Artist CV
As a photography based contemporary artist, Hoffrichter is a research led practitioner working in experimental installation and interdisciplinary media. Her work often inextricably involves the viewer as an active participant in order to challenge the dominant power dynamics of spectatorship and traces lineages which tangle our contemporary realities. Drawing on surrealist strategies and phenomenological philosophy, she renders the familiar unfamiliar, revealing new perspectives on landscapes, gestures, and rituals that structure everyday life. Symbolism drawn from nature—plants, phenomena, and recurring motifs of red as distress or protection—anchors her exploration of the ‘unseen’. Her projects navigate inner and outer worlds, from “natural” to constructed environments, while considering the colonial legacies and cultural mythologies that frame them.
A sustained interrogation of identity, ethics, and power underpins her work. Collaborative projects explore dual perspectives, while Lacan’s theories of the gaze inform her approach to destabilising spectatorship. Many works “look back” at audiences, unsettling the one-way dynamics of viewing and questioning complicity embedded in acts of looking. Photography itself becomes a site of ethical inquiry: the politics of representation, responsibility, and image-making. Through research-led projects, Hoffrichter situates her practice within discourses of decolonisation, feminist critique, and environmental ethics, informed by writers such as Sara Ahmed, Susan Sontag, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Her works invite audiences to slow down, attend, and reorient—to reconsider what is within reach, what is excluded, and how our ways of seeing shape the worlds we collectively create.
Her practice is highly experimental and often challenges the limitations of materials or technologies. While her practice is deeply influenced by the traditions of photography, her work extends into multimedia installations where specific objects hold significance in the work and often relies on the participation of a viewer. She also often challenges the hierarchy of the visual by involving multi-sensory aspects in the work or incorporating different forms for accessibility.
EDUCATION
2020-21 University of South Australia, Honours (Bachelor of Creative Arts)
2018 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Vietnam, semester studying digital computer and fashion design.
2015 - 2018 University of South Australia, Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography)
EXHIBITIONS
2025 August Weather-ing, SALA at Nest, Adelaide, AUS
2025 August The Language of Flowers, SALA at Boy and Bloom (Rundle Collective), Adelaide, AUS
2024 August Tatfu {floating}, SALA at Boy and Bloom, Adelaide, AUS
2024 August Bloom Vale, SALA at Mister Sunshines (Rundle Collective), Adelaide, AUS
2023 August En Graine, SALA at Boy and Bloom, Adelaide, AUS
2023 April Estrange, Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide, AUS
2022 February Helpmann 2021 Graduate Exhibition, Ace Open Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2021 December MMXXI, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2021 May MAY: Revisions, Interventions, Extensions, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2018 December A Walk in the Park and Other Such Calamities, University of South Australia, AUS
2018 September Rethink, Vietnamese Women's Museum, Hanoi, VN
2018 August In Her Ruthless Red Romance, Waikerie Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2017 May Momentary Visions, Liverpool St Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2017 January Naturally, Mockingbird Lounge, Adelaide, AUS
2016 November Botanica, Printmaking Exhibition, Adelaide, AUS
2016 July Bianca Hoff and Amelia Fox, Mockingbird Lounge, Adelaide, AUS
2015 November Emergence, Mockingbird Lounge, Adelaide, AUS
RESIDENCIES
2020 Helpmann Elevate Mentorship with Gee Greenslade
2018 June - October Muong Studio, Hoa Binh, Vietnam
2017 November Artist in Residence, Oiso, Japan
AWARDS
2018 New Columbo Plan Scholarship Recipient, 9 months study abroad, Vietnam
2017 Canon Live photo awards, Honourable Mention, Ryan Schembri
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Square Holes Interview and selected works from Helpmann 2021 Graduate Exhibition and Estrange
2018 Elle Magazine Selected works from the Rethink series
2018 Verse Magazine Selected works from the Degrees of Probability Series
2017 Exposure Photo Selected works from the Infra and Amaranthine Series
2016 Verse Magazine Selected works from the Kalopsia Series
A sustained interrogation of identity, ethics, and power underpins her work. Collaborative projects explore dual perspectives, while Lacan’s theories of the gaze inform her approach to destabilising spectatorship. Many works “look back” at audiences, unsettling the one-way dynamics of viewing and questioning complicity embedded in acts of looking. Photography itself becomes a site of ethical inquiry: the politics of representation, responsibility, and image-making. Through research-led projects, Hoffrichter situates her practice within discourses of decolonisation, feminist critique, and environmental ethics, informed by writers such as Sara Ahmed, Susan Sontag, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Her works invite audiences to slow down, attend, and reorient—to reconsider what is within reach, what is excluded, and how our ways of seeing shape the worlds we collectively create.
Her practice is highly experimental and often challenges the limitations of materials or technologies. While her practice is deeply influenced by the traditions of photography, her work extends into multimedia installations where specific objects hold significance in the work and often relies on the participation of a viewer. She also often challenges the hierarchy of the visual by involving multi-sensory aspects in the work or incorporating different forms for accessibility.
EDUCATION
2020-21 University of South Australia, Honours (Bachelor of Creative Arts)
2018 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Vietnam, semester studying digital computer and fashion design.
2015 - 2018 University of South Australia, Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography)
EXHIBITIONS
2025 August Weather-ing, SALA at Nest, Adelaide, AUS
2025 August The Language of Flowers, SALA at Boy and Bloom (Rundle Collective), Adelaide, AUS
2024 August Tatfu {floating}, SALA at Boy and Bloom, Adelaide, AUS
2024 August Bloom Vale, SALA at Mister Sunshines (Rundle Collective), Adelaide, AUS
2023 August En Graine, SALA at Boy and Bloom, Adelaide, AUS
2023 April Estrange, Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide, AUS
2022 February Helpmann 2021 Graduate Exhibition, Ace Open Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2021 December MMXXI, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2021 May MAY: Revisions, Interventions, Extensions, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2018 December A Walk in the Park and Other Such Calamities, University of South Australia, AUS
2018 September Rethink, Vietnamese Women's Museum, Hanoi, VN
2018 August In Her Ruthless Red Romance, Waikerie Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2017 May Momentary Visions, Liverpool St Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
2017 January Naturally, Mockingbird Lounge, Adelaide, AUS
2016 November Botanica, Printmaking Exhibition, Adelaide, AUS
2016 July Bianca Hoff and Amelia Fox, Mockingbird Lounge, Adelaide, AUS
2015 November Emergence, Mockingbird Lounge, Adelaide, AUS
RESIDENCIES
2020 Helpmann Elevate Mentorship with Gee Greenslade
2018 June - October Muong Studio, Hoa Binh, Vietnam
2017 November Artist in Residence, Oiso, Japan
AWARDS
2018 New Columbo Plan Scholarship Recipient, 9 months study abroad, Vietnam
2017 Canon Live photo awards, Honourable Mention, Ryan Schembri
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Square Holes Interview and selected works from Helpmann 2021 Graduate Exhibition and Estrange
2018 Elle Magazine Selected works from the Rethink series
2018 Verse Magazine Selected works from the Degrees of Probability Series
2017 Exposure Photo Selected works from the Infra and Amaranthine Series
2016 Verse Magazine Selected works from the Kalopsia Series