TAI SNAITH

BIOGRAPHY

Tai Snaith is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and has held solo exhibitions since 2009 in both commercial and public galleries including Heide Museum of Modern Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the State Library of Victoria, Bayside Gallery Brighton; and ARI’s including Long Division Gallery at Schoolhouse Studios, Bus Projects, C3 gallery, Chapter House Lane Gallery, Kings ARI, Blindside and West Space. She was highly commended in The Churchie Emerging Arts Prize (2015) and is a recipient of a Bundanon Residency (2024), the Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant (2018) Banyule Art Award for works on paper (2013), the Australia Council for the Arts Tokyo Studio Residency (2013). Tai has been a finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Award, Bayside Painting Prize, Salon de Refuses at S.H. Ervin Gallery, Len Fox Painting Prize, Woolhara Small Sculpture Prize, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Marquette: Sculpture Award at McClelland Gallery (forthcoming) and the World Illustration Awards (London). 

Tai has curated and produced projects and public commissions including the inaugural public sculpture commission ‘Train of Life’ for Mitchell Shire (2025), 'Memory Palaces' public sculpture commission for Great Victorian Rail trail (2023), the Metro Tunnel x Royal Botanic Gardens (2020), State Library of Victoria (major commission 2018), ACCA (podcast 2018 and ongoing), the Melbourne Art Fair (2008), New Wave Festival (2006) and the Emerging Writers Festival (2007). She has published seven children’s books with Thames and Hudson since 2012. Her work is held in the collections of Artbank, the National Gallery of Australia, the State Library of Victoria, Bayside City Council Arts and Heritage Centre as well as public and private collections.