Born in Melbourne Australia, Myvanwy Gibson began their artistic career in 2000 as a real-time video artist. They have exhibited and presented paintings, installations and performance videos in London, Milan, New York, Rome, Switzerland, Venice and Vienna, and hold a Master of Visual Art/Painting (completed 2013 in Milan, Italy); a Master of Visual Cultures and Curatorial Practices (completed 2016 in Milan, Italy) and a Master of Research in Arts and Humanities from The Royal College of Art, London (completed 2023).
Their research is a theoretical and philosophical investigation into the nature of being, of becoming/transforming, of language, translation and technology - and above all, of what we might learn if attuned to the natural world, with a specific interest in how humankind can evolve consciously so as to address the current world challenges around the environment, health and well-being and technology.
Their research papers have been published in Academia Letters magazine and in the proceedings of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics.
Exhibitions/Performance works (selected)
2023 Earthwise - exhibition with RCA PhD cohort. Beaconsfield Gallery LONDON, UK
2023 Invited to Audition for Marina Abramović reperformances at the Royal Academy of Arts London, UK
2023 'Relay' re-performance (originally performed at Venice Biennale 2021) London, UK
2023 Inner Workings - Cooke Latham Gallery London, UK
2022 Dissolution - Manuel Zoia Gallery Milan, Italy
2021 Shapeshifting - (Solo) Supergiovane Milan, Italy
2021 Todi Open Doors - Todi, Italy
2019 Ouverture - Supergiovane, Stecca 3 Milan, Italy
2019 Insieme - Spiaggia di Morgicchio, Brindisi, Italy
2019 Sistemica - Spazio Cavo. Milan, Italy
2018 Art Safiential. Graubünden, Switzerland
2017 The Autonomous Biennale. Research Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2016 No Place 3. Suzzara, Italy
2016 International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. Vienna, Austria
2016 Traparentesi (Leggerezza). Nova Milanese, Italy
2016 Fuori (Studifestival 2). Milan, Italy
2016 No Place 2, Fombio, Italy
2016 Fragments of Matter and the Substance of Color. Rome, Italy
2015 World Academy 'Brera e gli artisti dal mondo per l’arte come alimento' Milan, Italy
2015 Brera in Contemporanea (Accademia Aperta). Milan, Italy
2015 Per un pezzo di pane (curated by FAM). Nonostante Marras, Milan, Italy
2014 International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. New York, NY, USA
2014 Combina (Osservatorio 7). San Carpoforo, Milan, Italy
2014 Profane Illumination. Ukradena Gallerie, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Flyenergia prize(finalists exhibition). Milan, Italy
2013 DOEMA. Milan, Italy
2012 Casa Carbotti. San Vito dei Normanni, Puglia, Italy
2011 Passio. Novara, Italy
2006 Chi Chi. Adelaide, Australia
2005 Horse Bazaar. Melbourne, Australia
2004 Independent Day Melbourne Fashion Festival. Melbourne, Australia
2003 Seeing Music. Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Independent Day Melbourne Fashion Festival. Melbourne, Australia
2003 King Cross Arts Festival Sydney, Australia
2002 AMIF opening artist Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Gamma Space, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Independent Day Melbourne Fashion Festival. Melbourne, Australia
2001 Vision St Kilda Film Festival. Melbourne, Australia
2001 AMC Australian Music Week. Sydney, Australia
2001 Experimenta Victorian Arts Centre. Melbourne, Australia
2001 Vision Linden Art Gallery. Melbourne, Australia
Residencies
Alps Art Academy, Graubünden, Switzerland. Edition 2018. Horizontal-Vertical
Publications
Revolution or Evolution? Proceedings XXIV Congress of International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. University of Vienna, Austria 2016
An Anthropononcentric Mind, if such a thing is possible Paper for Consciousness Reframed Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Shanghai, China 2016
The Tautology of Virtual Reality - Becoming the third person perspective Proceedings XXIII Congress of International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. CUNY New York, USA 2014
Education
2022 - 2023 Royal College of Art, Mres Arts and Humanities, London UK
2011 - 2016 Brera Academy of Fine Art, MFA Painting (Hons) Milan, Italy
2013 - 2015 Brera Academy of Fine Art, MA Teaching Visual Cultures/Curatorial Practices (Hons) Milan, Italy
1987 - 1991 University of Technology. BAD Visual Communication. Sydney, Australia