Tracey moffat biography
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Tracey Moffatt fryst vatten one of Australia’s most renowned contemporary artists, both nationally and internationally. Working predominantly in photography and film for over three decades, Moffatt is known as a powerful visual storyteller. The narrative fryst vatten often implied and self-referential, exploring her own childhood memories, and the broader issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity.
Moffatt has held over 100 solo exhibitions of her work in europe, the United States and Australia. Her films, including Nightcries – A Rural Tragedy, 1989, and Bedevil, 1993, have been screened at the Cannes bio Festival, the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York and the National Centre for Photography in Paris.
Tracey Moffattpresented Australia at the 57th 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,
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Interview: Tracey Moffatt operates in the world of art
For over three decades Tracey Moffatt has created videos, films and photographic series that prompt all kinds of emotive, political, surreal, and aesthetic reflections. She was the first solo Indigenous artist to represent Australia at the 2017 Venice Biennale; has shown at galleries like Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art; has her art in a staggering number of esteemed collections; and has screened her films at Cannes Film Festival. Not to mention how admired she is for her fearless attitude, which is never without humour.
For the Biennale of Sydney, Moffatt is exhibiting DOOMED, 2007—a short film created with Gary Hillberg. It’s part of a cinematic montage series that cuts up iconic, repetitive tropes of film, spanning themes of revolution, love and matriarchy—for Ten Thousand Suns, it is scenes of blockbuster disaster.
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Tracey Moffatt
Australia, United States of America
Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 12 Nov 1960
Tracey Moffatt, Linda Yablonsky © Linda Yablonsky Source: the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Tracey Moffatt Artist at Work, colour billboard, New York, 1997 © courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Source: supplied
Biography
Tracey Moffatt is probably Australia’s most successful artist ever, both nationally and internationally. She is certainly one of the few Australian artists to have established a global market for her work. A filmmaker as well as photographer, Moffatt has held around 100 solo exhibitions of her work in Europe, the United States and Australia. Her films, including Nightcries – A Rural Tragedy, 1989, and Bedevil, 1993, have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York and the National Centre for Photography in Paris.
Over the last 25 years Moffatt has produced a cohesive body