Kushana Bush

(b.1983, Dunedin New Zealand, lives in Dunedin)

Kushana Bush graduated from Fine Arts at the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic; she was the Frances Hodgkins Fellow at The University of Otago in 2011 producing artwork for the show All Things to All Men during her tenure. In 2009 she won the Art and Australia Contemporary Art Award. Bush's satirical paintings conflate disparate cultures, unsettle simplified notions of East and West and cut across cultural differences.

Bush has been included in various group exhibitions in public galleries throughout New Zealand and Australia including Melbourne Art Fair, 2012; Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, 2012; City Gallery, Wellington, NZ, 2011; Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, 2007. Her first solo exhibition was at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney in 2013.