Amelia Winata is a Narrm Melbourne-based writer and curator. She is President and a Founding Editor of Memo Review, Australia’s leading arts criticism publications.
In recent years, Amelia has contributed to publications including The Saturday Paper, Artforum, Artreview, Art Monthly Australasia, and ANZJA: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, and has written for leading institutions such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), and Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).
Amelia’s independent curatorial projects include Phuong Ngo: Inheritance (West Space and Canberra Contemporary, 2025), Metropolis (Arts Project Australia, 2025) and a major forthcoming exhibition at 4A Sydney (2026). She was previously Curator at Gertrude Contemporary where she curated exhibitions including Sarah Ujmaia: Marmoreum (2024) and And This Time the Well Is Alive (2024.
Amelia holds a PhD in Art History at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis focused on the German artist Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1985). She is currently researching the Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri (1930-2024).
