Izabela Pluta born Warsaw Poland, 1979, migrated to Australia 1987
Education 2017 Doctor of Philosophy // Allegories of Diaspora: Gleaning the residues of spatial and temporal misalignments Faculty of Creative Arts, The University of Wollongong, Australia
2009 Master of Fine Arts, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney Australia
2002 Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours Class 1, University Medal, The University of Newcastle, Australia
2010 Sailing for the abyss, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne Gestures of the Landscape, 24 HR Art, Darwin
2009 Gestures of the Landscape, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts à la dérive, Mop Projects, Sydney In (and against) time, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2008 Singularity, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Artist books Nihilartikel (Perimeter Editions (076) Figures of slippage and oscillation(Perimeter Editions 051), 2019 Taken on the same as the other photo, published by Onestar Press/VOLUME, 2017
Selected Group Exhibitions 2024 The charge that binds, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Hollow(with Kiron Robinson), The Museum of Australian Photography A tide is a very long wave (curated by Sarah Hibbs), SYRUP Contemporary, Sydney
2021 Oceans from here, Blue Mountains Culture Centre Reconfigured/rediscovered, Town Hall Gallery present as part of PHOTO2021 International Festival of Photography, Melbourne
2013 Out of this world, Bill Wright Projects, Sydney
2012 The Third Landscape, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney Foreplay, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2010 Interpreting portraits – Macquarie 1810-2010, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery time AND space, Hazelhurst Gallery and Arts Centre
2009 Disappearers, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria Un, deux, trios, Alliance Francaise, Melbourne
2008 An ideal for living, Linden Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne
2007 Here and Beyond, Newcastle Region Art Gallery Scene – Observe the lay of the land, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery From Space to Place, an IASKA touring exhibition, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2018 Arts 3331 Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan Inaugural Marrgu Residency, Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation, Peppimentarti Community Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2011 UK Academic Research Exchange at Art and Design Research Institute University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2008 Cite des Arts Internationale, Paris, France
2006 Barcelona Studio, Australia Council for the Arts Residency, Spain
2006 Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2005 Artist in Residence, Red Gate Studios, Beijing, China
2004 Artist in Residence, IASKA (International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia)
Selected Grants, Awards & Prizes 2023 Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize
2021 Australian Council for the Arts Project Grant Finalist, Ravenswood Womens Art Prize Finalist, Fremantle Print Award
2020 Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
2019 Australian Council for the Arts Project Grant Perimeter Small Book Prize
2017 Faculty Research Grant, UNSW Art & Design Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize
2015 Finalist, Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Art Award
2014 National Association for the Visual Arts NSW Artists Grant
2013 Finalist, Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Art Award Finalist, The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Victoria
2012 Finalist, Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Finalist, The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
2011 Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant Finalist, The City of Hobart Art Prize Finalist, Olive Cotton Photographic Prize
2010 National Association for the Visual Arts NSW Artists Marketing Grant
2009 Qantas Foundation, Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Finalist, Hazelhurst Art Award Finalist, The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
2008 Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant (Emerging) The Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2007 Finalist, The Wilson HTM National Art Prize Winner, The Freedman Traveling Arts Scholarship
Published Feature: Izabela Pluta, UNION Magazine, Lameah Nayeem, UNION Magazine, ISSUE 5 2025, p.105-111 ’Blue spectrum and descent study’, HOH Journal 01 – Disrupt, Ed. Rachel Ciesla & Jaxon Waterhouse, 2020, p.40-61 Photo feature Common Ground, Issue 3 2015 http://www.commongroundjournal.com/issues/#/issue03/ Photo feature Landscape Stories, edited by Heidi Romano, Australian Issue 2015. http://www.landscapestories.net/ VAULT Magazine PHOTO ESSAYS, Issue 5, November 2013 Excerpt Magazine, Issue 2, 2012, cover artist NEW ROMANTICS DARKNESS AND LIGHT IN AUSTRALIAN ART, Simon Gregg,Australian Scholarly Publishing, Kew, Victoria, 2010 TIME AND SPACE : ART & ARTIST RUN SPACES 1970 TO NOW, Ann Finegan, Gymea, N.S.W, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, 2010 An ideal for living, exhibition catalogue, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2008, (text) p.15, 25, (art) p.15,16,18 ARTSPACE PROJECTS 2006, p.159
Selected Bibliography ‘A tide is a very long wave’,June Miskell, MEMO REVIEW, 23 Sept 2024 ‘The exhibition "The youth of our age is beautiful. Photo albums 1850-1950" at the Museum of Warsaw from February 29, 2024‘, POLITYKA, Feb 16 2024 ‘Photo albums from 100 years ago on display at the Museum of Warsaw’, Fotopolis, Feb 15, 2024 ‘Izabela Pluta explores analogue photographic techniques in ‘Image after Image’ solo exhibition’, Liz Reidy, BOULEVARD Magazine, May 2023 ’Water, Water, Everywhere: Why is the age-old practice of oceanic thinking once again rising to the surface?’, ART REVIEW, Erik Morse, Summer 2022 ’Radical Slowness’, THE SATURDAY PAPER, Tony Magnusson, April 2–8, 2022 | No. 393 ’Radical slowness’,ARTIST PROFILE, April 2022, online ’“What could be more radical than slowing down?” New exhibition explores the necessity of slowness’, ART GUIDE, Barnaby Smith, 30 March 2022 'Izabela Pluta: Nihilartikel’, MEMO Review, Sarinah Masukor, 19 February 2022 ’Capturing the unreality of visual perception’, TIMES OF MALTA, Joseph Agius, 28 March 2021 Exhibition feature, Maltarti, March 2020 ’Pull focus with Izabela Pluta’, Art Collector, Briony Downes, 2020 ’Photo Essay; Izabela Pluta’, VAULT - AUSTRALASIAN ART AND CULTURE, Issue 32, Nov 2020-Jan 2021, p.96-99 ’Of dives, distortions and disorientation: Variable depth, shallow water’, THE MALTA ART PAPER, Giulia Privitelli, Issue 10, 2020, pp.26-27 ’Izabela Pluta’, ARTIST PROFILE, Kathleen Linn, Issue 49, 2019, pp.108-113 ’The National 2019: New Australian Art’, ARTLINK, Craig Judd, 15 May 2019 ’The National review – contemporary art from the uncanny to the inviting’, THE GUARDIAN, Andrew Frost, 29 March 2019 ’Contemporary art's Instagram moment’, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Lina Morris, March 27, 2019 ’Geography of Space, Archaeology of Time, Izabela Pluta & Utako Shindo’, ART & AUSTRALIA online, Kathleen Linn ’Notes from the darkroom’, ART MONTHLY, Michael Fitzgerald, October 2018, Issue 311 ’Dimensions of Citizenship | US Pavilion - La Biennale di Venezi’, ARCHISEARCH, Tina Marinaki, 18 May 2018 ‘Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus’ THE CONVERSATION, Craig Barker and Diana Wood Conroy, October 9, 2017 Exhibition review, THE AGE Spectrum, Dan Rule, Feb 14 2015, p.21 ‘Pluta, Ferran, crowEST and Arps' Melbourne exhibitions imbued with benignity and terror’ THE AGE, Robert Nelson, February 17 2015 Interview, Try Hard Magazine, Andrew Yip (http://tryhardmagazine.com/interview-izabela-pluta), 2014 ‘Art Radar #1: Photography’ ART GUIDE, Amy Marjoram, 7 May 2014 ‘Agency of inanimate objects’ ART GUIDE, Toby Fehily, May/JUNE 2014, p.43 ‘Agency of inanimate objects’ ALTMEDIA, Leann Richards, 2 May 2014 ‘Izabela Pluta Taken on the same day as the other photo’ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Dane Rule, Aug 3 2013 ‘Racks and ruin: framing decay’ THE AGE, Robert Nelson, July 31 2013, p.50 ‘Rethinking the Margins’, SURFACE ASIA, Olha Romaniuk, 10 Dec 2012 ‘Study for a sham ruin’, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD SPECTRUM, Lynne Dwyer, April 28-29, 2012, p.12 ‘Art sucks: monstrous breast bombs and classical maternity’ Robert Nelson, THE AGE,March 16, 2011, p.5 'Izabela Pluta: Sailing for the abyss', Dan Rule, THE AGE, April 24 2010, p.20 ‘Temporary transformations’, AUSTRALIAN ART REVIEW, Apolline Kohen, Feb-April 2010, p.72 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' Dan Rule, THE AGE, September 12, 2009 ‘Ok with my decay: Encounters with chronology in the work of four contemporary Australian artists’, Simon Gregg, ARTLINK, Vol 29, No 1, 2009, p.61-63 Back to the City. Strategies for Informal Urban Intervention, Steffen Lehmann, 2009, Hatje Cantz Stuttgart/Berlin ‘Back to the city? The re-berth of coal’, ARTMONTHLY, April #208, 2008, p.5 ‘Inexorable march to ruin celebrated’, THE MELBOURNE AGE, Robert Nelson, April 2, 2008, p.17 ‘Art matters’, MCV, Lucy Elliot, Issue 376, March 20, 2008 ‘An ideal for living’, TROUBLE ARTS TRAFFIC, Cassie May, March 2008, p.12 ‘Domestic sublime’, ART MONTHLY, Melissa Hart, March #207, 2008, p.53 ‘Art around the galleries’, THE MELBOURNE AGE, Megan Backhouse, March 29, 2008, A2 p.20 ‘Lifting the lids’, THE MELBOURNE AGE, April 4, 2008 ‘Making mirrors and breaking walls’, ARTSPACE PROJECTS 2006, Ashley Whamond, p.13 ‘Dilemma of making decisions’, WEST AUSTRALIAN, WEEKEND EXTRA, Ric Spencer, June 16 2007, p.13 ‘Open gallery, Sometime’, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD SPECTRUM, Clara Iaccarino, Jan 26-28 2007, p.16 ‘in trouble’, MELBURNIN, Simon Gregg, Dec/Jan 2007, p.16 ‘Four Photographers’, ART COLLECTOR, Timothy Morrell, Feb 2006, p.251 ‘Illustration of rights and wrongs is a snap’, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD METRO, Robert McFarlane, Dec13, 2005 ‘There and back’, REALTIME, Kate McMillan, June/July 2005, p.40