Steph Cibich

Steph Cibich is an Adelaide based curator with a passion for bringing creative projects to life. She believes that art can help us lead more engaged and informed lives and is committed to the promotion of contemporary artists.

Steph has worked as the Assistant Curator/ Program Officer at the Centre for Creative Health since 2019.Steph also works as an Independent Curator and has built a strong practice working closely with artists, ARI’s and key arts organisations to deliver engaging exhibitions and arts projects. She is the founding force behind Art Vending Machines Australia (AVMA) - a public art initiative that launched the first ‘Adelaide Art Vending Machine’ at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2019. This project came to life while she undertook internships as part of her Master of Arts (Curatorial and Museum Studies, 2018) following a Postgraduate Diploma in Art History (2017) at the University of Adelaide.

In 2019, Steph was selected as Emerging Curator by the Art History & Curatorship Alumni Network and Floating Goose Studios Inc. As part of this program, she curated her first exhibition ‘Material Connections’ at Floating Goose Studios (SALA 2019) and was awarded the inaugural City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award (SALA award). In 2020, Steph was simultaneously appointed FELTspace Emerging Curator and the inaugural ART WORKS Emerging Curator. The latter was part of an exhibition and residency program delivered by Guildhouse in partnership with the City of Adelaide and led to the successful curation of three exhibitions and accompanying programs at the Adelaide Town Hall.

Recently, Steph joined the volunteer Curatorium at Post Office Projects in Port Adelaide. She was also appointed Co-Chair of the Art History & Curatorship Alumni Network in 2021.

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Steph Cibich writes about Deborah Prior in Neoteric 2022.