Bio
︎ SYD/AU
︎ rainerciar@gmail.com
Rainer Ciar (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and freelance illustrator and graphic designer living and working on Dharug Country (Western Sydney). Interested in internet and pop culture, gaming, and their own experiences of gender and youth, Rainer explores and plays with the tension between imagination, nostalgia, and isolation in their work. Their diverse practice includes sculpture and installation, illustration, writing and digital artmaking, playing with visibility and abstraction as they explore different topics.
Rainer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at UNSW, and is a co-director at Pari, Parramatta. Their work has been exhibited at Pari, Kudos UNSW, and the Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, and they have worked with ACE Parramatta.
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EDUCATION
2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at UNSW
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Knowing Me in the Quiet at The Bearded Tit, Redfern
2023 Mixed Business 4 at Pari, Parramatta
Constellations with Pari at the Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre, Blacktown
Exchange 23, ACE Parramatta, Parramatta
Open World, Pari, Parramatta
2022 Unboxed / Lahtipakitud, Estonian House, Surrey Hills
Dimension Door, Kudos Offsite Galleries, Randwick
Mixed Business at Pari, Parramatta
2021 Dewdrops at The Waiting Room Project, Sydney Sexual Health Centre
The Annual at UNSW Galleries, Paddington
2020 The Anti-Annual at Flow Studios 88, Newtown
CURATION
2024 Slow Passages, Pari, Parramatta
2023 KIN, Pari, Parramatta
WRITING AND MEDIA
2023 Interview with Carina Cunha in Framework Collection #34 | Coalescence
2022 MAGICAL LEXICOGRAPHICAL in Framework Collection #35 | Mythic
WORK AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Co-Director, Pari, Parramatta
Exchange 23, ACE Parramatta
2022 Studio Internship, Clay Sydney, Enmore & Marrickville
OPPORTUNITIES
2023 Beading Workshop Facilitator, Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre, Blacktown
Illustration Commissions (Pages 5 and 9), for Pride at Play Exhibition Catalogue, Sydney College of the Arts Project Space, Camperdown
2022 Dnd Workshop Facilitator, for Dimension Door Public Programming
Studio Internship, Clay Sydney, Enmore & Marrickville
Beading Workshop Facilitator, Pari, Parramatta
Reading Performance, Fatal Crush X Framework Launch : Mythic, The Blackbox at UNSW, Paddington
Artist Workshops, The Ropes at Pari
2021 Zine Fair, Scramble at Goodspace, Redfern
2024 Knowing Me in the Quiet at The Bearded Tit, Redfern
2023 Mixed Business 4 at Pari, Parramatta
Constellations with Pari at the Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre, Blacktown
Exchange 23, ACE Parramatta, Parramatta
Open World, Pari, Parramatta
2022 Unboxed / Lahtipakitud, Estonian House, Surrey Hills
Dimension Door, Kudos Offsite Galleries, Randwick
Mixed Business at Pari, Parramatta
2021 Dewdrops at The Waiting Room Project, Sydney Sexual Health Centre
The Annual at UNSW Galleries, Paddington
2020 The Anti-Annual at Flow Studios 88, Newtown
CURATION
2024 Slow Passages, Pari, Parramatta
2023 KIN, Pari, Parramatta
WRITING AND MEDIA
2023 Interview with Carina Cunha in Framework Collection #34 | Coalescence
2022 MAGICAL LEXICOGRAPHICAL in Framework Collection #35 | Mythic
WORK AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Co-Director, Pari, Parramatta
Exchange 23, ACE Parramatta
2022 Studio Internship, Clay Sydney, Enmore & Marrickville
OPPORTUNITIES
2023 Beading Workshop Facilitator, Leo Kelly Blacktown Art Centre, Blacktown
Illustration Commissions (Pages 5 and 9), for Pride at Play Exhibition Catalogue, Sydney College of the Arts Project Space, Camperdown
2022 Dnd Workshop Facilitator, for Dimension Door Public Programming
Studio Internship, Clay Sydney, Enmore & Marrickville
Beading Workshop Facilitator, Pari, Parramatta
Reading Performance, Fatal Crush X Framework Launch : Mythic, The Blackbox at UNSW, Paddington
Artist Workshops, The Ropes at Pari
2021 Zine Fair, Scramble at Goodspace, Redfern