Laresa Kosloff

Dr Laresa Kosloff is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art. She makes performative videos, short films, audio works and participatory artworks. Her practice examines various representational strategies, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday. Some of her projects are structured around language, whilst others use slapstick physicality to communicate ideas. Recurrent themes across Laresa’s practice include humour and tension between received cultural values, individual agency and free will.

Laresa has held solo exhibitions at Institue Modern Art, Brisbane (2023); Sutton gallery, Melbourne (2018, 2021); Monash Prato Centre, Italy (2015); MUMA (2014); Margaret Lawrence Gallery (2012); Artspace, Sydney (2009); ACCA @ Mirka, (2008). She recently created new commissions for ‘Who’s Afraid of Public Space?’ (ACCA, 2022) and Buxton Contemporary Light Source Commissions (2021). Laresa was awarded the Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize in 2023; the Incinerator Art for Social Change Award in 2021 and was a finalist in the 67th Blake Art Prize, 2022. Her work is held in private and public collections including the NGV, Monash University Collection, the Michael Buxton collection, ACMI, Artbank and City of Melbourne. She has participated in curated exhibitions locally and internationally including the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art; the Auckland Triennial; La générale, Sèvres, France; Gertrude Contemporary; Magazinno D’Arte Moderna, Rome; The Dowse Arts Museum, NZ; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, NZ. She is represented by Sutton Gallery in Melbourne.