Isabella Maria Foster

(b. 1996, Aberdeen, Scotland)

isabellamariafoster@oulook.com
 

Isabella Maria Foster is an artist based in Tasmania, Australia. Combining analogue

and digital media, her visual practice examines how media conditions temporality,

image production, the economy of the self.
 

Education:

2022 SITUATE Lab, Launceston, Tasmania

2019 Maumaus Independent Study Program, Lisbon Portugal.

2019 Permaculture Design Course, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany.

2018 VIII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa,

Lisbon.

2015-2018 BFA, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania.

2008-2010 Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas, USA.
 

Awards:

2022 SITUATE 22-23, Tasmania, 2022-2023

2022 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Finalist

2022 RANT - Flash Marketing Campaign 2021-2022

2021 Arts Tasmania - Creative Support Small Grants Fund 2021-2022

2021 Contemporary Art Tasmania Studio Residency 2021-2022

2018 Arts Tasmania Grant - Artsbridge Round 3, 2018-19

2016 Brunswick Street Gallery Solo Exhibition Prize

2014 Warren Collins Memorial Award for Printmaking
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Sex Work Is The Least Interesting Thing About Me, The Bath House, London,

United Kingdom.

2025 HDMI HDMI, Night Mass, Dark Mofo, Hobart, Tasmania.

2025 Representing Women, Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, Tasmania.

2024 Kirsha Kaechele Ladies Lounge Court Case, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania.

2024 Absolute Piston Gauges, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania.

2024 HDMI HDMI, Mona Foma, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania.

2023 Hobart Current: Epoch, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania.

2023 Splendid and Harmonious, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania.

2023 Galaxy Brain, The Party, Mona Foma, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania.2022 Women’s Art Prize, Tasmania.

2022 Your Desire, The Bearded Tit, Sydney, New South Wales.

2021 Sydney Contemporary: Explore, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, New South

Wales

2020 Art Can't Stop, GoodGrief Studios, Hobart, Tasmania.

2020 Waterways and Land, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania.

2019 ¢ompo$t, Constance ARI for Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart Tasmania.

2018 Graduate Exhibition, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania.

2018 Self Poke, Panopticon, Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania.

2018 Current Practices: Incoming, Entrepôt Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.

2016 40 x 40, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria.
 

Solo Exhibitions:

2025 Vape and Scanners, Ordinance Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.

2025 God Complex, Dark Mofo, Hobart, Tasmania.

2024 Post-Cringe, Mona Foma, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania.

2022 Gravity and Grace, Michael Bugelli Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.

2022 Galaxy Brain Hosted by Discordia, Discordia Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.

2022 Galaxy Brain, Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, Tasmania.

2021 Pleasure of The Text, Michael Bugelli Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.

2021 Simulacra Theatre, GoodGrief Studios, Hobart, Tasmania.

2020 "All The World's A Stage", GoodGrief Studios, Hobart, Tasmania.

2020 Accumulative Condition, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania.

2017 Severed Rot, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria.
 

Publications:

2025 “Copy”, Dr. Kathleen Williams, Vape and Scanners exhibition text.

2024 “MONA Ladies Lounge Accused of Discriminating by Gender”, Natasha Frost,

The New York Times.

2024 “MONA defends ladies-only lounge against anti-discrimination case brought by

male visitor”, Fiona Blackwood, ABC News.

2024 “Interview with Kirsha Kaechele about the Ladies Lounge”, Kirsha Kaechele,

MONA blog.

2022 “A Study of Strong Women” Review of Gravity and Grace, Andrew Harper, The

Mercury.

2022 “Spotlight on Influencers” Review of Galaxy Brain, Andrew Harper, The Mercury.

2019 Compost Currency Catalogue Essay for ¢ompo$t, Constance ARI, Dark Mofo,

Hobart.

2018 A Poetics of Compost: Modalities of Speculation and Decentralised Study, text

for Replacement and Replaceability conference in Cultural Studies, Lisbon Consortium,

Portugal.
 

Acquisitions/Collections:

2025 Ladies Lounge Court Sketch Collection, Museum of Old and New Art, MONA,

Tasmania.