Graeme Sullivan

Graeme Sullivan is an Australian artist, author, art theorist, and educator. He has contributed work to numerous exhibitions and events and is known for his international "Streetworks" project that plants public art in unusual urban locales. He authored the books Art Practice as Research (2005-2010 2nd Ed) and Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters. He has served as Senior Editor, Studies in Art Education 2001-2003; Editor of Australian Art Education 1988-1991; Chair, National Art Education Association (NAEA) Research Commission, 2012-2014; elected Distinguished Fellow, NAEA, 2020. Sullivan has taught art at the University of New South Wales's College of Fine Arts, and the Teacher's College at Columbia University. He served as Director of the School of Visual Arts at Pennsylvania State University, 2010-2018.

Education Sullivan attended Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio Sullivan's scholarly interests include visualization in the art process, studio-based research methods and theory for different art disciplines and interdisciplinary settings. in 1999, followed by Boston (1992), Tokyo (2001), New York City (2002), Bahamas, In April 2010 he participated in the exhibition Art is Me, Art is You at the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles. The show included a public art walk performance where the artists symbolically 'wore' their artwork. as well as associate professor of art education.

On 4 November 2005, Sullivan presented "Research Acts in the Visual Arts" as part of the John M. Anderson Lecture Series at the Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Arts. Three years later, on 7 and 8 March 2008, Sullivan served as a keynote speaker at NYU Steinhardt in Greenwich Village. He presented "Art Practice as Research: New Roles for New Realities" at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on 11 November 2009. The lecture was part of the Rose and Rudy S. Ackerman Visual Arts Lecture Series. He is also a professor of art education at the college. He retired in 2018 and returned to live in Sydney, Australia.

Writing/editing career Seeing Australia (1994) Sullivan is the author of Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters, The book later underwent a major update and revision and a second edition was published early in 2010. His research partly investigates the thinking process, making processes, and practices used in visual arts. He presents the argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research.

Articles Sullivan has written numerous articles focusing on visual research practices in art and education, published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He has held editorial positions with both Studies in Art Education and Australian Art Education. He is also an editorial board member and consultant to the UK publication International Journal of Art & Design Education, the International Journal of Education and the Arts, and Studies in Material Thinking. He has served as senior editor for Studies in Art Education, the research journal of the NAEA.

He has contributed numerous chapters to books and text books, as well as editorials to peer-reviewed journals such as Studies in Art Education and Australian Art Education. He also contributed articles to Artlink in 1999 and Art in Education in 1988 and 1986.

In 2004 he was listed in Who's Who in America.

Memberships National Art Education Association (NAEA) Australian Institute of Art Education (conferred life membership in 1997)

Awards Manual Barkan Memorial Award 1990 – NAEA (for scholarly writing) Ken Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award 1999 – Ohio State University Lowenfeld Award 2007 (for significant contribution to the art education profession)