Austin Camilleri is an artist working in installation, painting, drawing, video and sculpture. He studied at the University of Malta and at the Accademia Pietro Vannucci in Perugia.
He has curated exhibitions and created interdisciplinary events often working with authors, composers, actors, architects and choreographers, together or separately. He established 356, is founding member of StArt, Fundazzjoni Klula and ISTRA Foundation and a visiting lecturer at the Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta.
His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Mediterranean Biennale, Art Raker Biennale and the Biennale for Young Artists and in solo and group shows at the Visual Art Gallery in New Delhi, India; the Henderson Center in Beijing, China; at the BOZAR, at Centrale Electrique, Musee Botanique and Place Fontainas in Brussels, Belgium; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cluj- Napoca, Romania; Apollonia in Strasbourg, Galerie GNG in Paris and Fondation Villa Datris in L’Isle sur la Sorgue, France; Palais Liechtenstein in Feldkirch, Austria; the Vatican Museum and in the Ex-Mattatoio in Rome and at the Museo Archeologico complex, Lipari, Museo Civico in Nichelino, Biblioteca Universitaria, Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale in Rome and in Cosenza, Italy; in Villa Barbaro a Maser, Treviso; at the UN Building and SAI Gallery in New York, at the Anchorage Museum of Contemporary Art, USA; St.James Palace in London, UK; WTC in Stockholm, Kalmar Museum in Sweden; the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland; at Inguat, Guatemala City, Guatemala; in Grote Kerk in the Hague, Holland; Chiesa Santa Chiara, Republic of San Marino; public work at the Garden of Nations in Ramallah, Palestine Territories; at Beith Shemesh, Jerusalem, Isreal; at Palais Kherredine in Tunis, at Palais Abdelliya, La Marsa, Tunisia; at the Munchen Kunstelerhaus in Munich, Galerie Bagnato and Kulturzentrum in Konstanz, Germany; at ACVIC Cebter for Contemporary Art, Vic (Barcellona) in Spain; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Maritime Museum, Museum of Archeology, Spazju Kreattiv and in the Malta Contemporary Art Foundation in Malta.
Austin Camilleri lives in Gozo and works between Malta and Italy.