Rainer Ciar is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer working across Dharug Country/Western Sydney. Research and play driven, his practice draws from a network of influences ranging from the tensions between binaries, anime, internet memories, queer abstraction, transness and hiding, isolation and the poetics of mud. Working with a myriad of 2D, 3D, and digital materials, Rainer focuses on tactility and care in order to combine and synthesise new work.
Rainer holds a BFA (Hons) from UNSW, and is a co-director at Pari, Parramatta and an artist at Little Orange Studios, Campbelltown. Their work has been exhibited at Pari, Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, AGNSW, Firstdraft, and Outer Space, Brisbane.
B. 1998 Seymour VIC
EDUCATION
University of New South Wales
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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Discord Kittens and Muck Puppies
at Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo
- Pet Palace Mural with Little Orange, AGNSW, Sydney
- Source Material with Little Orange, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown
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Fun Park Water Feature Garden: a little orange exhibition at Bobby’s Container as part of Mike Hewson’s The Keys Are Under The Matt, AGNSW, Sydney
- Ghost in the Machine at Outerspace, Brisbane
- Mixed Business 6 at Pari, Parramatta
Mixed Business 5 at Pari, Parramatta
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Constellations with Pari at the Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre, Blacktown
- Exchange 23, ACE Parramatta, Parramatta
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Open World, Pari, Parramatta
- Mixed Business 4 at Pari, Parramatta
- Unboxed / Lahtipakitud, Estonian House, Surrey Hills
- Dimension Door, Kudos Offsite Galleries, Randwick
- Mixed Business 3 at Pari, Parramatta
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Dewdrops at The Waiting Room Project, Sydney Sexual Health Centre
- The Annual at UNSW Galleries, Paddington
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The Anti-Annual at Flow Studios 88, Newtown
CURATION
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Slow Passages, Pari, Parramatta
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KIN, Pari, Parramatta
MEDIA
SELECT WORK & RESIDENCIES
- Feedback Artist Development Lab with PAS & West Space Artist Development, Graville and Melbourne
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Artist at Little Orange Studios, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown (Ongoing)
- Graphic Design for Under the Big Blue Sky and Dear Belly at Liverpool Powerhouse, Casula
- Co-Director, Graphic Designer, Installer, and helping hand at Pari, Parramatta (Ongoing)
- Beading Workshop Facilitator, Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre, Blacktown
- Exchange 23, ACE Parramatta
- Illustration Commissions (Pages 5 and 9), for Pride at Play Exhibition Catalogue, Sydney College of the Arts Project Space, Camperdown
- D&D Workshop Facilitator, for Dimension Door Public Programming
- Beading Workshop Facilitator, Pari, Parramatta
- Reading Performance, Fatal Crush X Framework Launch : Mythic, The Blackbox at UNSW, Paddington
- MAGICAL LEXICOGRAPHICAL in Framework Collection #35 | Mythic
- The Ropes Artist Development Program at Pari, Parramatta
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Scramble Zine Fair at Goodspace, Redfern