Moorina Bonini

Moorina Bonini is a proud descendant of the Yorta Yorta Dhulunyagen family clan of Ulupna and the Yorta Yorta, Wurundjeri, and Wiradjuri Briggs/McCrae family. As an artist of Aboriginal and Italian heritage, her practice critiques and disrupts the eurocentric frameworks that shape institutional perceptions of Indigenous identity. Grounded in Indigenous Knowledge systems, Bonini’s work challenges colonial narratives, re-centers Aboriginal perspectives, and examines the intersections of culture, history, and representation.

Bonini is particularly interested in practice-led research as a method for interrogating the western binaries and categorisations imposed upon Aboriginal peoples, both historically and in contemporary society. Through her work, she examines the ways in which Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and being resist and transcend these imposed structures, creating space for self-determined representations of Aboriginal identities and experiences.

Working across installation, moving image and cultural practice, Bonini has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at ACMI, The Shed (New York), City Gallery Wellington (NZ), Gertrude Contemporary, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Recent major commissions include TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles, and RISING Festival (2025).