Staff Profiles

Felicity Fenner is a curator of contemporary exhibitions including Primavera 2005 at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and Once Removed, Australia’s group exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale. She is a contributing editor of Art Asia Pacific and publishes regularly in a variety of journals including Art in America and Art and Australia. Felicity is also a founding member of the City of Sydney’s Public Art Advisory Panel.

At UNSW Felicity is Chief Curator at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics. She teaches Exhibition Management and Curatorial Studies and Festivals and Biennales on COFA’s Master of Art Administration program and runs Special Projects to international art events. Her current research towards a major NIEA project explores how artists and designers envisage our future urban and social environments in the context of global warming and climate change.

In 2010 Felicity is completing ARC funded research on the impact of Asian culture on Australian art, a book on curatorial strategies (supported by Australia Council grant funding), and a PhD on the role of place in major international exhibitions (biennales).