LINDA STUDENA

Linda Studena (she/her) is a Czech born Australian artist based in Naarm, Melbourne, arriving in Australia as a refugee in the early 80’s. Her practice responds to cultural identity; exploring the personal, social, and political through photography, print, drawing and sculpture. Linda’s creative interests are informed by a personal history of displacement, and incorporate ideas of presence and absence, traces of knowledge, symbols of culture and remembrance. During completion of a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University in 2002, she completed a year-long postgraduate program at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague, Czech Republic, funded by the Freedman Foundation Scholarship, NAVA. Linda recently received the People’s Choice Award at the Incinerator Art Award 2023 Art for Social Change, Masters Mentoring VCA Art Award 2022, and completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts at Melbourne University with First Class Honours.

She lives and works on the unceded lands of the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, Victoria.