BIO
D-Mo is an artist working across photography, installation and mixed media. Her practice transforms everyday encounters into works that examine identity, faith, migration, survival and the fragile threads that connect personal stories to collective history.
Working between portraiture and conceptual practice, D-Mo creates images and installations that invite viewers to look beyond the visible. Rather than illustrating events, her work explores how objects, gestures and human presence can hold memory, resilience and the complexity of lived experience.
Over the past two decades, her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the United Nations Headquarters, New York, the Museum of Australian Photography, the Sydney Jewish Museum, and the Knesset in Jerusalem. She is the recipient of the Olive Cotton Award and has been recognised in numerous national and international photography and portrait awards. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Through photography, installation and portraiture, D-Mo continues to explore how art can deepen our understanding of what it means to be human.
RESIDENCIES
2024
Bundanon Artist Residency, NSW, Australia
EXHIBITIONS
2026
Holding Light Exhibition - Bondi Pavilion Art Gallery , Australia
2025
Finalist ::Wollongong Art Prize :: Group Exhibition , Sydney, Australia
The Lonka Project - Knesset - Jerusalem , Israel
2024
Aukland Festival of Photography , The Lonka Project, Auckland, New Zealand
Small Works Art Prize, At The Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
23/24 Finalist of the Taylor Wessing Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2023
Prize Winner of the Hahnemuhle Summer Salon at the Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Australia
Head On Exhibition , The Lonka Project :: Bondi Beach Promenade, Sydney, Australia
Finalist of The Bowness Photography Prize 2023, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne, Australia
19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition , FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Collectors’ Edition #9 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
Finalist :: Blue Mountains Portraits 2023 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
2022
Finalist :: Head On Portrait Festival 2022 :: Bondi Pavilion, NSW, Australia
Shutter - Hub Yearbook 2022 :: Online Group Exhibition, United Kingdom
Collectors’ Edition #8 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
Finalist :: Blue Mountains Portraits 2022 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
2021
Winner of the Olive Cotton Award 2021, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
Collectors’ Edition #7 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
Finalist :: Blue Mountains Portraits 2021 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
2020
The Lonka Project :: Group Exhibition, United Nations Headquarters, NYC, USA
The Lonka Project :: Group Exhibition, Virtual Screening, Visa Pour L’Image 2020, Perpignan, France
Out of The Fire: Resilience in the Face of Natural Disaster :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
AWARDS
Prize Winner of the Hahnemuhle Summer Salon 2023 at the Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Australia
Winner of the Olive Cotton Award 2021, Murwillumbah, Australia
NATIONAL COLLECTIONS
Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
National Library of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT
State Library of NSW , Sydney , NSW
State Library of South Australia , Adelaide, SA
The Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, NSW
BOOKS
The Lonka Project, 2024
"Tense Feelings" , 2018