Atong Atem

Atong Atem is a Melbourne-based artist originally from South Sudan.

Atong Atem was born in 1991 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and migrated to Australia with her family at a young age. She studied painting at the University of Sydney and works in photography.

She has had exhibitions at Melbourne's Immigration Museum, NGV's Triennial, Melbourne's winter arts festival Rising, Messums London, as well as works in Red Hook Labs (New York), Vogue Fashion Fair (Milan) and the Unseen Amsterdam art fair. She has been commissioned to adorn two facades of Hanover House on Melbourne's Southbank.

In 2021 she released Banksia, a video exploring African immigration to Australia.