For three decades, David Rosetzky’s lens-based artworks have articulated the manifold experiences of selfhood. Observing identity as that which is shaped by and understood through the framework of community and culture, his practice utilises photography, video, installation, sculpture, and performance to produce institutional-scale projects. In exploring notions of belonging, intimacy and desire through image, text, movement and language, his rigorous methodology often draws from oral, written and video testimony gathered through interviews with casts of performers, community members and fellow artists. Renowned in both Australian and international video-art contexts, his multi-disciplinary practice embodies ideas of communality and exchange through a truly collaborative and dialogical approach to art making.

Rosetzky has been the subject of over 40 solo exhibitions and has featured in over 70 group exhibitions throughout Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Asia, Europe and North America. Notably, his Portrait of Cate Blanchett (2008)–commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra–was exhibited in The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video at the International Centre for Photography (ICP) in New York, 2009. He has featured in biennial exhibitions in Tapei, New York, Adelaide and Ballarat, and his video and photographic works are held in significant collections across Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, National Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Australian Centre for Moving Image and the Museum of Australian Photography, among others.

In 2013, David Rosetzky received a PhD in Visual Arts from Monash University, following which he was appointed Sessional Lecturer in the Master of Photography program at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and in the Bachelor of Photography program at Photography Studies College, Melbourne. He has been awarded numerous awards and residencies throughout his career, including the Anne Landa Award for Moving Image and New Media work, Australia Council Studio Residency in Milan, the Monash University residency in Prato, IT and the Artist in Residence at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in Dunedin, Aotearoa.