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Winner of Bowness Photography Prize 2023 "WINNER ANNOUNCED! Bowness Photography Prize 2023 Sydney-based artist Anne Zahalka has been named winner of the 2023 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize for her work 'Kunstkammer' (2023). Rhana...
Finalist in Manly Environmental Art and Design Prize
Finalist in Manly Environmental Art and Design Prize Manly Art Gallery and Museum, 5th - 28th August 2022 "This artwork revisits a habitat display at the American natural History Museum in New York depicting the Andros coral reef in the Bahamas that recorded...
SNAPPED! Street Photography in the Illawarra, 2021
SNAPPED! Street photography in the illawarra, 2021Wollongong Art Gallery, 11 December 2021 - 20 February 2022 SNAPPED! Street Photography in the Illawarra has opened at the Wollongong Art Gallery and will show from 11 December 2021 - 20 February 2022. This...
Anne Zahalka added to the Hundred Heroines 2021
Anne Zahalka is one of the Hundred Heroines for 2021, alongside a prestigious list of global women photographers. Hundred Heroines, the pioneering charitable organisation promotes and celebrates the diversity of women working globally in photography today, has...
Select works from Wild Life, Australia have been included in Art of Protest at Newcastle Art Gallery 30 October – 30 January 2022
Select works from Wild Life, Australia have been included in Art of Protest at Newcastle Art Gallery 30 October - 30 January 2022. This exhibition surveys over 100 years of resistance, with new artists taking up the fight each decade. From worker’s...
Select works from The Landscape Re-presented have been included in Exhume the grave – McCubbin and contemporary art at Geelong Gallery from 14 August – 28 November 2021
Select works from The Landscape Re-presented have been included in Exhume the grave - McCubbin and contemporary art at Geelong Gallery from 14 August - 28 November 2021. This exhibition situates Frederick McCubbin’s enduringly popular narrative paintings of the...
Anne Zahalka’s work is a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award, 2021
Anne Zahalka’s work is a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award, 2021. The Olive Cotton Award is an acquisitive biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture in memory of photographer Olive Cotton. The exhibition is selected from entrants across...
AIR WATER LOVE – A Dialogue Between Chinese and Australian Women Artists
Anne Zahalka is part of the China Cultural Centre exhibition, AIR WATER LOVE, featuring eight women artists from China and Australia to have a dialogue around crucial environmental issues. Selected works from Wild Life in the Age of the Anthropocene series have been...
PORTRAIT FROM ‘IMMORTALS’ SERIES IN AGNSW GRAND COURTS
'Self-assured, alluring and utterly artificial, Anne Zahalka’s Nicole Kidman casts an eerily familiar gaze at the viewer, hanging in the Grand Courts at AGNSW. Above, George Lambert’s Miss Gladys Neville Collins poses for the artist and for us – a performance at once...
Lost Landscapes at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery until 24 October 2021
Queen Victoria Museum And Art Gallery, Royal Park 5 December 2020 – 18 July 2021 Anne Zahalka turns her lens to historic dioramas from the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) for her ongoing series Wild Life, Australia. Zahalka’s series unearths...
You are on Bondi Biddigal land! Shortlisted for the Bowness Photography Prize 2020
You are on Bondi Biddigal land!, 2020Shortlisted for the Bowness Photography Prize 2020 Zahalka’s work You are on Bondi Biddigal land!, 2020, is shortlisted for the Bowness Photography Prize 2020. The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize is an important...
NGV Photos Frome Home
#NGVPhotosFromHome is a project featuring photographers, whose work is in the NGV Collection, sharing their current lived experience, or a moment in time through images and words. This week photographer Anne Zahalka shares her reflections and images from home, and we...
You Are Here, Boroondara Exhibition
You Are On Gundungurra Land! 2020Boroondara, Town Hall Gallery, HawthornYou Are Here, 1 March – 10 May 2020 For the First Peoples of Australia, and for those more recently arrived, our relationship with the Australian landscape is defined by a deep sense of...
Wild Life, Australia at ARC ONE Gallery
Wild Life, AustraliaARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne16 April - 24 May, 2019 Anne Zahalka This exhibition is part of CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 - a socially-engaged festival of climate change related arts and ideas featuring curated exhibitions and theatre works...
The Fate of Things at the Sydney Jewish Museum
The Fate of Things: Memory objects and art Sydney Jewish Museum 2 November 2018 – 28 February 2019 Anne Zahalka and Sylvia Griffin Anne Zahalka and Sylvia Griffin remember their families’ Holocaust experiences through inherited objects, remnants and relics. Through...
The Wanderer Upon a Castle Came…
Künstlerhas Bethanien 4 – 10 October 2018 In 1987 I undertook a residency in Berlin at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. It was my first experience of living alone completely disassociated from language and familiar things. I enjoyed the anonymity of being a foreigner and...
Major International Photography Exhibition in Korea
Anne Zahalka is taking part in a major international photography exhibition being held at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, 18 October 2018 – 28 February 2019. In Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Anne’s 1995 series Open House, is being...
Bowness Photography Prize 2018 Finalist
Anne Zahalka’s work Krazy Kashmiris in Stagland, from the series Wild Life in the Age of the Anthropocene, was a finalist in the 2018 Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art.
Nobody Loves You More Than Me: Finding Margarete
Nobody loves you more than me - Finding Margarete Original story by Anne Zahalka Written by Charlotte Wood An Untold Story from the Holocaust, SBS Nobody Loves You More Than Me: Finding Margarete is a new interactive text based documentary produced by SBS Australia...
Incommensurable at ANU Drill Hall Gallery
Incommensurable - photomedia in the era of globalisation Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra 23 February - 8 April 2018 Anne Zahalka, Ciara O’Brien, David Stephenson, Martin Walch, Merilyn Fairskye, Nick Danziger Curated by Terence Maloon In...
Realising Mother at Kudos Gallery
Realising Mother Kudos Gallery, Paddington 1-18 November 2017 Denise Ferris, Sally McInerney, Julie Sundberg, Anke Stäcker, Deborah Kelly, Raphaela Rosella, Miho Watanabe, Sarah Rhodes, Teena McCarthy, Clare Rae, Donna Bailey, Anne Zahalka, Rafaela Pandolfini, Theresa...
Threshold at Jarvis Dooney Galerie
Jarvis Dooney Galerie is honoured and humbled to present recent work from one of Australia's most highly regarded photo-media artists Anne Zahlaka. For over 30 years her work has often explored cultural stereotyping and challenged these with a humorous and critical...
Olive Cotton Award 2017 exhibition
The Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture is a $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture dedicated to the memory of photographer Olive Cotton. The winning work is acquired for the Gallery’s Collection. The exhibition is...
The Landscape Revisited at Murray Art Museum Albury
Spanning 30 years, The Landscape Revisited brings together photomontages based on early Australian paintings from the Heidelberg School with new iterations of Modernist works by Drysdale and Nolan that rewrites colonial narratives, challenges stereotypes and...
Art Angel Residency at Turner Galleries
Anne Zahalka was invited by Turner Galleries in Perth to take part in their Artist in Residence Program in March 2017. The residency program is funded by the Art Angels Inc. and is held in conjunction with North Metropolitan TAFE. More information Anne exhibited her...
ZAHALKA work selected as finalist for 2016 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
ANNE ZAHALKA has been selected as a finalist for the 2016 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. Now in its 16th year, the award and accompanying exhibition are one of the most important national surveys of Australian contemporary photography. As the...
Anne Zahalka & Viscopy
Anne Zahalka has spoken about her support for Viscopy, after many years of valuable partnership "I value having an organisation that protects and manages my intellectual property. Creating artworks and knowing there are guidelines and laws ensuring the integrity of...
Marriage of Convenience on show at the Art Gallery of South Australia as part of their permanent collection
Anne ZAHALKA has been included in The Art Gallery of SA's Australia Collection. 'Marriage of Convenience' has been selected as a permanent piece of the exhibition. The Australian collection presents a comprehensive survey of Australian art from around 1800 to the...
Dubai Photo Exhibition
With 129 photographers and 860 photographs, Dubai Photo Exhibition could be overwhelming. On view are works dating back to the mid-19th century, along with contemporary images using the latest digital technology, stunning landscapes, architecture, and documentary...
ZAHALKA exhibition on Newtown Art Seat
Newtown ArtSeat February 2nd – end of March 2016 To coincide with ArtMonth (March 2016) MOST - (Marrickville Open Studio Trail 0 5 & 6 March 2016) Spectrum NOW (Sydney Morning Herald festival) A Contemporary public art space Newtown – where you can be yourself! By...
ZAHALKA leads art tour in Morocco
This 14 day tour will traverse a large part of southern Morocco from the ancient city of Marrakech, over the spectacular landscape of the Atlas Mountains to the northern edge of the vast Sahara at the Erg Chigaga dunes, returning via the ancient city of Taroudant and...