Djon Mundine is a member of the Bandjalung people of northern New South Wales. Djon has an extended career as a curator, activist, writer, and occasional artist and is renowned as the concept curator for the 1988 Aboriginal Memorial installation permanently exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia.
Following a period with the national art marketing company; Aboriginal Arts & Crafts Pty Ltd in Sydney he worked as an Art Advisor in Milingimbi, Maningrida, and Ramingining communities in Central Arnhem Land for sixteen years over the 1980s and 1990s. With Fiona Foley he curated the Tyerabarbowaryaou [I Shall Never Become A Whiteman] exhibition for the 1994 Haavana Biennal in Cuba.
