Visaya Hoffie is a Queensland-based artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art at Queensland College of Art. Trained as a painter, she often also engages a range of different media including sculpture, painting, printmaking, textiles, assemblage, inflatables, zines and animation. Her work addresses themes raised by the impact of social media on the everyday. She draws from popular culture and the cultural histories of outsiders and ‘Others’ to explore the possibilities of magic, ritual, re-enchantment and critical cultural re-evaluations that engage with crucial contemporary issues while maintaining one foot in radical playfulness.

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She has received a number of awards and opportunities to exhibit in galleries across Australia, and has enjoyed extensive experiences travelling throughout the Asia-Pacific, the US, Europe and the UK. In 2018, she worked at leading UK institutions including the V&A Museum; the Museum of Everything; and at the Frieze Masters Art Fair and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. She currently works at QAGOMA bookstore and cinema and as a tutor in the Painting Department at the QCA. Her prolific exhibiting schedule continues through visual arts projects in Australia and overseas. Her art practice challenges traditional boundaries of visual arts production, bleeding their edges by sharp references to socially-mediated realities and altered understanding and relationships between communities and places.

• 2026 Sketch for Summer (group show), Mom Gallery, Vic, Melbourne, Aus.
• 2025 Summer showcase: Manifestations, 8 Wall Gallery,  Sydney, Aus.
• 2025 Brett Whitley Travelling Art Scholarship (winner), Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Aus
• 2025 Concurrent exhibition (group show), Civic Art Bureau, Canberra, AUS
• 2025 Tear in the fabric (group show), Bathurst regional gallery, Bathurst, Aus 
• 2025 Mnemonic Generator (solo show), Bus Projects, Melbourne, Aus. 
• 2025 Ramsay Art Prize (finalist), Adelaide, Aus.
• 2025 The Fraudulent Isotopic Analysis (solo show), Canberra Contemporary, Canberra, Aus.
• 2025 Minionotics, (group show) Weather proof gallery, Chicago, USA.
• 2024 With one eye closed, Casa Sur, CDMX. (group show)
• 2024 Casa Lu, CDMX. (residency recipient)
• 2024 I heard you got MAD shit on you. (group show) Village works, NYC
• 2024 Allure of the Land (group show) NARS Foundation NYC
• 2024 Nars Foundation, NYC (Residency recipient)
• 2024 Lazy oaf, art collaboration, London
• 2024 Laced, design collaboration, Brisbane  
• 2024 First draft Art collaboration, Sydney 
• 2024 Nick Ward merch design, Sydney   
• 2024 Nonsense (group show) Central Space, Sydney 
• 2024 NARS foundation, NYC (residency recipient)
• 2024 Disappear for 1 month and come back fully rebranded (solo show), Seventh, Melbourne
• 2024 Sister studio Design collaboration, Melbourne
• 2023 90 Day free trial, zine
• 2023 Lofi art collaboration, Melbourne 
• 2023 Sweat, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
• 2023 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship finalist (Shark Island Residency Awardee)
• 2023 Pilfered Pillar (solo show), Outerspace, Brisbane
• 2023 EA sports UFC Ball design collaboration, (group exhibition),  Sydney
• 2023 Safety Club merch design, Brisbane
• 2023 Mid Summer Night Show (group show), Nepenthes, NYC
• 2023 Halfway House (group show), Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
• 2023 It’s very loud, installation, Echo and Bounce, Brisbane
• 2023 Shrines for the Temporarily Faithless (solo show), installation, Aria Property Group, Brisbane
• 2023 The Mysterious Menagerie (solo show), QAGOMA, Brisbane
• 2023 Co and Pace Salons window installation, Brisbane
• 2023 Slow Thai merch design, (UK and international touring)
• 2022 Killjoy, art collaboration, Sydney
• 2022 The Sleepy Ode (solo exhibition), Look (Grain Magazine), Brisbane
• 2022 Sub~Lingual (group show), Incinerator, Melbourne
• 2022 The Enchanting Microplastics (solo exhibition), exhibition, First Draft, Sydney
• 2022 NFT Heist, artist's book, Minor Press, Sydney
• 2022 Golden Vessel, art production, graphics and design (Brisbane and international touring)
• 2022 Risomania (group show),, exhibition, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville
• 2022 Yani Yani design collaboration
• 2021 The Churchie Emerging Artists Award. (Highly Commended and Peoples’ Choic Awardee)
• 2021 Skin on Skin, graphics and design (international) touring
• 2021 Fastminds, (NYC )graphics and design collaboration]
• 2021 QAGOMA Winter Design Market Poster
• 2021 Hot N’ Heinous, (solo exhibition), Innerspace Contemporary Art, Brisbane
• 2021 The Twelve Labours of Herculette, calendar commission for Kobiashhi Press, Mexico
• 2020 Hot N’ Heinous, zine publication
• 2019 Deeper Than You Exhibition (group show), Queensland

• 2025-2022 - Queensland College of Art, studio tutor
• 2024-2016 QAGOMA, Bookshop and front of house
• 2019 - QAGOMA Installation team
• 2019 - QAGOMA Cinemateque team
• 2018 - Victoria and Albert Museum, Staff
• 2017 Museum of Everything, project assistant
• 2017 Gallery of Everything, project assistant
• 2017 London Frieze Art Fair, exhibition assistant
• 2017 London 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Intern