Vic McEwan is a contemporary artist whose practice involves sound, photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. He is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Cad Factory, a “regional, artist-led organisation collaborating ethically with people and place to create a local, national and international program of experimental work”. Vic has developed substantial studio based and socially engaged art practices and has established partnerships with diverse non-arts sectors and communities. In 2023 he co-founded the CASE Incubator Studio, a national hub for the development of socially engaged art practices.

 

Vic was one of the first  contemporary artist to have a solo exhibition, Haunting, at The National Museum of Australia, which toured nationally from 2019-2022. His work has been exhibited in numerous national and international galleries, art centres and site-specific locations. He has twice been invited to participate in the Tate Exchange program (UK) (2017 and 2020) and from 2020-2022 he was the invited Curator of the Tamworth Textiles Triennial ‘Tensions 2020’, which also toured nationally. He serves as a board member of MusicNSW and is an executive member of the Arts and Health Network NSW/ACT. He has contributed to the curatorial strategies of Griffith Hospital and the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital (2022-23). In 2024, he provided feedback on the NSW Health and the Arts Framework 2.0.

 

Vic hold a first-class Honours degree in Creative Practice (Fine Arts), for which he was awarded the university medal, and a Master of Arts Practice with High Distinction. He was the first artist to complete an arts-led PhD from the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, receiving the Faculty Thesis Excellence Award and the 2023 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinctive Australian Work Prize. Vic also received the 2018 Distinctive Australian Work Prize for his project “The Harmonic Oscillator”.