Curriculum Vitae

Representation

Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin

Selected Grants, Awards & Residencies

2026 International Artist Residency: AGNSW x Cité Internationales des Arts, Paris

2025 Finalist: Archibald Prize

2025 Finalist: Lester Prize

2024 Winner: Flinders Lane Gallery Exploration Award

2024 Finalist: Lester Prize

2024 Finalist: Churchie Emerging Art Prize

2024 Finalist: National Emerging Art Prize

2024 Finalist: Len Fox Painting Prize

2023 Finalist: Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize

2023 Winner: Kennedy Prize

2023 Finalist: Lethbridge 20000 Art Award

2023 Grant: Department of Arts & Culture

2022 Semi Finalist: Doug Moran Portrait Prize

2022 Finalist: Mosman Art Prize

2022 Grant : Minderoo Foundation Artist Grant

2022 Finalist: Percival Portrait Prize

2021 Finalist: Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize

2021 Finalist: Blake Prize

2021 Finalist: Kennedy Prize

2020 Finalist: Lester Prize

Solo Exhibitions

2026 'Small Fires Everywhere, All The Time', Michael Reid Sydney, NSW

2025 'The Act Of Putting It Back Together', Michael Reid Sydney, NSW

2025 'A Knot In The Thread, Flinders Lane Gallery, VIC

2023 'The Story Of Us', Cleaver St & Co, WA

Selected Fairs + Group Exhibitions

2026 'RE-BORN' - Melbourne Design Week, Artbank, AUS

2026 'Best In Show', Michael Reid Murrurundi, AUS

2026 Art SG, 193 Gallery, Singapore, SG

2025 Untitled Art Fair, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Miami, USA

2025 Sydney Contemporary, Michael Reid Sydney, AUS

2025 India Art Fair, Method Gallery, New Delhi, IND

2025 'Look', Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA

2024 Emerging Exploration, Flinders Lane Gallery, AUS

Collections + Commissions

2026 Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, USA

2025 Australian Parliament Collection, AUS

2025 Artbank Collection, AUS

2024 Ormond College Brack Collection, AUS

2024 Santa Maria College, AUS

2023 Royal South Australian Society of Arts, AUS

Professional Appointments

2024 Artist in Residence, Santa Maria College

2023 Speaker, Minderoo Foundation & Forrest Research Foundation

2023 Year 11-12 painting and embroidery workshop, Northshore Christian Grammar School

2023 Year 11-12 still life and embroidery workshop, Santa Maria College

2023 Year 10 colour theory workshop, St Stephen's School

2022 Guest Lecturer, Curtin University

2022 Guest Workshop, Art Gallery of Western Australia

2021 Year 12 portraiture workshop, Carmel School

2021 Year 9 workshop, Christchurch Grammar

2021 Year 12 mentorship, Art Gallery of Western Australia

2020 Speaker at TedxUWA, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Selected media/publications

2026 France24, Feature interview with Access Asia

2026 Qantas Travel Insider Magazine, Sid Pattni's Dual Cultural Backgrounds

2026 Art Guide Australia, Sid Pattni on Fires In & Out of Frame

2026 Country Style Magazine, The Geography of History

2025 SBS, Why Australia Can't Look Away from Sid Pattni

2025 Vault Magazine, Negotiating Self Through The 'In-between'

2025 ABC, The History Of Our Love Affair With Portraits

2025 The Age, Sid Pattni at Geelong Gallery

2025 Art Collector Magazine, feature in 'Undiscovered and Underrated' issue

2025 Prazzle, '100 Contemporary Artists of Our Time', book cover

2025 It's Nice That, Unpack the Colonial Gaze

2025 Belle Magazine, Reframing History

2025 Platform Magazine, Interview with Paridhi Badgotri

2025 Homegrown Magazine, The Diasporic Struggle to Find a Sense of Belonging'

2024 MASH India, 'In conversation with Shalini Passi'

2024 Black Inc Publishing, 'A Q&A with Sid Pattni'

2023 SBS, 'The Story of Us' exhibition opening

2023 Judge for the Minderoo Spirit Award, The Lester Prize.

2023 SeeSaw Magazine, 'The Story of Us' by Sid Pattni (Interview)

2023 ABC Radio National, Artist Feature with Molly Schmidt

2022 The West Australian, $200,000 Artist Fund

2022 The Minderoo Foundation, Introducing the 2022 Cohort