About Peta Rake

Peta Rake was born in 1987, Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. She is Acting Director, as well as Senior Curator at University of Queensland Art Museum. Her practice as a curator is currently attentive to transdisciplinary conversations focussed on blue research, working closely with artists and scientists to understand the psycho-social, political, and gendered dimensions of coastal wetlands, sea country, intertidal zones, and the regeneration and articulation of these sites. Her work has always involved a large network of long-term collaborators and thinkers, and friends, with a keen interest in distributed curatorial work towards activism. She has held various roles at CCA (San Francisco), Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Walter Phillips Gallery and Banff International Curatorial Institute (Banff). Independently she has curated exhibitions at ISCP (New York), Oakland Museum of California (Oakland), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), and Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco).