Masters of Fine Art candidate, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, College of Fine Arts, UNSW

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 The Begin-Again, C3West Project commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and Hurstville City Council
2010 Rapture (silent anthem), Centre for Contemporary Photography (projection window), Melbourne
Natural History, Gallery 9, Sydney
Heritage Park, Heritage Week Film Commission, Campbelltown Arts Centre 
2009 The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day, Dubbo Regional Gallery
2008 The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2003 The Rockets Red Glare, Mori Gallery, Sydney
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas competitive exhibition, Sao Paulo (sept)
London Australia Film Festival (Artists Film program) The Barbican London 
Videonale 13: Festival for Contemporary Video Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn 
South by Southeast; Recent Video from Australia and New Zealand, 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Selectively Revealed, Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Seoul Korea 
2010 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou Paris, Auditorium of the Ministerio de Cultura Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
 No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern London
 Move on Asia, Loop Gallery Seoul Korea, LABoral, Gijon in Spain
 Experimenta Utopia Now; Biennale of Media Art, Federation Square Melbourne, Carriageworks Sydney, Museum of Old and New Art Tasmania
 Nightshifters; Liveworks Festival, Performance Space Carriageworks Sydney 
 Hardbodies, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre 
 Time and Space, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre 
2009 58th Blake Prize (winner), NAS Gallery, Sydney 
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship: Finalist Exhibition, Artspace Sydney
VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona Spain
Souvenirs from Earth, TV Channel for Contemporary Art, Germany and France
Les Recontres International Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Reina Sofia National Museum Madrid
Loop 09, Video Art festival Barcelona
Event; New Moving Image Works, Artspace Sydney
Australia? Mildura Arts Centre,
dTour/08 –09, d.Lux media Arts Regional touring exhibition
2008 Les Recontres International, Paris, Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Paris
National Film and Sound Archive’s Big Screen 08. Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Loop 08, Barcelona. Video Art festival
Face to Face, Australian regional touring exhibition
2007 Five x Five, Ivan Dogherty Gallery, Sydney
2006 Game On, Next Wave Festival, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne
Play: Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and New Zealand, Adam Art Gallery New Zealand and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
2005 O.K Video Festival, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta
2004 Video Spell 4: Cartographies, The Performance Space, Sydney
Work Rest Play (Escape), Imperial Slacks Collective, Artspace Sydney
720 x 576 Ate, Phatspace Sydney
2003 Sidney Kahn Summer Institute, The Kitchen, New York
2002 Desk Job, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Video, Film, Sound, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
Broken Hotel, Tour dLux, Broken Hill, NSW
Projekt Issue 2, Kings ARI Melbourne
Positive Overkill, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Surry Hills

PRIZES/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES

2011 Recipient of the AFTRS Creative Fellowship Award
Arts NSW Quick Response Project Funding
2010 Fishers Ghost Art Award (Finalist)
Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award (Finalist)
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Jury Award)
2009 58th Blake Prize for Religious and Spiritual Art (Winner)
Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship (Finalist)
Australia Council for the Arts, new work grant 
Cité International des Arts residency (University of New South Wales studio)
Ian Potter Foundation Travel Grant
2008 Nava Marketing Scheme Grant
2007-09 University Post Graduate Scholarship, UNSW
2002 RUN_WAY Young and Emerging Artists Initiative, Australia Council

CURATED PROJECTS
2004 d>art04, Guest curator with Brendan Lee, emerging Australian artist category
2002 Serial 7’s, Vol.1&2, Video Publication, Imperial Slacks Gallery

REVIEWS
2011
Daniel Mudie Cunningham, ‘The Begin-Again’, Runway, Issue 19: Life, Winter 2011, pp.
 Jacqueline Millner, ‘Decentralising Cultural Capital’, Broadsheet, Vol. 40 No. 2, June 2011, p. 141
 Virginia Baxter, ‘Re-inventing the city: Hurstville, Singapore, Blacktown, Manila’, RealTime, Volume 103, June-July 2011, pp. 2-3
 Annalice Creighton, ‘Angelica Mesiti: The Begin-Again’, DAS 500, accessed 12 May, 2011, <http://www.rococoproductions.com/500/500_047.html>
 Steve Meacham, ‘From drag king to Dragon town via Paris’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March, 2011
2010 Angela Bennetts, 'Natural History', Runway, Issue 16: Disappearance, 2010, p.70-74
2009 Ashleigh Wilson, ‘For winner Angelica Mesiti, the Blake Prize rocks’, The Australian, 4 September, 2009
 Adam Fulton, ‘How videos killed the painting stars at the Blake Prize’, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September, 2009
2006 Aaron Kreisler, 'Faraway So Close,' Listener New Zealand, Jan 14th, p49
2002 Tanya Peterson, 'Serial 7’s,' Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts #47, summer 2001-2002

FORUMS/SYMPOSIUMS
2004 Biennale of Sydney, Symposium, 'The Video Condition of Art', Performance Space
2003 Primavera Artists talks, Museum of Contemporary Art
2002 Public art discussion series,'Video Art: The Next Wave', Museum of Contemporary Art

TEACHING POSITIONS
2000-2007 Part-time lecturer, School of Media Arts, College Of Fine Arts, UNSW
2000-2005 Editing tutor, Metro Screen, Sydney
2005-2006 Editing tutor, Australian Film Television and Radio School
2004 Part-time lecturer, School of Fine Arts, UWS

COLLABORATION
The Kingpins
with Técha Noble, Emma Price and Katie Price. Formed 2000, based in Sydney
Represented by Neon Park Melbourne

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2008 Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Playback, ARC/Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Ile Phenomenale Estuaire, Nantes, France
16th VideoBrazil, Panoramas of the Imagination curated by David Cranswick
2006 The Great Undead, Nuit Blanche, Paris. Curated by Nicholas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans
Liverpool Biennial, Polished T, Liverpool, UK. Curated by Man Ray Hsu
Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Curated by Nicholas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans
High Tide, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania and Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2004 Taipei Biennial: Do you Believe in Reality?, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Gwangju Biennale: Grain of Dust, Drop of Water, Gwangju, South Korea
2003 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
New York Calling, PS1 Contemporary Art Space, Queens, New York
2002 13th Biennale of Sydney, The World May Be (Fantastic), Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney