KATE BALLIS
born 1985, lives Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Atlantis Revisited, Essoign Club, Melbourne, VIC
Influorescense, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
Before Time, Arthouse, Sydney, NSW
2022
Atlantis, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
Wonderworld, David Jones Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2021
Infra Realism: Lilac Lux, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
2020
Liminality (virtual exhibition), Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
Hyperphantasia, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2019
Spectrums of the Galapagos, Jardan, VIC
2018
Hypercolour Fantasy: Infra Realism, Garis and Hahn, Los Angeles,
USA
2017
Glace Noir, Black Eye Gallery, NSW
Infra Realism, Jardan, VIC
Curated and Group Exhibitions
2023
Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Victoria (various
venues)
Lost in Palm Springs, curated by Greer Honeywill, (touring), HOTA,
Home of the Arts, QLD
XV: Past Present Future, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022
Out of the Blue, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2021
Hundreds and Thousands, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Going Home, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Coming Home, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
fresh eyes: reimagining robin boyd’s walsh street’, Melbourne
Design Week, Melbourne, VIC
Not Fair, Melbourne, curated by Ashley Crawford and Sam Leach
Summer Salon, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2020
Head on at 107, Head On photo Festival, curated by Sandy Edwards,
Redfern, NSW
RE(NEW)AL, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Summer Show, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2019
Illusions, Backwoods Gallery, VIC
CCP Photo Fair, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC
2017
Straight Lines, Black Eye Gallery, NSW
Award Exhibitions
2023
Prompted Peculiar – International AI Prize 2023, Ballarat Photo
Biennale, Ballarat, VIC
Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize, Manly, NSW
IRIS Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, WA
Omnia Art Award, St Kevin’s College, Melbourne
2022
Kings School Art Prize, Finalist, The King’s School, Parramatta,
NSW
Omnia Art Award, St Kevin’s College, Melbourne
2021
Bowness Photography Award, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Art Fairs
2023
Sydney Contemporary, Arthouse Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2022
Sydney Contemporary, Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2021
PAN Amsterdam, RAI Amsterdam exhibition centre, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
2020
Sydney Contemporary presents 2020 (virtual art fair)
2019
Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, USA
Affordable Art Fair, ARTITLED Contemporary, London, UK
Art Karlsruhe, Germany
KunstRAI, The Netherlands
London Art Fair, London, UK
2018
Pulse Miami Art Fair, Garis and Hahn, Miami, USA
London Art Fair, London, UK
Art The Hague, The Netherlands
AAF Brussels, Belgium
KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Affordable Art Fair, ARTITLED Contemporary, London, UK
AAF Battersea, London, UK Art House Collective
2017
Art The Hague, The Netherlands
AAF Battersea, London, UK
Commissions
2020 Shot and Edited on iPhone, Torres
del Paine National Park, Apple USA
2018 City Square Metro Tunnel,
Melbourne, VIC
Public Collections
Artbank
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Bibliography
2023
Honeywilll, Greer, ‘Lost in Palm Springs’, Melbourne Books, February 2023,
cover image
2021
Lekka Angelopoulou, Sofia, ‘Architectural photographers reimagine robin
boyd’s iconic modernist house in Melbourne’, Designboom, April 3, 2021
2020
‘Hyperphantasia: a trip through the California desert – in pictures’, The
Guardian, 15 February
2019
‘Tired of Intellectualising Everything? This Photographer Is’, The
Design Files, 26 March
‘Spectrums of the Galapagos’ Photography Exhibition by Kate Ballis’, Yellowtrace,
8 April
2018
Ballis, Kate, Infra Realism, Manuscript Publishing
2018
Gibson, Eleanor ‘Kate Ballis’ infrared photography displays California
modernism in vivid hues’, 20 February
Pitcher, Laura, ‘Photographer Kate Ballis Makes your Palm Springs Vacation
Photos look Basic’, iD/ Vice Magazine, 20 June
Klingelfuss, Jessica, ‘Kate Ballis’ candy-coloured dreamscapes hit the sweet
spot in Los Angeles’, Wallpaper, 28 July
Carter, Felicity, ‘Kate Ballis Showcases a Hypercolor Fantasy in her Latest
Exhibition, Infra Realism’, Forbes, 4 August
Sara Tardiff, ‘You’ll Never Look at Iconic Palm Springs Architecture the
Same Way’, Architectural Digest Magazine, 21 August
Carolan, Nicholas, ‘The Pink Print’, Grazia
‘Infra Realism: deserts saturated with colour in pictures’, The Guardian,
16 October
2017
‘First look: This Melbourne-based photographer has captured one of the
world’s most beautiful natural attractions’, Vogue Australia, 27 June
Murrell, Elle, ‘Kate Ballis’, The Design Files, 19 June
Lawson, Kate, ‘In her Candy Colored Dreams’, The September Issues
Black, Holly, ‘Reimagining Californian Landscapes through Infrared’,
Another Magazine, 26 July
‘Hyper-real Perspectives’, Aesthetica Magazine, 30 July
