Clothilde Bullen is a Wardandi (Nyoongar) and Badimaya (Yamatji) Aboriginal curator who has independently curated several shows, and one of 5 artist-curator teams selected as finalists to curate the Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2018.
In September 2021, Ms Bullen was appointed curator and head of indigenous programs at the Art Gallery of Western Australia where she will lead its reframing and communication of historical and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and cultures, in line with global First Nations narratives and Indigenous led-change. Prior to that, Ms Bullen spent four and a half years as senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Australia. She has worked closely with artists and arts communities such as Vincent Namatjira, Tony Albert, Yhonnie Scarce, Yirrkala, APY communities and members of proppaNOW.
As a board member of the Art Monthly Australasia Board, Ms Bullen instigated a 2-year program to support Indigenous arts writers in partnership with Sydney University's Power Institute. She is a board member of Create NSW Museum and Histories, Fremantle Biennale, the Australian chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (a Unesco supported organisation), and chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts.
