Angelica Mesiti

Angelica Mesiti b. 1976 Sydney Australia lives and works in Paris.

Angelica Mesiti is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice combines performance with video, sound and spatial installation to create immersive environments of absorption and contemplation. Her works focus on disaporic cultures, gestural communication and sensory togetherness, introduced through musicality and movement.



EDUCATION

Masters of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, College of Fine Arts, UNSW

2022

Over the Air and Underground. Galerie Allen, Paris, FR.
ASSEMBLY. National Gallery of Australia, Camberra, AU. (upcoming)
A Hundred Years: Australian War Memorial Commission, AU. (upcoming)
In the Round, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburg Scotland

2020
ASSEMBLY. Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.
Mother Tongue. Auckland Art Gallery, NZ.

2019
58th Venice Biennale. cur. Juliana Engberg. Australian Pavillion, Venice, IT.
Quand faire c’est dire / When Doing is Saying. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR.

2018
Relay League. Art Sonje Centre, Seoul, SK.
Citizens Band. University Art Gallery, Sewanee / University of Southern Tennessee, USA.
Proto Cinema: Relay League. Tbilisi Kunsthalle, Tbilisi, GE.

2017
Mother Tongue. Aarhus 2017, European Capital of Culture commission, Aarhus, DK.
Angelica Mesiti: Polyphonies. Basis Frankfurt, DE.
Relay League. Griffith University Museum, Melbourne, AU.
Angelica Mesiti: Five works. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU.
Relay League. Artspace Sydney, AU.

2015
The Colour of Saying. Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, AU.
The Colour of Saying. Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, SE.
An Ocean of Air. Galerie Allen, Paris, FR.
Angelica Mesiti: The Calling. Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, CA.
Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band. Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK.

2014
Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band. Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA.
Angelica Mesiti: Citizens Band. Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, CA.
The Calling. Ian Potter moving image commission, ACMI Melbourne, Melbourne, AU.

2012
Rapture (silent anthem). Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU.
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day. 24HR Art Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Parap, AU.

2011
The Begin-Again. C3West Project commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and Hurstville City
Council, Sydney, AU.

2010
Rapture (silent anthem). Centre for Contemporary Photography (projection window), Melbourne, AU.
Natural History. Gallery 9, Sydney, AU.
Heritage Park. Heritage Week Film Commission, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, AU.

2009
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day. Dubbo Regional Gallery, Dubbo, AU.

2008
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day. Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill, AU.

2003
The Rockets Red Glare. Mori Gallery, Sydney, AU.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2014
The Immigration Songs: Angelica Mesiti and Malik Nejmi. MAXXI, Rome, IT.
Open Museum/Open City. MAXXI, Rome, IT.
Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video. The Jewish Museum, New York, USA.
No Sound is Innocent. Marabouparken Konsthall, Stockholm, SE.
You Imagine What You Desire. 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU.
The Australian Club. Melbourne, AU.
Transcendence: Nell, Angelica Mesiti, Aura Satz. Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU.
IMPACT. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AU.

2013
Everyday Magic. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU.
Turns – Possibilities of Performance. Galerie Allen, Paris, FR.
Mom, am I Barbarian? 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TU.
Seven Points (part two). Embassy of Australia, United States of America, Washington DC, USA.
Buyuhyn-wana: The transformative persona. Lismore Regional Gallery, AU.
Awakening Where are We Standing? Earth, Memory and Resurrection. Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, JP.
If you were to live here... The 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, NZ.
Guirguis New Art Prize 2013. University of Ballarat Post Office Gallery, Art Gallery, Ballarat, AU.
Rendez-vous 13. Institut d’art contemporainVilleurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, FR.
Sharjah Biennale 11. cur. Yuko Hasegawa. Sharjah, AE.
We Used to Talk About Love. Balnaves Contemporary Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, AU.
The space between us: Anne Landa Award for video and new media 2013. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, AU.
Seven Points (part one). Embassy of Australia Gallery, Washington DC, USA.

2012
1st Kochi-Mizuris Biennale. Kerala, IND.
Montevideo Biennial: El Gran Sur. cur. Alfons Hug. Montevideo, UY.
TarraWarra Biennial: Sonic Spheres. cur Victoria Lynn. TarraWarra Museum of Art, TarraWarra, AU.
NEW12. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU.
Volume One: MCA Collection (permanent display). Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU.

2011
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas. Sao Paulo, BR.
London Australia Film Festival (Artists Film program).The Barbican Art Centre, London, UK
Videonale 13: Festival for Contemporary Video Art. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE.
South by Southeast; Recent Video from Australia and New Zealand, 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, JP.
Selectively Revealed. Aram Art Gallery, Goyang, Seoul, KR.

2010
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) Auditorium of the Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, ES / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE.
No Soul For Sale. Tate Modern, London, UK.
Move on Asia. Loop Gallery Seoul Korea, LABoral, Gijon, ES.
Experimenta Utopia Now; Biennale of Media Art. Federation Square Melbourne, Carriageworks Sydney, Museum of Old and New Art Tasmania, AU.
Nightshifters; Liveworks Festival. Performance Space Carriageworks ,Sydney, AU.
Hardbodies. Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, AU.
Time and Space. Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, AU.
2009 58th Blake Prize (winner). NAS Gallery, Sydney, AU.
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship: Finalist Exhibition. Artspace, Sydneyy, AU.
VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival. Girona, ES.
Souvenirs from Earth. V Channel for Contemporary Art, DE, FR
Les Recontres International Berlin/Madrid. Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany), Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, ES.
Loop 09. Video Art festival, Barcelona, ES.
Event; New Moving Image Works. Artspace, Sydney, AU.
Australia, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, AU.
dTour/08 –09. d.Lux media Arts Regional touring exhibition

2008
Les Rencontres Internationales. Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Paris, FR.
National Film and Sound Archive’s Big Screen 08. Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill, AU.
Loop 08. Video Art festival, Barcelona, ES.
Face to Face. Australian regional touring exhibition

2007
Five x Five. Ivan Dogherty Gallery, Sydney, AU.

2006
Game On. Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, AU.
Play: Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and New Zealand. Adam Art Gallery New Zealand and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, AU.

2005
O.K Video Festival. National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, ID.

2004
Video Spell 4: Cartographies. The Performance Space, Sydney, AU.
Work Rest Play (Escape). Imperial Slacks Collective, Artspace, Sydney, AU.
720 x 576 Ate. Phatspace, Sydney, AU.

2003
Sidney Kahn Summer Institute. The Kitchen, New York, USA.

2002
Desk Job. Mori Gallery, Sydney, AU.
Video, Film, Sound. Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney, AU.
Broken Hotel. Tour dLux, Broken Hill, AU.
Projekt Issue 2. Kings ARI Melbourne, AU.
Positive Overkill. Imperial Slacks Gallery, Surry Hills, AU.


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Artbank, AU.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, AU.
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, NZ.
Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, AU.
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, AU.
Benala Art Gallery, AU.
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), FR.
Deutsche Bank Global Art Program, DE.
Fond Regional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, FR.
Fond Regional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Franche-Comté, FR.
Geelong Art Gallery, AU.
Kadist Art Foundation, FR, USA.
Monash University Museum of Art, AU.
MAC Montréal (Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal), CA.
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, AU.
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, KR.
National Gallery of Australia, AU.
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, KR.
Newcastle Art Gallery, AU.
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, AU.
TarraWarra Art Museum, AU.
The Chartwell Collection, NZ.
UQ Art Museum, The University of Queensland, AU.
Western Plains Cultural Centre, AU.
Private Collections

PRIZES / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES

2021

Lequeux, Emmanuelle. “Angelica Mesiti - Galerie Allen.” Le Monde, September
Montague, Sarah. “ World at One.” BBC Sound, from 41:55 minutes , September 27
Paterson, Laura. “400-year-old score based on bees inspires part of artist’s first major UK show.” Evening Standard,
September 3
Pignon-Ernest, Ernest. “Galerie Allen Méditation ultraviolette d’Angelica Mesiti.” Beaux-Art Magazine, October.
Renault, Stéphane. “Angelica Mesiti : « Développer de nouvelles façons de communiquer est une idée excitante,
pleine de potentiel » The Art Newspaper , September.
“Australian artist captures sound of bees.” The Daily Telegraph, September.
“Creating a buzz with bee music.” Scottish Daily Mail, September.
“Making a buzz with bee music.” The Times, September.
“Aussie artist generating a buzz.” Metro, September.

2019
Winner of the 2019 Advance Award for the Arts
Teaching position : currently Chef d’Atelier, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Australian Pavilion 58th Biennale di Venezia, Venice

2016
Residency with Centre Nationale de la Danse (CND), Pantin, France
Shortlisted for the 9th edition of the Meurice Prize for contemporary art

2013
Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts
The Ian Potter Moving Image Commission

2011
AFTRS Creative Fellowship Award
Arts NSW Quick Response Project Funding

2010
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Jury Award)

2009
58th Blake Prize for Religious and Spiritual Art
Australia Council for the Arts, new work grant
Cité International des Arts residency (University of New South Wales studio)
Ian Potter Foundation Travel Grant

2008
Nava Marketing Scheme Grant

2007-09
University Post Graduate Scholarship, UNSW

2002
RUN_WAY Young and Emerging Artists Initiative, Australia Council

SELECTED PRESS

Montague, Sarah. “ World at One.” BBC Sound, from 41:55 , September 27
Paterson, Laura. “400-year-old score based on bees inspires part of artist’s first major UK show.” Evening Standard, September 3
Pignon-Ernest, Ernest. “Galerie Allen Méditation ultraviolette d’Angelica Mesiti.” Beaux-Art Magazine, October.
Renault, Stéphane. “Angelica Mesiti : « Développer de nouvelles façons de communiquer est une idée excitante, pleine de potentiel » The Art Newspaper , September.
“Australian artist captures sound of bees.” The Daily Telegraph, September.
“Creating a buzz with bee music.” Scottish Daily Mail, September.
“Making a buzz with bee music.” The Times, September.
“Aussie artist generating a buzz.” Metro, September.

 

2019
Jeferson, Dee. “Australian pavilion at Venice Biennale will house poetic of pluralist, democratic society.” ABC News, March.
Garcia-Carré, Celine. “Portrait.” L’Oeil, May.
Wynants, Jean-Marie. “Angelica Mesiti, au-delà des mots.” Le Soir, April.
Der Nahabédian, Maxime. “Angelica Mesiti, Quand faire c’est dire.” Say Who, February.
Benoit, Guillaume. “Angelica Mesiti - Palais de Tokyo.” Slash, March.
Morris, Linda. “Visual artist Angelica Mesiti puts unity into art for her Venice debut.” The Age, March.
Bock, Andrew. “Angelica Mesiti finds poetry in motion pictures for Venice Biennale.”The Sydney Morning Herald, May.
Nazaroff, Diane. “UNSW alumna’s Venice Biennale entry examines the collective power of « the people ».” UNSW Sydney Newsroom.
Judah, Hettie. “Meet the women taking center stage at the Venice Biennale in 2019.” Vogue Australia, May.
“Quand faire c’est dire.” Parisart, Mars.
Azimi, Roxana. “La Biennale de Venise, un accélérateur de cote pour les artistes.” Le Monde, May.

Delistraty, Coly. “Emerging artists to watch this year.” Modern Painter Magazine, January-February.
Jeffreys, Tom. “How we speak.” Frieze, n°192, January-February.

2017
Arozqueta, Claudia. “Angelica Mesiti: ArtSpace, Sydney.”Critic’s Pick in Artforum, June.
Judd, Craig. “Review- Angelica Mesiti: Relay League,” Artlink, June 22.
Allen, Christopher. “Angelica Mesiti: message received at Anna Schwartz and Artspace galleries,” The Australian, June 17.
Dow, Steve. “Angelica Mesiti communicates via multiple sense in Relay League.” Art Guide Australia, May 18.
Dunn Frost, Emerald.“Hand-Drawn Review: Relay League at ArtSpace.” FBI Radio, May 16.
Wachtel, Katya. “Angelica Mesiti in Paris.” Vault Australasian Art & Culture, May.
Carroll Harris, Lauren. “Angelica Mesiti recodes video art.” Real Time Arts, n°138, April - May 2017
Jardonnet, Emmanuelle.“Nos cinq choix culturels pour le week-end.” Le Monde, 17 March 2017
2016 “Six artistes sélectionnés pour le Prix Meurice.” Le Quotidien de L’Art, n°1093, p. 7, June 24.

2015
Lavrador, Judicaël. “Tu dois changer ta vie!” Beaux Arts Magazine, October.
Ross, Toni. “Review: Angelica Mesiti, Anna Schwartz Gallery Sydney.”Artforum, vol.54, n°1, p.405, September.
Morin, Maryse. “Angelica Mesiti, Citizens Band...Le sens de ce qui circule entre nous.” ETC Media, Revue D’Arts
Mediatiques, p 62-63, February 15-June 15
Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa. “Angelica Mesiti: the artist who records a choir in song without a single sound.” The Guardian, May 8. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/08/angelica-mesiti-artist-interview-sydney
Forrest, Nicholas. “Why Angelica Mesiti’s “Colour of Saying” Will Stop You Dead.” BlouinArtinfo, May 19.
Taylor, Andrew. “Angelica Mesiti explores silence in new video work at Anna Schwartz Gallery.” The Sydney Mornin Herald, April 14.
Allen, Christopher. “REVIEW: Carriageworks, Sydney: 24 Frames per Second.”
2014 Allen, Christopher. “Lend Angelica Mesiti your ears.” The Australian, p.10-11, May 17.
Nelson, Robert.“Calling attention to ancient languages: The Calling by Angelica Mesiti.” The Age, February 12.

2013
Bousteau, Fabrice. “Offensive Indienne.” Beaux Arts Magazine, n°344, p.22, February.
Columbus, Nicki (Ed). Re:Emerge, Towards a new cultural cartography, Sharjah Biennial 11, exhibition catalogue, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah.
Millner, Jacqueline.“<> Angelica Mesiti: Being World.” Contemporary Art + Culture Broadsheet, n°42.2, p.104-107.
Rule, Dan. “Fragments of Cinema Angelica Mesiti’s Poetic Video Works Embrace and Subvert the Cinematic Device.” Vault, n°3, April.
Gubay, Rosa. “Art R&R: The 5th Auckland Triennial.” Gather & Hunter.
Forrest, Nicholas. “Is Angelica Mesiti Australia’s Most Popular Contemporary Artist?” Blouin ArtInfo, April 10
Hoffer, Audrey.”Australian Embassy Aims to Dispel Down Under Cliches.” The Washington Diplomat, April 1
Allen, Christopher. “Wide of the Heart.” The Weekend Australian Review, February 23.
Hanru, Hou ; Christina Barton, Pascal Beausse, Felicity Fenner (et al), If you were to live here...The 5th Auckland Triennial, ex cat., Auckland Art Gallery.
Millner, Jacqueline. “Angelica Mesiti.” 5th Auckland Triennial: If you were to live here, p.126,127.
Michael Fitzgerald, “Angelica Mesiti: Prepared Piano for Movers (Haussmann).” Photofile, n°93, p. 40-47, Spring/Summer.
Engberg, Juliana. “It’s a long way to the top.” Art & Australia, n°50/4 2013, p. 620-627.
Millner, Jacqueline. “Angelica Mesiti.” Rendez-vous 13, ex. cat., Institut d’art contemporian, Villeurbanne.
Davidson, Robyn. ‘Citizens Band’ The Space Between Us: The Anne Landa award for video and new media art 2013, Art Gallery of NSW.
Mecklai, Jamal. “Joy and hope in Cochin.” The Business Standard, April 30 www.businessstandard.com/article/ opinion/joy-and-hope-in-kochi 113040400532_1.html
Mu, Joel. “Angelica Mesiti.” We used to talk about love, Balnaves contemporary: photomedia, Art Gallery of NSW p.58-65.
Davidson, Robyn. “Citizens Band.” The Space Between Us, Anne Landa Award for New Media Art, Art Gallery of NSW.

2012
Engberg, Juliana. “Rapture and Rupture: Angelica Mesiti’s Citizens Band.” NEW12, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Haynes, Hayley. “Angelica Mesiti’s Citizens Band at NEW12, ACCA.” Das Platform, May 15.
Turner, ‘Brook. “New Artists Get into the Swim.”The Financial Review, April 5-9, p. 70.
Stevens, Andrew. “Bold new strokes.” The Age, March 17.
Rule, Dan. “Immersive Sensory and Spatial Environments at NEW12.” Broadsheet, Melbourne, March 22.
Ittyipe, Minu.“Portraits From the Kochi Biennale: Video Artist Angelica Mesiti.” NYTimes.com, December 17
Azimi, Roxana. “Une Biennale de sharjah tout en musicalité.” Le Quotidien De L’Art, n°344/22, p 6, Mars.
Lynne, Victoria. “Sensing Sound.” Sonic Spheres: TarraWarra Biennial 2012, TarraWarra Museum of Art. p.4-9.
Frost, Andrew. “50 things collectors need to know: Angelica Mesiti.” Australian Art Collector, Issue 59, p.114, January-
March

2011
Kent, Rachel & Moncrief, Abigail. Angelica Mesiti: The Begin-Again, published by C3West and The MCA Sydney.
Mudie Cunningham, Daniel. “The Begin-Again.” Runway, issue 19: Life, Winter
Millner, ‘Jacqueline. “Decentralising Cultural Capital.” Broadsheet, vol. 40 ,n°2, p. 141, June.
Baxter, Virginia. “Re-inventing the city: Hurstville, Singapore, Blacktown, Manila”,RealTime, n°103, p. 2-3, June-July.
Creighton, Annalice. “Angelica Mesiti: The Begin-Again.” DAS 500, May 12.
Meacham, Steve. “From drag king to Dragon town via Paris.” Sydney Morning Herald, March 29.
2010 Bennetts, Angela. “Natural History.” Runway, n°16: Disappearance, p.70-74.

2009
Wilson, Ashleigh. “For winner Angelica Mesiti, the Blake Prize rocks.” The Australian, September 4.
Fulton, Adam. “How videos killed the painting stars at the Blake Prize.” Sydney Morning Herald, September 4.

2006
Kreisler, Aaron. “Faraway So Close.” Listener New Zealand, p. 49, January 14.

2001
Peterson, ‘Tanya. “Serial 7’s.” Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, n°47, Summer.