Bonnie Lane is video installation artist born in Melbourne, Australia in 1986. Bonnie is a current Freedman Foundation Traveling Scholar, and an Australia Council for the Arts – ArtStarter for 2011. She is currently being mentored by renowned video artist Tina Gonslaves through JUMP, the Australia Council’s national mentoring program for young and emerging artists. Bonnie will be undertaking artist residencies in Vermont, New Mexico and Los Angeles in the coming months, and with the help of numerous grants including the Australia Council for the Arts – New Work Grant, she will be conducting a research project in Southern States of the USA in early 2012. An outcome of her research will be presented in a solo project exhibition at Anna Pappas Gallery (Melbourne) in the second half of 2012 as well as Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts (Melbourne) as part of the Innovators Program. Bonnie will also be exhibiting video installation Sleepless in a solo exhibition at Art Currents Institute in Chelsea, New York in 2012. Bonnie completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2007 and obtained a first-class Honours Degree in Fine Art from Monash University in 2010.
