Biography

'For as long as I can remember I have yearned to be in nature. When I enter a forest I feel as though I have come home. This deep love informs my life and my art practice.'

Tamara Dean is an Australian photographic and installation artist whose practice explores the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Dean was a selected artist for the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.
Dean has received numeorus awards and notable achievements including - Winner of the 2018 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Winner of the 2018 Meroogal Art Prize, finalist - 2016 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, High commendation - 2013 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize; Winner - 2011 Olive Cotton Award and Winner - 2009 Sydney Life: Art & About.

In 2013 Dean was selected for the ArtOmi International Artists Residency, New York. Works produced during this residency won first prize in the 2013 New York Photo Awards - Fine Art series category.

He works have featured in the 2018 & 2014 Melbourne Art Fair, 2018, 2017 & 2015 Sydney Contemporary, 2017 Denfair Design Fair Melbourne, 2016 Auckland Art Fair, 2016 '602' Art Fair Melbourne, 2017 & 2013 Aspettando FotoLeggendo Festival, Italy; 2012 Fotofever Brussels Art Fair and 2012 Pingyao Photography Festival, China.

Solo shows include - In Our Nature (2018), Instinctual (2017), About Face (2016), Here-and-Now (2015), The Edge (2014), Only Human (2012), This too Shall Pass (2010), Ritualism and Divine Rites (2009).

Dean's work is held in a number of public and private collections including Francis J. Greenburger Collection (New York), Parliament House Art Collection (Canberra, ACT), The Art Gallery of South Australia, The Mordant Family Collection (Australia), Artbank (Australia), The Balnaves Collection (Australia) and the Gold Coast City Art (QLD).

Dean was a member of the Oculi photographic collective from 2001-2011 and has continued to have editorial representation with Agence Vu, Paris, for over a decade.
Dean is represented by Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, and Jayne H. Baum Gallery, NYC.

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