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Sophia Cai 蔡晨昕 (she/her)
Lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia)

EDUCATION

2014 – MA History of Art (Distinction), Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Specialisation in Chinese contemporary art post-1979
Awarded the Friends of the Courtauld Scholarship

2011 – PhB (Hons, First Class) Art History and Curatorship, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Awarded Janet Wilkie Art History Honours Prize and National Undergraduate Scholarship

RECENT professional experience (2016 –)

CURRENT — National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), Deputy Chair
CURRENT – Independent curator and arts writer
2023–2024 – Bus Projects, Artistic Director
2023 – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Project Curator
2023 – Monash Art Design & Architecture, Monash University, Teaching Associate in Fine Art - Art History Theory
2022–2023 – Exhibitions and Administration Coordinator, NETS Victoria (contract)
2020–2023 – Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Sessional Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies'; Centre of Visual Arts Fellow
2021 – University of Melbourne, Research Assistant, Artistic Meridians: Connecting Australian and Asian Art Histories
2018–2020 –Runway Journal, Editorial Assistant and Management Board
2019 – West Space, Artist Committee
2017–2019 – The Australian Tapestry Workshop, Public Programs and Exhibitions Coordinator
2016–2018 – Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Guest Curator
2016–2017 – Melbourne Library Service, City of Melbourne, Acting Community Heritage Curator; Gallery and Events Technician

ADVISORY ROLES

CURRENT – RMIT University, School of Art, Industry Advisory Committee
CURRENT – Craft for Social Change Chapbook series, Advisory Member
2024 — RMIT University, School of Art, Student Industry Sessions
2023 — Counihan Gallery, Exhibition Program, Selection Panel
2023 — Creative Victoria, Creators Fund, Advisory Panel
2021 – Footscray Community Arts Centre, Emerging Creative Leaders, Selection Panel
2020–2021 – Creative Victoria, VicArts Grants and Creative Workers Fund, Advisory Panel
2020–2021 – Multicultural Arts Victoria, Writing Mentor
2018 – Craft, FRESH! exhibition, Selection Panel

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2024 – Clayful, Craft, Melbourne
2024 – Bus Stop, Bus Projects, Melbourne (co-curated with Kyle McIntyre)
2023 – A Soft Touch, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2023 – Pixy Liao: Experimental Relationship, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (co-curated with Catlin Langford)
2023 – I Loved You: Works from the White Rabbit Collection, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (co-curated with Catlin Langford)
2023 – I will wait for you until 2025, presented as part of Recreation, project8, Melbourne (curated by Cūrā8)
2022 – Dream Job, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide
2022 – Personal Mythologies, La Trobe Institute of Art, Bendigo
2022 – Sincerely Yours, Arts Project Australia and West Space, Melbourne
2021 – Home is more than a place, online exhibition, Hamilton Gallery with NETS Victoria
2021 – CERAMIX, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney (with the Australian Ceramics Association)
2021 – Disobedient Daughters, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2020 – Zero O’Clock, online exhibition hosted by CoVA, Feminism and Intersectionality
2019 – The Four Letter Word, Artbank, Sydney
2019 – For Love or Money, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
2018 – Degrees of Separation, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2018 – Lucky? Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne (co-curated with Claire Watson, exhibition advisor Yhonnie Scarce)
2018 – Floor Plan, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2018 – Handle with Care, Soul Craft Festival, Melbourne
2018 – Disobedient Daughters, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2017 – Every Dog Will Have its Day, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney (co-curated with Kathleen Linn)
2017 – No Woman is an Island, BLINDSIDE Gallery, Melbourne
2017 – Slice of Life, Craft, Melbourne
2017 – Closing the Distance, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
2016 – Think Pink, ENOUGH Space, Melbourne (co-curated with Caitlin Shearer)
2016 – Domestic Bliss, Little Woods Gallery, Melbourne
2016 – Some words are just between us, Firstdraft, Sydney
2016 – Wonky, Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne (co-curated with Caitlin Shearer)
2016 – Playful, City Library Gallery, Melbourne
2015 – Secret Garden, Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne (co-curated with Caitlin Shearer)

SELECTED WRITING

2024 — Hyperallergic, ‘Street Art Meets Aboriginal Culture in the Work of Reko Rennie’, review
2024 — The Lowry, ‘The Essence’, catalogue essay for Renee So’s solo exhibition as part of Local / National / International
2024 — Post Office Projects, ‘Healing at a Distance’, catalogue essay for Shirley Jianzhen Wu’s solo exhibition 99 glasses
2024 — Roadbook, ‘The finest art galleries in Melbourne as picked by a local curator’
2024 — Clayful, Smith Street Books, author
2024 — Women’s Art Register, Bulletin #74, editor
2024 — Suite 7a, ‘Break-up Letter to Silence’, art criticism
2024 — Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader, edited by Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Yutian Wong, Duke University Press, ‘Sincerely Yours, ARMY: Fandom as Curatorial Methodology’, p 345 — 356
2024 — Overland, ‘Why art can’t be apolitical’, opinion piece
2024 — The Guardian, ‘The show inviting Australians into Palestinian life: “Artists can move nations if they want to”’, culture
2024 — Art Guide, ‘Artists as influencers: advertising or advocacy?’, opinion piece
2023 — Art Gallery of New South Wales, Look Magazine, ‘No Coincidence: Desmond Lazaro’, studio visit and interview
2023 — Photography: Real and Imagined edited by Susan van Wyk, National Gallery of Victoria, 'Studio’, p 218 — 237
2023 — Artforum, ‘Hossei’, review
2023 — Enough: Artists and Writers on Gendered Violence edited by Vikki McInnes, Perimeter Editions x CoVA at the University of Melbourne, ‘Letter to My Younger Self’, p 184 – 201
2023 – 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, ‘Patches’, curatorial essay for A Soft Touch
2023 – The Guardian, ‘Why I love being a BTS fangirl in my 30s’, culture
2023 – Art Guide, ‘Never Mind the Nepo Babies—Here Come the Crony Pals’, opinion piece
2023 – Linden New Art, ‘The Political Purpose of Self Care’, catalogue essay for Kate Just’s solo exhibition Self Care Action Series
2023 – Artist Profile, ‘Beyond the Canvas’, profile essay on Emma Coulte
2023 – Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making, edited by Grace McQuilten and Daniel Palmer, Intellect Books, book chapter ‘Practicing Utopias’ co-authored with Bigoa Chuol, Gabriela Georges, John Mashar with Tania Cañas and Bruno Catalán, p 134 – 148
2023 – Artforum, ‘How I See It: Blak Art and Film’, review
2023 – project8, ‘I will wait for you until 2025’, extended exhibition text for Recreation
2023 – Art Guide, ‘Can a cultural critic actually be ‘neutral’? And should they be?’, opinion piece
2022 – Goolugatup Heathcote, ‘Knit Your Own: The Great Australian Dream’, catalogue essay as knitting pattern for Emma Buswell’s solo exhibition Suburban Turrets
2022 – Artforum, ‘Critic’s Pick: Soda Jerk’, review
2022 – St Heliers Street Gallery ‘20/20 Vision’, catalogue essay for Britt Salt’s solo exhibition The Middle Distance
2022 – Art Guide, ‘Picass-No: Why are we so obsessed with male masters?’, opinion piece
2022 – NETS Victoria, ‘Contested Air,’ catalogue essay for Conflated
2022 – National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), ‘Chapter 1 Principles, Ethics and Rights: Racial Equity and Representation’ for NAVA Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design, launched 27 September 2022.
2022 – Centre for Projection Art x Climarte, ‘Conversations with my Father’, essay for exhibition Evanesce
2022 – Chalk Horse Gallery, ‘If You Know, You Know’, catalogue essay for Mechelle Bounpraseuth’s solo exhibition My parents didn’t cross the Mekong River so I could shit in a hole
2022 – Art Collector Magazine, ‘You Can’t Be What You Can’t See’, profile on Amrit Gill
2022 – Art Guide, ‘If you’re no longer making art, are you still an artist? Who decides?’, opinion piece
2022 – Art Collector Magazine, ‘Past Your Limit’, artist profile on Nabilah Nordin
2022 – Art Guide, ‘When Should You Work For Free?’, opinion piece
2022 – Counihan Gallery, ‘Filling the hearts of absent women’, catalogue essay for Ema Shin’s solo exhibition Hearts of Absent Women
2022 – Arts Project Australia and West Space, ‘#CASUALFAN’, fan letter as curatorial essay for Sincerely Yours
2021 – Art Guide, ‘Goodbye 2021: A Year of Loss and Optimism’, opinion piece
2021 – The Companion Companion Reader, ‘Days like these: Anecdotes on the dogs in my life’
2021 – ACCA, ‘A Conversation Between Friends’, for Writing in the Expanded Field Vol 3
2021 – Art Guide, ‘On the Ordinariness and Extraordinariness of This Thing We Call Art’, opinion piece
2020 – Firstdraft, ‘In Between Spaces’, catalogue essay for Linda Sok’s solo exhibition’s Corporeal/Spiritual
2020 – Art Collector Magazine, ‘Mother Nature’, artist profile on Sarah Rayner
2020 – Freemantle Arts Centre, ‘Reading Between the Lines’, catalogue essay for Michelle Hamer’s solo exhibition’s Are You Having a Good Night?
2020 – Art Guide, ‘We are the Dew Drops’, artist profile on Lindy Lee
2020 – Art Guide, ‘On Time and Timelessness’, artist profile on Teelah George
2020 – Artisan Queensland, ‘Facing the Times’, catalogue essay for About Face
2020 – Art Guide, ‘Burnt Out Culture’, opinion piece
2020 – Art Collector Magazine, ‘Undiscovered’, artist profile on Hannah Gartside
2020 – Art Guide, ‘On Loving Bad Artists’, opinion piece
2019 – Pom Pom Quarterly, ‘About a Pink Sweater’, personal essay
2019 – Artbank, ‘To Those I’ve Loved and Those I’m Yet to Love…’, love letter as curatorial essay for The Four Letter Word
2019 – Open Close Gallery, ‘A Space of Your Own’, catalogue essay
2019 – Art Guide, ‘Arts Writing in the Meme Age (and Other Complications)’, opinion piece
2019 – Town Hall Gallery, ‘ART/WORK’, curatorial essay for For Love or Money
2019 – INSITE Magazine, ‘Status Quo: an open letter to white women in the arts’, opinion piece
2019 – KINGS Artist Run, ‘Barriers to Entry’, catalogue essay for Chloe Bensahel and Amelia Dowling’s exhibition
2019 – Art Almanac, ‘Sally Smart: The Violet Ballet’, exhibition preview
2019 – Hugo Michell Gallery, ‘What does love have to do with it?’, catalogue essay for Kate Just’s solo exhibition From China with Love
2018 – Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, ‘Lucky?’, curatorial essay with Claire Watson for Lucky?
2018 – Garland, ‘The quilts of Jess and Cynthia Johnson: a mother-daughter partnership', interview with artist
2018 – Town Hall Gallery, ‘Anonymous Was a Woman’, catalogue essay for group exhibition This Wild Song at Town Hall Gallery
2018 – Artist Profile, ‘Profile: Sean Meilak’, interview with artist
2018 – Un Extended, ‘The Burrangong Affray’ at 4A Centre for Contemporary Art, review
2018 – Liminal Magazine, ‘A Conversation with Nikki Lam’, interview with artist
2018 – Trocadero Art Space, ‘Conspicuous Presence’, catalogue essay for group exhibition curated by the Women’s Art Register
2018 – La Trobe Institute of Art, ‘GLOSSARY’, catalogue essay for Infrastructuralism
2018 – Runway Conversations, ‘WIP: The Unfinished Business of Feminism’ at ACCA, review
2017 – Portrait Magazine, ‘Heroine Knits: Dear Kate Just, I’m Your Feminist Fan’, Portrait Magazine, interview with artist
2017 – Journal for Australian Ceramics, ‘Poetry of the Everyday: Ultrica Trulsson’, interview with artist
2017 – Liminal Magazine, ‘A Conversation with Jason Phu’, interview with artist
2017 – Artist Profile, ‘Preview: Notfair 2017’, exhibition preview
2017 – Journal for Australian Ceramics, ‘Five Ways with Clay’, review
2017 – Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, ‘In Dog We Trust’, curatorial essay with Kathleen Linn for Every Dog Will Have Its Day
2017 – Peril Magazine, ‘Making Work/Making it Work’, visual arts editorial
2017 – 4A Papers, ‘Performing geographies: Asia TOPA arrives in Melbourne’, review
2017 – Craft, ‘Far From Ordinary’, curatorial essay for Slice of Life

PUBLIC PROGRAMS & Community Engagement

CURRENT — Namjooning Club (with Natasha Hertanto)
CURRENT – Open Curator’s Network (co-founded with Tess Maunder)
CURRENT – MAFAP – Melbourne Artists and Friends of Asian Persuasion
2023 – Build a door inside your heart, talks and performances for project8, Melbourne
2022 – BYOB: Bring Your Own Plate workshops for Signal, City of Melbourne
2021 – Butterful Moments in Life, online fundraiser auction for PS Mutual Aid
2016–2020 – MONOGRAPH, a reading circle for artists and art lovers with Charlotte Watson
2015–2016 – Dearest Projects, a creative and curatorial collaboration with Caitlin Shearer

AWARDS, GRANTS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2024 – Creative Australia Arts Projects for Organisations (for Bus Projects)
2023 – Creative Australia Four Year Investment for Organisations (for Bus Projects)
2022 – People’s Choice Award, Victorian Craft Awards
2021 – Sick Art Prize, The Substation
2021 – In Focus Curators Forum, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2021 – Writing in the Expanded Field Vol 3 at ACCA
2020 – Australia Council for the Arts Funding, Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
2019 – Artbank Emerging Curators Program
2018 – PARASITE Experimental Arts Laboratory at West Space
2018 – Emerging Cultural Leaders at Footscray Community Arts Centre
2017 – Craft Emerging Curators Program
2017 – Gordon Darling Foundation Grant
2016 – Craft Writers Program
2016 – SEVENTH Emerging Writers’ Program

PUBLIC TALKS & LECTURES

2024 — Panel speaker, ‘Art, Identity, and Place’ as part of Re-Orient: Reclaiming Spaces, Redefining Stories exhibition by Pia Johnson, Immigration Museum
2024 — Panel speaker, ‘Self Organising: Creating Space,’ as part of Stepping Out: A professional development program for visual artists, La Trobe Art Institute
2024 — Reading, Feminist Erotica, Dinner Party Press, Willows & Wine
2024 — Public lecture, ‘You Got The Best of Me: Exploring Fandom as Curatorial Methodology’, presented as part of Art Forum, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2024 — Panel Speaker, ‘Changemakers #2 – Better together: Collectives, ARIs and other collaborations,’ as part of Making Change, Regional Arts Victoria
2024 — Guest lecture on freelance curating for the School of Art and Design, Australian National University
2024 — Roundtable, ‘Building careers in the publishing, writing and creative industries,’ for Arts and Cultural Management Masters students at University of Melbourne
2024 —Speaker, “Wunder Gym x Artist as Curator” for Wyndham City Council Arts, Culture and Events Team at Bus Projects
2023 — Online Workshop ‘Writing About Art,’ Writer’s Victoria
2023 — Panel speaker, ‘Photography: Real & Imagined',’ National Gallery of Victoria
2023 — Workshop ‘Studies in Form: Experimenting with Art Writing,’ King’s Emerging Writer’s Program
2023 — Moderator, Curry Puff Pals artist talk at Counihan Gallery
2023 — Speaker, ‘Fanchants and Fingerhearts: A Night of Kpop Stanning,’ The Wheeler Centre
2023 — Speaker, ‘In Conversation with Sin Wai Kin’, Centre for Contemporary Photography
2023 — Panel speaker, ‘Paying the artist as worker’ as part of Real Job, Counihan Gallery,
2023 — Guest lecture on freelancing for Arts and Cultural Management and Art History and Curatorship students, University of Melbourne
2023 — Guest lecture, ‘China on the move: photography in a changing nation’ as part of the course Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2023 — Speaker, ‘Conversation Piece: a live knitting circle with artist Kate Just and curator and writer Sophia Cai’ for International Women’s Day 2023, Maribyrnong Libraries and Arts & Culture Maribyrnong
2022 — Panel speaker, ‘In Conversation: Kay Abude, James Nguyen, Kirtika Kain, Sophia Cai and Sineenart Meena’ for Empty Pockets, Gertrude Glasshouse
2022 — Speaker, ‘Making Good: Propositions on Country’, La Trobe Art Institute (online), 19 November 2022
2022 — Guest lecture on curating for Fine Arts Honours students, Monash Art Design & Architecture (MADA), Monash University
2022 — Guest lecture on ‘Personal Mythologies’ for Third-year students, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2022 — Academic Conference Speaker, ‘‘Namjooning’ In and Out of the Museum: The Contemporary Flâneur’ at BTS: The Third Global Interdisciplinary Conference in Seoul, South Korea
2021 — Guest lecture, ‘Curating Asian-Australian Feminisms: Disobedient Daughters’ as part of the course Reshaping worlds: histories, connections and global futures, RMIT University
2021 — Speaker, ‘4A Talks: Sophia Cai in conversation with Mariam Arcilla’ held as part of Acute Actions: Responses to I Am Not a Virus (Part 1), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2021 — Academic Conference Speaker, ‘Intersections of the self at Zero O’Clock: Exploring Fandom as Curatorial Methodology’ at BTS: A Global Online Interdisciplinary Conference, California State University Northridge
2021 — Panel Chair, ‘Challenging Stereotypes and Imagining Possibilities: A Panel Discussion’ as part of Disobedient Daughters, Counihan Gallery
2021 — Public reading, ‘Writing in the Expanded Field #3: Overlapping Writing’, ACCA
2021 — Public lecture, ‘Disobedient Daughters: Imagining Asian-Australian Feminisms’ as part of WRITING & CONCEPTS at Counihan Gallery
2020 – Panel speaker, ‘Traction - Publishing and the Curatorial’ as part of the NGV Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria
2020 – Guest lecture, ‘Contemporary Chinese Photography’ as part of HUS02246: Contemporary Asian Art, RMIT University
2019 – Panel speaker, ‘You’ve (almost) got a fine arts degree, now what?’, Schoolhouse Studios
2019 – Panel speaker, ‘Wellbeing in the Arts’, RMIT First Site Gallery
2019 – Panel speaker, ‘Cultural Appropriation and (In)Sensitivity: Working in a Cross-Cultural Context’, West Space
2019 – Panel speaker, ‘Diversity & Inclusion in the Fibre Space – Where do we go from here?’, Edinburgh Yarn Festival
2019 – Panel chair, ‘The Great Australian Dream’, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2018 – Guest speaker, ‘Women and Cultural Identity in the Art World’, as part of Talk by Talk by ACP Projects at University of Melbourne
2018 – Panel speaker, ‘The Curatorial Age: The Future of Curating’, as part of the RMIT Curatorial Collective, RMIT First Site Gallery
2018 – Panel speaker, ‘Emerging to Established’, Monash Gallery of Art
2018 – Panel speaker, ‘Coverage, Critique and Catalogue’ as part of the Movers and Makers program, Parramatta Artist Studios
2018 – Judge, ‘Doggy Fashion Parade’ as part of the Immigration Museum’s Year of the Dog celebrations, Immigration Museum
2018 – Panel speaker, ‘Feminist Futures in Colour: What is White Feminism; as part of the Women, Art and Feminism Symposium at VCA, University of Melbourne
2017 – Panel speaker, ‘Managing and Marketing Your Practice’, BLINDSIDE
2017 – Guest lecture, ‘Curating Beyond the ‘Other’: Approaches to Gender and Identity Politics’ for Masters of Curatorship students, University of Melbourne
2017 – Guest lecture, ‘Curating Textiles’ for Advanced Diploma Textile Design students, RMIT University
2017 – BLINDSIDE, panel speaker as part of exhibition Chinese Whispers and Other Stories
2017 – Panel speaker, ‘Contemporary Asian-Australian artists in the Australian Mainstream’ as part of Asian Arts in Australia: Long Pasts and Possible Futures, AsiaTOPA
2017 – Public lecture, ‘In My Skin: Contemporary Chinese Photography’, CCP
2016 – Panel speaker, ‘Revisiting Identity: Asian Art Dialogue #4’ at Art History Student Society, University of Melbourne
2016 – Public lecture, ‘Coming of Age: Contemporary Chinese Photography and the Body’ as part of the exhibition China Grain to Pixel, Monash Gallery of Art
2016 – Panel chair, ‘China on the Move: Photography in a Changing Nation’ as part of the exhibition China Grain to Pixel, Monash Gallery of Art
2016 – Workshop ‘MONOGRAPH: art reading circle’ as part of MCA Zine Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art

PRESS & INTERVIEWS

2024– Art Smitten SYN, radio interview
2024 – Art Almanac, ‘Clayful: In Conversation with author Sophia Cai’'
2024 – RUSSH Magazine, article, ‘Book Club: Sophia Cai on ‘Little Women’ and her favourite authors’
2024 – ArtsHub, article, ‘How much is your craft hobby costing and three ways to save’
2023 – Writer’s Victoria, interview
2023 – ArtsHub, review, A Soft Touch
2023 – ArtsHub, news ‘Bus Projects relaunch with new Artistic Director’
2021 – Joy Up Early, interview with Ben and Sunanda
2021 – SBS News, feature, ‘#IAmNotAVirus”
2021 – 3RRR, The Score, radio with Samira Farah about Disobedient Daughters and institutional critique
2021 – The Age, ‘Around the galleries: our pick of exhibitions to see this week’ by Tiarney Miekus
2021 – ABC Radio National, interview for The Art Show with Namila Benson about Disobedient Daughters
2020 – NAVA, podcast guest, episode 58
2020 – Pro Prac, podcast guest, ‘How Are You Today?’
2019 – ArtsHub, review, For Love or Money
2019 – 3RRR, The Grapevine, radio interview, ‘Is Racism Weakening the Craft Community’s Tight-Knit Bond?’
2019 – Art Collector Magazine, feature, ‘Tastemaker: 50 Things Collectors Should Know’
2018 – Art Almanac, preview, Lucky?
2018 – Time Out Magazine, review, Lucky?
2018 – Un Extended, review, Disobedient Daughters
2018 – Art Almanac, preview, Disobedient Daughters
2018 – Art Profile, interview, Disobedient Daughters
2018 – Huck Magazine, ‘Challenging the media’s portrayal of Asian women through art & photography’ by Cristiana Bedei
2017 – D/Railed Mag, ‘A New Book on Australian Contemporary Art Foregrounds Questions about Diversity’ by Naima Morelli
2017 – Arts Hub, ‘Lightbulb moments vs slow dawning: learning to love the arts’ by Richard Watts
2017 – Art Almanac, review, No Woman is an Island
2017 – Art and Australia, review, Closing the Distance
2016 – Pink Things Magazine, interview, ‘The Creatives Behind The Think Pink Show’
2016 – Peril Magazine, ‘Location, the Female Gaze and the Warmth of the Internet’ by Kathleen Linn
2016 – Art Almanac, preview, Some words are just between us
2016 – FBi Radio, review, Some words are just between us
2016 – Time Out Magazine, review, Playful
2016 – Frankie magazine, preview, Playful