Josh Muir: Forever I Live

Web banner featuring text 'JXSH MVIR FOREVER I LIVE' beside a digital artwork in a street-art style depicting a young man in a crown surrounded by roses, palm trees, and pink 'plus' symbols

25 October 2025 – 26 January 2026

A Koorie Heritage Trust touring exhibition

JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live reflects on the artistic legacy of late Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta, and Barkindji artist Josh Muir (1991-2022), highlighting the strength of Josh’s artistic practice and the important contribution he has made to First People’s art and culture in South East Australia, and contemporary art nationally and internationally over his short yet prolific career.

Proudly curated by Koorie Heritage Trust, with Josh’s mother Justine Berg and partner Shanaya Sheridan as co-curators, the exhibition brings together a selection of bold, vibrant works across painting, digital prints, and augmented reality that showcase Josh’s unique vernacular of contemporary iconography whilst embodying his staunch love of family and community, reflecting on a range of themes including cultural identity, the impacts and legacies of colonisation, mental health, addiction, personal loss, and grief.

JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live is a Koorie Heritage Trust touring exhibition.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences are advised that this exhibition contains the names, images and voices of deceased persons.

This exhibition contains themes that some audiences may find challenging, including mentions of mental health issues and substance abuse. If this exhibition raises concerns for you, please reach out to Beyond Blue or 13YARN for support.

Top image: Josh Muir (Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta, Barkindji), Forever I Live (detail), 2015, digital print on aluminium. Private collection, Narrm.

Curator: Koorie Heritage Trust, co-curated with Josh Muir’s mother Justine Berg and partner Shanaya Sheridan

Location: Lin Onus Gallery, Level 1

Exhibition supporters

Major Exhibition Partners

Koorie Heritage Trust

Creative Victora

City of Melbourne

Creative Australia

ANZ Bank

Gordon Darling Foundation

SAM operates on the traditional lands of the Yorta Yorta people. The SAM Building, and art museum within it, is located on river country close to the Goulburn River, known as Kaiela to the Yorta Yorta.

SAM recognises the Yorta Yorta as the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands and water of the Country upon which SAM is built, and that sovereignty of this land has never been ceded.