Mythra Schwartz

Mythra Schwartz’s practice explores the relationship between images, desire, memory and perception. Drawing on found imagery, advertisements, film stills and her personal archive, she constructs dreamlike compositions that feel simultaneously intimate and elusive. Reflective vessels, glassware, shadows and fragments of the body recur throughout her work, creating scenes in which forms emerge and recede through shifting light, surface and reflection. Partial visibility plays a central role within these compositions, inviting close looking while ultimately withholding certainty. Through these carefully layered images, Schwartz considers how desire can emerge through the act of looking itself, questioning the distinction between seeing and touching. Further shaped by a transnational upbringing across Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, and Indonesia, her work reflects a sensitivity to transience and the fleeting nature of experience, creating images in which memory and perception, past and present, become intertwined.

Mythra Schwartz was born in Canada in 1996. She completed a BFA at RMIT University, Melbourne, in 2022 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, in 2024. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Arc One Exhibition Award (2024), the Blindside Exhibition Award (2025) and the West End Solo Exhibition Award (2025). Recent solo exhibitions include a presentation at Futures Gallery, Melbourne (2025), and an upcoming exhibition at Arc One Gallery, Melbourne (2026). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne; TCB Gallery, Melbourne; Blindside ARI, Melbourne; Lennox St Gallery, Melbourne; Arc One Gallery, Melbourne; West Bund Art Fair, Shanghai; and So~Shenzhen Art Fair, Shenzhen. Schwartz currently lives and works in Melbourne.