Kirsty Budge (b.1981 Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand) lives and works in Djaara Country/Castlemaine, Australia. She has a BFA in Painting from the Victorian College of the Arts in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia graduating in 2014.
Recent solo exhibitions include Bridge and Tunnel (Daine Singer, 2025), Buried in Bits (NADA, New York, 2024), Brown Mirror (Daine Singer, 2024), (I’ve got) half a mind (Daine Singer, 2022), If you’re gonna spew, spew into this (Daine Singer, 2020), The Doing (Daine Singer, 2019), Gawkalitis (Daine Singer, 2017), The Painters are In (Spring 1883, 2016), and I’m not desperate, you’re desperate (Sarah Scout Presents, 2016).
Selected Group exhibitions include Minor Attractions (London 2024), How to Swim (Edwina Corlette, Brisbane, 2024), Melbourne Art Fair (Daine Singer 2020, 2022, 2024), Killing Time, (Chapter House Lane, Melbourne 2018); VCA 150 alumni (Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2017), Painting. More Painting (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2016), Spinnerei (Leipzig, Germany, 2016).
In 2021 Kirsty Budge won the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize from Bendigo Art Gallery. She has undertaken residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, as the recipient of an Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship (2018), and at the Caselberg Trust on the Otago Peninsula, New Zealand (2019).
Her work is held in the Artbank, Bendigo Art Gallery and City of Port Phillip collections as well as private collections across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.