Ellen Dahl is a visual artist and researcher originally from the arctic north of Norway. She now lives and works on Gadigal land (Sydney) Australia. Working across photography, video, sound and installation, her practice explores the expanded field of the photographic medium and its potential to engage new critical, poetic and aesthetic conditions for assembling ecological meaning and geological imagination. Ellen is the winner of MAMA National Photography Prize 2024, and she received a Masters of Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney and is a PhD candidate at School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania.

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Current:

MAMA National Photography Prize 2024 (winner): Finalist exhibition, Murray Art Museum Albury, Australia. March - September 2024

Unruly Edges: with Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria and Emma Pinsent, Firstdraft, Sydney Australia April - May 2024

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Upcoming:

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The Fake Lake: solo exhibition, Sydenham International, Sydney Australia June/July 2024

 

Selected Exhibitions:

 

Field Notes from the Edge PhD Examination Exhibition: solo show, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart , Australia August 2023

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Landscape and Psyche: group show, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Australia March - April 2023

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as Below so Above: solo show, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Australia October 2022

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Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship 2021 finalist exhibition: SCA University of Sydney, Australia February 2022

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Liminal: group show, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Australia March 2022

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Portrait of an Interior: group show Poimena Gallery, Launceston Tasmania Australia July 2021 and QBANK gallery as part of Unconformity Festival, Queenstown Tasmania October 2021

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Altering the Edges: solo show PhotoAccess, Canberra Australia May 2021

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Field Notes from the Edge: solo show, Peacock Gallery, Auburn Sydney Australia July 2020

 

all things are water: group show curated by Meryl Ryan and Naomi Riddle, The Lockup, Newcastle Australia December 2019

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At the Edge of Place: Nightworks, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth Australia October 2019

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Light Matter: group show curator/artist with Yvette Hamilton. Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Australia August 2019

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Light Matter: symposium on expanded field of contemporary photography, co-coordinated with Yvette Hamilton. Held at University of Technology Sydney Australia August 2019

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Vanishing Point part 3: group show curator/artist(s) with Consuelo Cavanaglia, Yvette Hamilton, Taloi Havini and Salote Tawali, ANU SOAD Gallery, Canberra Australia. May 2019

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Resurfaced Geographies: group show with Izabela Pluta and Yvette Hamilton, Verge Gallery, Sydney Australia April 2019

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The Call: duo show with Yvette Hamilton, Wellington St Projects, Sydney Australia November 2018

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Beyond Bestimmung part 2: solo show PhotoAccess, Canberra Australia June 2018

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Beyond Bestimmung: solo show Airspace Projects, Marrickville Sydney Australia May 2018

 

Vanishing Point part 2: group show curator/artist(s) with Consuelo Cavanaglia, Yvette Hamilton, Taloi Havini and Salote Tawali, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Greater Sydney Australia April-June 2018

 

I Can See For Miles: group show curated by Talia Smith, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Australia March 2018

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Vanishing Point: with Consuelo Cavaniglia and Yvette Hamilton, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth July 2017

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This Is Where We Meet: solo show AirSpace Projects, Sydney November 2016

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This Was Now Here: curator/artist, group show Kings Artist Run, Melbourne August 2016​​

 

Perfect Strangers: group show curated by Consuelo Cavaniglia, 55 Sydneham Road, Sydney September 2015

 

Bare: Degrees of undress: group show curated by Penelope Grist, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra August 2015

 

The View: group show curated by Talia Smith, Wellington St Projects, Sydney June 2015

 

On Shifting Ground: SCA Galleries University of Sydney, Sydney December 2014

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