EXHIBITIONS

Magdalene Carmen introduced her arresting, Limited Edition flag-collage series 'Addict' in a teaser, pop-arty film screening at The Body Language 2022 in Venice, Italy and the London Contemporary Art Fair. The 'Addict' series once completed will comprise 12-32 works and is at once (1) advertising and pop culture commentary (2) articulation of the universal corporeal-spiritual, conscious-unconscious tug of war defining the human condition (3) self-portrait intimations of the artist's romantic-erotic psyche in a capital city context (4) however else it speaks to you.  NB In 2023, premier NFTArt dealer Makersplace.com, in support of its top 100 new female artists, acquired for its private collection M Carmen's first NFTArt piece from the 'Addict' series.
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The artist's iconic app-looking tandem HELLO + HEY works (fusing distinct road signs and smart-phone aesthetics, reported as "particularly cheeky intervention" in Artshub) were among just 12 works from six Australian contemporary artists to win a place in the country's inaugural billboard art show (Dec 2020), playfully running between commercial advertising on the central and prominent, tandem billboards across Melbourne's Flinders Street Station (Elizabeth Street corner), ''demonstrating the dynamic relationship between contemporary art and urban street culture". In 2021 the show was adapted for the Big Screen at Federation Square (MC is presently working on an independent project for the Fed Square space).
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First works from her Limited Edition 'Urban Mesh' series of Melbourne portraits from its train windows  were exhibited in a first solo exhibition in mid-2018 after receiving affirmative, positive feedback from the City of Melbourne's Art Grants panel (if not funding, which went instead to gaming productions). This 'Urban Swing' exhibition juxtaposed a row of slim-line timber-framed 'Urban Mesh'  giclee fine art prints (approximating the train-window experience) with the sassy content of Magdalene Carmen's amber-bright, high-gloss, round-edged metal prints properly mimicking road signs, from her open-edition 'Sign-Offs' series that is unlimitedly ongoing.
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Leading photography online platform lensculture.com awarded Magdalene Carmen her own portfolio gallery in 2015 upon submitting a piece from her 'Urban Mesh' series she was then just developing as a photography student inclined on producing work with fineArt x urban art aesthetics. A significant living influence, Koci Hernandez, had at the same time encouraged (via email review of her work examples) the artist's focus on this ongoing evocative series.