Katie Paine is a Naarm-based artist and writer. Her practice spans installation, video, narrative fiction, drawing, photography and occasionally performance. Her practice concerns itself with the ways that we encounter and understand the world through the collection of information and the construction of knowledge. She is interested in the fallacies of institutionalised knowledge and the spectral and poetic spaces that open up during instances of miscommunication, failure and misunderstanding. Recent work has explored such ideas across the fields of semiotics, hauntology, archival politics, magical realism and science fiction.

She recently completed her MFA at the University of Melbourne, for which she was awarded a Graduate Research Scholarship, the Peter Redlich Memorial Art Prize and a Cranbourne Scholarship. She has exhibited at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Burnie Regional Gallery, Composite Moving Image, Lon Gallery, F.S. Meyer Gallery, CAVES, TCB, ACMI, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Kings ARI, La Trobe Art Institute, Blindside, George Paton Gallery, VOID Gallery, Irene Rose, SEVENTH Gallery and Bus Projects. In 2024 she has upcoming exhibitions at Metro Arts (Meanjin), TCB and Bundoora Homestead. She writes for publications such as Performance Review, Vault Magazine, Art + Australia, un Magazine, Running Dog, Runway Journal and Art Almanac alongside a variety of art galleries.

Paine has a long-held interest in the artist-run sector, working from 2016-2020 as Gallery Manager at c3 Contemporary Art Space and is currently a committee member at KINGS Artist-Run Initiative.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Contact: katielouisepaine@gmail.com

Education:

2020-2022: Masters of Fine Art (By Research)- Victorian College of the Arts

2011-2013: RMIT University- Bachelor of Fine Art. (With Distinction)

Solo/Collaborative Exhibitions:

August 2024: Channels, TCB

March 2024: Windows, Metro Arts (Meanjin)

April 2023: On The Myopic Gaze of a Surrogate Eye, Composite Moving Image

November 2022: Masters Graduate Exhibition, Fiona Sydney Meyer Gallery

October 2022: Phantom Interlocutors, Blindside Gallery

March 2022: A Lonely Circumnavigation, VCA Art Space

April 2021: On the Myopic Gaze of a Surrogate Eye, VCA Octagon

January 2020: The Second Charade, SEVENTH Gallery

March 2019: At the End of a Passage from Which No Exit is Possible, with Henry Law at Kings ARI

July 2018: something that, perhaps, sits outside of speech, Irene Rose Gallery

May 2017: Chronophobia, c3 Contemporary Art Space

September 2016: Future Devonian Archive, Rubicon ARI

March 2016: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away, George Paton Gallery

Group/ Curated Exhibitions:

July 2024: In a Restless World Like This Is, Bundoora Homestead. Curated by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse.

July 2023: Footscray Community Art Prize, Footscray Community Arts Centre

July 2023: Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery

April 2023: Artists’ Bookworks 4, George Paton Gallery, Curated by Sandra Bridie and Channon Goodwin

April 2023: DEBUT XIX, Blindside ARI, curated by Nina Sanadze and Priya Namana

December 2022: Blue, Lon Gallery, curated by Adam Stone.

April 2022: PLATFORM FOR SHARED PRAXIS #04, curated by Jesse Hogan, CAVES Gallery

April 2022: Venus in Tullamarine, Curated by Cameron Hurst, George Paton Gallery

February 2022: Vernissage, Void Gallery

July 2021: Pre-Moderna, TCB Art Inc

September 2020: Zero O’ Clock, Curated by Sophia Cai, COVA

September 2019: Perspectives on Distance, Nagano Sky Arts Festival, Japan. Curated by Jesse Hogan

August 2019: Relics of Survival, Bus Projects. Curated by Zoe Bastin and Kari McInneny McRae

July 2018: The Grammar of The Glitch, Latrobe Art Institute. Curated by Kent Wilson

October 2017: [Message Read] Blindside ARI [Group exhibition with Nick Modzrewski and Nabilah Nordin]

September 2017: Documents of the Future, Channels Festival, ACMI- Curated by Anita Spooner

October 2016: From the Archive, George Paton Gallery curated by Stephanie Berlangieri and Hanann Al Daqqa

October 2016: An Excavation, c3 Contemporary Art Space

Special Projects:

June 2023: Traveler’s Syndrome, Cranbourne Travelling Scholarship Residency, Venice.

August 2021 &2023: Mentor, SIGNAL Arts Screen Commission

July 2021: VCA Arts Access Participant with Benjamin Armstrong

June 2020: Interview for Out of Bounds with Caoife Power, Bus Projects Radio

June 2020: Interview for QiQ Gallery Podcast

June 2020: An Unsound Mimicry, Residency with Metro Arts Brisbane

March 2018: Published *dumb brun(ette) Vol 1 with Bus Projects At Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV

June 2016: Writers in Residence Program, Next Wave Festival

Performance:

August 2022: Reading for Swimming Backwards Underwater with Kari McInneny McRae and Caoife Power at SEVENTH Gallery

September 2019: disseminating information that was hard to comprehend- Kings ARI FLASH Night

August 2019: Bundoora Homestead, for Jon Butt’s Collider August 2019: Relics of Survival, Bus Projects

Selected Writings:

December 2023 -37.798627173603904, 144.95847112326103, un Magazine, Issue 17.2: RETURN

November 2023: In the Twinkling of an Eye, for Seeing In: Aaron Rees, Nina Gilbert, Elena Misso at Bus Projects

October 2023: Fifteen Leagues Below for Stanton Cornish Ward’s I Know a Person When I Talk to It, Art + Australia Issue 58.2 The Mirror

September 2023: Several Intramural Events, published in Enough: Artists and Writers on Gendered Violence, COVA x Perimeter Books

September 2023: A Sight to Dwell Upon and Never Forget for Julien Comer Klein in Making the Invisible Visible, Fiona and Sydney Meyer Gallery

April 2023: Other Than Human Means, for Charlie Donaldson, SEVENTH Gallery

August 2022: Review of Veronica Franco V Instagram, Gertrude Glasshouse for Performance Review

August 2022: OBJECT Profile, Angela Valamanesh, Vault Magazine

January 2022: Exhibition Preview for Vivienne Binns’ On and Through the Surface, MUMA, Vault Magazine

July 2020: An Arcane Vernacular, Art + Australia Issue 52: Event Horizon

June 2020: The Summoning of a Polyphonic Apparition, Running Dog

April 2020: An Abhorrent Pair, Runway Journal Issue 40 - Love August 2019: The Image has an Illness, for Aaron Rees,

Incinerator Gallery

August 2019: A Chorus to Span Generations. Art + Australia Online

July 2019: The Beloved Image is But a Spectre, for Grace Wood, Cool Change Contemporary

June 2018: The Images that Deceived Us, for Emanuel Rodriguez Chaves, Bus Projects

April 2018: Illicit Love, Co-authored with Diego Ramirez, Latrobe Art Institute

January 2018: Talking to the Back of Your Head for Arini Byng, Bus Projects

November 2017: A Magnet for Projectiles Late at Night, HoBiennale Catalogue

July 2017: Review, Georgina Cue- Stages, Un Projects

July 2016: Exhaustibition: Performing Wellness in the Arts, Art + Australia

June 2016: Chiharu Shiota- Absence, Art Almanac

May 2016: Eva Abbinga, The Arrival of the Rajah, for Next Wave Festival

September 2015: Comfortable Living, for Nick Modrzewski and Nabilah Nordin, c3 Contemporary Art Space

Awards and Grants:

November 2022: Cranbourne Travelling Scholarship November 2022: Peter Redlich Memorial Art Prize

November 2022: Faculty of Fine Arts and Music Completion Scholarship, University of Melbourne

July 2022: Graduate Faculty Research Grant, University of Melbourne

Conference Presentations:

January 2022: Phantom Interlocutors, Graduate Symposium, University of Melbourne

January 2021: A cave is an abyss, penumbral and incandescent, Graduate Symposium, University of Melbourne

November 2020: Dark Eden: The Sixth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture- UNSW

December 2017: Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction conference, Monash University