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Neha Kale

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Neha Kale is a widely-published writer whose work focuses on the intersection of art, contemporary culture and society. Her essays, criticism, features and other nonfiction have appeared nationally and internationally in places like ArtReview, The Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, SBS, Art Guide, The Guardian, Running Dog, Kill Your Darlings, ABC, i-D and many more. She writes The Influence column for The Saturday Paper and was formerly the editor of VAULT magazine.

Neha has moderated panels and presented lectures and workshops at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, ACCA, the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Writers’ Festival and the Emerging Writers’ Festival. She has served as a judge for the Walkley Foundation and for the University of Sydney’s David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award. In 2022, she was a facilitator for the Australia Council’s Re(situate) Biennale Delegates Program in 2022 as part of Australia at the Venice Biennale. 

Brown-skinned woman with shoulder-length black hair, smiling at the camera, with her arms crossed. She is wearing a baby pink sweater and blue jeans and is standing outside, with trees behind her in soft focus.

Neha Kale; photo credit: Laura Mangen

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