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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