Delivered in partnership with Australia Council for the Arts, the International Curators Program showcases Australian artists participating in PHOTO 2022 to international tastemakers. The aims of the program are to raise the profile of Australia’s contemporary artists and curatorial expertise, demonstrate Australia’s growing regional engagement, and develop long-term relationships which will enable new partnerships, collaborations and market development.

We are inviting Australian artists participating at PHOTO 2022 to submit an expression of interest (EOI) to participate in an online speed studio visits, where you will have the opportunity to pitch your Festival work in one-to-one meetings with our guest international curators, listed below.

Mariama Attah, Curator, Open Eye Gallery / LOOK Biennial, Liverpool
Varun Gupta, Co-Founder and Biennale Director, Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai
Gwen Lee, Co-Founder and Director, Singapore International Photography Festival
Yasufumi Nakamori, Senior Curator International Art (Photography), Tate Modern, London
Holly Roussell, Curator, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Yi Soojung, Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Tanzim Wahab, Director, Chobi Mela Festival, Dhaka

+ more to be announced

You can submit your speed studio visit EOI here. The EOI deadline is Friday April 1st 2022, 5pm AEDT. APPLY NOW. 

Date/time: Wednesday 18 May, 6:00pm -8:30pm AEDT
Platforms: Zoom

EOI Assessment Panel

Patricia Adjei, Head of First Nations Art and Culture, Australia Council for the Arts
Pippa Milne, Senior Curator Monash Gallery of Art
Isobel Parker Philip, Senior Curator of contemporary Australian art, Art Gallery of NSW
Elias Redstone, PHOTO 2021 Artistic Director

The EOI deadline is Friday 1 April 2021 at 5pm AEDT. APPLY NOW. 

For more information on the International Curators Program, please contact:
Linsey Gosper
E: linsey@photo.org.au

The International Curators Program is delivered in partnership with the Australian Council for the Arts and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).