NATASHA JOHNS-MESSENGER

Natasha Johns-Messenger is an Australian-American installation artist and filmmaker. With a primary focus on perception and site, she creates installations that incorporate body-scaled architectural interventions, optical works, and site-specific film and photography.

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In 2012, Johns-Messenger completed an MFA in Film at Columbia University, New York, following a Master’s by Research in Fine Art at RMIT in 2000. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Italy, Japan, Colombia, China, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United States.

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She has presented installations in museums and other exhibition settings, including LightWater – STRATA for the Lorne Sculpture Biennale (2025); a collaboration with John Wardle Architects for Somewhere Other at La Biennale di Venezia, the 16th International Architecture Exhibition (2018); Water-Orb for the Ian Potter Sculpture Court Commission at MUMA, curated by Charlotte Day (2018); Sitelines at Heide Museum of Modern Art, curated by Linda Michael (2016); and ThreeFold at El Museo de Los Sures, New York, as part of the ISCP program (2015).

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Notable public works include Compass, a Southern Way McClelland Commission (2023/2024); SoftTime (2024), a MUMA and Monash Public Art Commission at Building H, Monash University Caulfield Campus, curated by Emily Cormack; EllipseCircleView (2023/2024), a Manningham City Council Commission at Ruffey Lake Park, Victoria; Alterview (2013) for Hunters Point HS/IS 404, New York, commissioned by Percent for Art and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; and ThisSideIn (2009), commissioned by the New York Public Art Fund.

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In 2023, Johns-Messenger was awarded the EQUS Quantum Art Competition at Queensland University. She previously won the Rabobank Den Haag Sculpture Prize in the Netherlands in 2007, presented by Queen Beatrix, and in 2005, she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture in collaboration with Open Spatial Workshop.