bio & cv
I am a Melbourne-based artist, researcher and educator with over twenty years of experience exhibiting and teaching. I have shown work in major international exhibitions including the NGV Triennial, the Asia-Pacific Triennial, and the Asian Art Biennial. My work has also been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. I contribute to the local art community by teaching in the Critical and Theoretical Studies program at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), volunteering as a guide to contemporary art at her local community centre, and by mentoring new artists. In 2024 my PhD was published as a book and I am currently working on another book. I am also a string figuring enthusiast.
EDUCATION
2022 PhD Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
2006 Master of Fine Art (Art and Technology), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA,
1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
1991 Bachelor of Education (Visual Art), University of Melbourne, Australia
selected GRANTS and AWARDS
2016 Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups, Australia Council
2014 VicArts Grant, Arts Victoria
2013 Skills and Arts Development General Grant, Australia Council
2011 New Work Development Grant, Australia Council
2008 New Work Development Grant, Australia Council
2007 Manhattan Graphics Center Scholarship, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2006 New Work Development Grant, Australia Council
2006 Visiting Artist Program Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006 Arts Development Grant, Arts Victoria
2005 Second Year International Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004 Gordon and Anne Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, University of South Australia
2004 Arts Development Grant, Arts Victoria, Export and Touring Fund Grant, Arts Victoria
2001 Skills and Arts Development Grant, Australia Council
1999 Pat Corrigan Artists Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts
1998 Garry Grossbard Drawing Award Victorian College of the Arts
1998 Post-Postcard Show Award, Victorian College of the Arts
1997 Stella Dilger Award, Victorian College of the Arts
2023 holding several threads at once, figuring a future together, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2022 figuring, Linden New Art, Melbourne
2017 The Calls, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2015 The sea between A and I, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Flags for the fourth dimension, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Louisa Bufardeci (with Zon Ito), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2008 Some Material Flags, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, Japan
2007 Every second is like, forever, and every year is like 11.3 centimetres, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Every second is like, forever, and every year is like 11.3 centimetres, Design Commission, Seattle, USA
2006 Starter Pistols, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Visionary Projects (with Emma Balazs), VersionFest, Chicago
2003 Skin Quartet (with David Young), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Tour: Sydney Opera House, Sydney; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA; Les Bains :: Connective, Belgium; Wits Amphitheatre, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002 The Unbearable Weight of Ordinary Things, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, California
2001 Cold Storage, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2001 ColourPhonics, Spare Room, RMIT, Melbourne
2000 Art of Good Reasoning, West Space, Melbourne
2000 Counter-play, West Space, Melbourne
1999 Another rounding of facts, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1999 “the comforting illusion” (the prey), Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1999 “the comforting illusion” (just remember this), Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1999 “the comforting illusion” (breathe), Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Spector, talk artists initiative, Melbourne
1998 Intended for the General Public, Myer windows (Melbourne International Festival), Melbourne
1997 fold, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 A-maze-ing Brain! ArtPlay New Ideas Lab, City of Melbourne
2024 The Third Autralian Biennale of Reductive Art UTS Tower, Sydney
2022 We Change the World, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2021 Slow Moving Waters, TarraWarra Biennial, curated by Nina Miall, TarraWarra Museum of Art, TarraWarra
2019 OK Democracy, We Need to Talk, Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown
2017 NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2016 Tidal, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport
2013 Push Pull, Artisan Gallery, Brisbane
2012 The Asia-Pacific Triennial 7, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2011 The Five Obstructions, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
2009 Viewpoints & Viewing Points: 2009 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2008 In/Formation, Bric Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 A time like this, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Zoom +/-, ARENA1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 The Unquiet World, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2005 Your Sky, Gigantic Art Space, New York
2005 Daily Care Center, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, Romania
2004 Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2004 PUBLIC/PRIVATE Tumatanui/Tumataiti, The 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
2004 Free Time, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart
2003 Feedback: Art, Resistance and Social Conscience, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2002 When the lake froze over, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
2001 Migration, Westspace, Melbourne
2000 A Matter of Distance, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Make it Yourself, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1999 system*, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Furphy Family Art Wall, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria
2014 Monash University, Clayton campus
2012 Buxton Construction, Armada Apartments, Port Melbourne
2004 Mercer, the consulting business of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Melbourne
2003 University of Melbourne, Student Union, Melbourne
2001 City of Melbourne Laneways Temporary Public Art Project, Melbourne
Artbank, Australia
Kadist, Paris
Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne
Mercer, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
RMIT University, Melbourne
School of Anthropology, Geography & Environmental Sciences (SAGES), The University of Melbourne
The UBS Art Collection, International
2003 Khoj International Artist Residency, Delhi, Asialink
2001 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, Australia Council
1999 200 Gertrude Street Studio Residency, Melbourne, 200 Gertrude Street
Anita Bragge, Wild Cards Tell All, Herald-Sun, Melbourne, February 9, 1998
Anna Clabburn, Feedback, The Australian, May 4-5, 2003
Ashley Crawford, Where the statistical is the political, The Age, Melbourne, August 28, 2004
Charlotte Day, Feedback, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton
Cynthia Troup, A Matter of Distance, Linden Gallery, April 2000
Cynthia Troup, Surveying Skin Quartet, Orifice, Melbourne International Arts Festival, October 2003
Cynthia Troup, The Scope of Governing Values, PUBLIC/PRIVATE Tumatanui/Tumataiti The 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, March 2004
Edward Hanfling, Current Affairs, Art New Zealand, Issue 111
Edward Hanfling, Enchantment/disenchantment: the 2nd Auckland Triennial, Artlink, volume 24, #2, 2004
Georgia Cribb, The Docklands Project, Glass Street Gallery, 2000
Jane Faulkner, Changing Lanes, The Age, Melbourne, September 18, 2001
Jane Somerville, Louisa Bufardeci at the MCA, Art World, Issue 9 June/July 2009
Jessica Hemmings, ‘The Ministry of Sound’, Embroidery, March/April 2010
Jonathan Marshall, Of style and substance, RealTime #58, October 2001
Juliana Engberg, Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, ACCA, Melbourne
Katherine Harmon, Map as Art, The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
Lara Travis, system*, Like,, #9, Winter 1999
Lee, Stickells, Mapping Sydney: Experimental Cartography and the Imagined City, review, Architecture Australia, 1 November, 2009
Louisa Bufardeci, A practice of collecting, NAVA Quarterly, Issue 10.2 June 2010
Louisa Bufardeci, Volume, n.22
Mark Titmarsh, New Voyagers: Psychogeographers and Time, Photofile, Issue 75, Spring 2005
Martina Copley, The Five Obstructions, Margaret Lawrence Gallery
Naomi Stead, Mapping Sydney: Experimental Cartography and the Imagined City, Local Consumption Publications, 2009
Nick Dent, In the realm of the census, Time Out Sydney, July 8 – August 4, 2009
Nicola Harvey, Louisa Bufardeci & Zon Ito, Frieze, Issue 127 November – December 2009
Peter McKay Louisa Bufardeci 10-6=4, Asia Pacific Triennial 7, Gallery of Modern Art, 2012
Philip Watkins, Free Time, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, June 2004
Rachel Kent, Flagging It, Artlink, Volume 28, Number 4, 2009
Rachel Kent, Louisa Bufardeci & Zon Ito, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009
Robert Nelson, From here to eternity, and make it snappy, The Age, Melbourne, December 13, 2000
Ry Haskings, We’re walking all over it, The Paper, #29 December 2001
Samantha Compte, (ed), Make It Yourself, 200 Gertrude Street, 1999
Samantha Compte, 200 Gertrude Street Studio Artists 2000, 200 Gertrude Street, 2000
Samantha Compte, A Time Like This, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2008
Stephen Naylor, PUBLIC/PRIVATE Tumatanui/Tumataiti The 2nd Auckland Triennial, Art Monthly, #170, June 2004
Stuart Koop, Cold Storage, Artext, #76, Spring 2002
Stuart Koop, Louisa Bufardeci, https://crackleandsplat.com/portfolio/louisa-bufardeci/
Tom Nicholson, Another rounding of facts, Artext, #69, May/July 2001