BIOGRAPHY
Anna Kiparis was born and raised in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia to migrants from northern Greece. She completed a Master of Photography at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in 2023. 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, Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize, Footscray Art Prize, Banyule Works on Paper, Darebin Art Prize, Wyndham Art Prize, Du Rietz Art Awards, Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award, and the Emerging Artist Award (fortyfivedownstairs). Her work is also part of permanent collections of the Maribyrnong City Council, Merri-bek City Council, along with private collections in Australia.
EDUCATION
2026 - Certificate IV Training and Assessment
Melbourne Polytechnic - MP
2023 - Master of Photography
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University - RMIT
2016 - Diploma of Photo Imaging
Northern Melbourne Institute of Tafe - NMIT
ARTS EDUCATOR
2026 - VE Photography, VE Visual Arts Sessional Teacher
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT City Campus)
EXHIBITIONS
Current
June 26 - January 2027 - ‘Aftermath, Maribyrnong’ Encounters - Maribyrnong Civic Centre, Maribyrnong, VIC
July-Aug 2026 - ‘Resurfacing Roots’ - Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize, Photo Access Gallery, ACT
July-Aug 2026 - ‘Path A + Path B’ - Cube 37, Cube Gallery, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, VIC
July-Aug 2026 - ‘5km Radius, Sunshine’ - Untether Art Prize, Untether Gallery, Geelong, VIC
Previous
SOLO
April-June 2026 - ‘Desire Lines’ - Booroondara Arts, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, VIC
Nov 2025 - ‘Familiar and Unseen’ (2018-2023 Survey) - Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
Oct 2025 - ‘Floodworks’ - Maribyrnong City Council, Maribyrnong Library, Maribyrnong, VIC
Oct 2025 - ‘Aftermath, Maribyrnong Revisited’ - Maribyrnong Council, Maribyrnong Library, Maribyrnong, VIC
July-Aug 2025 - ‘Strange Air’ - Montsalvat Arts Community, Wood Workshop Gallery, Eltham, VIC
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024 - ‘Regarding Scumshine’ - Smith + Gertrude Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
Nov 2023 - April 2024 - ‘Suburbanology’ - Living Museum of the West, Shelf Gallery, Maribyrnong, VIC
GROUP
Dec 25 - May 2026 - ‘Suburbanology’ The Art of Observation - Maribyrnong Civic Centre, Maribyrnong, VIC
Feb - Oct 2025 - ‘Suburbanology’ - Summer Road to Saltwater, Maribyrnong Civic Centre, Maribyrnong, 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
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
2026 - Maribyrnong City Council Permanent Collection
‘Aftermath, Maribyrnong’
2025 - Maribyrnong City Council Arts & Culture
‘Floodworks’
Commission - Maribyrnong River Floods Three-Year Commemoration Series Exhibition
2025 - Maribyrnong City Council Arts & Culture (Shortlist Artist)
‘Recounting Maribyrnong’
Commission - Maribyrnong River Floods Three-Year Commemoration Film Suite
2023 - Arts Eleven Projects (Shortlist Finalist)
Commission - Sunshine Mental Health & Wellness Centre Arts Project
2021 - Merri-bek City Council 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
‘Untitled’ Digital Street Furniture, Footscray VIC
2019 - One Night In Footscray 2019 Arts Festival
City of Maribyrnong + Victoria University
‘Suburbanology’ Trugo Lane, Footscray VIC Installation
RESIDENCIES
2025 - Living Museum of the West
Winter Residency
AWARDS
2026 - Du Rietz Art Awards
Shortlist Finalist
‘Weave’
2026 - Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize
Shortlist Finalist
‘Resurfacing Roots’
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'