Tina Stefanou is a visual artist and performer living and working between Naarm/Melbourne and Philadelphia/Lenapehoking. With a background as a vocalist, she works undisciplined, with and across a diverse range of mediums, practices, approaches and labours: an embodied practice that she calls voice in the expanded field. As a means to seek more inclusive ways of making and to frame tangled relationships, she engages in multispecies performance with a family of local others, friends not-yet-made, and poet(h)ic meetings of matter. Informed by diasporic and working-class experiences, Stefanou engages in sound, filmography, and research as social practice, exploring with and beyond all-too-human and more-than-human vocalities. She works with multiple communities over long periods of time and locations through para-ethnographic field work, experimental voice making, performance making, and filmic traces, exploring forms of poetic knowledge.

She has an ongoing relationship with a herd of elderly horses with who she co-creates performative environments, extending from her vocality, Stefanou’s activities are also embodied in writings, music improvisation and collaborations, ephemeral events, sculptures, and installations. The artist is exploring the forces, flows, and fabulations that uphold, reproduce or alter where and for who art practice and welfare is experienced— playfully working through multi-scalar relations from the planetary commons to locally situated socio-economic realities of the (extra)ordinary. She celebrates and honours her long-term collaborators at Jocklebeary Farm, alongside scenographer Romanie Harper, cinematographers Wil Normyle and Andrew Kaineder, composer and bassist Joseph Franklin, vocalist Lisa Salvo and AV technologist Joli Boardman.

Stefanou has performed, presented, published and exhibited locally and internationally including: Salt Museum (Istanbul); Kadist Gallery (Paris); Le Pavé d'Orsay (Paris); the University of Music and Performing Arts (Graz); Residency Corazon Gallery (La Plata); The Yellow House (Sydney); e-flux Screening Room (NYC); The Sydney Opera House; Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne); University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia); Festaal (Berlin); Carriageworks (Sydney); Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne); The Ian Potter Museum (Melbourne); Blindside Gallery (Melbourne); Perth Institute of Contemporary Art; McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park (Langwarrin); Stacks Projects (Sydney); Hamer Hall (Melbourne); Pheonix Central Park (SYD); Bundanon Museum (Illaroo); University of Western Australia (Perth); Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (Melbourne); National Gallery of Victoria; Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania); Mini American Anthropology Association with Michael Taussig (NY); Rosi Braidotti Posthuman Artist Labs (Utrecht University); 3ecologies Project (Canada); Buxton Contemporary (Melbourne); AAANZ (AU/NZ); Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane); Melanie Roger Gallery (Auckland); Audio Foundation (Auckland); The Substation (Melbourne); Performance Review (Melbourne); Sarah Scout Presents (Melbourne); Hazelhurst Art Centre (SYD); UNSW Galleries (Sydney); SCA Galleries (Sydney); Buxton Contemporary (Melbourne); Composite Gallery (Melbourne); Chapter House (Melbourne); Collingwood Yards Arts Precinct (Melbourne); West Space (Melbourne); Disclaimer Journal; Journal of Sonic Studies; Artist Profile; Kunstlicht Journal (NL); Unprojects and Cordite Poetry Review.

Stefanou has won an Australian Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Music with The Music Box Project (2020); Schenberg Arts Fellowship (2020); Marten Bequest Scholarship (2021); SPACED Residency (2022-23). She is a recipient of the 2023 Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize (local category), and CultureLAB development program with ACCA and Arts House (2023-24). In 2024, Stefanou featured in the Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art: Inner Sanctum at the Art Gallery of South Australia, was the recipient of the 68th Blake Prize (Emerging Artist). In 2025, Stefanou received a VACDF Major Commissioning Projects from Creative Australia, Ian Potter Emerging Artist Grants, was featured front cover artist of Artist Profile and Arts Guide. She presented a critically acclaimed solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of their Contemporary Australian Solo series of annual exhibitions by Australian artists at critical moments in their practice.

She is currently showing in the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, 17 September–16 December 2026, and is a 2026 Creative Australia x ISCP NYC artist resident.

Stefanou is completing a PhD in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to multispecies collaboration, voice, land, song, water and community. I pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging and to all First Nations people.

Photo: Andrew Kaineder