Badra Aji

Badra Aji works primarily with drawing and video. He uses his practice to directly contemplate his life experiences, creating work which becomes the tangible artefact of this process. Drawing from his own experience of immigrating to Australia, Aji purposefully positions the viewer as an outsider by creating a disjuncture between imagery and language. Poetic and rich in personal symbolism, his work is instilled with a political undertone.

Badra Aji is represented by THIS IS NO FANTASY, Naarm/Melbourne.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art), Victorian College of The Arts, University of Melbourne, 2016.

Diploma of Visual Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2013.

Exhibitions

Foreign Objects, This Is No Fantasy, 2022.

Lonely Is Not Always Quiet, BLINDSIDE ARI, 2020.

Rindu (Longing), SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne, 2019.

L’au-Dela Des Possibles, FIAP Paris, Paris, 2019.

Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, 2019.

Lovesick Rodeo, At Current ARI, Melbourne, Australia, 2019.

Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia, 2018.

Sans Direction, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, Australia, 2017.

Cut and Paste, Red Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2017.

Liminoid, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2017.

Majlis Travelling Scholarship 2016, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2016.

Australian Landscape Painting, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2016.

Space-Age Lovers, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2015.

Halfway There, Melbourne City Library, Melbourne, Australia, 2015.

Observation and Normality, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2014.

CCP Salon 2013, CCP, Melbourne, Australia, 2013                                        

Transubstantiation, RMIT TAFE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2013.

Life Drawing, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2012.

Awards

Dobell Drawing Prize (Finalist), National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2019.

Paul Guest Drawing Prize (Finalist), Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia, 2018.

Blair Trenthowan TCB Art Inc Awards, TCB, Melbourne, Australia, 2016.

Garry Grossbard Drawing Prize, VCA, Melbourne, Australia, 2016.

Majlis Travelling Scholarship, VCA, Melbourne, Australia, 2016.

DrawInternational, Caylus, France, 2017.