Atong Atem is a

Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...

-based artist originally from

South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...

. She has had exhibitions at Melbourne's Immigration Museum, NGV's Triennial, Melbourne's winter arts festival Rising, Messums London, as well as works in Red Hook Labs (New York), Vogue Fashion Fair (Milan) and the Unseen Amsterdam art fair. She has been commissioned to adorn two facades of Hanover House on Melbourne's Southbank. In 2021 she released ''Banksia'', a video exploring African immigration to Australia.

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