Lu Forsberg is an artist and researcher working with image and sound technologies to examine the social, cultural and political dimensions of colonial capitalist extraction.

luforsberg (at) gmail (dot) com

CV
Upcoming
2024-25

Vitocco Legacy Research Commission, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW

Education
2021

Master of Fine Arts, UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. Sydney, NSW

2016

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) (Honours), QUT. Brisbane. QLD

2012

Diploma of Visual Art, South Bank Institute of Technology, Brisbane. QLD

Solo Projects
2021

Buried Sunshine (Coal Imperialism), UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture, Sydney. NSW

2018

Transparency and other worries, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane. QLD

2017

everyone needs a little time away, CLUTCH Collective, Brisbane. QLD

2017

Sedimentary Surfaces, Riddoch Art Gallery, SA

Selected Group Exhibitions and projects
2023

Logistics et cetera, UNSWADA Lecture Theatre, Sydney, NSW

2023

Film Screening w/ Melody Paloma, Composite Moving Image, Melbourne, VIC

2019

BLOOM, video program co-curated by Spence Messih & EO Gill, Sydney. NSW

2019

Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscapes, UNSW Galleries, Sydney. NSW

2018

NAVA Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship, UNSW Galleries, Sydney. NSW

2018

Nature Strip, The Soylent Spot, Brisbane. QLD 

2018

TRANSBOUNDARIES, QUT Art Museum. Brisbane. QLD

2018

Queer Pride Symposium, September 2018, Institute of Modern Art. Brisbane. QLD (with Callum McGrath)

2018

First Thursdays: Serious Queer Business, Institute of Modern Art. Brisbane. QLD, (with Callum McGrath)

2017

Donnas on the Run: Exhuming the Australian Badlands, Metro Arts, Brisbane. QLD, (with Sally Molloy)

2016

Obnoxious Ladies in the Australian Landscape, Canberra Contemporary Art Space. ACT

2016

SOLID GOLD, CORFLUTE ARI, Brisbane. QLD (with Sally Molloy)

2016

Spring Break, Frank Moran Memorial Hall. QUT. Brisbane. QLD

2015

R U srs? Parer Place Urban Screens. QUT, QLD

Awards / Prizes / Scholarships / Grants
2019

University Postgraduate Award, UNSW Art, Design & Architecture, Sydney.  NSW

2018

The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship, NAVA. Research trip, Sweden.

2018

Arts Queensland QASP funding for Transparency and other worries, IMA, Brisbane, QLD

2017

Recipient of the Jeremy Hynes Award, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. QLD

2017

Whyalla Art Prize (shortlist), Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla, SA

2013

QUT Vice-Chancellors Scholarship.

Professional Practice
2019

Panellist alongside Rachel O’Reilly, Joe Collins (University of Sydney) and Livia Rezende (UNSW ADA). Symposium: From Site to Place, UNSW Galleries, Sydney. NSW

2018

Producer, Liquid Architecture, A Plant is a Community. Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. QLD

2018

Producer, Liquid Architecture, Nature's Right. Spring Hill Reservoir. Brisbane. QLD

2018

Producer, Liquid Architecture, Mangrove, Casuarina, Cotton Tree, Palm. HOTA. Gold Coast. QLD

2018

Panellist alongside Angela Tiatia and Tess Maunder for Tuvalu, 2016, Kuiper Projects, Brisbane. QLD

2018

Panellist, Bridging Archives and creative practice: four responses, with Ryan Presley, Sam Cranstoun and Elysha Rei, moderated by Tess Maunder, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD

2018

Production Assitant, Netherworlds, Spring Hill Reservoir, McCarthy Swann Projects. Brisbane. QLD

2018

NAVA in partnership with Cut Thumb ARI, New Space: a mentorship program for emerging ARI’s, Brisbane. QLD

2017

Program Co-ordinator, THE WEIGHT OF LIGHT, Spring Hill Reservoirs, Brisbane, QLD Curated by Mcarthy Swann Projects. QLD

2017

Co-Director, Cut Thumb Laundry, 2017 Metro Arts ARI-In-Residence. Metro Arts, Brisbane.

2016

Public Programme Co-ordinator, Frontier Imaginaries, IMA, QUT Art Museum. Curated by Vivian Ziherl.

2016

Administration and gallery assistant, IMA, Brisbane. QLD

2016

Co-Director, Cut Thumb Artist-run initiative. Brisbane. QLD

2015

Co-Director, Cut Thumb Artist-run initiative. Brisbane. QLD

2015

Technical support, AAANZ conference, QAGOMA, Brisbane. QLD

2015

Administration and gallery assistant, IMA, Brisbane. QLD

2015

Social Media Intern, The Walls Art Space, Miami, Gold Coast. QLD

2014

Administration and gallery assistant, IMA, Brisbane. QLD

Writing Practice
2017

Art + Australia, A+A online review: Meth(odology) Lab: making TIME, Camila Marambio and Amaara Raheem, Goldin+Senneby's Standard Length of a Miracle (The Bootleg), IMA, Brisbane.

2017

Un Magazine, un extended: reviews (online). Review: Material Politics, IMA, Brisbane.

2016

Un Magazine Vol. 10. Review: Leen Rieth's Body Information Workshops, Boxcopy.

Residencies
2022

Parramatta Artists' Studios Open Digital Residency, Sydney. NSW

2017

12 month Artist-Run Initiative In Residence, Metro Arts, Brisbane.

Curatorial Practice
2017

Cut Thumb Laundry 2017 program, Metro Arts, Brisbane. QLD

2016

HOMEGROUND, Cut Thumb ARI w/ Box Copy Contemporary art space, Brisbane. QLD

2016

Cut Thumb Program, co-curated w/ Callum McGrath. Cut Thumb ARI, Brisbane. QLD

2015

Cut Thumb Program, co-curated w/ Callum McGrath. Cut Thumb ARI, Brisbane. QLD

2014

OCCUPIED, Metro Arts. Brisbane. QLD

Text / Publications
2018

Anna Dunhill, Lu Forsberg: Transparency and other worries, Art Guide Australia

2018

Felicity Scarce, Art + Australia, A+A online review: Transparency and other worries

2017

John Neylon, The Adelaide Review, Skin Deep, Sedimentary Surfaces Review.

2017

Linda Marie Walker, Earth In Us, Sedimentary Surfaces, Exhibition Catalogue.

2016

Sabrina Baker, Obnoxious Ladies in the Australian Landscape, Exhibition Catalogue.

Lu Forsberg, Buried Sunshine (Coal Imperialism), 2019-2021, Three-channel HD Video, colour, sound, (still image from video).

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