Peta Rake

Background

About Peta Rake

Peta Rake was born in 1987, in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. Currently, she is Director and the Senior Curator at University of Queensland Art Museum, Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. She has held various roles at CCA (San Francisco), Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) and at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, including Co-Director of Creative Residencies, Visual + Digital Art Department and Curator of Walter Phillips Gallery/Banff International Curatorial Institute (BICI).Independently she has curated exhibitions at ISCP (New York), Oakland Museum of California (Oakland), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco), and the Esker Foundation (Calgary). She has worked closely with artists to produce solo-exhibitions of their work for the first time in North America, such as Paris-based Charlotte Moth, Caroline Monnet, Celia Perrin Sidarous, and Elisheva Biernoff.Her texts have appeared in C Magazine, Canadian Art, Fillip, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Rearviews, Institutions by Artists, On Apology and the literary compendium She would roll petite cigarettes, petite like her with Ola El Khalidi. Rake holds a Masters in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts, a Bachelors (Hons) in Creative Industries from Queensland University of Technology and was the recipient of the 2014 Curator Award from ISCP in New York.