Kristin McIver

Kristin McIver’s multi-disciplinary conceptual practice includes sculpture, painting, sound and installation. Utilizing devices such as language, light, mixed media and new media, the works explore themes of identity and celebrity within the context of participatory and consumer culture. Her recent works examine personal identity and its relationship to social media, and how the participants of digital consumer culture become both the subject and object of the production cycle. McIver’s work proposes that ideologies served to consumers through traditional and social media, empowered by advancing technologies, and driven by market forces, become referents for new models of self-representation. 

Kristin McIver (b. 1974, Melbourne, Australia)received her MFA (2014) and Master of Visual Art (2009) from the University of Melbourne. Her work has been exhibited at the Bechtler Museum of Contemporary Art, North Carolina (2022); La Trobe Art Institute, Australia (2021); Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2014); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2013), among many others. McIver’s important work This Beautiful Day (Halth Skwile Te-staas), was created for the Vancouver Biennale in 2015 during a six-week residency at Quest University, British Columbia. McIver was awarded grants from the Ian Potter Cultural Trust (2014) and the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund (2014), and was awarded the Australian Postgraduate Award (2013), the Melbourne Sculpture Prize (2012), and the Elliot Family Ten Year Collection Award (2009). Significant acquisitions include National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and the La Trobe University Museum of Art, Australia.