BIOGRAPHY
Anna Kiparis was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia to migrants from northern Greece. She completed a Master of Photography at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in 2023, and a Diploma of Photo-Imaging at Northern Melbourne Institute of Tafe in 2016. Her artistic and professional journey began in documentary analogue photography and has continued into the digital realm, where her work features explorations of surrealistic landscapes of suburbia, and the inhabitants of those places.
Through her art practice, Anna has been shortlisted for many prestigious awards such as the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2021, Footscray Art Prize in 2023, 2021 and 2019, Banyule Works on Paper in 2021, Darebin Art Prize in 2021, Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award in 2020 and 2021, Wyndham Art Prize in 2020, and the Emerging Artist Award (fortyfivedownstairs) 2021. She was selected for an exclusive mentorship with Exhibitions Curator, Penelope Grist of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Her work is also part of permanent collections of the Maribyrnong City Council, Merri-bek City Council, along with several private collections in Australia.
EDUCATION
2023 - Master of Photography
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University - RMIT
2016 - Diploma of Photo Imaging
Northern Melbourne Institute of Tafe - NMIT
EXHIBITIONS
Previous
Nov 2023 - April 2024 - ‘Suburbanology’ - Living Museum of the West, Shelf Gallery, Maribyrnong, VIC
Dec 2023 - January 2024 - ‘Regarding Scumshine’ - Smith + Gertrude Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
Dec 2023 - ‘Regarding Scumshine’ - RMIT School of Art Graduate Show, Site 8 Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
July 2023 - Sept 2023 - ‘Aftermath, Maribyrnong’ Footscray Art Prize, FC Arts Centre, Footscray, VIC
Dec 2021 - March 2022 - ‘Suburbanology’ Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, VIC
Jan - March 2022 - ‘Suburbanology’ Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Art Gallery 275, Ivanhoe, VIC
Jan - Feb 2022 - ‘We Continue to Make Do’ Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, VIC
July 2021 - Jan 2022 - ‘We Make Do in Hard Lockdown’ LIVING MEMORY
National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Parkes, ACT
Nov/Dec 2021 - ‘We Continue to Make Do’ Noel Counihan Com Art Award, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, VIC June/July 2021 - ‘Suburbanology’ Emerging Artist Award, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, VIC
May/June 2021 - ‘Midnight Mass’ Footscray Art Prize 2021, FC Arts Centre, Footscray, VIC
Nov/Dec 2020 - ‘She Waits Patiently’ Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, VIC
July/Aug/Sept 2020 - ‘Footscray Park After Dark’ Darebin Arts Salon, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, VIC
May/June 2020 - ‘Footscray Park After Dark’ Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, VIC
Nov 2019 - ‘Suburbanology’. One Night In Footscray Arts Festival, Trugo Lane, Footscray, VIC
June/July 2019 - ‘Factory Life Sunshine’ Footscray Art Prize 2019, FC Arts Centre, Gabriel Gallery, VIC
Nov 2018 - ‘Homage’ Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
2021 - Moreland City Council (now Merri-bek) for Counihan Gallery Permanent Collection
‘Procession’
Commission - Bicentenary of Greek Independence
2021 - Maribyrnong City Council Permanent Collection
‘Suburbanology’
Acquisition - Footscray Art Prize
GRANTS
2021 - One Night In Footscray 2021 Arts Festival
City of Maribyrnong + Victoria University
2019 - One Night In Footscray 2019 Arts Festival
City of Maribyrnong + Victoria University
‘Suburbanology’ Trugo Lane, Footscray VIC Installation
AWARDS
2023 - Footscray Art Prize
Shortlist Finalist
‘Aftermath, Maribyrnong’
2021 - National Photographic Portrait Prize
Shortlist Finalist
‘We Make Do in Hard Lockdown’
2021 - Darebin Art Prize
Shortlist Finalist
‘Suburbanology’
2021 - Banyule Award Works on Paper
Shortlist Finalist
‘Suburbanology’
2021 - Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award
Shortlist Finalist
‘We Continue to Make Do’
2021 - Emerging Artist Award (fortyfivedownstairs)
Shortlist Finalist
‘Suburbanology’
2021 - Footscray Art Prize
Runner Up - Local Acquisition Category
Shortlist Finalist - Main Category
‘Midnight Mass’
2020 - Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award
Shortlist Finalist
‘She Waits Patiently’
2020 - Capture Magazine Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer
‘Highly Commended’ Art Category 2020
‘Suburbanology’ Series
2020 - Wyndham Art Prize
Shortlist Finalist
‘Footscray Park After Dark’
2019 - Footscray Art Prize
Shortlist Finalist
‘Factory Life Sunshine’
2019 - Capture Magazine Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer
‘Highly Commended’ Art Category 2019
‘Homage’ Series
2000 - Ilford Tertiary Photographic Awards
Runner Up
RMIT - 1st Year Tertiary
'The Night Train'
1995 - Ilford Secondary Photographic Awards
Merit Award
Sunshine Secondary College
'Cooling Off'