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 where she created her experiential installation‘Stream of Consciousness’and photographic series ‘In Our Nature’.
Dean has received numerous awards and notable achievements including –Winner of the 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, 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.
Her works have featured in the 2018 & 2014 Melbourne Art Fair, 2018, 2017 & 2015 Sydney Contemporary, 2017 Denfair Design Fair Melbourne, 2016Auckland 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 – Endangered 2018, 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 Gallery, QLD.
Dean is represented by Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney.
