curriculum vitae
Makeda Duong Australia
Training and Education
2011 - 2013 Bachelor of Visual Arts, majoring in Textiles - University of South Australia
South Australian School of Art, Adelaide, SA
Grants and Funding
2025
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups funding, Creative Australia
2014
Helpmann Academy Emerging Artists Mentorship with Sera Waters
Training and Education
2011 - 2013 Bachelor of Visual Arts, majoring in Textiles - University of South Australia
South Australian School of Art, Adelaide, SA
Grants and Funding
2025
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups funding, Creative Australia
2014
Helpmann Academy Emerging Artists Mentorship with Sera Waters
Residencies
2025
Hyphenated Projects Micro Residency - Includes Starter Pack Mentorship with Lara Chamas, VIC
2022
Guildhouse Studios Resident Artist - SA
2020
Nexus Arts SALA Festival Studio Residency – SA
Includes Artist Mentorship – Selected Mentor Cheryl Hutchens
Awards
2025
Finalist Tatiara Art Prize, Walkway Gallery, SA
Finalist Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, VIC
2022
Winner of the Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize - Major Prize
2020
Winner of the Don Dunstan Foundation SALA Award
Collections
Adelaide Migration Museum
Solo Exhibitions
2023
I Am Uncomfortable - Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, SA
2020
Mixed Race Female - as part of South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA)– Nexus Arts, Adelaide SA
2015
The Cursed Boyfriend Sweater - Urban Cow Studio, Adelaide SA
2025
Hyphenated Projects Micro Residency - Includes Starter Pack Mentorship with Lara Chamas, VIC
2022
Guildhouse Studios Resident Artist - SA
2020
Nexus Arts SALA Festival Studio Residency – SA
Includes Artist Mentorship – Selected Mentor Cheryl Hutchens
Awards
2025
Finalist Tatiara Art Prize, Walkway Gallery, SA
Finalist Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, VIC
2022
Winner of the Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize - Major Prize
2020
Winner of the Don Dunstan Foundation SALA Award
Collections
Adelaide Migration Museum
Solo Exhibitions
2023
I Am Uncomfortable - Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, SA
2020
Mixed Race Female - as part of South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA)– Nexus Arts, Adelaide SA
2015
The Cursed Boyfriend Sweater - Urban Cow Studio, Adelaide SA
Group Exhibitions
2026
Between Tongues, Pari Gallery, NSW
2025
Limitless, The Mill Fundraiser Exhibition, The Mill, SA
2024
NEOTERICA, Independent artist-led by Ray Harris, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Train Station
Yucky, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, SA
2023
Exuberance, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
Residue and Response, 5th Tamworth Textiles Triennial, NSW, Toured Australia regionally 2023 - 2025
2022
Dream Job, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Gallery M, SA
2021
Embroidery: Oppression to Expression, The David Roche Foundation Museum, SA
Flotsam and Jetsam, Post Office Projects, SA
Contact, Kerry Packer Kivic Gallery, UniSA City West Campus, SA
50/50 (online), Hamilton Gallery, NETS Victoria
2019
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche, Jamfactory at Seppeltsfield SA
Stitching Yarns, Art Pod, SA
2018
Release the Beast, Brunswick St Gallery, VIC
2017
Disperse, Urban Cow Studio, SA
FRAN Fest @ Artroom5, Artroom5, SA
Frome Street Exhibition, Urban Cow Studio, SA
2015
Diverse Feminisms, West Bar, UniSA City West Campus, SA
Crossing Threads, Carclew Foyer, SA
2014
The Healing Cloth, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, SA
Feminine Strands, Metropolitan Hotel, SA
Chopped Collective Presents: Chopping (SALA) Adelaide City Library, SA
2013
Full Circle, University of South Australia Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, SA
Dis-Em-Body, West Bar, UniSA City West Campus, SA
Craft/Work, South West Community Centre, SA
Chopped, The Grace Emily Hotel, SA
2026
Between Tongues, Pari Gallery, NSW
2025
Limitless, The Mill Fundraiser Exhibition, The Mill, SA
2024
NEOTERICA, Independent artist-led by Ray Harris, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Train Station
Yucky, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, SA
2023
Exuberance, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
Residue and Response, 5th Tamworth Textiles Triennial, NSW, Toured Australia regionally 2023 - 2025
2022
Dream Job, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Gallery M, SA
2021
Embroidery: Oppression to Expression, The David Roche Foundation Museum, SA
Flotsam and Jetsam, Post Office Projects, SA
Contact, Kerry Packer Kivic Gallery, UniSA City West Campus, SA
50/50 (online), Hamilton Gallery, NETS Victoria
2019
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche, Jamfactory at Seppeltsfield SA
Stitching Yarns, Art Pod, SA
2018
Release the Beast, Brunswick St Gallery, VIC
2017
Disperse, Urban Cow Studio, SA
FRAN Fest @ Artroom5, Artroom5, SA
Frome Street Exhibition, Urban Cow Studio, SA
2015
Diverse Feminisms, West Bar, UniSA City West Campus, SA
Crossing Threads, Carclew Foyer, SA
2014
The Healing Cloth, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, SA
Feminine Strands, Metropolitan Hotel, SA
Chopped Collective Presents: Chopping (SALA) Adelaide City Library, SA
2013
Full Circle, University of South Australia Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, SA
Dis-Em-Body, West Bar, UniSA City West Campus, SA
Craft/Work, South West Community Centre, SA
Chopped, The Grace Emily Hotel, SA
Presentations
2021
Artist Talk at The David Roche Museum with Margaret Lee, Caitlin Bowe, Britt Burton, as part of Embroidery: Oppression to Expression exhibition
Artist Talk at Post Office Projects Gallery with Cheryl Hutchens, Deborah Prior, Kay Lawrence, as part of Flotsam and Jetsam exhibition
Artist Talk on Zoom for AGSA Gallery Guides
revision: Tools for Advocacy – online zoom presentation with Esther Anatolitis, Kelli McCluskey, Sally Blackwood, as part of Guildhouse reVision online program 2021
2018
Artist talk at the Australian Lace Guild
2016
Displayed artworks at Intersections: 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference as a featured artist
2015
Short talk on artwork as part of Elizabeth Emery’s presentation ‘Diverse Feminisms: Contemporary Feminist Practices in Visual Art’ at Transgressions: 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference
Bibliography
ABC Radio Adelaide 2022, Drive, Oz Asia Festival Segment, broadcast 04/11/22, www.abc.net.au/adelaide/programs/drive/drive/14094484
Steph Fuller, SALA Podcast Episode 4, ‘DIY Audio Tour’ 2020, https://www.salafestival.com/diy-audio-tour/
Olivia De Zilva, Adelaide Review, ‘Art on her sleeve’, article, Issue #486, August 2020, Adelaide
Angela Skujins, CityMag, Indaily, ‘Makeda Duong and the warp and weft of identity’, online article, posted Aug 21 2020, URL: https://citymag.indaily.com.au/culture/makeda-duong-and-the-warp-and-weft-of-identity/
Emery Elizabeth, 'From Stitching by Candlelight to Crafting Online: Textiles, Self-representation and Continuing Histories of Subversive Stitches,' Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles and Feminism, edited by Sarah-Joy Ford, PO Publishing, London, 2017
Zabidi Masya, Collage, Adelaide University Art History Club 2017, ‘Artist Spotlight #65: Makeda Duong’, online blog post of interview, posted 19/04/2017, URL: https://collageadelaide.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/artist-
spotlight-65-makeda-duong/
Radio Adelaide 2014, ‘Art or craft? Textiles chopped from SA study’ Online podcast of radio interview, broadcast 16/03/2013, University of Adelaide, URL: https://radio.adelaide.edu.au/art-or-craft-textiles-chopped-from-sa-study/
Perri Sophie, ‘Exhibition Craft/Work on show at South West Community Centre on Sturt St, Adelaide’, City Messenger, 2013
Volunteer Work
Gallery sitting
December 2013 University of South Australia Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
November 2011 Feltspace Gallery
2021
Artist Talk at The David Roche Museum with Margaret Lee, Caitlin Bowe, Britt Burton, as part of Embroidery: Oppression to Expression exhibition
Artist Talk at Post Office Projects Gallery with Cheryl Hutchens, Deborah Prior, Kay Lawrence, as part of Flotsam and Jetsam exhibition
Artist Talk on Zoom for AGSA Gallery Guides
revision: Tools for Advocacy – online zoom presentation with Esther Anatolitis, Kelli McCluskey, Sally Blackwood, as part of Guildhouse reVision online program 2021
2018
Artist talk at the Australian Lace Guild
2016
Displayed artworks at Intersections: 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference as a featured artist
2015
Short talk on artwork as part of Elizabeth Emery’s presentation ‘Diverse Feminisms: Contemporary Feminist Practices in Visual Art’ at Transgressions: 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference
Bibliography
ABC Radio Adelaide 2022, Drive, Oz Asia Festival Segment, broadcast 04/11/22, www.abc.net.au/adelaide/programs/drive/drive/14094484
Steph Fuller, SALA Podcast Episode 4, ‘DIY Audio Tour’ 2020, https://www.salafestival.com/diy-audio-tour/
Olivia De Zilva, Adelaide Review, ‘Art on her sleeve’, article, Issue #486, August 2020, Adelaide
Angela Skujins, CityMag, Indaily, ‘Makeda Duong and the warp and weft of identity’, online article, posted Aug 21 2020, URL: https://citymag.indaily.com.au/culture/makeda-duong-and-the-warp-and-weft-of-identity/
Emery Elizabeth, 'From Stitching by Candlelight to Crafting Online: Textiles, Self-representation and Continuing Histories of Subversive Stitches,' Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles and Feminism, edited by Sarah-Joy Ford, PO Publishing, London, 2017
Zabidi Masya, Collage, Adelaide University Art History Club 2017, ‘Artist Spotlight #65: Makeda Duong’, online blog post of interview, posted 19/04/2017, URL: https://collageadelaide.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/artist-
spotlight-65-makeda-duong/
Radio Adelaide 2014, ‘Art or craft? Textiles chopped from SA study’ Online podcast of radio interview, broadcast 16/03/2013, University of Adelaide, URL: https://radio.adelaide.edu.au/art-or-craft-textiles-chopped-from-sa-study/
Perri Sophie, ‘Exhibition Craft/Work on show at South West Community Centre on Sturt St, Adelaide’, City Messenger, 2013
Volunteer Work
Gallery sitting
December 2013 University of South Australia Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
November 2011 Feltspace Gallery
I would like to acknowledge that I live and work on the lands of the Kaurna people, and that this is stolen land. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
