Christian Thompson (Bidjara)

Born 1978, Gawler, South Australia.

Lives and works in Oxford, Britain.

Christian Thompson is a contemporary artist. He has presented his photographs, videos and performance works in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent group exhibitions include 'Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, Plugin Institute of Contemporary Art, Canada, 'Tell Me Tell Me' Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 'Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age' Sydney International Biennale, 'Before and After Science, The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, ‘Andy and OZ: Parallel Visions’, Andy Warhol Museum USA. ‘Workin Down Under’, Wood Street Galleries, USA. ‘Brilliance’, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands. ‘This Crazy Love’, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. ‘Culture Warriors’, National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. ‘Raised by Wolves’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. He was a studio artist at Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces 2006–2007, Melbourne. He has undertaken residencies at DasArts Advanced Studies for Performing Arts, Amsterdam, Centre for Future Art Research at Arizona State University, Arizona, USA, Blast Theory, Brighton, UK, Greene Street Studio, New York, USAhfg and the Fonderie Darling Studio, Montreal, Canada. He is an Inaugural Charlie Perkins Scholar the first Aboriginal Australian to attend Oxford University where he is currently undertaking a doctorate of Philosophy in Fine Art.