Spiros Panigirakis is an artist, educator, curator and the Head of Department in Fine Art. In 2011 he completed a practice-driven PhD at Monash University. Entitled STUDIO CONDITIONS, the research was a site-driven art project that explored how institutional structures and subjective identities frame one another. He often works with groups in both a curatorial and collaborative capacity to address the social conditions of art. His art practice is engaged with how presentational devices, design and organisational frameworks influence the construction of meaning, form and sociability.

 Recent projects include: Variables (2022) at Sarah Scout Presents; Figures, notes and amendments (2019) for the public art project Six Moments in Kingston; Opening (2016) for Support Materials, Soft Furnishings at RMIT Project Space; Scarecrow (2015) for Treatment at the Western Treatment Plant; Moorabbin (2014) for the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture; Australian Studies (2014) with Fiona Macdonald for Cross Arts Projects, Sydney; Garden States (2013) for Melbourne Now at the NGV.

He recently co-curated Fairy with Mel Deerson at the Pavillion, Fitzroy Gardens in 2023 and Platform Art Projects, Geelong in 2024. In 2025 he will join with Helen Hughes again to curate 1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025 after curating If people powered radio: 40 years of 3CR in 2016, both at Gertrude Contemporary.

He has written for UN magazine, Enjoy journal and the practices of Sarah Poulgrain, Lisa Radford & Sam George, Shannon Lyons, Andrew Atchison, Fiona Macdonald, Fiona Abicare and Bianca Hester. Fairy: an Experiment in Queer Art Pedagogy, co-edited with Mel Deerson was published through 3-Ply in 2024. He was part of the founding committee of the artist-run initiative CLUBS Project (2002 -2008) and was chair of Un Projects, a national independent art publishing venture between 2018 - 2022. In 2024 he joined the KINK collective to work on the Queer Australian Art archive. He is represented by Sarah Scout presents, Melbourne.