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EDUCATION

PhD (Visual Art), the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, 2024

Master of Fine Arts by Research (Visual Art), University of Melbourne, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, 2017

Graduate Diploma of Art (English Literature), The University of Auckland 2009.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, Elam School of Fine Arts, 2008

2022, 2023, 2024           
Mentor, Signal Screen and Sound Commissions, City of Melbourne

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CONFERENCES 

Berndt, C. Resurrecting Frankenstein’s Cyborg, conference paper for Frankenstein: Two Hundred Years of Monsters, 12-15 September 2018, (Presented by the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics and the Humanities Research Centre, in conjunction with the National Film and Sound Archive, supported by the
ANU Gender Institute.), Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia


PUBLICATIONS

Berndt, C. [@] un Magazine 17.2, ed Sayed B, Weston G, p 74, 2023

Berndt, C. ‘Not Born Digital: Exploring the Poetics of Data Storage and Mediation in Art Practice’, in Small Data is Beautiful, p 301-309
Ed by Fensham R, Summer T D et al, Grattan Street Press, 2023

Berndt, C. Tina Douglas: Hypha-e, 2023. Exhibition essay for Tina Douglas, Hypha-e, Five Walls, 2023

Berndt, C. Tender Acts of Transference: A Review of Ivetta Sunyoung Kang’s Tenderhands Project, 2022.

Berndt, C. Zoextropy The Posthuman Beauty, Un extended reviews, Un Projects, 2019. 

Berndt, C. Tender Acts of Transference: A Review of Ivetta Sunyoung Kang’s Tenderhands Project, 2022. Translated into Korean, Leftie Press, 2024

Berndt, C. Your Body in Red Ruptures the Loop, exhibition text for Tess Landell, 2018. Berndt, C.

A New Kind of Utopia, Island Island, Bus Projects, 2019 (digital poetry)

Berndt, C. Streaming Data is the Ultimate Trust Exercise with the Moon, Vibe. Southbank Arts Review, 2019, p 11-14

ONLINE ARTWORK

Berndt, C. Heartbeat, A network of Gestures, online work shown through George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne. Curated by Mary-Louise Carbone, 2020

Berndt, C. A new kind of utopia, Island is land, Bus Projects, 2019
https://island-is.land/texts/a-new-kind-of-utopia

Berndt C, This container is empty, Runway Experimental Arts Journal, 2018


PODCASTS

Berndt, C., Trail G. Radical Imagination in Art Practice, Podcast episode, interview with artists Caroline Garcia, Eugenia Lim and curator Adam Porter, published as part of the University of Melbourne Graduate Academy Podcast Series, February 2021, Melbourne, Australia

Berndt,C. with Caoife Power, Out of Bounds, Bus Projects Podcast Series, forthcoming, November / December 2020, Melbourne, Australia

Berndt, C.with Siying Zhou, In conversation with the artists and curator of 'Across the Haze' exhibition, June 2020, Three Bellybuttons Podcast, Melbourne, Australia

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Luminous Devices, Mars Gallery, 2024

Carrier Bags of Fiction, Hair Ari, 2024

DataCosmics, Fiona & Sidney Myer Gallery, 2023, Melbourne, Australia

All my Chameleon Signals, Bus Projects, 2022, Melbourne, Australia

Not Born Digital, Verge Gallery, 2021, Sydney, Australia

Travel Plans, Sawtooth Ari, 2021, Launceston, Australia

Streaming Data is the Ultimate Trust Exercise with the Moon, 27 - 31 August 2019, SomoS Arts House, Berlin, Germany

Moving Pixels with the Speed of Light, 2 November 2018 – 25 January 2019, Richmond Library, City of Yarra Exhibition Program, Richmond, VIC, Australia

Collision Level, 7-23 June 2018, Felt Space, Adelaide, Australia

Invisible Vision & Superimposed Rhubarb, 30 September – 21 October,

2017, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, Australia

To Move in Non-Linear Dimensions, 6 – 23 April 2016, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Australia

Activities for Small Hours, October 2015, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia

Assembling Physical Body, 19 June – 06 July 2013, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia

Systems to Pointing, 19 June – 06 July 2010, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Collingwood, Australia




COLLABORATIONS


Corinna Berndt with Mark Friedlander
In-house / In-kind, TCB, forthcoming, September 2024

Invited by Yvetta Sunyoung Kang as collaborator for their Proposition 3: String Figure project, as part of Kang’s AGO x RBC residency at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, 2022

Corinna Berndt with Kellie Wells and Youjia Lu, Travelling the Alpha Layer, 16 March – 15 April 2018, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Australia

Corinna Berndt with Kellie Wells and Youjia Lu, Travelling through Alpha Space, 16 – 24 March 2016, George Paton Gallery, Parkville, Australia

Corinna Berndt with Michael Ciavarella, Operation Margarine, 27 July – 18 August 2012, West Space, Melbourne, Australia





SELECTED GROUP SHOWS


Topographic Resolutions II, (curated by Kyle Weise and Simone Hine), 15
– 30 November 2019, Kuiper Projects, Brisbane, Australia

Incinerator Award for Social Change, 12 October – 1 December 2019,

Incinerator Gallery, Monee Ponds, VIC, Australia

Our Selves, (curated by Frances Fleetwood), October 5 – November 4

2017, Ctrl+Shft Collective, Oakland, California, USA

Elapse, (part of the 2017 Hobiennale, (curated by Jeremy Eaton, Will

Heathcote and Katie Ryan, Tara O’Conal,), December 2017, Rosney Schoolhouse Gallery, Hobart, Australia

MCA ARTBAR, (curated by Julia Gorman), 26 May 2017,

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia

Melbourne Central Art Loop 2, (curated by Mars Gallery), 6 November

2016 - & February 2016, Melbourne Central, Melbourne, Australia

It’s that sometimes you move too loud, Edmund Pearce Gallery, (curated by Sharon Flynn), 15 January – 1 February 2014. Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, Australia


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Berndt, C, Across the Haze, Trocadero Art Space, March 2020, Footscray, Australia with Cynthia Arrieu-King (USA), Shraddha Borawake (India), Dongyan Chen (Singapore / China), Rochyne Delaney McNulty (England), Sophie Morrow (Australia), Ivetta Sunyoung Kang (Canada / South Korea), Marcia Vaitsman (Brazil).

Berndt, C, Across Pieces of Sky, June 2021, Trocadero Art Space, March 2020, Footscray, Australia with Shraddha Borawake (India), Dongyan Chen (Singapore / China), Rochyne Delaney McNulty (England), Sophie Morrow (Australia), Ivetta Sunyoung Kang (Canada / South Korea), Marcia Vaitsman (Brazil).

Berndt, C, Despite of Flatness, Groupshow showcasing the work of students from the Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Certificate, produced during the COVID19 lockdown period, Sandbox Studios, Brunswick, February 2021.


AWARDS / GRANTS

2021    University of Melbourne, Faculty Completion Scholarship

2020    University of Melbourne, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music Academic Assistantship Program

2019    Graduate Research Scholarship recipient

2019    Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney Union, Exhibitor Grant Link Tree,
            Verge Gallery, Sydney, 2020

2019    Faculty Graduate Research Grant: Berlin research residency

2019    Islands islands publication content commission, Bus projects

2018/19  The University of Melbourne Venice Biennale Internship

2018    Runway Journal, Australian Experimental Arts content commission

2018    City of Yarra, Arts Grant, Moving Pixels with the Speed of Light

2018    City of Yarra, Small Grant Scheme, Collision Level, St Heliers Gallery, 2018

2017    Felt Space Philanthropic Grant, Collision Level, Felt Space, 

2016    Fiona Myer Award for Excellence, MFA Graduate Exhibition 

2016    VCA & MCM Faculty Small Grant, MFA Graduate Exhibition 

2016    Faculty Graduate Student Assistance Grant, VCA

2015    UMSU Creative Arts Grant – University of Melbourne, Travelling the Alpha Layer

2015    Faculty Graduate Student Assistance Grant, VCA

2006    The University of Auckland Kate Edger Millennium Award for Academic Excellence, Visual Art



BIBLIOGRAPHY

Nelson, Robert, ‘New perspectives emerge in feminist artworks at Midsumma Festival’ The Age, January 22, 2014. Page 18

Nelson, Robert, Good Gourd: works get to the heart of matter, The Age, April 13, 2016. Page 40- 41

Pitt, Anatol, ‘What does it mean to haunt your own self-portrait?’ Exhibition Catalogue: Elapse. Published by Kings Ari, Melbourne 2017.P3
︎http://www.kingsartistrun.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Elapse_Exhibition_-Catalogue.pdf

Russo Madelaine, ‘Moving and Still Targets,
Exhibition Catalogue: Elapse. Published by Kings Ari, Melbourne 2017. p4
︎http://www.kingsartistrun.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Elapse_Exhibition_-Catalogue.pdf


COLLECTIONS

Artbank, Melbourne; private collections




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