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.

RAINER CIAR

B. 1998 Seymour VIC
Western Syd NSW

(he/they)

@rainerciar
rainerciar@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2022

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hon)
University of New South Wales

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

Discord Kittens and Muck Puppies

Pet Palace

Source Material

2025

Fun Park Water Feature Garden: a little orange exhibition

The Keys Are Under The Matt

Ghost in the Machine

Mixed Business 6

2024

Knowing Me in the Quiet at The Bearded Tit, Redfern
Mixed Business 5 at Pari, Parramatta

2023

Constellations

Exchange 23, ACE Parramatta, Parramatta

Open World,

Mixed Business 4

2022

Unboxed / Lahtipakitud, Estonian House, Surrey Hills
Dimension Door, Kudos Offsite Galleries, Randwick
Mixed Business 3 at Pari, Parramatta

2021

Dewdrops

The Annual

2020

The Anti-Annual

CURATION

2025

Stain, Pari, Parramatta

2024

Slow Passages

2023

KIN

MEDIA

2025

What if I am more real when I’m projecting? by Josephine Mead for Art Guide

2023

Interview with Carina Cunha in Framework Collection #34 | Coalescence

SELECT WORK & RESIDENCIES

2026

Feedback Artist Development Lab with PAS & West Space Artist Development, Graville and Melbourne

2025

Artist at Little Orange Studios, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown (Ongoing)

Under the Big Blue Sky

Dear Belly

2023

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

2022

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

2021

Scramble Zine Fair