Jamin’s work challenges cultural myths, exploring slippages between identity, media, politics and popular culture through combining elements of street and protest culture with absurdity and ambivalence, creating wild pastiches of contemporary experience.

Jamin (Benjamin Kluss, b. 1976, Sydney) lives and works in Hobart. He has held six solo exhibitions, the most recent at Criterion Gallery being 2008’s Inertia Force Change Inertia. He has been involved in exhibitions across Australia, most notably his inclusion in Optimism: Contemporary Australia at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, in 2008. He has been the recipient of residencies and commissions, including the Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency (Paris) for 2011, the Devonport Regional Gallery Solo Commission in 2007 and Art for Public Building Scheme in 2005. Jamin’s works are held in a number of private and public collections including the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and The University of Tasmania. Jamin is a founding member of Die Laughing Collective (2004), a group prominent in the Australian street art movement.

An active member of Hobart’s arts community, Jamin is currently a member of the Board of CAST (2008), was a member and Chair of INFLIGHT Artist Run Initiative (2005-2009) and a founding partner of Red Wall Gallery (2006-2008). He is actively involved in numerous workshops with youth, school and community groups.

In 2008 Jamin was awarded an MFA from the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, and since 2006 has tutored and lectured there, in Visual Communication, Core Studies and Painting.
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