Artist Profile is an international quarterly contemporary art magazine published in Sydney, Australia.
History and profile
Founded in 2007, Artist Profile is released four times a year and distributed across Australia, Oceania, North America, Southeast Asia and South Africa. It features exclusive studio interviews and photographic profiles of Australian and international artists, as well as essays by artists, scholars and curators; artist projects; exhibition reviews; and information on books, films, fairs, biennials and contemporary art festivals with a concentration on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The magazine was founded by editor Paul Flynn and originally published by nextmedia. Since 2015, it has been edited by Kon Gouriotis OAM and is now published by Bandicoot Publishing.
Artist Profile also sponsors and manages artist expeditions, public programs, exhibitions and other arts projects to foster appreciation of the arts, working in tandem with the magazine, to make the creative output of talented artists available to collectors, industry professionals, educators and other artists.
In 2012, Artist Profile was the official media partner to the Melbourne Art Fair as well as a contributing partner to the 18th Biennale of Sydney.
Notable interviewees
Ai Weiwei
Bill Viola
Olafur Eliasson
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Enrique Martínez Celaya
Pieter Hugo
Adrian Ghenie
Jitish Kallat
Patty Chang
Hernan Bas
James Gleeson
Elisabeth Cummings
Euan Macleod
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Louise Hearman
Brook Andrew
Rick Amor
Spencer Finch
George Gittoes
Bonita Ely
Shen Shaomin
Vivienne Binns
Del Kathryn Barton
Sam Leach
John Olsen (Australian artist) Guo Jian