Tina
Stefanou

With a background as a vocalist, Tina Stefanou works with a diverse range of mediums in an embodied practice she refers to as a ‘voice in the expanded field’. Informed by diasporic and working-class experiences, Stefanou assembles performers and materials with varied skillsets and from diverse environments and species to provoke re-assessments of culture and knowledge production.

Stefanou has performed, presented, published and exhibited locally and internationally including: Salt Museum (Istanbul); Kadist Gallery (Paris); Le Pavé d'Orsay (Paris); the University of Music and Performing Arts (Graz); Residency Corazon Gallery (La Plata); The Yellow House (Sydney); The Sydney Opera House; Stacks Projects (Sydney); Festaal (Berlin); Carriageworks (Sydney); Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne); The Ian Potter Museum (Melbourne); Blindside Gallery (Melbourne); Perth Institute of Contemporary Art; McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park (Langwarrin); Hamer Hall (Melbourne); Pheonix Central Park (SYD); University of Western Australia (Perth); Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (Melbourne); National Gallery of Victoria; Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania); American Anthropology Association (NY); Rosi Braidotti Posthuman Artist Labs (Utrecht University); 3ecologies Project (Canada); Buxton Contemporary (Melbourne); The Substation (Melbourne); Sarah Scout Presents (Melbourne); Composite Gallery (Melbourne); Collingwood Yards Arts Precinct (Melbourne); Disclaimer Journal; Journal of Sonic Studies; and Cordite Poetry Review. She has worked with organisations such as: Liquid Architecture; Art + Australia online; Women’s Art Register; Young Voices Melbourne; Alpha60; Erth Visual & Physical Inc; Chiara Guidi; SPACED; The North Midlands Project; Art Gallery of Western Australia; The Australian Art Orchestra; Centre of Visual Art; Speak Percussion; Cementa; RMIT’s non/fictionLab; ADSR Zine; Semi Permanent; Centre for Projection Art; Project Anywhere; and Chamber Made.

Stefanou has won an Australian Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Music with The Music Box Project (2020); Schenberg Arts Fellowship (2020); Marten Bequest Scholarship (2021); City of Melbourne Arts Grant (2022); SPACED Residency (2022-23) and was a finalist in the 67th Blake Prize and Incinerator Art Award (2022). She is a recipient of the Local Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize, and CultureLAB development program with ACCA and Arts House (2023-24). In 2023, she was featured in a survey of prominent Victorian artists in the Melbourne Now exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, was nominated for an Australian Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Practice with Chamber Made and has launched new arts aggregation The Opera Company as Artistic Director. In 2024, Stefanou will feature in the Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia.