Profile

LILAH BENETTI (they/them) is an artist working at the intersection of cinema and contemporary art. Their films, installations, and living archives unravel memory, dislocation, and speculative futures through non-linear storytelling. Merging analogue image-making, experimental sound, and site-responsive forms, Benetti’s work traces the residues of cultural memory and resistance. Often unfolding in public or unconventional spaces, their practice disrupts dominant narratives—asking who is seen, who is heard, and who is remembered. Lilah is currently based on Wurundjeri Country.

Enquiries & Commissions

MGNT@lilahbenetti.com

For enquiries related to exhibitions, print sales, screenings, commissions, mentoring, or advisory services, please get in touch via email.

If you are interested in contributing to the ongoing Black and Blur archive, please contact Lilah with the subject line: BLACK AND BLUR

Instagram: @easylilah

I respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples - the Traditional Custodians of Naarm, the sacred land on which I live and work. I extend that respect to all Indigenous people across the Kulin Nation - from Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Wathaurrung, Taungurung to Dja Dja Wurrung country, acknowledging Elders past and present. This was and always will be Aboriginal Land. I extend my solidarity to all other Indigenous communities across the globe, as we continue to fight for the recognition of our land and our authentic histories.

SELECTED EXHIBITionS

TATE Britain – LONDON - Feb 2025

Art Gallery of New South Wales – SYDNEY - Feb 2025

Harlesden High Street Gallery - LONDON - Dec 2024

Not/Nowhere - LONDON - Dec 2024

Automat Collective – PHILADELPHIA - Dec 2024

DAK’ART Biennial - DAKAR - Dec 2024

Alta Forma – MELBOURNE - Oct 2024

Minor Attractions – LONDON - Oct 2024

Firstdraft – SYDNEY - Aug 2024

Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock ‘Encounters’ - DAKAR - May 2024

James Makin Advisory – MELBOURNE - April 2024

International PHOTO – MELBOURNE - Jan 2024

Firstdraft – SYDNEY - Aug 2023

Centre Of Projection Art – MELBOURNE - Aug 2023

West Space – MELBOURNE - Jul 2023

Fed Square – MELBOURNE - Jul 2023

MPavilion – MELBOURNE, Dec 2022

Immigration Museum – MELBOURNE, Feb 2022

In Residence & Research

Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock – SENEGAL 2024

The Art House UK – UK 2024

Creative Victoria - Research and Development — Gender Non-Conformity in Traditional Spirituality, GHANA, BENIN, TOGO, NIGERIA 2023/24

Centre for Projection Art – AUS 2023

MQBMBQ (My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness) – ITALY, 2022

Support & Recognition

British Council - Connections Though Culture - 2025

Ian Potter Foundation - Cultural Fund - 2024

Ubuntu Foundation - African Australian Creative Media Grants - 2024

City of Melbourne - Connections Though Culture - 2024

Creative Victoria - Creators Fund - 2023

Berlin Film Festival 72nd Berlinale - Honourable Mention - 2022

Wyndham Art Gallery - Wyndham Art Prize - 2022

Published

Artsy - ‘Is Minor Attractions the Alternative Art Fair that London Needs?’ - Digital - 2024

The Royal Over-Seas League Journal - ‘ROSL International Artists’ - Print - 2024

Art Monthly Australasia - ‘On Endurance’ Musings on Black and Blur - 2024

Art Net - ‘Kehinde Wiley’s Closely Watched Artist Residency’ 2023

VOGUE Italia - ‘My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness’ 2022

THE FACE UK - ‘My Work is Inherently Black and Queer’ - Feature - Digital - 2022

The Guardian - ‘On Black Tenderness in Australian Art’ - Feature - Digital - 2021

As an Advisor

Artist Advisor - First Draft - SYDNEY 2025-27

Artist Advisor - Museums Victoria - MELBOURNE 2022-24

In Dialogue

In-Conversation - PHOTO2024 – hosted by Atong Atem, MELBOURNE, 2024

In-Conversation - Gertrude Street Projection Festival – ‘Black Queer Futures’ hosted by Kate Ten Buuren, 2023

Artist Talk - Testing Grounds – ‘Our Voices, Our Stories’ – MELBOURNE, 2022

Panel - MPavilion – ‘Black Diasporas’ - MELBOURNE, 2022