CURRICULUM VITAE

Founder & Curator of OLIVIA POLONI PROJECTS | Founder & Curator INTERVAL INTERVAL

CURATING

2023 Weather/Whether, Wyndham Art Gallery (Co-Curator with megan evans)
2022 UNIFORM, Wyndham Art Gallery (Co-Curator with megan evans)
Fertile Ground, Horsham Regional Gallery (Co-Curator with Sarah Bond)
2021 Ruth Maddison, It was the best of times it was the worst of times, Centre for Contemporary Photography (Co-Curator with Adam Harding and Shae Nagorka)
The Image Collective, Blindside
Fertile Ground, Center for Contemporary Photography (Co-Curator with Sarah Bond)
Raining Embers, 2021 Ballarat International Foto Bienalle
2020 In Her Words, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
In Her Words, Logan Art Gallery QLD
In Her Words, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery Online Presentation
2019 In Her Words, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
In Her Words, Deakin University Art Gallery
In Her Words, Wangaratta Art Gallery
2018 One on One, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2017 Victorian Craft Awards, Craft Victoria
Memento, Craft Victoria
Fresh!, Craft Victoria
2016 Luminous Reals, Craft Victoria
Ceremonial, Craft Victoria
2014 Episodes: Australian Photography Now, Dong Gang International Photography Festival (Assistant Curator)
2011 Trust Me, Galerie DeSaga Cologne Germany
2010 Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, Nellie Castan Gallery
2008 Elsewhere, Nellie Castan Gallery
2005 Side Stitch, Blindside
2005 Pleasures and Terrors - The City, Blindside

ROLES
2021 - Current Visual Arts Curator at Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council) & Expert Examiner for the Australian Government’s Office for the Arts under the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986
2019-2023 Public Art Curator at T Projects
2017-2019 Arts Commissions Project Manager (Art Commissions) at Asialink Arts Global Project Space
2016-2017 Curator at Craft Victoria
2016 Studio Manager at Sally Smart Studios
2015-2016 Communications Consultant at Sally Smart & Entang Wiharso's two person exhibition at the National Gallery of Indonesia
2015 Co-Director at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Assistant Curator at 13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Korea
2013 -2013 Project Manager at Asialink Residency Laboratory, Fukutake Asia Art Platform at the Setouchi Triennale, Japan
2012 Studio Manager at Polixeni Papapetrou Studios
2011-2012 Curatorial Consultant at Galerie Desaga, Cologne, Germany (www.galerie-desaga.de)
2005-2010 Gallery Manager at Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, Australia (www.nelliecastangallery.com)
2003-2005 Gallery Assistant Australian Galleries, Works on Paper Gallery (www.australiangalleries.com.au)

AWARDS/GRANTS'/COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
2021 Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Development Grant
2020 City of Melbourne Arts COVID19 Grant
Creative Victoria Grant
Australia Council Grant, Creative Development
2019 City of Melbourne Arts Grant
2018 National Exhibition Touring Scheme Grant
2017 City of Moreland Art Advisory Board
2017 Melbourne Women in Film Festival
2006-2007 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Express Media Emerging Writers Program
2006-07 Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2005 Allan’s Walk ARI Bendigo, Victoria

EDUCATION
2005 Masters of Art Curatorship The University of Melbourne
2003 Honours Degree of Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Monash University, Clayton, Australia
2002 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Culture) Monash University, Clayton, Australia
2001 Art History Summer School, University of Cambridge, England