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Dr. Jessica Clark is a proud palawa/pallawah woman, born in lurtruwita/trowunna and currently living and working on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. She is a curator, researcher, and writer with a background in art history and education. Clark holds a PhD Fine Art and Music (2023), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, which was awarded The Chancellor's Prize for Excellence, University of Melbourne 2024.

Currently, Clark is Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA); Curatorial Manager, Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair at Creative Victoria; Ursula Hoff Fellow (2024-26), University of Melbourne and an Artform Advisor at The Substation.

Clark is an alumni of the International Curators Program: Asia Pacific Triennial x TarraWarra Biennial (2021-2023) PIAD First Nations Colloquium, South Africa (2019), Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Cultural Keepers Program (2017-2020), Wesfarmers Indigenous Arts Leadership Program (2018), and the First Nations Curators Program for the Venice Biennale (2017).

Signature Works: Innovation Lab (2018), and the First Nations Curators Program for the Venice Biennale (2017).