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Arini Byng (b. 1987, Eora Nation, Sydney, Australia) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with the affective qualities of materials, gestures, and settings, undertaking exercises in image, movement, and form to negotiate political scenes. Arini’s output traverses photography, performance, video, and painting to create complex, intimate studies in gesture and action. Her practice draws on the phenomenology of the body as it encounters the physical world. In recent work, Byng has incorporated her personal family archive to navigate lived experiences. This work draws on her Black American and White Australian heritage to explore how culture and memory shape selfhood, offering a distinctive and personal perspective on the complexities of diasporic identity.

Notable exhibitions and performances include How we breathe, presented at Gertrude Glasshouse; Melbourne Now, presented at the National Gallery of Victoria; Some voices carry, presented at CAVES for PHOTO 2022 and the Singapore International Photography Festival; and I felt it when you fell, performed at Bus Projects, Gertrude Glasshouse, and Ararat Gallery TAMA. In 2022, Arini was a finalist in the Bowness Photography Prize, and in 2024 and 2026, she was a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize. Selected works have been published by Perimeter Editions, Higher Arc, Le Roy, and Photofile, with works held in the publication collections of the V&A, MoMA, MOCA, and Tate Modern. Arini lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne), on the unceded sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.