Dr Christine Dean is an artist, educator and writer who has been exhibiting since 1988. In 2000 she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner fellowship and in 2001 undertook a residency at the 18^th Street Arts Centre, Los Angeles as part of an Australia Council research grant. Over the past three decades the focus of Christine’s art practice has been to create relationships linking abstraction and typography with gender and sexuality. In 1986 Christine completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney majoring in Fine Arts; a Diploma in Secondary Art Education from Sydney Teachers College in 1989; a Graduate Diploma in Painting, Sydney College of the Arts in 1990; a Masters of Fine Arts, University of NSW in 2003 and a PhD from the University of NSW in 2010. Select exhibitions include the Blake Prize, Blaxland Galleries, Sydney 1994; Parking, Casula Powerhouse 1995; Spirit + Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1996; Juice, Art Gallery of NSW 1997; Monochromes, University of Queensland Art Gallery 2000; Anita and Beyond, Penrith Regional Gallery 2003; Points of Departure, Tobey Fine Arts, New York 2007; Avoiding Myth & Message, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2009; Fabrik, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne 2016; The Public Body 2.0, Artspace Sydney 2017; From the Collection, Penrith Regional Gallery, 2022; Thinking Through Pink, Wollongong Art Gallery, 2022; Braving Time, National Art School Gallery, 2022; The Party, UNSW Art & Design Galleries 2023; Qtopia 2023 and the Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse 2024. Collections include the Art Gallery of NSW, Artbank, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Blacktown Arts Centre, Casula Powerhouse, Macquarie University and Penrith Regional Gallery.

- christine.​dean@​nas.​edu.​au