Chris Sutevski is an artist, designer and researcher based in unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri country (Canberra, Australia). He is interested in systems theory, diagrams and critical design.
He has practiced interaction, communication, and publication design for near two decades on award-winning projects. He has sustained an art practice including local and interstate exhibitions. He has engaged in community outreach through founding multiple grassroots advocacy organisation, community pedagogy, publishing, policy responses and recommendations.
He is currently a sessional teacher at the Australian National University’s School of Art & Design and is a PhD candidate at the same university with a research focus on speculative diagrams and systems theory. His work aims to problematise, speculate, and visualise notions of agency, process, scale and mediation for reorientation beyond current forms of practice. It concerns the entanglements between epistemology, modelling and politics across different scales, and how the plastic topology of the diagram might operate as a meta-model.
chris.sutevski@gmail.com
Education
2024–Present, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
2013, BA (vis) with Hons and University medal – Printmedia and Drawing, Australian National University, Canberra
2007, Advanced Diploma in Digital Media – Canberra Institute of Technology, Canberra
Exhibitions
2019, Macro Organic, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra
2018, Printing as Process, Incinerator Gallery, Victoria
2017, Language Disorder III, Interlude Gallery, Sydney
2017, Intermural, Interlude Gallery, Sydney
2017, Sydney Contemporary - Kinokuniya, Kinokuniya Gallery, Sydney
2017, Playlist, ANCA, Dickson, Canberra
2017, Say Yes, Tributary Projects, Fyshwick, Canberra
2016, Quick Draw, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Braddon, Canberra
2015, Silent Auction, Interlude Gallery, Sydney
2015, Language Disorder, Interlude Gallery, Sydney
2015, Line & Point, Contemporary Drawing, Interlude Gallery, Sydney
2015, Noted, You Are Here Festival, Canberra
2015, Blaze 9, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Braddon, Canberra
2015, Rock, Roll, Repeat, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, Canberra
2014, Spare Time, Photospace Gallery, Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra
2014, One Night Stand, The Money Bin, You Are Here, Canberra
2013, Graduating Exhibition, Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra
2013, Collector/Keeper/Finder/Seeker, Photospace Gallery, Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra
2013, Jan Brown Drawing Prize, Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra
2013, Ordinary Problems, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2012, Graduating Exhibition, Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra
2012, Jan Brown Drawing Prize, Australian National University (Winner)
2012, SPECTRA 2012, Projections – Australian National University School of Art/CSIRO
2011, Football Room, Australian National University School of Art – Printmedia & Drawing, Canberra
Performance
2013, Site Specific Drawing Game, Pasar Ngasem, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2013, Instructed Drawing - Negative (250 steps), Australian National University, School of Art, ACT
Employment
Feb 2024 – Present, Tutor, School of Art & Design, Australian National University
Aug 2017 – Dec 2019, Founder and Designer, Small Tasks, Canberra ACT, Australia
Oct 2012 – Nov 2013, Graduate Catalogue Designer, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Aug 2012 – Sep 2012, Internship, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra ACT, Australia
Aug 2010 – Present, Graphic Designer, Inklab, Canberra ACT
July 2007 – Aug 2010, Graphic Designer, Coordinate, Canberra ACT
Awards and prizes
2014, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Studio Resident, Canberra, ACT
2014, Megalo Print Studio and Gallery Studio Resident, Canberra, ACT
2013, University Medal, Australian National University
2013, The Peter and Lena Karmel Anniversary Prize for the highest honours grade in visual arts at the Australian National University
2013, Peter & Lena Karmel Honours Scholarship, Australian National University
2012, Jan Brown Drawing Prize, Australian National University