Born Sydney, 1959. Lives and works in Sydney. Mikala Dwyer completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture/Sound) at Sydney College of the Arts in 1983, studied at Middlesex Polytechnic in London, UK, in 1986, and completed a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, in 1993. Recent solo exhibitions include Swamp Geometry, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2008; Black Sun Blue Moon, Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2007; The Additions and Subtractions and the Hanging Garden, Galerie Wascherie, Potsdam, Germany, 2007; The Shape of the Thought’s Own Making, Peleton Gallery, Sydney, 2007; I Maybe We, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ, 2005; Only One and a Bit Days to Go, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, 2005; Superstitious Scaff olding, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ, 2005; Flowers, Flies and Someone Else, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2004; Art Lift s, National Gallery of Australia, 2002; and Mikala Dwyer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2000. Selected group exhibitions include De Overkant/ Down Under: The Hague Sculpture 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2007; Mystic Truths, Auckland City Gallery, Auckland, NZ, 2007; High Tide: New Currents in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2006; I Care Because You Do, NewYorkRioTokyo, Berlin, 2006; Beckon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, 2006; Out of Context, The Fields Sculpture Park, OMI Arts Center, Ghent, NY, USA, 2006; Someone Shows Something To Someone, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, 2006; and 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2006.