Martha Poggioli
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Martha Poggioli is an Australian artist whose practice investigates trajectories of industrial production, material culture, and bio-technological experience through sculpture, installation and new media. Alongside traditional studio methods, Poggioli incorporates design, hacker strategies, and research-based approaches to develop long-form projects centered on material, cultural and social inquiry.
Her current research examines modes of transmission across technology, time and media. Recent work has focused on the histories of reproductive technologies, particularly the development, patenting and production of contraceptive devices. Several years spent developing minimally invasive surgical technologies have informed projects that explore the relationship between embodied experience and representations of biological interiority.
Education
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, 2019
B.F.A., Queensland University of Technology, Australia, 2009
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, IT (QUT Interdisciplinary Exchange Scholar), 2007
Recent Work
Exhibitions
2025
Under Pressure, Friend of a Friend, Denver, USA
Overhang 2, Essex Flowers, NYC, USA
2024
Designing Motherhood, Houston Centre for Contemporary Craft, Houston, USA
Clocking In, Curated by Chava Krivchenia, John Michael Kohler Arts Centre, Sheboygan, USA
Workplace, Organized by Chava Krivchenia & Nora James, John Michael Kohler Arts Centre, Sheboygan, USA
Skeleton Pants, Soloway Gallery, NYC, USA
2023
What do Angels Look Like?, RainRain, NYC, USA
Unconditional Care curated by Katrina Majkut, Rochester Museum of Contemporary Art, Rochester, USA
Prosthesis, Haynes Court, curated by Kristin Korolowicz, Chicago, USA
For Those Without Choice, Weinberg-Newton, Chicago, USA
Designing Motherhood, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, Seattle, USA
2022
Gentle Content, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, curated by Julia Birka-White, Chicago, USA
Impossible Garden, AddsDonna, curated by Ashley Janke, Chicago, USA (solo)
Designing Motherhood, Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, USA
2021
Fixed Point, Addendum, Footnote, Aphorism, Julius Caesar, Chicago, USA (solo)
Designing Motherhood, Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Garage Sale 2.0, Terrain Biennial, Oliva Gallery, Chicago, USA
Residencies/Programs
John Michael Kohler Arts | Industry Residency in Foundry, Kohler, WI, (2024 & 2020)
NEW INC Creative Sciences Program supported by the Simons Foundation, New York City, NY, (Year 10, 2023 – 2024)
Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, New York City, NY, (2022-2023)
SPACES in collaboration with Sears think[box] and the Dittirck Medical History Centre at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, (2021)
Leroy Neiman Foundation Ox-Bow Fellowship, Saugatuck, MI (2019)
Australian Tapestry Workshop (2016)
Course list
| Observation | ASAG 1300 |
