Through an expanded collage and performance practice, Hart provokes shared senses of intimacy and relation by probing audience’s fixed notions of subjectivity, identity and meaning; exploring the body as a preternatural site. By disrupting the borderspaces of the known and unknown, Hart invites audiences to challenge the architecture of their own identities, relations, and memory.
Hart graduated 2018 with First-Class Honours at the Queensland College of Art.
Her current research looks at the phenomena of transformation through connection, and co-poietic knowledge.
In 2015 Siena completed a summer residency with the New York School of Visual Art (USA), and has since completed artist-in-residences with House Conspiracy, In-Residence, and Soft Space (Netherlands). She has exhibited in various ARIs and galleries nationally, including Brisbane Powerhouse, PoP and Webb Galleries, Kunstbunker, Post Datum, Testing Grounds, Ventolin Artspace and the QLD Centre for Photography as well as the Brisbane Feminist Festival (One Woman Project) and Dark MOFO festival (The Void, Tasmania).
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Hart graduated 2018 with First-Class Honours at the Queensland College of Art.
Her current research looks at the phenomena of transformation through connection, and co-poietic knowledge.
In 2015 Siena completed a summer residency with the New York School of Visual Art (USA), and has since completed artist-in-residences with House Conspiracy, In-Residence, and Soft Space (Netherlands). She has exhibited in various ARIs and galleries nationally, including Brisbane Powerhouse, PoP and Webb Galleries, Kunstbunker, Post Datum, Testing Grounds, Ventolin Artspace and the QLD Centre for Photography as well as the Brisbane Feminist Festival (One Woman Project) and Dark MOFO festival (The Void, Tasmania).
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Gel Transfer on Muslin
2019
Solo Exhibitions
2022: TBC collaboration with Thomas Bartsch, LOOK Meanjin
2020: Thistle Tongue, House Conspiracy
2019: 1993, Webb Gallery
2017: Girl Practice, Kunstbunker
2016: I’m Asking For a Friend, Mount ARI
Group Exhibitions
2021: MUTUAL INTENT, The Third Quarter + YETI Bne, Brisbane Powerhouse
2020: Rain Dance, Bushfire Relief
2019: Higher Order, Bib n’ Brace
2019: QueerTech.io + Midsumma Festival, BlackBox (Victoria) + Online
2019: SKINSOFTFLESH, Ventolin Artspace, Testing Grounds (Victoria)
2018: On a Roll!, PoP Gallery
2018: Providentia II, S0S0
2017: Little Secrets, Little Lies, Post Datum, Paddington Substation
2017: S0S01, S0S0
2017: Confluence, UC Graduate Exhibition
2017: Providentia I, Paddington Substation
2016: Some Strange Compulsion, DRIP
2016: Brisbane Feminist Festival, WWP
2016: VOID, The Gentle Void (Tasmania)
2015: Catalysis, SBIT Graduate Exhibition
2014: QLD Festival of Photography, QLD Center for Photography
Awards + Residencies
2020: Provisions; Artist in Residence, House Consiracy
2018: Long Live the New Flesh Residency, Soft Space ARI
2017: Residency, InResidence
2015: Summer Scholarship Residency, New York School of Visual Arts
2013: Highly Commended Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
Performances
2017: Blood Knot, by Tay Haggarty, MetroArts
2016: Bath Time for Big Boy, Siena Hart, DRIP
Education
2022: Graduate Diploma of Design, TQEC
2018: Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2017: Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
2017: Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of Canberra
2015: Summer Scholarship – Works on Paper, New York School of Visual Art
Press + Publications
2019: Long Live the New Flesh: The Body as Fantasy Space, Interview with SoftSpace ARI
2018: Co-poietic: An Auto-voyeuristic Practice, Siena Hart
2018:In Conversation with Sarah Louise Thompson, InResidence ARI
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