EDUCATION
Masters of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 ASSEMBLY, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Future Perfect Continuous, Anna Swartz Gallery, Melbourne
2021 In the Round, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburg Scotland Over the Air and Underground, Galerie Allen Paris A Hundred Years: Australian War Memorial Commission
2020 ASSEMBLY, Arnolfini Contemporary Art Centre, Bristol UK Mother Tongue, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
ASSEMBLY, National Gallery of Australia (upcoming)
2019 ASSEMBLY, Australian Pavilion: 58th International Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
Quand fair c’est dire, Palais de Tokyo Paris
2018 Relay League, Art Sonje Centre, Seoul
Citizens Band: University Art Gallery, Sewanne. University of the South. Tennessee
Proto Cinema: Relay League, Tiblisis Kunsthale, Tiblisis
2017 Mother Tongue: Aarhus 2017, European Capital of Culture commissioned project. Aarhus
Angelica Mesiti: Polyphonies. Basis Frankfurt
Angelica Mesiti; Five works. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Relay League, Artspace Sydney Commissioned project
Tossed by Waves, Anna Schwartz Melbourne
2015 An Ocean of Air, Galerie Allen Paris
Angelica Mesiti: The Calling, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre Canada
The Colour of Saying, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
The Colour of Saying, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo Sweden
Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band, Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen
2014 Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band, Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts USA
Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
The Calling, Ian Potter moving image commission, ACMI Melbourne
2012 Rapture (silent anthem) Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day, 24HR Art Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art
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
2022 Aller Contre le Vent, FRAC Bourgogne Franche-Comté Les échos d’un temps lointain arrivent en sifflant sur le sable, Poush, Aubervilliers La fabrique du nous #1, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
2021 The Musical Brain, Highline Art, New York Force of Listening, Art Maebashi, Japan The Blue Peal Of Bells, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Korea
2020 The Future of Silence, Nam June Paik Art Centre, South Korea Books at an Exhibition. An Exhibition in Ten Chapters, Busan Biennale, South Korea Antipodean Stories, PAC Milan
2019 Time Cubism, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea Atelier e Progretti, Museo d'arte contemporanea di Roma, MACRO Rome
2018 Here We Meet, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China and Kadist San Francisco (2019)
Moving Stones, Kadist Paris
Balance of Non-Sculpting, Changwon International Sculpture Biennale, Korea
Dark MoFo Festival, Hobart Australia
Do Disturb Festival, Palais de Tokyo Paris
Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art: Divided Worlds , Samstag Museum, Adelaide
2017 Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art and Everything, QAGOMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Triple Point of Matter, Fiminco Foundation Paris
Rock the Kasbah, Istitute for Islamic Culture, Paris
Moving Histories: Future Projections, dLux, Touring show Australia
The Score, Ian Potter Museum Melbourne
Playlist, Ange Leccia Art Center, Oletta Corsica
2016 Chantiers d’Europe: Utopie 500, Palais de Tokyo Paris
Telling Tales, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Hacking Habitat. Art of Control, Old Prison, Wolvenhoekplein, Utrecht
Static and Silence. The Lock-up Newcastle Australia
2015 Station to Station: Project by Doug Aitken, Barbican Gallery London
Tu dois changer ta vie! Lille 3000: Rennaissance, Le TriPostal Lille
24 Frames Per Second, Carriageworks Sydney
Light Moves: Festival of Screendance, Limerick Ireland
Spirit Your Mind: A Chalet Society Project, ArtBasel Miami off-site, Miami Beach, Florida
Cosmic Love Wanderlust: The Imperial Slacks Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney College of the Arts gallery
People Like Us, UNSW Galleries Sydney
Dead Ringer, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
2014 The Immigration Songs: Angelica Mesiti and Malik Nejmi, MAXXI Rome
Open Museum/Open City, MAXXI Rome
Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video, The Jewish Museum New York
No Sound is Innocent, Marabouparken konsthall, Stockholm Sweden
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney
The Australian Club, Melbourne
Transcendence: Nell, Angelica Mesiti, Aura Satz, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
IMPACT, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2013 Everyday Magic, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Turns – Possibilities of Performance, Galerie Allen, Paris
Mom, am I Barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Seven Points (part two), Embassy of Australia, United States of America, Washington DC
Buyuhyn-wana: The transformative persona, Lismore Regional Gallery, Australia
Awakening Where are We Standing? Earth, Memory and Resurrection, Aichi Triennial, Nagoya
If you were to live here… The 5th Auckland Triennial, New Zealand
Guirguis New Art Prize 2013, University of Ballarat Post Office Gallery, Art Gallery Ballarat
Rendez-vous 13, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes Lyon France
Sharjah Biennale 11, United Arab Emirates. Curated by Yuko Hasegawa
We Used to Talk About Love, Balnaves Contemporary Art Gallery of NSW
The space between us: Anna Landa Award for video and new media 2013, Art Gallery of NSW
Seven Points (part one), Embassy of Australia Gallery, Washington DC, USA
2012 Kochi-Mizuris Biennale, Kerala India
Montevideo Biennial: El Gran Sur, Uruguay curated by Alfons Hug
TarraWarra Biennial: Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Museum of Art, curated by Victoria Lynn
NEW12, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Volume One: MCA Collection (permanent display), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2011 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas, Sao Paulo
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 & COMMISSIONS
2019 Teaching position : currently Chef d’Atelier, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2019 Australian Pavilion 58th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2018/21 WW1 Centennary Artists commissions, Australian War Memorial
2016 Aarhus 2017 Denmark. New work commission
Nominee for Le Prix Meurice Paris
Artspace 2017. New work commission
2015 Australia Council for the Arts, New work grant
2013 Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts
The Ian Potter Moving Image Commission
2011 AFTRS Creative Fellowship Award
Arts NSW Quick Response Project Funding
2010 Sydney Underground Film Festival (Jury Award)
2009 58th Blake Prize for Religious and Spiritual Art
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
MONOGRAPHS
Angelica Mesiti / In the round - Edited by Tessa Giblin, Melissa MacRobert. Published by Talbot Rice Gallery Editions in partnership with Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-83812325-3, 2022
Angelica Mesiti ASSEMBLY - Commissioning editor Juliana Engberg. Published by The Australia Council for the Australian Pavilion 58th Venice Biennale. ISBN 978-86257-001-6, 2019
Angelica Mesiti ‘Quand faire c’est dire’ Palais de Tokyo - Published by Les presses du réel. ISBN 978-2-37896-084-1, 2019
A Communion of Stranger Gestures - Edited by Alexie Glass-Kantor and Talia Linz. Published by Schwartz City and Artspace. ISBN 9781760640149, 2017
Angelica Mesiti: The Calling. Ian Potter Moving Image Commission - Published by The Australian Centre for the Moving Image. ISBN 9781920805197, 2016
SELECTED PRESS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Dee Jeferson, “Australian pavilion at Venice Biennale will house poetic of pluralist, democratic society”, ABC News, March 2019
Celine Garcia-Carré, “Portrait”, L’Oeil, May 2019 Jean-Marie Wynants, “Angelica Mesiti, au-delà des mots”, Le Soir, April 2019
Maxime Der Nahabédian, “Angelica Mesiti, Quand faire c’est dire”, Say Who, February 2019
Guillaume Benoit, “Angelica Mesiti - Palais de Tokyo”, Slash, March 2019
Linda Morris, “Visual artist Angelica Mesiti puts unity into art for her Venice debut”, The Age, March 2019
Andrew Bock, “Angelica Mesiti finds poetry in motion pictures for Venice Biennale”, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 2019
Diane Nazaroff “UNSW alumna’s Venice Biennale entry examines the collective power of « the people »”, UNSW Sydney Newsroom, 2019
Judah Hettie, “Meet the women taking center stage at the Venice Biennale in 2019”, Vogue Australia, May 2019
“Quand faire c’est dire”, Parisart, March 2019
Roxana Azimi, “La Biennale de Venise, un accélérateur de côte pour les artistes”, Le Monde, May 2019
2018 Alexie Glass-Kantor and Haeju Kim, “Angelica Mesiti in Conversation”, Ocula, February, 1st, 2018
Coly Delistraty, “Emerging artists to watch this year”, Modern Painter Magazine, Jan-Feb 2018
Tom Jeffreys, “How we speak”, Frieze #192, Jan-Feb 2018
2017 Claudia Arozqueta, “Angelica Mesiti: ArtSpace, Sydney”, Critic’s Pick in Artforum, June 2017
Craig Judd, “Review- Angelica Mesiti: Relay League”, Artlink, June, 22, 2017
Christopher Allen, “Angelica Mesiti: message received at Anna Schwartz and Artspace galleries”, The Australian, June, 17, 2017
Steve Dow, “Angelica Mesiti communicates via multiple sense in Relay League”, Art Guide Australia, May, 18, 2017
Emerald Dunn Frost, “Hand-Drawn Review: Relay League at ArtSpace”, FBI Radio, May, 16, 2017
Katya Wachtel, “Angelica Mesiti in Paris”, Vault Australasian Art & Culture, May 2017
Lauren Carroll Harris, “Angelica Mesiti recodes video art”, Real Time Arts #138, April - May 2017
Emmanuelle Jardonnet, “Nos cinq choix culturels pour le week-end”, Le Monde, March, 17, 2017
2016 “Six artistes sélectionnés pour le Prix Meurice”, Le Quotidien de L’Art #1093 p.7, June 24, 2016
2015 Toni Ross, “Angelica Mesiti Anna Schwartz Gallery Sydney”, Artforum September 2015, vol. 54, no.1, pg 405
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, “Angelica Mesiti: the artist who records a choir in song without a single sound” The Guardian, Friday 8 May 2015. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/08/angelica-mesiti-artist-interview-sydney
Maryse Morin, “Notes on the Melody of Things” essay for the solo exhibition An Ocean of Air, Galerie Allen Paris. September 2015
Nicholas Forrest, "Why Angelica Mesiti’s Colour of Saying Will Stop You Dead", BlouinArtinfo 19th May, 2015
Andrew Taylor “Angelica Mesiti explores silence in new video work at Anna Schwartz Gallery” The Sydney Morning Herald, April 14th 2015
Laura Bannister, “Cinema, Sincerity and Angelica Mesiti”, MUSEUM, Issue 3 2015, pp 40-43
Christopher Allen, REVIEW: Carriageworks, Sydney: 24 Frames per Second, The Australian Newspaper, July 4th 2015
Maryse Morin, "Angelica Mesiti, Citizens Band...Le sens de ce qui circule entre nous," ETC Media, Revue D'Arts Mediatiques. pp.62-63, 15 Février-15 Juin 2015
2014 Christopher Allen, “Lend Angelica Mesiti your ears”, The Australian, 17th May 2014, pp.10-11.
Robert Nelson, “Calling attention to ancient languages: The Calling by Angelica Mesiti”, The Age, 12 February 2014 . http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/angelica-mesiti-hearkens-to-whistling-language-in-the-calling-at-acmi-20140211-32fv0.html
2013 Columbus, Nicki (Ed), Re:Emerge, Towards a new cultural cartography, Sharjah Biennial 11 exhibition catalogue, (Sharjah: Sharjah Art Foundation, 2013)
Jacqueline Millner, “<<The more global one is, the more local one desires to become>> Angelica Mesiti: Being World”, Contemporary Art + Culture Broadsheet, Issue 42.2, 2013, pp.104-107
Dan Rule, ‘Fragments of Cinema Angelica Mesiti’s Poetic Video Works Embrace and Subvert the Cinematic Device’ Vault, Issue 3, April
Rosa Gubay, ‘Art R&R: The 5th Auckland Triennial’, Gather & Hunter
Nicholas Forrest, ‘Is Angelica Mesiti Australia’s Most Popular Contemporary Artist?’, Blouin ArtInfo, April 10
Audrey Hoffer, ‘Australian Embassy Aims to Dispel Down Under Cliches’, The Washington Diplomat, April 1
Christopher Allen, ‘Wide of the Heart’, The Weekend Australian Review, February 23
Hou Hanru, Christina Barton, Pascal Beausse, Felicity Fenner (et al), If you were to live here…The 5th Auckland Triennial, ex cat., Auckland Art Gallery, 2013
Jacqueline Millner ‘Angelica Mesiti’, 5th Auckland Triennial: If you were to live here…catalogue essay, pg,126,127,
Michael Fitzgerald, “Angelica Mesiti: Prepared Piano for Movers (Haussmann), Photofile, Vol 93, Spring/Summer, 2013-14, pp. 40-47
Juliana Engberg, ‘It’s a long way to the top’ Art & Australia, Vol. 50/4 2013 pg.620-627
Jacqueline Millner, “Angelica Mesiti”, Rendez-vous 13, ex. cat., Institut d’art contemporian, Villeurbanne, 2013
Robyn Davidson, ‘Citizens Band’ The Space Between Us: The Anne Landa award for video and new media art 2013, Art Gallery of NSW. Catalogue essay e-publication
Jamal Mecklai, ‘Joy and hope in Cochin’ The Business Standard, April 30, 2013 http://www.businessstandard.com/article/opinion/joy-and-hope-in-kochi-113040400532_1.html Joel Mu, ‘Angelica Mesiti’ We used to talk about love, Balnaves contemporary: photomedia. Art Gallery of NSW catalogue essay pg58-65. Published by The Art Gallery of NSW 2013
Robyn Davidson, “Citizens Band”, Exhibition catalogue essay. The Space Between Us; Anne Landa Award for New Media Art, Art Gallery of NSW, 2012.
2012 Juliana Engberg ‘Rapture and Rupture: Angelica Mesiti’s Citizens Band’, NEW12 Catalogue essay, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Hayley Haynes, ‘Angelica Mesiti’s Citizens Band at NEW12, ACCA’, Das Platform, 15 May,
http://www.dasplatforms.com/das_five_cent/angelica-mesiti’s-citizens-band-at-new12-acca/
Brook Turner, ‘New Artists Get into the Swim’, The Financial Review, 5-9 April, pp 70
Andrew Stevens, ‘Bold new strokes’, The Age, 17 March
Dan Rule, ‘Immersive Sensory and Spatial Environments at NEW12’, Broadsheet, Melbourne, 22 March
Minu Ittyipe, ‘Portraits From the Kochi Biennale: Video Artist Angelica Mesiti’, NYTimes.com Dec 17 2012
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/portraits-from-the-kochi-biennale-video-artist-angelica-mesiti/
Roxana Azimi, ‘Une Biennale de sharjah tout en musicalité’ Le Quotidien De L’Art, Numéro 344/22 Mars 2013. Pg 6
Victoria Lynne, ‘Sensing Sound’ Sonic Spheres: TarraWarra Biennial 2012, TarraWarra Museum of Art. Pg4-9. Published by Tarrawarra Museum of Art 2012
Andrew Frost ‘50 things collectors need to know: Angelica Mesiti’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 59 jan-Mar 2012. Pg 114
2011 Rachel Kent, Abigail Moncrief ‘Angelica Mesiti: The Begin-Again’, published by C3West and The MCA Sydney, 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
2001 Tanya Peterson, 'Serial 7’s,' Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts #47, summer 2001-2002