KATE BALLIS
born 1985, lives Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 – 'Sculpted Garden', Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC (upcoming)
2025 – 'Beyond Time', Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
2024 – 'Liminality Antipodes', Hugo Mitchell Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2023 – 'Atlantis Revisited', Essoign Club, Melbourne, VIC
2023 – 'Influorescence' with Tom Blachford, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
2023 – 'Before Time', Arthouse, Sydney, NSW
2022 – 'Atlantis', Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
2022 – 'Wonderworld', David Jones Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2021 – 'Infra Realism: Lilac Lux', Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
2020 – 'Liminality' (virtual exhibition), Gallerysmith, Melbourne, VIC
2020 – '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
2017 – 'Infra Realism', Jardan, VIC

CURATED AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 – 'Apposite Ground: Kate Ballis, Janet Laurence, Catherine Nelson', RACV City Club Gallery Lounge, Melbourne
2025 – 'Seeing the Light', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2024 – '30 Years of Arthouse Gallery', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2023 – 'Portals to Atlantis', Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Victoria (various venues)
2023-25 – 'Lost in Palm Springs', curated by Greer Honeywill, (touring), Home of the Arts, QLD; Banana Shire Regional Gallery, QLD; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD; Manly Art Gallery & Museum, NSW; Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC; Signal Point, SA; Devonport Regional Gallery, TAS; New England Regional Art Museum, NSW; Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD; Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD.
2023 – 'XV: Past Present Future', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 – 'Out of the Blue', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2021 – 'Hundreds and Thousands', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2021 – 'Going Home', Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2021 – 'Coming Home', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2021 – 'fresh eyes: reimagining robin boyd's walsh street', Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne, VIC
2021 – 'Not Fair', Melbourne, curated by Ashley Crawford and Sam Leach
2021 – 'Summer Salon', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2020 – 'Head on at 107', Head On photo Festival, curated by Sandy Edwards, Redfern, NSW
2020 – 'RE(NEW)AL', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2020 – 'Summer Show', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2019 – 'Illusions', Backwoods Gallery, VIC
2019 – 'CCP Photo Fair', Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC
2017 – 'Straight Lines', Black Eye Gallery, NSW

AWARD EXHIBITIONS
2026 – Finalist, 'Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize', Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW
2026 – Finalist, 'Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize', Ravenswood School for Girls, NSW
2026 – Finalist, 'Omnia Art Award', St Kevin's College, Melbourne, VIC
2024 – Finalist, 'Fishers' Ghost Art Award', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
2024 – Finalist, 'Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize', Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW
2024 – Finalist, 'Omnia Art Award', St Kevin's College, Melbourne, VIC
2024 – Finalist, 'Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize', Ravenswood School for Girls, NSW
2023 – Finalist, 'Prompted Peculiar – International AI Prize 2023', Ballarat Photo Biennale, Ballarat, VIC
2023 – Finalist, 'Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize', Manly, NSW
2023 – Finalist, 'IRIS Award', Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, WA
2023 – Finalist, 'Omnia Art Award', St Kevin's College, Melbourne, VIC
2022 – Finalist, 'Kings School Art Prize', Finalist, The King's School, Parramatta, NSW
2022 – Finalist, 'Omnia Art Award', St Kevin's College, Melbourne, VIC
2021 – Finalist, 'Bowness Photography Award', Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC

ART FAIRS
2026 – Sydney Contemporary, Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2025 – Sydney Contemporary, Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
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
2019 – Affordable Art Fair, ARTITLED Contemporary, London, UK
2019 – Art Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 – KunstRAI, The Netherlands
2019 – London Art Fair, London, UK
2018 – Pulse Miami Art Fair, Garis and Hahn, Miami, USA
2018 – London Art Fair, London, UK
2018 – Art The Hague, The Netherlands
2018 – AAF Brussels, Belgium
2018 – KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 – Affordable Art Fair, ARTITLED Contemporary, London, UK
2018 – AAF Battersea, London, UK Art House Collective
2017 – Art The Hague, The Netherlands
2017 – AAF Battersea, London, UK

COMMISSIONS
2024 – Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC
2023 – Sunshine Mental Health & Wellbeing Centre Arts Project, Sunshine, VIC
2023 – 'Portals to Atlantis', Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, VIC
2020 – 'Shot and Edited on iPhone', Torres del Paine National Park, Apple USA
2018 – City Square Metro Tunnel, Melbourne, VIC

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 – Honeywill, 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
2019 – '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
2018 – Pitcher, Laura, 'Photographer Kate Ballis Makes your Palm Springs Vacation Photos look Basic', iD/ Vice Magazine, 20 June
2018 – Klingelfuss, Jessica, 'Kate Ballis' candy-coloured dreamscapes hit the sweet spot in Los Angeles', Wallpaper, 28 July
2018 – Carter, Felicity, 'Kate Ballis Showcases a Hypercolor Fantasy in her Latest Exhibition, Infra Realism', Forbes, 4 August
2018 – Sara Tardiff, 'You'll Never Look at Iconic Palm Springs Architecture the Same Way', Architectural Digest Magazine, 21 August
2018 – Carolan, Nicholas, 'The Pink Print', Grazia
2018 – '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
2017 – Murrell, Elle, 'Kate Ballis', The Design Files, 19 June
2017 – Lawson, Kate, 'In her Candy Colored Dreams', The September Issues
2017 – Black, Holly, 'Reimagining Californian Landscapes through Infrared', Another Magazine, 26 July
2017 – 'Hyper-real Perspectives', Aesthetica Magazine, 30 July

COLLECTIONS
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Artbank
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre
St John of God Health Care Art Collection
Prince of Wales Hotel
QT Hotel Gold Coast