Pamela Rataj was born in Germany and educated in Australia, France and Germany. She now lives and works in Melbourne. 
Her practice includes sculpture, painting and installation. Rataj has collaborated with composers and performance artists in creating ephemeral installations for public spaces, performed in the Adelaide Festival of Arts and public events in Melbourne, Paris and Stuttgart. 
Rataj has received Cultural and Project Development Grants in Victoria and South Australia, and completed Residencies in Paris, New York and the Ruhr region, Germany. She has been finalist in numerous national prizes including the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award (2013), Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards (2016), the Wyndham Art Prize (2017, 2018), and the Fisher's Ghost Award (2021). Rataj has exhibited in galleries in Adelaide, Melbourne and Paris, and her work is represented in Artbank and in private and corporate collections in Australia and internationally.