Kudos is an offsite exhibition program focusing on supporting emerging artists from the UNSW Art & Design community.
Since 1998, Kudos has been host to some of Sydney's most innovative and dynamic artists, designers, curators and writers, creating a bridge between students at UNSW Art & Design and the broader arts community.
Kudos Off Site: pop-up exhibitions and public projects.
- Kudos Online Exhibitions
Kudos Shop
Public Programs and workshops
Kudos Archive Project
Kudos Emerging Artist, Designer, Critic and Curator Awards
Three Foot Square exhibitions
- Kudos Committee and professional development Arc Art Start volunteer program.
Kudos' exhibition programming runs on a call out structure. Kudos exhibition applications are currently closed.
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Our History
Kudos has been pivotal in helping to develop students' artistic and professional skills. Often a springboard for students as they develop their practice within their community and take with them the necessary skills and portfolio they need to further their emerging career.
In 2001 Kudos Gallery held the first Emerging Artist + Designer Award and it has been continuing since. With winning artists including Alana Cotton, Eva Nolan, Athena Thebus, Sabella D’Souza, Claudia Nicholson.
Since 2014, Kudos Emerging Awards have had an independent prize guest judged by a prominent woman in the arts. This was established by Tess Allas and Miranda Samuels. Recipients have included Claudia Nicholson, Marcia Swaby, Sabella D’Souza, Naomi Segal, and Isobelle Lowe.
In 2015, Kudos went through a significant upgrade of the gallery. All walls are now floating and are made of up one layer of plywood with a layer of plasterboard, these are used to play around with extra wall space, to create rooms, or separate exhibitions.
In 2016, the gallery introduced the Early Career Curator Award (ECCA), creating an opportunity for emerging curators to develop a curatorial project over the year, with an exhibition outcome staged at the gallery later in the year. Additionally, Kudos introduced the Emerging Critics Award (ECA), where a critic is paired with a coming exhibition and is tasked with writing a critical essay in response to the show and developing a public program.
Since 2017 the gallery introduced a performance night, Kudos Live, and presented performance practices on and off-site, both student and non-student, in an end of session party environment. Kudos Gallery has hosted a range of public programs and regularly hosts install and AV workshops for students and public.
At the end of 2020 Kudos Gallery bid farewell to its physical gallery site at no.6 Napier St Paddington. As of 2021 Kudos lives on as a dynamic satellite program with its same aims of providing an experimental creative space for students and emerging practitioners.
