Stephen Bram (b. 1961, Melbourne, Australia) currently lives and works in Melbourne. Working across various modalities, primarily in paint and installation, his works have been executed in galleries and museums around the world. Bram’s work (1988-present) experimentally reconfigures the relationship between the work, the exhibition space and the viewer. He was one of a small group of artists involved in Store 5 in 1989, an artist-run exhibition space in Melbourne which was an important centre for the development of conceptually oriented abstract painting in Australia. Since 2014 the artist has also worked more subjectively, producing a series of black and white illusionistic ‘spot’ paintings, amongst other activities. Bram’s works are held in public and corporate collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Daimler Collection, Berlin; Melbourne University, Melbourne; Monash University, Melbourne; University of Queensland, Brisbane; Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery.