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Katrina Liberiou

Curator, Art

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Katrina Liberiou is Curator, Art at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, where she works across the exhibition program, artist commissions – including public art – and assists in the management of the University Art Collection. With more than 25 years’ experience in the arts sector, Katrina has collaborated with leading contemporary artists and curated numerous exhibitions, including artist-led projects, collection-based exhibitions, performances, events and public programs.

Katrina’s recent curatorial projects include Big Power Energy: Artists and the Power Collection (2025), Consuelo Cavaniglia, seeing through you (2025), Photography and the Performative (2024), Hayley Millar Baker: Nyctinasty (2023), Light & Darkness: late modernism and the Power Collection (co-curated with Ann Stephen) (2022), Sarah Goffman: Applied Arts (2022).

Katrina's research interests include international and Australian contemporary art with a particular interest in photography, performance and installation, Modernism and the avant-garde and women artists.

Previously, she worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in its exhibitions team from 1998–2004 and from 2004–09 at the Biennale of Sydney as Exhibition Manager. She was formally Business Manager and conference coordinator for the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Research interests

  • International and Australian contemporary art
  • Photography
  • Performance
  • Installation
  • Modernism and the avant-garde
  • Women artists

  • Light & Darkness, co-curated with Ann Stephen, 2021
  • Sarah Goffman: Applied Arts, curator, 2021
  • Coastline, co-curated with Ann Stephen, 2020

  • Serpentine: Magdelena Abakanowicz in the Sepik, Edited by Andrew Mcnamara and Ann Stephen, Cultural History of the Avant-Garde: Oceania, Brill (forthcoming 2026)
  • 'Crossing paths with the Ramingining Collection' Djalkiri: Yolngu art, collaborations and collections, Edited by Rebecca Conway, Sydney University Press, 2021
  • Light & Darkness: Late Modernism in the JW Power Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum and Power Publications, 2021
  • Barbara Campbell: ex avibus. University Art Gallery. The University of Sydney. 2015

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Phone: +61 2 9036 5049
Emailkatrina.liberiou@sydney.edu.au