Shaun Wilson

Shaun Wilson is a senior lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Design, RMIT University.

Shaun is an artist, scholar, curator, and author who has consistently made long term projects about memory and place. His creative work intersects through metamodernist frameworks and his industry work aligns to auteur and art house film production. He has published widely in the areas of digital philosophy, digital media, contemporary art, and cinema. Exhibitions and screenings of individual and collaborative works have included the TATE Modern, ACCA, ACMI, PICA, Centre on Contemporary Art Seattle, GOMA Brisbane, CAST Hobart, IMA Brisbane, Centre for Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Bilboa, Mermaid Arts Centre Ireland, Scope Art Fair Basel and Miami, Scala Theatre Berlin, EFM Berlinale, Canness and Venice film festivals, 24 Hour Art Darwin, Dundee Arts Centre Scotland, MCA Fenosa Union, FACT Liverpool, and Federation Square Melbourne. Notable creative projects are the '51 Paintings Suite' (2012-2024 ), 'Black Garden' (2020), and 'Filmic Memorials' (2005- ). In 2025, Shaun is working on two books, 'Migrants, Home Movies, and Place: The Journey to Australia through a topographical lens' (Amsterdam University Press) and 'Illness and Place: Plagues, Pandemics, Restrictions' (Palgrave McMillian). 

Research/scholarship:
Shaun is engaged in various key research projects that include publication in academic press and funded visual projects which included Arts Victoria, the Australia Council for the Arts, Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment, NAVA, and Regional Arts Victoria.

Accomplishments:
Shaun has screened and exhibited widely in seminal and important exhibitions and venues. His feature films Black Garden and Winter Orbit are represented in the historical archives of the Venice Biennale ASAC collection.

Qualifications: 

• Doctor of Philosophy (Flinders University) under examination
• Doctor of Philsoophy (University of Tasmania)
• Bachelor of Fine Arts (hons) (Monash)
• Bachelor of Fine Arts (RMIT University)

Background: 
Shaun is engaged in various aspects of ongoing research, publications, screenings and exhibitions in the fields of digital philosophy, video art, fine art, metamodernism, and digital cinema. He has been active for over 30 years through national and international experiences in the contemporary arts and film industries. He holds regular presence in the museum, commercial, artist run spaces, and art centre galleries sectors.