Artist BiographyAmos Gebhardt locates their practice within an ancestry of Irish, German, English and Russian Jewish bloodlines. They bring a cinematic force to large-scale moving image installations and photography, shaped by intimate collaborations with performers, choreographers, and sound artists. Gebhardt’s sustained practice of visually rich work is epitomised by a courageous commitment to agitating dominant narratives around marginality, representation, queerness and more than human ecologies.  

In 2024 Gebhardt won the prestigious National Photographic Portrait Prize for a portrait of acclaimed Waanyi author, Alexis Wright as part of their series Mångata. In 2022 Gebhardt was awarded the Bowness Photography Prize for Wallaby, and was a finalist in the National Photography Prize at MAMA and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA  in the same year. 

The video installations Evanescence (2018) and Lovers (2018), featured at the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and Lovers at Melbourne Now 2023, and There Are No Others (2016) was presented at a solo show at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. Their light boxes from the series In memory of stars was included in the group show, Walking Through the Darkness (2023), Centre for Contemporary Photography and installed as giant light boxes along the Birrarung (Yarra River) for PHOTO24 International Festival of Photography. 

A Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, Gebhardt’s work has also exhibited at M+ Museum, Hong Kong; ACMI, Melbourne; NGV Melbourne; MONA, Hobart; Carriageworks, Sydney, Melbourne International and Sydney Film Festivals and screened on SBS and ABC. Gebhardt created visuals for Kate Miller-Heidke’s 2016 Helpmann Award-winning concert with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra at Hobart's MOFO Festival.

Represented by Tolarno Galleries, Gebhardt’s work is held in both public and private collections in Australia and internationally.

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