Nacida en Freetown, Sierra Leona (1965).
Vive en Australia desde 1972.
Estudios: Licenciada en Arte (Pintura),
Victorian College of the Arts, Licenciada en Arte
(Economic History), Australian National University,
diploma en Italian Language, Universita di Firenze,
Florence. Premios y becas: Australia Council, New
Media Fellowship (2000); Arts Victoria, Arts Development
grant (1999); Australia Council, Residency Japan (1998);
Australia Council, Project grant (1997); Arts 21,
International Cultural Exchange Program (1997); A.F.C.,
Project grant (1996); Arts Victoria, Project grant
(1996)
C.A.T., Digital Imaging Award, (1995); VCA, Christopher
James Blyth Memorial Award (1991); VCA, Theodore Urbach
Award (1989 & 1990)
Exposiciones individuales (8 en total):
Precautionary Tales, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney;
We are Family, Venice Biennale 2003, Australian Pavillion,
Venice, Italy; Call of the Wild, John Curtin Gallery,
Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western
Australia; Retrospectology: the world according to
Patricia Piccinini, Australian Centre for Contemporary
Art, Southbank, Victoria; Sandman, Project Work, National
Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, Melbourne,
Australia; Call of the Wild: Patricia Piccinini, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Level 4, Sydney; Autoerotic,
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.