Artists

Pia Johnson is a visual artist, photographer, curator and lecturer living on Djaara country, Australia. Her practice is engaged in performance, transcultural identity and belonging, stemming from her mixed background of Chinese Italian-Australian descent.

Her works have been awarded and exhibited across Australia and internationally and are collected in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria.

Known as one of Australia’s distinctive performance photography and portrait artists for over a decade, Pia has commissions from all the major performing arts organisations in Australia. Pia has her own podcast Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography, which profiles contemporary photographers and artists speaking about their practice and photographic concerns today.
Pia holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from University of Melbourne and has a Doctorate in Fine Arts from RMIT University, where she is a lecturer and Associate Dean Photography in the School of Art.

In Residence at Bundanon

This residency represents a deliberate pause to create essential space for deep reflection and the development of my first photo book—a visual exploration of transcultural identity, belonging, and feminist narratives within contemporary Australia. Drawing from my recent archive of site-responsive and performance-based self-portraiture photography, I will weave together a personal narrative with broader cultural observations. The aim of the book is to curate the female body, domestic spaces and regional landscapes together to engage with frameworks of art, history and migration stories that are sustained by women over time.