Katina Davidson is a Kullilli and Yuggera curator, writer and artist usually based in Magandjin (Brisbane, Australia). She’s passionate about self-determination in the arts and fostering the future of Indigenous Australian artists and arts workers.
She has recently joined the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum at the University of Virginia for a 6-month curatorial residency over 2024-25. During this time, she will live on the lands of the Monacan Nation, to curate an exhibition of Kluge-Ruhe Collection works by Spinifex people from the Great Victorian Desert, in consultation with Spinifex Arts Project.
Upon completion of the residency, Katina will return to her permanent role as Curator, Indigenous Australian Art, at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Since beginning her journey at QAGOMA in 2018, she has curated ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’, 2024; and co-curated major exhibitions including ‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’, 2022-23; and ‘Mavis Ngallametta: Show Me the Way to Go Home’ 2020, in addition to several Collection based displays. Prior to QAGOMA, she worked at State Library of Queensland’s kuril dhagun from 2011-2018, curating Australian First Nations community-led social history exhibitions.