Martha Poggioli is an Australian artist & designer. Across sculpture, installation, and new media she works to uncover patterns, occurrences, and languages hidden within the vast constellation of human made things. Exploiting and hacking design methodologies, Poggioli investigates material histories to address questions relating to embodiment, representation, and identity. Poggioli’s recent work has interrogated legacies of intellectual property and industrial design with a focus on reproductive, contraceptive, prosthetic, and surgical devices.
Poggioli holds a BFA from Queensland University of Technology and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was a New Artist Society Merit Scholar and recipient of the Dean’s Award. She has participated numerous residencies including at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, the Ox-Bow School of Art, Kohler Arts/Industry Residency, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program.
Her work has been shown internationally including at the Mütter Museum (Philadelphia), Kunstgewerbemuseum (Dresden), RMIT Design Hub (Melbourne), Julius Caesar (Chicago), SPACES (Cleveland), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center (Seattle), Weinberg/Newton Gallery (Chicago) MassArt Art Museum (Boston), and Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Chicago).
