GINA KALABISHIS
Gina Kalabishis lives and works in Melbourne. She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), both from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University and an Advanced Diploma of Arts (Electronic Design and Interactive Multimedia) from Victoria University.
She has featured in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Spain and America and has been selected for number of significant national art prizes, specifically, Winner, The Hellenic Museum and Bank of Cyprus Art Award 2010; Finalist, in the Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2012, a Finalist in the ANL Maritime Art Prize and Exhibition, Mission to Seafarers (2011); a Finalist in the CPM National Print Awards, Tweed River Art Gallery (2011), the Winner in the Emanuel Hirsh Award, Victoria College, Prahran (1994), and Winner, Essendon Artist Award, Essendon Festival Art exhibition (1993).
In 2012 Gina undertook an artist residency at The Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne, and had been a recipient of a number of commissions and grants. Gina Kalabishis established Level 17 Artspace at Victoria University in 2008 and was the Gallery Director until 2011. She currently teaches Digital Imaging and Printmaking in the Diploma of Visual Art at Victoria University. Her work is held in international and Australian private and public collections.
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