Izabela Pluta

Izabela Pluta was born in Warsaw, Poland, and migrated to Australia in 1987. She undertook her undergraduate studies in fine art at The University of Newcastle and has an MFA from UNSW Art & Design, Sydney. In 2017, she completed her PhD in the Faculty of Creative Arts, The University of Wollongong, entitled Allegories of Diaspora: Gleaning the residues of spatial and temporal misalignments. Pluta lectures in photography at UNSW Art & Design Sydney.

Izabela Pluta embraces photography as a way of interpreting and re-conceptualising the function that images have in the present. Her studio practice adopts conflating languages of photography and the nuances they embody as physical objects. 

Pluta has exhibited at The Art Gallery of NSW, Artspace, The Australian Centre for Photography and UTS Gallery, Sydney; Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane; 24 HR Art, Darwin; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; Canberra Contemporary Art Space; and The National Gallery of Victoria, Westspace and The Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, among many others. In 2012 she was commissioned to create Unset Typologies, a public artwork for the City of Melbourne. In 2018, Pluta was shortlisted for the MAMA Foundation National Photographic Award.

In 2019 Pluta was commissioned to create a significant new work for The National 2019: new Australian art survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, and presented Reversal - a solo exhibition at The Glasshouse Regional Gallery in regional NSW. Pluta is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.