BIOGRAPHY:
Vienna PH/Vienna Parreno - Haskins is a contemporary artist whose practice is led by ideas rather than a fixed medium. Her work moves between works on paper, moving image, textiles, objects, installation and participatory forms, often using systems of repetition, recording and transformation to make everyday life materially visible. She sometimes learns an unfamiliar process from scratch because a particular work demands it.
Trained in time-based art at COFA, UNSW from 1997 to 2001, she later continued there as a postgraduate research candidate. She exhibited in Australia and Asia before stepping away from sustained studio practice for more than a decade. She later trained in Early Childhood Education at the University of Sydney, became a mother, and returned to art making in the latter half of 2025.
Her current practice begins close to home: with children, play, care, domestic labour, cultural memory, interruptions, and the strange material life of an ordinary household. Family clothing becomes sculpture; crumpled paper becomes a record of pressure, time and activity; old films return in altered form. Text drawn from the logs and routines of daily life is often abstracted and reworked rather than used as straightforward diary or narrative.
There is often an element of play in the work, although not necessarily ease. She is drawn to repetition, duration, difficulty, accident and the slightly perverse logic of making things harder than they need to be — and seeing what becomes visible in the process.
Her work has been exhibited and screened at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Blacktown Arts Centre, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Cross Art Projects, Cementa, the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines, among other venues in Australia and Asia.
Play Lab Atelier
Play Lab Atelier is my home studio in Boorloo / Perth — part working studio, part play space, and part gathering place.
It grew out of the overlap between art-making, family life, children and play. The space shifts between studio work, making with children, shared meals, playdates, board-game nights and the occasional themed supper or gathering.
Rather than separating art from everyday life, Play Lab Atelier allows those things to sit alongside one another: work, care, play, conversation and the ordinary activity of a household.
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Born in 1978 in Manila, Philippines
Resides and works in Boorloo/Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar Country AUSTRALIA
EDUCATION:
2013: MTeach in Early Childhood Education, University of Sydney, NSW Australia
1997 - 2001: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Time Based Arts (First Class Honours), COFA, UNSW, Sydney, Australia 2002–2006, Postgraduate Research Candidate, COFA, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009, War on Warhole, SLOT Projects, Alexandria Sydney, Australia 2008, Hard Rocks, ATVP Contemporary Art Space, Newtown, NSW, Australia
2008, Fears of a Jaded Descent, Gallery 4a - Asia Australia Art Centre, Haymarket, NSW, Australia
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION:
2013, Yiwon Park & Vienna Del Rosario Parreno: New Works, DNA Projects, Chippendale Sydney, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012, Speed Show, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012, Dystorpia Media Exhibition, Local Project Art Space, New York, USA
2012, Art Food & Music for Buddhism - Fundraiser for Mayu Kanamori, Yuga Floral Cafe & Gallery, Glebe, Sydney, Australia
2010, Visions of Vaucluse, Vaucluse House, Sydney, Australia
2010, Asia Now, MIFA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009, Member’s Annual, Gallery 4a Asia Australia Art Centre, Haymarket, Sydney, Australia
2009, Breathing Space, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, Australia
2009, Action Vs Action, Gallery 4a - Asia Australia Art Centre, Haymarket, Sydney, Australia
2008, Members Annual, Gallery 4a Asia Australia Art Centre, Haymarket, Sydney, Australia
2008, Against Reduction, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy Melbourne, Australia
2008,Without Boundaries: Australian Bookbinders Artist Exhibition, Pine Street Creative Centre, Sydney. Toured to Munduberra Regional Art Gallery 2008, Road: Rode Exhibition, ATVP Gallery, Newtown Sydney, Australia
2007, The Sound of Failure Exhibition, Don’t Looke Media Art Gallery, Dulwich Hill, Sydney Australia
2006, We Are Australian Too, Casula Powerhouse, NSW Australia 2005, Member’s Annual, Gallery 4a Asia Australia Art Centre, Australia 2005 - 2006, Open Letter, Gallery 4a Asia-Australia Art Centre, Australia. Toured to National Gallery Thailand, Metropolitan Museum Manila, National Gallery Kuala Lumpur 2004, Out of Gallery Projects, Blacktown Art Centre, Australia 2004, Fundraising Show, Gallery 4a - Asia Australia Art Centre, Australia 2004, Fundraising Show, Kudos Gallery UNSW, Australia 2001, Mint Exhibition - Graduation Show, College of Fine Arts, Australia
2001, UNSW Union Art Competition, The Roundhouse UNSW, Australia
CELEBRATE-CREATE-COMMUNE/Happenings/Festivals/Film Screenings:
2025: Caught in the Light (Retrospective Screening, Various Artist), Broken Hill Art Exchange Organisation
2025, She Sells Seashells by the Seashore, Terry Tyzack Aquatic Centre, Perth WA, Australia
2024, Frozen, Maylands Waterland, Perth WA, Australia 2024, Too Fast Two Furios, Play Lab Atelier, Perth WA, Australia 2022, Happy Birth-Dough, Play Lab Atelier, Perth WA, Australia
2013, There is a Light that Never Goes Out - Archival Video Montage of Roger Foley Fogg & Barry Kosky, installed at Tales from the Fogg, 107 Project Space, Redfern Australia 2010: Jethayu to the Rescue w/ Jumaadi & Man Made Dog group (Jumaadi, Cameron Ferguson, Vienna Parreno, Sisca Haskew), Australian National Maritime Museum 2008, The Sound of Failure Group Sound Festival, Chrissie Cotter Gallery + Multi Site Event organised by Dont Look New Media Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2007, Raw & Uncut: Excerpts from Against Reduction + Carmina Burana, Howard Permance & Art Space, San Francisco, USA 2006, Experimental Show Case, Perth Revelation International Film Festival, Australia 2006, International Theatre Festival, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
2006, The 31st UNESCO International Theatre Institute World Congress and Art Olympics of the Nations, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila Philippines
2006, Peregrinasyon, Fig Tree Theatre UNSW, Sydney, Australia
2006, Tupada Media Action Art Event, Philippines 2006, Gang Street Festival, Chippendale, NSW Australia 2005, Tupada 33 Interaction, Philippines 2005, Look Right, Sydney Moving Image Coalition, Fig Tree Theatre, UNSW, Australia 2005, Train Ink, Sydney Moving Image Coalition, Fig Tree Theatre, UNSW, Australia 2005, Area Video Works #2, Sydney Moving Image Coalition, Fig Tree Theatre, UNSW, Australia 2004, Jonathon Brown, Glebe Coroner’s Court Sydney, Australia 2004, Fundraising Show, Gallery 4a Asia Australia Art Centre, Australia 2004, Fundraising Show, Kudos Gallery UNSW, Australia 2002, Vallecas Pueta del Cine Touring Film Festival, Spain then to Krasnojarsk Short Film Festival, Russia and Moscow Short Film Festival, Russia 2001, Valles Puerta Del Cine, Spain 2001, National Student Film and Video Festival Australia
2001, Jaffas Down the Aisle Film Festival. Revolver Night Club, Melbourne
2001, Canberra International Film Festival
2001, Cronulla Film Festival (Salon Screening)
2000, Cut Piece: After Yoko, Philip Baxter Residential College, UNSW - accompanied by Artists: Eun Joo Lee and Krzysztof Osinski, Australia
1999, The Projectionist (Time Based Art Students Screenings), Valhalla Cinema, Glebe Sydney, Australia
1999, Head, Heart, Hand Exhibition, University of NSW 50th Anniversary Celebration, Australia
*Play Lab Atelier is the name of my home studio.
COLLECTIONS:
Jason Yeap Collection, Melbourne Australia Wayne Goss Collection, Sydney Australia (collaborative work as KYV - Krzysztof Osinski, Yan Tung, Vienna Parreno)
AWARDS & PRIZES:
2010: Redlands Westpac Art Prize for Emerging Artists (nominated -withdrew due to illness) 2002, National Film and Video Festival Australia, Winner 1st Prize Experimental Division, Australia
2000, Nescafe Student Film Competition, Semi Finalist, Australia 1999, UNSW Union Art Competition, Highly Commended, Australia
RESIDENCIES:
2012, Kandos Projects, Kandos NSW, Australia 2012, Fogg Hall, Hazelbrook, Blue Mountains, Australia 2007, Redgate Gallery Residency, Beijing, China
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS:
2007, Accommodation Subsidy, Australia - China Council, Beijing, China
2006: Emerging Writers Write In Your Face Grant, Literature Board, Australian Council for the Arts
2002 - 2006: The Australian Postgraduate Award. UNSW
2002: The Viktoria Marinov Scholarship for Female Artists. UNSW
2001: Apple Computer-UNSW Scholarship for Digital & Virtual Imaging.
2000: Digital Compositing. (Placement in SFX Class), Metro Screen TV, Paddington, Sydney.
SELECTED PRESS:
Liza Power,Brushing Up on Asian Art, The Age Newspaper (April 14, 2010) Nicole Cleary, Art to Poke Your Eyes Out, Mx Newspaper Melbourne (April 12, 2010)
Sue Ingham, Gallery 4a: An Asian - Australian Experience in Sydney, C Arts Magazine. October 2008. Pages 59-61.
Li Min, Lim. Border Crossings, Thai Day Thailand (2005) Phataranawik, Phatarawadee. Lessons in Australian Immigration,The Nation Newspaper Thailand (2005)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Mikala Tai, Bryan Collie, Louise Joel, Santy Saptari, Anthony Gardner, Asia Now: April 15 - May 28, 2010, Catalogue Published by MIFA - Melbourne International Fine Art (2010) ISBN: 978-0-9807731-0-1
Binghui Huangfu, Sarah Tutton, Russell Storer, John Mateer. Open Letter. Catalogue jointly published by The Asialink Centre and the Asia-Australia Art Centre. (2005) Edition 2000. ISBN 0 7430 31017
PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS:
2006, Philippine Australia Studies Centre Conference, La Trobe University
2005, Visual Arts Mentor, Smart-Arts Program UNSW, Kensington. Conducted lecture and workshop series for students from non-art disciplines.
2005, Unstructured Thoughts, Artist Talk for Open Letter Exhibition Symposium
Ocean in a Cup Offering, She Sells Seashells by the Seashore CELEBRATE-CREATE-COMMUNE Terry Tyziack Aquatic Centre, 2025
