Jordana Bragg

"Jordana Bragg is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist currently based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Co-founder of the artist run initiatives Meanwhile (NZ) and Friends are Artists/Freunde sind Künstler (DE), Bragg's independent practice spans curation, written form, live performance, still and moving image. Each work documenting contemporary shifts in fluidity - gender and identity politics." - JB

Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA Hons), Massey University, Wellington, 2015

Selected Exhibition History
2018
Under Your Skin You Look Divine, Basement Shop, Auckland
Solo Video Screening, Felt Space, Adelaide, Australia
Forecasting, The Performance Arcade, Wellington
Super Sin Inaction, Sister Gallery Online, Adelaide, Australia

2017
Slumber Party, Meanwhile Gallery, Wellington
The Wrong Biennale, Nervous Online
I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, because I don’t hate you; I love you, Artspace and Michael Lett, Auckland
The Devil’s Blind Spot: Recent Strategies in New Zealand P,hotography, Christchurch Public Art Gallery
Enjoy Telethon Artists in Love – Relationship Analysis, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington
A Little Faith, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth

2016
SOLO 2016, The Dowse, Wellington, (group)
The Devil’s Blind Spot, Christchurch Public Art Gallery, Christchurch (group)
Ann Shelton’s The Physical Garden (performance series), Auckland Public Art Gallery, Auckland
Gardens Against the Sun, (curation), Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington
Pool Party, MEANWHILE Artist Run Initiative, Wellington (group)
Break Me/Harder, Room Gallery, Auckland (group)
Friends are artists, Büro für Bestimmte Dinge, Berlin, Germany (group)

2015
18 easy pieces, Body Festival, Christchurch (solo)
Love Feminisms, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington (group)
Wellington stay_on.pdf, 8 Egmont St, Wellington (group)
Silicon Dry Computer Systems and Wet Living Biologies, Physics Room, Christchurch (group)
Hers: An Exhibition Celebrating Women Artists in Wellington, 17 Tory Street, Wellington (group)
Give me ur attention VOLUME II, The Audio Foundation, Auckland (group)
i love you in my dreams, 5 Brown St, Wellington (co-curated by Jordana Bragg and Constance McDonald) (group)
TITLE TITLE WHATS A TITLE, Yes Collective gallery, Auckland (group)

Panels
Who Are You Seeing? Panel Discussion (Chair). As part of the two-day symposium Agency and Aesthetics, Auckland Art Gallery (2017)
Hana Aoake and Jordana Bragg, on Art and the internet (artist talk), The Dowse Art Museum in association with Dowse Solo (2016)
Four Waves of Feminism: The Ongoing Conversation in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Art and Art Histories, presented by The Dowse Art Museum and Enjoy Public Art Gallery (2015)
Choker: 20 years on, in conversation with Priscilla Pitts, Roberta Thornley and Robert Leonard, a panel Discussion in association with Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation, City Gallery Wellington (2015)

Bibliography
Swimming pools and waves, Megan Dunn on the fourth wave Feminism, Art News New Zealand, Summer (2016)
Lekamge, D. Bulletin B.186 for The Devil’s Blind Spot (Recent Strategies in New Zealand Photography) (2016)