graziela guardino
Guardino’s woven paintings, sculptures, and installations emerge from an investigation into sustainable materials, where matter itself becomes the foundation of her practice. Her work develops through a process of deconstruction, proposing new ways of understanding the relationship between humans and nature, the feminine, and ancestral memory.
Graziela begins by dismantling the linen, reconfiguring both the function and materiality of what is traditionally understood as painting and textile. Rather than constructing through accumulation, her practice involves a process of removal. In doing so, she reshapes the very logic of the medium. Her use of colour, form, material, and composition reimagines weaving not merely as surface or pattern, but as a structure that enters into dialogue with space, pushing the boundaries of both medium and environment.
In her process, Graziela does not renounce the knowledge of the mystic process associated with textile work. In contrast, she freely incorporates her inquiries, regarding this support and the interpretations, into the contemporary art world, in the sense that it still succinctly conjures up in our imaginary. Unaware of its subordinate condition, it produced systematic abstract composition long before suprematism, a knowledge that inscribes concrete and conceptual intangible symbols. Graziela retraces our way of thinking about this construction, from ancestral to contemporary.
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AWARDS
2025 Open Call Piscina Magazine, SãoPaulo, Brazil
2024 Bundanon Residency, Australia
2024 Finalist Grace Cossington Art Award, Australia
2024 Finalist North Sydney Art Prize,Coal Loader Centre of Sustainability, Australia
2024 Finalist Ravenswood Australian Women’s Prize, Ravenswood Girls School, Sydney
2024 Finalist Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Sydney
2024 Finalist Waverley Art Prize, Sydney.
2023 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Australia
2022 Finalist Revista das Artes, São Paulo.
2022 Finalist Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Sydney.
2022 Finalist Waverley Art Prize, Sydney.
2021 Winner Waverley Art Prize, Sydney.
2021 Short-listed, BEERS London annual open call, London.
2020 Semi Finalist) BAM Art Prize, Byron Bay, Sydney.
2019 Long-listed, BEERS London annual open call, London.
2019 Finalist Ravenswood Australian Women’s Prize, Ravenswood Girls School, Sydney.
2018 Finalist Blacktown Art Prize, Blacktown Art Gallery, Sydney.
2018 Finalist Redlands Art Awards 2018, Redlands Art Gallery, Cleveland.
2017 Finalist the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
2017 Highly Commended, Winsor and Newton Scholarship
2016 Finalist Contemporary Art Awards online exhibition
2016 Institute of Contemporary Art Residency, La Salle College, Singapore.
2015 Finalist Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Sydney.
2015 Finalist Waverley Art Prize, Sydney.
2015 Finalist Moreton Bay Region Art Awards, Redcliffe.
2015 Finalist Chippendale New World Art Prize.
2015 Finalist Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW.
COLLECTIONS
Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore.
Alessandro Stein Collection, Milan, and Los Angeles.
Private collections in Australia, Brazil, India, United States, London, and Hong Kong.
EDUCATION
2017 Master of Fine Arts (Research), RMIT with Distinction.
2015 Master of Fine Arts (Coursework), UNSW Art & Design
2013 Short courses, National Art School, Sydney.
2012 Short courses, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney.
2001 Bachelor of Visual Communications, FAAP, SP, Brazil.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 A ossatura das coisas, Arte Formatto, São Paulo, Brazil
2022 Hiatus, Galeria Karla Osorio, São Paulo, Brazil.
2021 A outra metade é silêncio, Arte Formatto, São Paulo, Brazil
2020 Finite infinity, MAY SPACE, Sydney.
2019 The sense of everything as golden and remembered, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney.
Not so dark as a silent house, Rubicon, Melbourne.
2018 The Unity of opposites, Five Walls, Melbourne.
The Subtlety of Colours, Gallery Smith Project Space, Melbourne.
Coexistence, Factory 49, Sydney.
2017 The Breath of Empty Space, Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Sorondo Projects, Barcelona, Spain
2025 Wandering in Reverie, Duo exhibition, Arden White Gallery, Connecticut, US
2025 40 Dimensions,& Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2024 North Sydney Art Prize, Coal Loader Centre of Sustainability, Australia
2024 GRAPHITE, Drawing Space, Sydney
2024 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Prize, Ravenswood Girls School, Sydney
2024 Grace Cossington Art Prize
2024 Waverley Art Prize, Australia
2024 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Australia
2023 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Australia
2023 Home Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2023 SP Arte São Paulo, Brazil
2022 Art Matters, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne,Germany
2022 ArtRio, Brazil
2022 SP Arte, Brazil
2022 India Art Fair, India
2022 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Australia.
2022 Waverley Art Prize, Australia.
2021 (Winner) Waverley Art Prize, Australia.
2021 Sydney Contemporary, May Space Gallery, Sydney.
2021 Diadikasia, Pompom Galerie, Sydney.
2020 By a thread MAY SPACE, Sydney.
2020 SP Arte Sao Paulo, Brazil
2019 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Prize, Ravenswood Girls School, Sydney.
2018 Blacktown Art Prize, Blacktown Art Gallery, Sydney.
2018 Redlands Art Awards 2018, Redlands Art Gallery, Cleveland.
2017 The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
2017 Beyond the Journey, Pao Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong.
2017 Waverley Art Prize, Sydney.
2017 Eternal, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong.
2016 Contemporary Art Awards online exhibition
2016 Fiction Dreams, Institute of Contemporary Art, La Salle College, Singapore.
2016 In-Between, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.
2015 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Sydney.
2015 Waverley Art Prize, Sydney.
2015 Moreton Bay Region Art Awards, Redcliffe.
2015 Chippendale New World Art Prize.
2015 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW.
2014 Botanica, Remnants, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney.
2014 Waverley Art Prize, Sydney.