Sarina Lirosi is a Melbourne based multidisciplinary artist and educator of Italian descent who often works with photography and mixed media, including sculpture and collected ephemera. Her practice explores the relationship between desire and loss, particularly regarding nature and all that comes from being human.

Sarina completed a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts from Melbourne University and a Master of Fine Art from RMIT University. She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across Australia. She has been a finalist in several prestigious awards including the Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, the Darebin La Trobe Art Prize, the Artecycle Art Prize, the Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize and the Hutchins Art Award for works on paper. Sarina has also participated in many curated exhibitions including Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse, at the Bendigo Art Gallery; Fictions, at Gippsland Centre for Art & Design presented by Monash University Museum of Art; and Lost & Found at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne. In 2023, Sarina's Project "Shades and Tints" was awarded 2nd place in the "Our World is Beautiful" contest held during Photobook Week in Aarhus, Denmark. 

Curriculum Vitae

Born

Melbourne, Australia

Education

1995 - 1997

Master of Fine Art

RMIT University Melbourne, Australia.

1980 - 1983

Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts)

Melbourne University, Australia.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

2018

2012

2011

2003

2001

1999

1998

1997

1995

Fray, West End Art Space, Melbourne.

ChiaroScuro, West End Art Space, Melbourne.

Forevermore, Mailbox 141, Melbourne.

Ode, Langford120, Melbourne.

Best Before, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne.

Frozen, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne.

Forme, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

Cutwork, works on paper, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

Get Gorgeous, City Art Public Space Transport Shelters, Melbourne.

The Fourth Wall, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

Paintings, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

Selected Group and Award Exhibitions

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2009

2008

2007

2005

2004

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1994

Finalist, PWA AI Award, Aarhus, Denmark.

In Parallel, Museo Italiano, Melbourne.

Parallel Visions, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne.

The Present Negative, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne.

Sculpture Now, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne.

Homologies of Hope, West End Art Space online exhibition on Artsy. 

Finalist, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW.

Parallel Visions, Museo Italiano, Melbourne for NGV Melbourne Design Week.

Here, Not Now, with Emidio Puglielli at Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne.

Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Gallerie, Berlin, Germany.

Poetic Symbol, West End Art Space, Melbourne.

Edge, curated by Irene Barberis and Wilma Tabacco, Langford120, Melbourne.

Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Gallerie, Berlin Germany.

Room: Scheme 5: Garden, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne.

All Teeth and Swagger Red Gallery, Melbourne.

TXT, a collaborative project with Anat Cossen. Red Gallery, Melbourne.

Intersection. The Art of Motherhood, Red Gallery, Melbourne.

Photo Compedium Australia, curated by Mary Meyer, Spot 81 Gallery Sydney.

Re: The Body 2, Curated by Irene Barberis. Langford120, North Melbourne.

Room: A Series of Schemes. Scheme Four - Bathroom/Laundry, Langford120 Melbourne.

Finalist, Artecycle Art Prize, Incinerator Gallery Melbourne.

Finalist, Darebin La Trobe Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne.

Fictions, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design presented by Monash University Museum of Art.

Finalist, Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize The Substation Arts Centre, Newport.

Room: A Series of Schemes. Scheme Two – Kitchen, Linden Gallery, St Kilda.

Room: A Series of Schemes. Scheme Three – Living Room, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick.

Parallax, Maroondah Gallery, Ringwood.

Room: A Series of Schemes. Scheme One – Bedroom, Fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne.

Morning Glory, Pain and Death: Politics, Aesthetics and Legalities Conference, ANU, Canberra.

Seeing Red, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood.

?Lost & Found, Immigration Museum Melbourne.

A Matter of Distance, Linden Gallery St Kilda.

Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery Victoria.

Finalist, The Hutchins Art Award, for works on paper, Tasmania.

Finalist, National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

Finalist, Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham Victoria.

Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair,Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne.

DecorArt Linden Gallery St Kilda.

Making Waves, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy.

Overview, Linden Gallery St Kilda.

The Post Postcard Show, Linden Gallery St Kilda.

Selected Works, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy.

Finalist, Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham Victoria.

Strata, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall.

Summer Show 94, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy.

Out West,  West Space, Footscray.

Grants

2016

2007

1998           

1985           

City of Yarra, Arts Grant

Moreland City Council Project Grant.

Pat Corrigan Artists Grant.

Craft Board of the Australia Council, Work Development Grant.