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
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2027 (Forthcoming) Cavitation, TRAFO Centre for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland
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
Selected Group Exhibitions 2027 (forthcoming) Museum of Warsaw, Poland
2026 Ties that bind, Ipswitch Art Gallery, Queensland
2025 W głębi: Żyjące morza, żyjące ciała (Down Deep: Living seas, living bodies), State Gallery Sopot, Poland Under the big blue sky, Casula Powerhouse
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
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
Published ‘THE ‘BLUE TURN’ IN CONTEMPORARY ART: Assembling blue methods of research-creation’, Jacqueline Chlanda, Léuli Eshrāghi, and Peta Rake, in Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities, C. Hansen & M. Newlands, eds. Routledge, 2024, p93-106 ‘A tide is a very long wave’,June Miskell, MEMO REVIEW, 23 Sept 2024 Feature: Izabela Pluta, UNION Magazine, Lameah Nayeem, UNION Magazine, ISSUE 5 2025, p.105-111 ‘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 ‘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 ’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