David Rosetzky (b. 1970) is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist working across photography, video and installation. His black-and-white photographs and double exposures often allude to different psychological and emotional states, identity and selfhood. He is known for the elegance and aesthetic rigour of his art, which draws on the visual languages of contemporary advertising and cinema. Rosetzky has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally, including Light Moves, Contemporary Australian Video Art at the National Gallery of Australia (2016); Contemporary Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria (2017); and the third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Centre for Photography, New York (2009). Rosetzky was awarded the inaugural Anne Landa Art Award for Moving Image and New Media Art at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2005. In 2014 the Centre for Contemporary Photography curated the survey exhibition True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works, which toured nationally. His commissions for the Portrait Gallery include a 2008 digital video portrait of Cate Blanchett and a 2018 photograph of Jessica Mauboy. Rosetzky's subsequent projects include Composite Acts (2019), commissioned by Channels International Biennial of Video Art, Melbourne and Being Ourselves (2020) at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne. His work is held in regional and state gallery collections across Australia.
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