Curriculum Vitae - Artistic
Ming-Zhu Hii
b. 1981, Australia
Ming-Zhu Hii is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer and director working across moving image, installation, performance and text. Her practice explores power, memory, surveillance, violence, complicity and the construction of narrative through hybrid forms that sit between experimental cinema, installation and live performance. Through poetic and fragmented storytelling, she creates immersive works that examine systems of power, authorship, marginalisation and the instability of truth.
Education
2014 | Advanced Diploma Screen and Media (Film & Television Project Development) (VIC, Australia)
2010 | Certificate IV Small Business Management, Holmesglen TAFE (VIC, Australia)
2002 | Bachelor of Dramatic Art, Victorian College of the Arts (VIC, Australia)
Selected Works
2026 | Housekeeping, Feature Film & Moving Image Artwork (Development)
2026 | Dissidence, Experimental Narrative / Hybrid Short Film
2024 | The Fashion Director, Feature Film (Development)
2020 | Broth Bitch, Audio Work, Melbourne Fringe Festival (VIC, Australia) - Director
2018 | Intrusion, Narrative Short Film
2017 | Dead Drop, Installation, Mailbox Art Space (VIC, Australia)
2016 | Close Observations of a Single Subject, Short Film
2015 | Scribe, Live Art, Festival of Live Art, Arts House (VIC, Australia)
2015 | Duality, Group Exhibition, No Vacancy Gallery (VIC, Australia)
2013 | This Is Beautiful, Hybrid Performance & Video Art, Malthouse Theatre Helium Season
2013 | Between Lands & Longings, Video Work for Zierle & Carter, Federation Square (VIC, Australia)
2013 | Until Then, Then, Multimedia Installation and Performance, La Mama Theatre (VIC, Australia)
2013 | Fruit, Hedgehog, Epilogue, Video Art Programme, Long Play Cinema (VIC, Australia)
2013 | Poetry Australia Journal, Cover Photography
2009 | Aviary – A Triptych, Theatre Text, Branch Theatre, La Mama Theatre (VIC, Australia) - Writer
2009 | Attract/Repel, Experimental Performance, Installation and Video, Melbourne Fringe Festival
2009 | Sandwiches, Performance and Installation, Melbourne Town Players (VIC, Australia) - Director
2008 | TWO, Installed Performance and Video Work
2006 | Y., Experimental Theatre, Next Wave Festival, Arts House (VIC, Australia)
Awards / Prizes
2019 | Female Director in Residence, Malthouse Theatre (VIC, Australia)
2009 | Kultour & Melbourne Fringe Multicultural Practice Award (Attract/Repel) (VIC, Australia)
Artist Residencies
2018–2019 | Female Director in Residence, Malthouse Theatre (VIC, Australia)
Grants / Professional Development
2016 | Co-Lab Writer/Director Development Program, Malthouse Theatre (VIC, Australia)
2012 | Women & Multicultural Artist Leadership Development Program, Australia Council for the Arts
2009 | Victorian Arts Centre Development Grant (Attract/Repel) (VIC, Australia)
2008 | Multicultural Arts Professional Development & Cultural Brokerage Program, Australia Council for the Arts
2007 | Spark Youth Arts Mentorship & Development Grant, Australia Council & Youth Arts Queensland
2006 | Young Artists Production Grant (Y.), City of Melbourne (VIC, Australia)
2005 | New Forms Literature Development Grant (The Penelope Project), Australia Council Literature Board
Film Awards & Distribution
2018 | Winner, Best Experimental Film, LA Shorts International Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
2018 | Intrusion, Distributed by Kurzfilm (Hamburg, Germany)
2016 | Close Observations of a Single Subject, Distributed by Gonella Films
Conferences, Seminars, Lectures & Panels
2016 | Moderator, AR & VR: The Future of Performance, Gender on the Agenda Summit
2015 | Presenter, Pecha Kucha Melbourne, Spaciousness in our Perception
2010 | Speaker, Diversity in Health Conference, Multicultural Representation in the Arts
2009 | Panelist, Time to Talk: Diversity in the Performing Arts, Victorian Arts Centre
2009 | Panelist, Representation in Storytelling, Melbourne Workers Theatre, Trades Hall
2009 | Judge, Green Room Awards, Independent, Hybrid and Alternative Categories
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