Ian Strange is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores the home, site-specificity, and landscape. His practice includes collaborative community-based projects, architectural interventions, installations, and exhibitions resulting in photography, film, sculpture, site-specific works, research, and documentary works. His studio practice includes painting and drawing, as well as ongoing research and archival projects. Additionally, he has created collaborative projects with other practitioners and institutions in the fields of dance, music, performance, and film.

Strange is best known for his ongoing series of large-scale architectural interventions, films, and photographic works that subvert the archetypal domestic home. These works and exhibitions have been created in the United States (‘SUBURBAN’, 2011–13); post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand (‘FINAL ACT’, 2013); Western Australia and Victoria, Australia (‘SHADOW’, 2015) (‘TARGET’, 2017) (‘DALISON’, 2022); Katowice, Poland (‘ZŁOTY’, 2015); and in the United States throughout Ohio’s rust-belt region, (‘ISLAND’, 2015–17) ('PENUMBRA', 2022). This has resulted in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), the Canterbury Museum, FotoFocus Biennial, FORM Gallery, RMIT University, Standard Practice NYC, Völklinger Hütte, the John Curtin Gallery, Cockatoo Island’s Turbine Hall, the Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC), Moore Contemporary, and as a part of the 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (‘LANDED’, 2014) at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA).

These bodies of work have included a number of collaborative projects: ‘DALISON’ (2022), a site-based installation, film, and sound work with US-based musician Trevor Powers (Youth Lagoon); a series of works and installations with designer and artist Virgil Abloh, including major sculpture commissions for Off-White in Melbourne, Sydney, and New York (‘Nothing is Finished,’ 2017); ‘TRACES’ (2017–2020), a collaboration with contemporary dance company Chunky Move and their creative director, choreographer Anouk Van Dijk; ‘FINAL ACT’ (2013), a collaboration with celebrated New Zealand cinematographer Alun Bollinger; and ’345 Franklin’ (2016), an architectural intervention with Detroit-based architect and artist Catie Newell and SiTE for ArtPrize 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

Most recently, Strange’s ongoing series of public light sculptures and installations have been commissioned by the Lyon Housemuseum (‘LIGHT INTERSECTIONS', 2019); the City of Sydney for its 2021 'Art and About' public art program (‘LIGHT INTERSECTIONS II’, 2021); and Wyndham City ('SIGNALS', 2023).

In 2023 and 2024, Strange commenced work on a new photographic series tracing the shared histories of fireworks and explosives in landscape and photography, with a collection of new works created in Ferizaj, Kosovo ('Jezerc', 2023); Völklingen, Germany; Krems, Austria; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and Suhača, Bosnia. This body of work was developed alongside 'Ohio Fall' (2025), a forthcoming feature-length film work and photographic series documenting Ohioan landscapes in the lead-up to and aftermath of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

In 2020 and 2022, respectively, two major mid-career survey exhibitions of Strange’s work were mounted: ‘Suburban Interventions: 2008–2020’ at the John Curtin Gallery (Australia); and ‘Disturbed Home’ at the Art Academy of Cincinnati for the FotoFocus Biennial (USA), marking Strange's first survey exhibition in North America. Subsequently, Damiani Editore released ‘Disturbed Home’ (2022), a comprehensive artist monograph with new essays by Kevin Moore, Artistic Director and Curator of FotoFocus, and Britt Salvesen, Curator and Head of Photography and Prints & Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

His research, archival, and curatorial practice has included work with the State Library of Queensland, the Asia Pacific Design Library ('The Corley Archive', 2018), RMIT University, and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. From 2020 to 2021, Strange served as Guest Artistic Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), overseeing the museum’s forward curatorial program, acquisitions, research, and publishing. In 2022, he co-founded the curatorial platform 'At Home' with Jedda Andrews, Dr. Rory Hyde (University of Melbourne, MSD), Steve Mintern and Simon Robinson (OFFICE), Dr. Mathan Ratinam, Emma Pegrum, and Miriam McGarry (Hidden Cities). He is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University’s School of Architecture and Design, where his research focuses on the histories of photomedia and installation within site-based arts practices.

Strange has presented and lectured on his work at institutions including Harvard Graduate School of Design, Parsons School of Design, Sotheby's Institute of Art, the University California San Diego, Melbourne School of Design, TEDx Sydney, and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). His work has been published widely, including in ICON, Document Journal, Politics of Public Space Volumes 1 & 2, The Financial Times, The Art Newspaper, Grazia, OSMOS, Kerb Journal, Wallpaper*, Dazed and Confused Magazine (Dazed), Nowness, Artist Profile, Hypebeast, The Monthly, and Hyperallergic, among others. In 2017, ABC TV produced and released 'HOME: The Art of Ian Strange,' a six-part documentary series exploring Strange’s career and work.

Strange’s work is held in museum and institutional collections including the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), the Canterbury Museum, State Library Victoria, the State Library of Queensland, FotoFocus, Curtin University, the Cincinnati Museum Centre (CMC), MAC yapang, the City of Sydney, Wyndham City, the NGA Research Library Archives, and the Asia Pacific Design Library.

IAN STRANGE CV (PDF: Aug 2025)

'Making Dalison' short documentary

'Making Penumbra' short documentary (From AAC Exhibition)

'DALISON' project website

TEDx Sydney, 2018 'The Home, Art, and Place'

Nowness: Private View 'Ian Strange'

ABCTV: 'Home: The Art of Ian Strange' trailer

'Making Final Act' (excerpt from 'HOME: The Art of Ian Strange' ABCTV series)