Jelena Telecki (b. 1976, Croatia) lives and works on the traditional lands of the Gadigal People Sydney, Australia. Telecki received her master’s in visual arts from Sydney College of Arts in 2010, following her bachelor’s in visual arts, 1st Class Honours, received in 2006. Telecki is interested in representation and how it can articulate politics of personal and shared narratives. Informal and formal power dynamics, intimacy and violence and how they have been historically and presently recognised and depicted are central to Telecki’s practice and research.
Solo exhibitions include Mothers, Fathers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2024); I used to be good looking, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2023); Playthings, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2021); Incidental collaborators, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2020); Mirror Practice, COMA, Sydney, Australia (2019); Not Coming Andersson, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia (2018); These are not real people, True Estate Gallery, Melbourne (2018); Bubble diagrams, Artspace Ideas Platform, Sydney, Australia (2017); Love is Gold, Station Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2016); I Starseed di Pasolini, KNULP, Sydney, Australia (2016); Opening night (sitter, painter, muse), 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney (2016), among more.
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Mirror, Mirror, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2024); Melbourne Art Fair, with 1301SW, Melbourne, Australia (2024); At Home with Painting, curated by Madeleine Kelly, Sydney College of the University of Sydney, Australia (2024); Stupid As, curated by Alex Gawronski, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia (2024); Thin Skin, MUMA Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (2023); In the Arms of Unconsciousness: Women, Feminism & the Surreal, Hazelhurst Reigonal Art Gallery, Gymea, Australia (2023); SemiErotic, Scala, Sydney, Australia (2023); Hunky Dory, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2022); Short Corners (Pt. 1), KNULP, Sydney, Australia (2022); Short Corners (Pt. 2), Sydenham International, Sydney, Australia (2022); Short Corners (Pt. 3), Working at Heights, Melbourne, Australia (2022); The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Finalist Exhibition, Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (2022); Zombie Eaters, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, Australia (2022); Free/State, Australian Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia (2022); Anthroposcene: R&M McGivern Prize Finalist Exhibition, Maroondah Regional Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2019); John Fires Award: Finalists Exhibition, Sydney, Australia (2018), among more.
Highlights and Collections
Jelena Telecki’s work can be found in various private and public collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Artbank, Sydney; and The Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Telecki has been selected for the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship (2022); The New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney (2021); Artspace One-year studio residency, Sydney (2019). In 2018, Telecki was selected the finalist for the John Fries Award, Sydney.