Professor Bernard Hoffert

Position title

• Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
• Associate Dean, External Affairs

Qualifications

• Diploma of Art in Painting Preston Institute of Technology
• Honours degree of Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy La Trobe University

Statement

Paintings, installations and presentations have been in major international art events, including the Second Asian Art Symposium, New Delhi, India; the Fourth Asia and Pacific Art Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan; Seoul 600, Korea; international surveys in the Museums of Modern Art in Korea and Mexico; and adjunct exhibitions to the Venice and Sao Paolo Biennales.  

He is the author of four books, more than sixty catalogue essays and articles on art and art education, and more than 400 art reviews.  

He served as World President of the International Association of Art, UNESCO from 1992 to 1995 (the Association is the non-government organization of UNESCO which represents art and artists).  

He is also the Honorary President of the International Association of Art, UNESCO, and Honorary President of the Asia-Pacific Regional Council of the International Association of Art, UNESCO.  

Recent/Professional activities

Selected Articles

• The End Justifies the Means. Speculation and Innovation Conference
  QUT, 2005.
• Designing the Past. Design Education: Tradition and Modernity Conference
  India, 2005.
• Measuring the Abstract
  UNESCO Arts Education website, 2005.
• Thinking for Innovation
  National Gallery of Victoria Art Education website, 2004.
• Issues in Design: Education for a Globalised World Order
  Design Plus, NID, India 2003.
• Past to Present: Work by Kim Martin
  Ceramics Art & Perception, Issue No 41. 2000.

Books

• Aesthetics & Art Criticism: The role of emotions in art
  Longman, Australia 1997
• Art in Diversity
  Longman Australia, July 1995 New Edition (6 additional chapters)
• Art Notes
  Longman Cheshire, 1993
• Bruno Leti: Works on Paper 1972-1992
  Dale Rock, 1992

Selected Catalogue Essays

• Aloma Triester: The Art of Memory
  The Great Neck Arts Centre, New York, 2005.
• Refluxus: Art Without Individuality
  Melbourne 2005.
• Maurizio Bottarelli: Passagio Australiano
  Pendragon, Bologna, 2002.
• The Art of Cultural Memory
  Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, 2002.

Selected Exhibitions

• Second Asian-Pacific Art Exhibition, New Dehli 1999 - (invitation to participate under the patronage of the President of India).
• Common Space II - Installation in Pezinok, Slovak Republic, 1997. (Invited to represent Australia in a 52 nation event organized as an adjunct exhibition for the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta which coincided in 1997)
• Latin American and Pacific Art Exhibition SINAPESP Gallery, Sao Paolo, 1994 - Painting (invited to participate in an adjunct exhibition to the Sao Paolo Biennale; opened by the Biennale Director).
• Fourth Asia and Pacific Art exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan 1994.

Papers

• EDNOVATION:Educating for Innovation Through the Arts
  UNESCO World Summit on Arts Education,
  Lisbon,2006.
• Combating Terror:Security Through Art Education
  UNESCO World Summit on Arts Education,
  Lisbon,2006.
• Creation and Definition:Creativity,Research and Innovation
  INSEA World Art Education Congress,
  Viseu, 2006.
• Combating Terror: Security Through Art
  INSEA World Art Education Congress,
  Viseu, 2006.
• Educating for Innovation:Is Creativity Necessary?
  Backing Our Creativity,
  Australia Council Conference,
  Melbourne,2005.
• Designing for Terror:Building Security Through Culture
  Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools National
  Conference,
  Perth,2005.