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ATONG ATEM SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
12 -15 SEPTEMBER 2019
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
7 - 10 SEPTEMBER 2017
Atong Atem is an Ethiopian born, South Sudanese artist and writer living in Narrm/ Melbourne.
This new body of work explores the inherent intimacy of portraiture and photography as well as the role photographers take as story tellers. Atem interrogates photography as a framework for looking at the world and positioning people in it. She takes framing into a fantastical direction with the small portals over the subjects’ faces, inviting the viewer to look at them through a surreal and constructed lens.
Atem references the works of photographers Malick Sidibe, Philip Kwame Apagya and Seydou Keita to create a visual representation of a relationship to culture. She works primarily with photography and video to explore migrant narratives and postcolonial practices in the African diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and the exploration of home and identity through portraiture.
Atem has exhibited her work across Australia, including MUMA Monash, Gertrude Contemporary, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Internationally at Red Hook Labs in New York, Vogue Fashion Fair in Milan and Unseen Amsterdam art fair.
Atem was the recipient of the inaugural National Gallery of Victoria and MECCA M-Power scholarship in 2017 as well as the Brisbane Powerhouse Melt Portrait Prize in 2016. Atem will be exhibitng a major body of work at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne as part of the inaugural Photo 2020.
[MARS] 7 James Street, Windsor VIC 3181T: +61 9521 7517 E: [email protected]
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ATONG ATEM SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
12 -15 SEPTEMBER 201901. Ayuen 2019 Ilford smooth pearl print 222 x 148 cm Unique Edition | Sydney Contemporary 19 Unframed SOLD
90 x 60 cm Edition of 10 + 2A/P $ 2,550 Unframed
02. Demiji 2019 Ilford smooth pearl print 222 x 148 cm Unique Edition | Sydney Contemporary 19 $3,300 Unframed
90 x 60 cm Edition of 10 + 2A/P $ 2,550 Unframed 03. Akwasi 2019 Ilford smooth pearl print 222 x 148 cm Unique Edition | Sydney Contemporary 19 Unframed SOLD
90 x 60 cm Edition of 10 + 2A/P $ 2,550 Unframed
04. Zii 2019 Ilford smooth pearl print 222 x 148 cm Unique Edition | Sydney Contemporary 19 $3,300 Unframed
90 x 60 cm Edition of 10 + 2A/P $ 2,550 Unframed
05. Oyem 2019 Ilford smooth pearl print 222 x 148 cm Unique Edition | Sydney Contemporary 19 $3,300 Unframed
90 x 60 cm Edition of 10 + 2A/P $ 2,550 Unframed
[MARS] 7 James Street, Windsor VIC 3181T: +61 9521 7517 E: [email protected]
06.Nyandeng 2019 Ilford smooth pearl print 222 x 148 cm Unique Edition | Sydney Contemporary 19 $3,300 Unframed
90 x 60 cm Edition of 10 + 2A/P $ 2,550 Unframed
07. Krown 1 2019 Ilford smooth pearl print 190.2cm x 148cm Unique Edition | Sydney Contemporary 19 $ 3,300 Unframed
90 x 70 cm Edition of 10 + 2A/P $ 2,550 Unframed 08. Krown 2 2019 Ilford smooth pearl print 190.2cm x 148cm Unique Edition | Sydney Contemporary 19 $ 3,300 Unframed
90 x 70 cm Edition of 10 + 2A/P $ 2,550 Unframed
09. Self Portrait in Blue 2018 Digital Print 120cm x 100cm Unique Edition $ 3,050 Unframed
90cm x70cm Edition of 10 $ 2,550 Unframed
10. Self Portrait in Gingham no.1 2018 Digital Print 120cm x 100cm Unique Edition $ 3,050 Unframed
90cm x70cm Edition of 10 $ 2,550 Unframed
11. Self Portrait in Gingham no.2 2018 Digital Print
120cm x 100cm Unique Edition $ 3,050 Unframed
90cm x70cm Edition of 10 $ 2,550 Unframed
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ATONG ATEM CV
EDUCATION
Current - Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours – RMIT, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 On Witnessing, The Artist’s Guild, Melbourne2017 Come Home (Channels Festival), Blindside, Melbourne2017 Us, Customs House, Sydney2017 The Process of Feeling, CCP, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Exchange Value, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane2019 Fashioning Black Identity: Africa and the African Diaspora, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns2018 Site of Passage, Customs House, Sydney2017 Unfinished Business, ACCA, Melbourne2016 Nataal: New African Photography, Red Hook Labs, NYC2016 Ua numi le fau, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2018 Lightwork New York Artist Residency2017 NGV + MECCA Cosmetica M-Power Grant (Winner)2016 Brisbane Powerhouse: Melt Portrait Prize (Winner)
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
7 - 10 SEPTEMBER 2017
[MARS] 7 James Street, Windsor VIC 3181T: +61 9521 7517 E: [email protected]
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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
7 - 10 SEPTEMBER 2017
[MARS] 7 James Street, Windsor VIC 3181T: +61 9521 7517 E: [email protected]