Kylie Banyard is an artist researcher whose work engages with painting, photography, textiles, and sculpture to explore the critical potential of the utopian imagination. Her multidisciplinary practice questions and tests how speculative and poetic encounters with place and the more than human can bring about other more generative and just ways of being in the world. 

For almost two decades she has exhibited regularly at public galleries nationally and internationally. She has been invited to stage solo exhibitions at Verge Gallery, the University of Sydney (2024), Castlemaine Art Museum (2021) and Broken Hill Regional Gallery (2013). She has been curated into significant group exhibitions including The National: New Australian Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2019), All that is Alive, UTS Gallery and LAI (2025/ 2026); The Heroine Paint, Lismore Regional Gallery (2021); Art from Down Under: Australia to New Zealand, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, North Carolina (2018); Another Green World, The Western Plains Cultural Centre (2017); The Mnemonic Mirror, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, and UTS Gallery, Sydney (2016-2017).

Banyard has received research funding from Creative Victoria, Arts NSW, Creative Australia and the National Association for the Visual Arts. She has been a finalist in the Bayside Painting Prize, Len Fox Painting Prize, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize and the Hazelhurst Art on Paper award. She has been the recipient of several competitive artist’s residencies, such as the Cité International des Arts Paris, France, and the Firstdraft Emerging Studio Residency Program, Sydney.

Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including: Artbank Australia, Bendigo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ballart, the University of Wollongong, The University of NSW, Xavier College Melbourne and Stonnington Council Collection.

Banyard holds a Masters of Fine Arts and a PhD from UNSW.