Kit Wise

Biography

After graduating from Oxford University and the Royal College of Art with an MFA in Sculpture, Kit Wise received the Wingate Rome Scholarship in Fine Art in 1999, to study at the British School at Rome. In 2001 he received a Boise Travel Scholarship, administered by the Slade School of Fine Art, for subsequent research in New York & Australia. Since moving permanently to Australia in 2002, Wise has received four Australia Council grants in the categories of Presentation & Promotion (as curator), Skills Development (Tokyo Studio Residency), New Work (Emerging) and New Work (Established), as well as grants and commissions from Arts Victoria, Arts Tasmania and the Besen Family Foundation. He completed his PhD at Monash University in 2012. Wise practices as an artist, art writer and curator. He has held 15 solo exhibitions in Australia, America and Italy, exhibited in group exhibitions in Australia, Taiwan, Korea, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Holland, and has published numerous articles, reviews, book chapters and catalogue essays including texts for Australian and international art journals such asFrieze, unMagazine and Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. He was Associate Dean (Education) and an Associate Professor in Fine Art in the Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Australia; as well as the Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Course Coordinator prior to joining the University of Tasmania as Head of the Tasmanian College of the Arts (now the School of Creative Arts).

Research Interest

Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education.