SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 – For a Souvenir, for a Warning, for a Lick of Night in the Morning, Mejia Gallery, Melbourne
2019 – Performing Textiles, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne
2018 – Howdy!, Dynamo Zürich, Zürich
2018 – The Machine Prt ll, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2018 - Head Over Heels, OnCurating Project Space, Zürich
2017 - Guts Salon, 55 Claremont street South Yarra, Melbourne
2017 - B.U.F.F, The Royal Society of St George, Melbourne
2016 - Place to be, Brunswick Sculpture Centre, Melbourne
2016 - Widows Walk, LON Gallery, Melbourne
2016 - Onsen, Space Space Gallery, Tokyo
2016 - Sugar Mountain Art Prize
2015 - Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2014 - Rising, Victoria Harbour Young Artists Initiative Award, Docklands, Melbourne
2014 - Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2014 - North East, North West, Light Factory Gallery, Eltham
AWARDS
2016 Sugar Mountain Art Prize, supported by The National Gallery of Victoria, Utopian Slumps and Sugar Mountain Music and Arts Festival
2015 Fiona Myer Award
2014 Rising, for the Young Artists Initiative, commissioned Lend Lease and Parks Victoria
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 - Co-curator for exhibition “Head Over Heels” exhibition, OnCurating Project Space, Zürich
2017 - Co-curator for exhibition “Guts Salon”, 55 Claremont Street, South Yarra
2017 – Co-curator for exhibition “B.U.F.F”, the Royal Society of St George, Melbourne
PRESS
Broadsheet- Four - Artworks to See at Sugar Mountain
Lucifers Monocle - Spotlight: Carla Milentis
Carla Milentis (b. 1994, AUS) is a Melbourne based artist who completed her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours (2019), majoring in Sculpture and Spatial Practice at the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout her practice Milentis has been consistent in the continuous development of her work, which spans across multiple disciplines. Carla Milentis has participated within exhibitions both locally and internationally and over that time has received important commissions and celebrated awards for her work. During 2017 Milentis focussed on co-curating a number of large group exhibitions in collaboration with artist William Hawkins and SpaceSpace Gallery, whilst also exhibiting and continuing her artistic practice. Currently Carla Milentis lives in Paris, France where she is developing a site-specific body of work as part of an ongoing project.
Milentis’s work is a result of her process-based practice that discusses and explores the existing structures that create a necessity for constant individual self-critique and evaluation. Milentis incorporates objects and imagery within her work that imbue a sense of lust, longing, aspiration, failure and disappointment as a way of constructing a particular monologue. The artist’s practice is both personal and objective as the parameters of her work discuss issues that can be read as individual or ubiquitous because they pertain to certain emotional responses, resulting from social and capitalist structures. Carla Milentis often works with provisional objects; clothing, jewellery, shoes, food, trash, ornaments, as well as other sculptural materials; clay, plaster, wood and tile. The materials incorporated within Milentis’s work highlight the humour and the tragedy that balance themselves within her practice as a reminder that we often laugh through our own pain. This moment is fixed within the artists practice as she uses humour as a mechanism to discuss ideas of vulnerability, embarrassment and inadequateness.