Born 1956, Germany
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Education
1969-1973
Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions
2008
Broken Spell, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
2006
Arabesque, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Vavara: Beyond Memory, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
2000 
The River, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
1998 
Works on Paper, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
1994 
The Way of the Animal Powers, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1992 
Myths and Secrets, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Paintings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1988 
Paintings & Works on Paper, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1987 
Magda Matwiejew, Anima Gallery, Melbourne
1986 
Paintings & Works on Paper, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1984
Magda Matwiejew, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1982 
Magda Matwiejew: Paintings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1979 
Magda Matwiejew, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
After Urban, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, (Insect, video)
2006
Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF), Melbourne, (Insect, video)
New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia, Today Art Museum, Beijing, (Insect, video)
Atom Awards, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Cinemas, Melbourne, (Insect, video)
To Much Freedom, LA Freewaves New Media Arts, UCLA Center Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA,
(Arabesque, video)
Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Temporary Cities, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, (Arabesque, video)
Temporary Cities, Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania, (Insect, video)
The Harries: National Digital Art Award, Queensland University of Technology, Arts Precinct, (Insect, video)
The San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, San Francisco, USA, (Arabesque, video)
Indiana International Video Art And Architecture Festival, Indiana University Art Gallery, USA, (Arabesque, video)
River’s Edge Film Festival, International ArtExpo Collection, Paducah, Kentucky USA, (Arabesque, video)
Temporary Identities, The Third Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging, Animation & Video-Art, Novosibirsk
State Art Museum, Russia, (Arabesque, video)
White mantle - the winter landscape in Australian art, Geelong Gallery, Victoria, (Vavara, video)
2005
New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia, Today Art Museum, Beijing (Arabesque, video)
International Digital Art Awards, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston
International Digital Art Awards, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
International Digital Art Awards, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
International Digital Art Awards, QUT, Brisbane, (Vavara, video)
Sight Specific South, screening of moving image, Lume Laneway Screen Space, Melbourne, (Vavara, video)
1999 
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
1997 
Nature, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
1992 
Ansett Art Award, Hamilton Art Gallery, VIC
Miniatures, Realites Gallery, Melbourne
1990 
Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1989 
Selected Works, Realites Gallery, Melbourne
1988 
Notations, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne
A New Generation, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Collections
Australian War Memorial Art Collection
BHP Billiton Art Collection, Melbourne
Geelong Regional Gallery, VIC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
National Gallery of Victoria
Philip Morris Collection, Melbourne
The University of Melbourne Collection

Bibliography
2006
The Harries National Digital Art Award, exhibition catalogue, p.19
White Mantel, exhibition catalogue, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Angelatos, V; Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair 2006, exhibition catalogue
Backhouse, M; Arabesque, The Age, Critics, 18 Feb, p.24
Gill, H; Appeal of the unreal, Herald Sun, Visual Art, 22 Feb, p.6
Hall, L; The Falls before the Falls, The Herald Sun, Visual Art, 1 Aug
Hardiman, C; Chalk and Cheese, Arts and Writing Program, Radio 3WBC, Interview, Feb
Hill, P; White Mantle, Landscapes cloaked in winter’s splendor, The Age, Metro, 11 Jul, p.14
Tonkin, S; Meeting Place, Keeping Place, exhibition catalogue, The Melbourne Arts Centre, Melbourne
Zevela, D; Digital Games. Digital Winners, Real Time, Winter, p.27
2005
International Digital Awards, Desk Top: Australian Design Digital Culture Magazine, Illustration, 5 Apr
2004
About Town, The Australian Financial Review, 8-14 July, p.43
Nelson, R; Russian dream rendered purposeful, The Age, Agenda Magazine, Sightlines - Critical exhibition guide, 16 Jul, p.8
The A List - What’s on Today, The Age, A3 Arts, 22 Jul, p.11
Giudici, A; What’s on this week, The Sunday Age, Agenda Magazine, 18 Jul, p.21
Crawford, A; Review, Sunday Age, Agenda Magazine, 11 Jul, p.21
1994
Rooney, R; Galleries, A Select Short List, The Australian, 9 Apr
McCulloch, S; Review Visual Arts, Herald Sun, 30 Mar
1990
Zimmer, J; The beast in Man on Display, Arts, The Sun Herald, 5 Aug
1987
Neylon, J; A work of arts elusive commodity: expression, The Adelaide Advertiser, 27 May
1986
Catalano, G; Art, The Age, Oct
Millar, R; Entertainment - Art Exhibitions, The Herald Sun, 18 Oct
1984
Carmichel, R; Artscene, The Herald Sun, 21 Mar
Holloway, M; Art, The Age, 15 Mar
Millar, R; Small is Beautiful, Herald Sun, 22 Mar, p.24
1979
Eagle, M; Art And Entertainment, The Age, 30 May
McCulloch, A; Art, The Age, May