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= Jemima Wyman = Jemima Wyman is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brisbane and Los Angeles. Born in 1977 in Sydney, Australia, she works across various mediums including instillation, video, performance, photography, collage, and painting. Her works explore themes of identity and camouflage as a social, formal and political strategy. Wyman's art pieces are known for their unique style and visual portrayal.

Early Life and Education
Jemima Wyman grew up in relatively small towns on the north east coast of Australia. Her parent's practicalness and open-mindedness greatly helped her path as an artist. She attended art school in Brisbane, Australia in the 90's. After that, she won a scholarship by an American couple, Anne and Gordon Samstag, for Australian artists to do graduate study anywhere in the world and be fully funded. She was then awarded a studio residency in Santa Monica at 18th Street Arts Center by the Australian government for artists to live and work abroad for 3-months. She would later on receive her MFA from the California Institute of Art in 2007 and her BA from Queensland University of Technology. Wyman then received a Green Card to live and work in the United States. It's then that Wyman came to work in Los Angeles in 2004.

Career
After moving away from Australia, Wyman started her work as a contemporary artist in Los Angeles. She is represented by Commonwealth & Council, a contemporary art space in Koreatown run by Young Chung and Kibum Kim. Some of her recent works are included in "Conflict in My Outlook" at the University of Queensland Art Museum and "Other Life-formings" at the University of Toronto. These works of her display the pattern of disguise and political and social structure that she often represents.

Apart from her life and career as an artist, she is a lecturer in the Art Department at the California State University of Los Angles.

Group Exhibitions:

 * Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (2014)
 * Direct Democracy, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2013)
 * The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, UK (2012)
 * Inner Voices, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2011)

Solo Exhibitions:

 * Conjouring Radical Openness, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2015)
 * Effacing Power, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (2013)
 * The Will to Deceive, Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2010)
 * Piecing Together Core Concerns, Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2012)
 * PLATFORM public commission, Museum of Brisbane Busway Project, Australia
 * Pattern Bandits, Children’s Art Centre at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2014)