Susanna Strati

Susanna Strati is an Australian object and installation artist. She has participated in both international and national exhibitions and has been granted numerous awards and residencies, including an Australia Council for the Arts Residency at the British School at Rome (2004), and an Australian Post Graduate Award for research (2009). She is a lecturer in the School of Design at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.
Strati was born in Sydney of Italian migrants from Sant'Agata del Bianco in Calabria. She has completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales,College of Fine Arts,Sydney.
Strati's work explores the use of performative and transactional objects in death and takes on a commemorative or memorial format to memorialise lost traditions. Her most recent work (2009) investigates the use of lamentation by traditional Southern Italian Catholic women, and the importance of grief sharing at public events.
Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in exhibitions for museums and galleries such as The Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, The British School at Rome Gallery, Rome, and Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. She has also been selected as a finalist for prizes such as the 2008 Blake Prize for Religious Art in Sydney and the Fisher's Ghost art prize, Campbelltown.

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