Nick Selenitsch's art practice promotes the artistic and social importance of play. Specifically, his practice privileges aspects of indeterminacy in an otherwise overdetermined modern world. Through a variety of media - installation, drawing, sculpture and public artworks - his works create an elemental language out of familiar forms where the impulse to achieve the goal of singular understanding is both continuously acknowledged and endlessly eschewed.

Nick Selenitsch is a Lecturer in Painting & Critical and Theoretical Studies in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. He has taught at the VCA since 2008. He received a PhD (title: The Middle Playground) from Monash University in 2023. Since 2005, Selenitsch has exhibited throughout Australia and

Internationally. He is represented in Australia by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Middle Playground, MADA gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, 2023; Australian Crawl, Savage Garden, Melbourne, 2022; &, Sutton Gallery, 2021; Nick Selenitsch Form & The Universe of Colour, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, 2021; Mechanical Horses, Sutton Gallery, 2018; The Mind on Fire, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; The Nature of Things, Sutton Gallery, 2016; Kangaroo Court, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 2015; and, Nick Selenitsch Play, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, 2014. Recent group exhibitions include Palermo was thinking of Monk, I was thinking of J. P. Melville in a thicket, 1301sw, Melbourne, 2023; Recreation, Project 8, Melbourne, 2023; Question the Space, Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre, Dandenong; Love, Work (for KD), Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, 2022; Overdrawn, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; Let's Play: The art of our time, Bunjil Place Gallery, Melbourne, 2017, Design & Play, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, 2016; TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 2016; Pattern, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, 2014; The Gathering II: A survey exhibition of Australian sculpture, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, 2014; and, Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013.

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