curator, national indigenous art triennial

Are you our next National Indigenous Art Triennial curator?

The National Gallery invites Expressions of Interest from First Nations Australian curators to lead the 6th National Indigenous Art Triennial in 2028. We are seeking bold, innovative proposals that focus on ideas centered around community and collaboration.

The inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial opened in 2007, and it has since become a defining pillar of the National Gallery’s Artistic Program. Each iteration of the Triennial is led by a First Nations Australian curator with an original vision—elevating First Nations voices onsite in Kamberri/Canberra and across Australia and positioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists at the centre of national and international conversations. This could be your opportunity to bring together important commissions and display new works of art by established and emerging First Nations artists from across the continent, contributing to one of the most significant events on the Australian cultural calendar. Following its presentation in Kamberri/Canberra, the National Indigenous Art Triennial will tour nationally.

The 6th National Indigenous Art Triennial will be presented at a particularly resonant moment in the National Gallery’s history, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the commissioning and acquisition of The Aboriginal Memorial (1987–88) — a work of profound cultural, political, and historical significance within the National Gallery’s collection and within the national consciousness.