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Tracey Moffatt

Born in 1960, Brisbane, Australia.

Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia's most renowned contemporary artists. Working predominantly in photography, film and video, Moffatt is known as a powerful visual storyteller. The narrative is often implied and self-referential, exploring her own childhood memories and fantasies, and the broader issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity.

Tracey Moffatt represented Australia at the 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2017 with her solo exhibition MY HORIZON in the Australian Pavilion, curated by Natalie King. Moffatt has exhibited in numerous national and international art exhibitions and film festivals for three decades. In 2012, a retrospective programme of her films was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Moffatt first gained significant critical acclaim when her short film, Night Cries, was selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature film, beDevil, was also selected for Cannes in 1993.

Moffatt was selected for the international section of the 1997 Venice Biennale (curated by Germano Celant) and has also featured in the Biennales of Sydney, Sao Paulo (1998) and Gwangju (1995). She held a major exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 1997-98 and in 2003, a large retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney which also travelled to the Hasselblad Museum in Sweden. In 2007, her photographic series, Scarred For Life, was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum and her video, LOVE, at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The same year, she was awarded the prestigious Infinity Award for art photography, selected by an International panel at the International Center of Photography in New York.

Tracey Moffatt has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1998.

Photo of Tracey Moffatt: courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Tracey Moffatt, Self Portrait, 1999. Hand-coloured photograph 33.5 × 22cm. Edition of 10 + 2 A/Ps

Filmography

NICE COLOURED GIRLS »

NOW DIGITALLY REMASTERED! An early short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists...

HEAVEN »

Tracey Moffatt's film, Heaven, aims to provoke. Shot in the style of an amateur vacation movie, this video takes on one of the icons of Australian culture (which, in addition, belongs to a world that is almost exclusively male), the surfer...

NIGHT CRIES »

DIGITALLY REMASTERED! In basic narrative terms, NIGHT CRIES is a response to Charles Chauvel’s JEDDA (1955), about the fate of an Aboriginal baby adopted by a white mother in a remote outback station...

BEDEVIL »

NOW DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL FILM NEGATIVES! (available as DVD and DCP) "A DAZZLING TAPESTRY ... distinctly different ...