; Interconnection 7, W. Max Bell Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery 1996; Dominique Sedan Castlemaine State Festival Drawing Prize, Castlemaine Art Gallery 1996; Interconnection 7, Warrnambool Art Gallery 1996; Postcard Show, Linden Gallery St Kilda, Melbourne 1996; Locus Momentum, Survey of South West Women Artists, Warrnambool Art Gallery 1995; Earthworks (travelling exhibition), Caulfield Arts Complex, Moorabbin Arts Centre, Institute of Koorie Education Geelong, 1995; Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 1995; Postcard Show, Linden Gallery St Kilda, Melbourne 1995; Bye Bye Arcadia, Hamilton Art Gallery 1995; Interconnection 7, Lunch on Bank, Port Fairy 1995; Primipara, Malthouse Gallery, Melbourne 1994; Profiles – A Survey, Warrnambool Art Gallery 1994; Small Treasures, Customs House Gallery Warrnambool 1994; Ripe, Graduation exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery 1992; Landscapes and Seascapes, Institute of the Arts, Geelong 1992; Fifth Annual Drawing Show, Splash Studios Warrnambool 1991; National Student Exhibition, Exhibition Building Melbourne 1991; Three Faces of Eve, Splash Studios Warrnambool 1991

Awards and Grants

Victorian Government Sustaining Creative Workers Grant administered through Regional Arts Victoria 2023; Business Initiative Grant, Warrnambool City Council 2020; Regional Arts Fund to coordinate Walk of Fame Mural and mentoring project for Aus Music Festival 2014; Research Travel Grant, New York, Deakin University 2001; Artist’s Residency and Guest Lecturer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England 2001; Arts Victoria International Cultural Exchange Program, 2000; Winner, Great Southland Art Prize, 2000; Winner, Environmental Art Award, Warrnambool Landcare Group, Warrnambool Art Gallery 2000; Artist in residence, Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale NSW 1999; Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Deakin University 1999; Acquired, Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Award 1998; Pat Corrigan Artist Grant 1998; Arts 21 New Research and Development Grant for the project Mediation 1997; Pat Corrigan Artist Grant1996; Selected Victorian representative, National Australia Day Council residency with Arthur Boyd, Bundanon and Riversdale properties 1995; Australian Postgraduate Research Award 1994; Deakin University Foundation Grant (group application), Deakin University 1994; Pat Corrigan Artist Grant 1993; Dean’s Award, Deakin University 1993; National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award 1992; Winner, Fifth Annual Drawing Award, Splash Studios Warrnambool 1992.

Collections

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Gippsland Art Gallery; Warrnambool Art Gallery; Artbank; Deakin University Art Collection; Bundanon Trust; Epworth Art Collection, South-West Regional Cancer Centre; Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria; Warrnambool Landcare Group. Included in private collections throughout Australia, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Publications/Bibliography

Art Almanac, ‘Profiles’ Feb 1998, p49; Art Almanac, ‘Profiles’, August 1996, p64; Australia Day, program, Australia Committee 1996; Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, exhibition catalogue, Gold Coast Art Gallery, 2007 p14; Greg, Simon, Hindsight-Gippsland Art Gallery History and Collections, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 2015, p327; Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, exhibition catalogue, Gold Coast Art Gallery 1996, p16; Hart, Melissa, ‘Greater Crater’ in Artnotes, Art Monthly, December 2007, p60; Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, exhibition catalogue, Grafton Regional Art Gallery 1996, p17; John Leslie Art Prize 2018, exhibition catalogue, Gippsland Art Gallery; Liza McCosh: Fusion 2009, exhibition catalogue, Deakin University Art Gallery; Locus Momentum, Warrnambool Art Gallery 1995; Makin, Jeff, ‘Critic’s Views’ Herald Sun, May 14 2007, p96; Makin, Jeff, ‘Choice Views’, Herald Sun, exhibition review, Oct 12 1998, p89; Manifold, Marion 2009, ‘Journey to the Centre of the Stoney Rises: Liza McCosh’s Volcanic Series’ in Liza McCosh: Fusion, exhibition catalogue, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood; McCosh, Liza 2016, Merge, exhibition catalogue, Liza McCosh, Warrnambool; McCosh, Liza 2015, The Art of Deanne Gilson in Deanne Gilson – Body of my Ancestors, exhibition catalogue, Ballarat Art Gallery; McCosh, Liza 2014, forward in exhibition catalogue in Trajectories, Deakin University; McCosh, Liza 2012, ‘The Sublime: Process and Mediation’, essay in Carnal Knowledge: Towards a New Materialism in the Arts, Barrett E and Bolt B (Des), Taurus, London and New York, pp. 127-138; McCosh, Liza 2004, The Sublime: Process and Mediation (PhD dissertation), Deakin University, Melbourne; McCosh, L. 1999, Liza McCosh: Warrnambool Artist and Painter (video recording), Deakin University, Warrnambool; McCosh, L. and Wallace, C., Mediation, exhibition catalogue, 1998; McCosh. L., ‘Snippets from Bundanon’ in Artpage, Warrnambool Art Gallery, No. 24, April 1996; McCosh, Liza 1996, The Interpretation of Nature as Spiritual Content in Painting (MA dissertation), Deakin University, Melbourne; Muir, Chris, ‘Aqueous’, Geelong Times, January 28, 2004, p28; Profiles – A Survey, Warrnambool Art Gallery, 1994; Stratford, Noela, ‘Exhibition Review’ in Bulletin, Women’s Art Register, No. 29, March 1999, pp. 4-5; Swan Hill Print nd Drawing Awards, exhibition catalogue, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, 2014; The Journey Within, exhibition catalogue, Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, 1998; Who’s Who of Australian Visual Arts, Thorpe in association with National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), 1995; Wilkins, John, Visual Art Connections Warrnambool Survey 2016, John Wilkins, Warrnambool