Shannon May Powell (AU)

Image: Shannon May Powell. Courtesy the artist.
Born 1989, Brisbane, Australia
Lives and works Melbourne, Australia
Shannon May Powell is a writer and visual artist based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land in Melbourne. Their work explores gender, sexuality and impermanence with analogue photography, text, video, and movement. They have exhibited at Berlin Feminist Film Festival, New York Art Book Fair, Melbourne Art Fair, Centre for Contemporary Photography, BLINDSIDE, Seventh gallery, MPavillion, Collingwood Arts Precinct, as well as local and international publications such as Vogue, i-D, Vice and Archer Magazines. Since 2018 Shannon has been an annual artist in residence at the VARDA Artist Residency in California where they spent time researching much of their recent work.
PHOTO 2022 Exhibitions
[Free, Exhibitions, Australian Exclusive]
Queering the Frame: Community, Time, Photography
29 April 2022 - 3 July 2022
Centre for Contemporary Photography
PHOTO 2022 Events
[Icon, Talks, Events]
Helmut Newton (DE/AU)
Developing Influences: Photography and Power
18 May 2022, 5:30-6:30pm (AEST)
The Wheeler Centre
[Talks, Free, Events]
Talk: Queering the Frame
7 May 2022, 12-1pm (AEST)
Centre for Contemporary Photography