Linda Studena
03—16.11.2025

Linda Studena is a Czech born artist based in Naarm, on the unceded lands of the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. Her studio practice is framed by autoethnographic enquiry informed by her migrant experience. She works within an expanded practice using drawing, photography and sculpture to look at ideas of identity, nostalgia and representation, through personal and public archives. Linda was recently awarded the People’s Choice Award – Incinerator Art for Social Change 2023, the Melbourne University Graduate Student Association Innovation Award and Masters Mentoring VCA Art Award and completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2022. Linda is the co-founder and former President of the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia, and in 2002 completed a winter semester at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague (Czechia), funded by the Freedman Foundation Scholarship, National Association of Visual Arts.