Linda Studena is a Czech born artist based in Naarm. Her studio practice is framed by autoethnographic enquiry informed by her migrant experience. She works within an expanded practice using drawing, photography and sculpture to look at ideas of nostalgia, personal and public archives and symbols of identity. Linda has exhibited locally and internationally and completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2022. She was recently awarded the People’s Choice Award, Incinerator Art for Social Change, the University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association Innovation Award, and the Masters Mentoring VCA Art Award. Linda is the co-founder and former President of the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia, and in 2002 completed a winter semester at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague (Czechia), funded by the Freedman Foundation Scholarship, National Association of Visual Arts.
She lives and works on the unceded lands of the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, Victoria.
