Pilar Mata Dupont is a highly-acclaimed Australian artist, who works across film, photography, archive, performance, and design investigating ideas of nationalism, identity, and the triggers of nostalgia. As well as her solo practice she works in a highly recognised collaboration with Tarryn Gill and additionally works in partnership with Thea Costantino and Gill as multi-artform collective Hold Your Horses. In recent years Mata Dupont has traveled extensively, researching and producing solo works in Finland, North and South Korea, Argentina, Germany, Austria, and the UK.
She has exhibited her collaborative and solo work at galleries such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; on Cockatoo Island for the 'Biennale of Sydney' 2010 and in fairs and festivals like Art Basel, Miami; the Berwick Film and Media Arts festival (UK), the 9th NÄKYMÄ public art exhibition (Finland) and recently had a survey of her solo video work at the CineB Film Festival (Chile). In 2010 she and Tarryn Gill won the prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize and had their first survey show, 'STADIUM' at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2011.
In 2012 Mata Dupont received a mid-career fellowship from the Department of Culture and the Arts, Western Australia, to create a major work about her turbulent family history over six months in Buenos Aires. In 2014 Mata Dupont will have a solo show at the Pori Art Museum in Finland showing her Kaiho film trilogy that she made between 2011 and 2013 throughout Finland. In September she will show recent work at the SeMA Biennale: Mediacity Seoul, at the Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea.
Mata Dupont is represented in collections including Artbank, Stadiums Queensland, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the City of Perth, the Kerry Stokes Collection, and the University of Western Australia collection.
She has exhibited her collaborative and solo work at galleries such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; on Cockatoo Island for the 'Biennale of Sydney' 2010 and in fairs and festivals like Art Basel, Miami; the Berwick Film and Media Arts festival (UK), the 9th NÄKYMÄ public art exhibition (Finland) and recently had a survey of her solo video work at the CineB Film Festival (Chile). In 2010 she and Tarryn Gill won the prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize and had their first survey show, 'STADIUM' at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2011.
In 2012 Mata Dupont received a mid-career fellowship from the Department of Culture and the Arts, Western Australia, to create a major work about her turbulent family history over six months in Buenos Aires. In 2014 Mata Dupont will have a solo show at the Pori Art Museum in Finland showing her Kaiho film trilogy that she made between 2011 and 2013 throughout Finland. In September she will show recent work at the SeMA Biennale: Mediacity Seoul, at the Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea.
Mata Dupont is represented in collections including Artbank, Stadiums Queensland, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the City of Perth, the Kerry Stokes Collection, and the University of Western Australia collection.
