CV

KATIE SFETKIDS : 
Education (year of graduation):
2017    Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2007    Post Graduate Diploma Production (Lighting Design), Victorian College of the Arts,
2006    Arts Degree (Major: Art History & Gender Studies), University of Melbourne
Appointments:
2020 -2021 
- Feminist Emissary, Queen Victoria Women's Centre
Public Art/Exhibitions/Performances: 
2025
We the People x Geelong (public art/ civic intervention) Platform Arts/City of Geelong VIC
We the People x Port Adelaide (installation/roundtable) Vitalstatistix SA
Landmarks: 50 Years of the Women’s Art Register (poster commission) Geroge Paton Gallery VIC
2024
Nasty Women (solo exhibition) The Substation Billboard Newport Substation VIC
We the People x Yarra (public art/ civic intervention) City of Yarra/ Melbourne Fringe VIC
2023     
We the People X Queen Victoria Market (public art/ civic intervention) Testing Grounds/ ArtPark 23’  VIC
2022     
PRESENT/MEMORY: Women’s COVID-19 Time Capsule (solo exhibition & performance) Queen Victoria Women’s Centre VIC
Feminism for the 99% (solo exhibition) St Hellier’s Gallery, Abbotsford VIC
2021     
A Message from the Mayor (online - lecture performance) Kings ARI VIC
The Feminist Poster Project (civic intervention) Federation Square VIC 
M + K Collaborative Exhibition (collaborative exhibition) The Pavilion Fitzroy Gardens
 VIC
2020     
The Feminist Poster Project (public interventional) various locations VIC 
How good is it… (online - performance) Liveworks, Performance Space NSW 
A Journey Around My Room in collaboration with Marcel Feillafe (online group show) Bus Gallery
2019     
Making a Feminist Life (performance) Galleria Ars Libera, Kuopio, FI
An Artist’s Guide to Becoming Lord Mayor (performance) WTF is Lecture Performance? Symposium, VCA, VIC
NGV Art Book Fair, Bus Stall National Gallery of Victoria VIC
2018     
An Artist’s Guide to Becoming Lord Mayor (solo exhibition) Kings ARI, VIC
Hersay (solo exhibition) Trocadero Art Space VIC
Feminist Colour-In (performance) curated by Dr Kim Donaldson & Dr Kais Kontturi part of “Unfinished Business Perspectives on Feminism”, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne VIC
2017     
Making a Feminist Life (performance) Trocadero Art Space, Foostcray VIC
Third Feminist Colour-In (performance) curated by Dr Kim Donaldson & Dr Kais Kontturi, VCA VIC
2016
Melbourne Art Loop (group exhibition) Melbourne Central curated by Mars Gallery VIC
Hotel Obscura (performance) curated by Katarina Kokkinos Kennedy Festival of Live Art, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne VIC
2015     
Light Speculation (group exhibition) curated by Dr Renee Beale Lab14 - Carlton Connect Initiative Carlton VIC
2014
In Deep Water (performance/installation) Festival of Live Art, Theatre Works St Kilda VIC
In Deep Water (performance/installation) Blindside Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2013      
In Deep Water (performance/installation) Underbelly Arts Festival, Cockatoo Island NSW
2012
Dark Matters (performance/installation) Brisbane Festival !Metro Arts QLD
Dark Matters (performance/installation) Newport Substation, VIC
Lighting Design:
2025     
Monolith, Joel Bray Dance Rising Festival
The Act, Amrita Hepi with Mish Grigor and Tilly Lawless Rising Festival
Homebound, Luke George & Daniel Kok, Asiatopia Festival     
Digrammatica, Strange Engine (Jason Mailing) Rising Festival
Looking for Alibrandi, State Theatre South Australia/ Brink Productions
2024     
Blak in the Room, Ilbidjerri Theatre/ Melbourne Theatre Company (Green Room Award Winner)
Homo Pentcecostus, Malthouse Theatre/Joel BrayDance  (Green Room Award Winner)
Trophy Boys, The Maybe Pile/Soft Threads 
The Inheritance, Fortyfivedownstairs 
2023     
Loaded, Malthouse Theatre (Green Room nomination)
Pieces, Lucy Gurien
Oh Deer!, Aphids, Rising Festival
Lesbian Vampires of Sodom, Little Ones Theatre
2022     
Garabari, Joel Bray Dance (lighting & projection) 
Looking for Alibrandi, Malthouse /Belvoir Theatre
White Fella Yella Tree (co-design with Kelsey Lee), Griffin Theatre (Sydney Theatre Award nomination) 
Still Lives, Luke George & Daniel Kok, Rising Festival
Chase, Malthouse Theatre (Green Room nomination)
Touching the Void, Melbourne Theatre Company
2021     
Considerable Sexual Licence, Joel Bray Dance/ Yirramboi Festival 
The Gospel According To Jesus Queen of Heaven, Bullet Heart Club / Theatre Works 
Easy Riders, Aphids
2020     
Loaded, (online video creation), Malthouse Theatre
Fuck Fabulous, Fat Fruit
2019     
Daddy, Joel Bray Dance, Artshouse/ Yirramboi Festival (Green Room nomination) 
Exit Strategies, APHIDS (Mish Grigor)
2018     
Abigail’s Party, Melbourne Theatre Company   
The Director, Aphids (Lara Thoms)/ Artshouse
Apokolypsis, Next Wave Festival (Green Room nomination)   
The Nightingale and the Rose, Little Ones Theatre (Green Room nomination)          
Suddenly Last Summer, Red Stitch Actors Theatre (Green Room Award nomination)
2017     
Merciless Gods, Little Ones Theatre
The Happy Prince, Little Ones Theatre/La Mama (Green Room nomination)
2016     
O Mensch, Sydney Chamber Opera/Sydney Festival, (set and lighting design)
2015
Meme Girls, Malthouse Theatre (Green Room Award Winner)      
A Singular Phenomenon, Aphids (Lara Thoms) Malthouse Theatre
2014
Calpurnia Descending, Malthouse Theatre
Dangerous Liaisons, Little Ones Theatre
Grants:
2024:
Creative Victoria Project Funding (We the People x Geelong)
City of Yarra Project Grant (We the People x Yarra)
2022:
Creators Fund, Creative Victoria

2020
- City of Melbourne, Quick Response Arts Grant (COVID-19)
- Creative Victoria, Sustaining Creative Workers
- Australia Council, 2020 Resilience Fund: Survive
2012   
- JUMP Mentee, National Mentoring Program for young and emerging artists, Australia Council
2011    
- Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2010   
- ArtStart, Australia Council
2011   
- Broadway Lighting Master Class, Live Design, New York, USA
- Prague Quadrennial participant, Prague, Czech Republic
- Summer Work/Study Placement, Opera Program, Banff Centre, Canada
2010   
- Punctum Seedpod Residency, Castlemaine, Victoria
Residency/LAB:
2023
Platform LAB
ArtPark, Testing Grounds
2022
Adhocracy, Vitalstatistix
2020
Test Site Online, City of Melbourne
 2015
Time Place Space Nomad, Arts House
2014
Live Art Camp, Arts House, Melbourne
2013
Underbelly Arts Festival Lab, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
Publications (selections):
2023
Enough: Artist & Writers on Gendered Violence, edited by Vikki McInnis, Perimeter Press
2022
- Madeee Clark, The Influence: Katie Sfetkidis, The Saturday Paper, Saturday March 5
- interview with Dan Santangeli, SmartArts, RRR Radio, Thursday 24 February
- interview with Kannagai Bhatt, Tuesday Morning Breakfast, 3CR Radio, 22 February
- PRESENT/MEMORY (catalogue), essay by Abbra Kotlarczyk
2021
- Anne Marsh, Doing Feminism
2018  
- Michaela Bear, Why Run for Mayor? Why Not, Kings ARI
- Richard Watts, “Artist Runs for Lord Mayor”, Artshub online publication, Wednesday 11 April, 2018, http://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/public-policy/richard-watts/artist-runs-for-lord-mayor-255521
- “Melbourne needs a balance between Arts and Business”, interview with Panos Apostolou, SBS Greek Radio, 9 May 2018
- “Katie Sfetkidis”, interview with Ella Tarlton, The Melbourne Critique, online publication, 2 May 2018, http://melbournecritique.com.au/category/speak/
2016   
- Interview, Across the Aisle, podcast, “In Conversation – Katie Sfetkidis”, August 2016
- Review, “Neon Sarcophagus”, Across the Aisle podcast, episode 13, "Hotel Obscura", https://soundcloud.com/acrossaisle/ep-13-hotel-obscura, August 1 2016
2014   
Image, In Deep Water, Blindside Gallery 10th Anniversary Publication, Blindside Gallery, 2014

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