Susanna Strati

Susanna Strati is an Australian object and installation artist born to Italian migrants on the unceded land of the Gayemagal people in Sydney. Her work explores the use of performative and transactional objects in relation to death, often taking on commemorative or memorial formats that evoke and honour lost traditions. Increasingly, she incorporates mythological narratives and animals—such as the spider and the silk moth—into her practice. These elements help construct a narrative that links Southern Italian motifs to her work, often involving her own body in individual pieces and performances. The art objects she creates sit at the intersection of memory and place, mourning, and the political and personal effects of migration.

Susanna is an Alumna of UNSW Art & Design. She has received awards and residencies, including an Australia Council Residency at the British School in Rome and an Australia Council research grant for independent study in central and southern Italy.

Alumna of the University of UNSW Art and Design

Susanna has exhibited work across Australia, Asia and in Europe.

She has been a finalist in several award exhibitions, including the Paramor Prize: ART + INNOVATION (where she was Winner of the Mayoral Award), Hidden Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Walk (2012, 2014, 2015), The Blake Prize (2008, 2013), The David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award (Contemporary Art Sculpture 2017), Fishers Ghost Art Award (2008, 2017), Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2012, 2013, 2016), The Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award (2018), The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2018), and the Contemporary Wearables Biennial Jewellery Award & Exhibition (2019, 2023). In 2023, Susanna was also the winner of 2nd prize in the Urunga Small Sculpture Prize.