16 Facts About Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt's works are held in the collections of the Tate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia and Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Tracey Moffatt was born in Brisbane in 1960 to a white father and an Aboriginal mother.

Tracey Moffatt holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982, and received an honorary doctorate in 2004.

In 2020, Tracey Moffatt was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.

In 1997 Tracey Moffatt held her "first substantial exhibition to date" which established her artistic reputation internationally, at Dia Art Foundation in the United States, featuring numerous works including Up in the Sky and Heaven.

In 2000, Tracey Moffatt's work was amongst those by eight individual or collaborative groups of Indigenous Australian artists included in a major exhibition of Australian Indigenous art held in the prestigious Nicholas Hall at the Hermitage Museum in Russia.

In 2017 Tracey Moffatt was selected to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale for her solo exhibition "My Horizon", which was curated by Natalie King.

Tracey Moffatt holds a mirror up to a social landscape that we all understand, exposing the dynamics of power that we consume and enact.

In 2024, Tracey Moffatt created the gothic photographic series of eight images, The Burning, which was first presented at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

Tracey Moffatt's feature film Bedevil is a trio of narratives themed around spirits and hauntings.

Tracey Moffatt makes explicit references to Australian art history, drawing parallels between Indigenous history and the recording the landscape by non-Indigenous artists by quoting artists such as Frederick McCubbin's The Pioneer.

Tracey Moffatt uses different aspects of colonization of Aboriginal people to illustrate the damage and hurtful events that took place, reminding viewers of the past colonial history.

Tracey Moffatt's film, Heaven, is a voyeuristic montage of footage depicting men getting changed at Australian beaches.

Tracey Moffatt's Artist is a collection of clips from movies and television programs that depict artists at work, at play and in the act of creation.

Tracey Moffatt was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.

Tracey Moffatt was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2016 Australia Day Honours.