Shaun Wilson is an Australian artist, film-maker, writer, and educator who for the past 30 years has made sociopolitical work about memory and places.
He has exhibited and screened in over 200 public exhibitions and screenings which include the Cannes Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Venice International Art Fair, Art Cologne, Athens Biennial, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Museum of Contemporary Art Fenosa Union, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Seattle Centre on Contemporary Art, Centre for Contemporary Culture Barcelona, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from RMIT University (1995), a Bachelor of Fine Arts (hons) with distinction from Monash University (1996), and PhDs from the University of Tasmania (2005) and Flinders University (2025). His projects and research have received funding from the National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA), Arts Victoria, Regional Arts Victoria, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victorian State Government, RMIT University, University of Tasmania, the ERGAS Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and private philanthropic funding.
He has filmed and directed the slow cinema series The 51 Paintings Suite, and produced and directed two narrative-based feature films The Last Man in Vegas and Black Garden. His current slow cinema project is the episodic series Dark Garden.
Current research is a third PhD exploring place and domestic cinema at Central Queensland University.
As collaboration, Shaun composes and performs in an AI boy band named 'AREMSTAR based on the mass delete code of *RM in computational science.
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