Karima Baadilla

Karima recently completed her Honours in Fine Art at La Trobe University, where she earned an Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2024, she was commissioned by the City of Ballarat for Craft Lab 2024. Some of her recent highlights include being a finalist in the 2025 Hazelhurst Works on Paper Prize, 2022 Paddington Art Prize and the inaugural Regional Landscape Prize. In 2022, Karima had her first solo exhibition at Footscray Arts Centre (VIC), following their ‘RESIDENCE’ program, which she was selected for in late 2021. In 2021, she won the Mark Brabham Emerging Artist Award at the Klytie Pate Ceramics Awards.

In 2020, she was a finalist in several prestigious art prizes, including the Bayside Acquisitive Prize (VIC), Stanthorpe Art Prize (QLD), Muswellbrook Art Prize (NSW), and Collie Art Prize (WA). That year, she also received the Maribyrnong Rapid Grant from the City of Maribyrnong (VIC) and the Sidney Myer Grant from The Myer Foundation. Karima's work has also been exhibited by commercial galleries like Boom Gallery and Michael Reid Northern Beaches.

Karima works through the perspective of an Indonesian migrant settler in Australia, delving into the complexities of histories across two countries and its impact on her shifting Indonesian-Australian identity. She seeks to find and suggest ways of redefining a continuously evolving diasporic identity through her studio practice, which involves found objects and adaptable installations that spotlight the fragmented aspects of her identity.