Arini Byng
Studio portrait of Arini Byng onsite at Gertrude Contemporary, 2024, photography: Machiko Abe2023 - 2025
Arini Byng (born in 1987 on Gadigal Country) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with the affective qualities of materials, gestures and settings; undertaking exercises in image, movement and form to negotiate political scenes. Arini’s output traverses photography, performance, video, and painting, to create complex, intimate studies in gesture and action. In recent work, Arini has incorporated her personal family archive to navigate lived experiences. This work draws on her Black-American-Anglo-Celtic heritage to explore how culture and memory shape selfhood, providing a distinctive and personal perspective on the complexities of diasporic identity.
Recent exhibitions and performances include Performing Care presented by Performance Review (2025); NGV Australia’s Melbourne Now (2023); Some voices carry, presented at CAVES for PHOTO Australia and The Singapore International Photography Festival (2022); Group Exhibition at ReadingRoom (2022); and I felt it when you fell, performed at Bus Projects (2021), Gertrude Glasshouse (2022), and Ararat Gallery TAMA (2022). Selected works have been published by Perimeter Editions, Higher Arc, Le Roy and Photofile; with work held in the publication collections of V&A, MoMA, MOCA and Tate Modern.
