Odette England

Critic
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Odette England
MA, University of South Australia
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
PHD, Australian National University

Odette England’s work has been exhibited in over 115 museums and galleries worldwide. It is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago and New Mexico Museum of Art.

Recent exhibitions have appeared in such venues as the Art Museum of South Texas, Australian Center for Contemporary Photography, Everson Museum, Monash Gallery of Art, Penumbra Foundation, Museum of Giorgione in Italy and the Princeton Art Museum.

England is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. Other recent honors include a Rhode Island Council Photography Fellowship and grants from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Puffin Foundation and Anonymous Was a Woman, among many others. In 2023, England was the $10,000 EKARD artist-in-residence at Bucknell University and a finalist for the PhMusem Women Photographers Grant. She has been nominated for the prestigious Foam Paul Huf Award (twice) and the Prix Pictet, the global award for photography and sustainability.

She has published five award-winning books, including Dairy Character, winner of the $5,000 Light Work Book Award, and The Long Shadow, winner of the $5,000 Ansel Adams Fellowship and a Polycopies & Co. Publishing grant. Her sixth book, To Be Developed, To Be Continued, won the inaugural Tall Poppy Press Award and will be published in mid-2025.

Her work has been featured in American Photo, The Australian, British Journal of Photography, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Fisheye, The Guardian, Vogue and The Washington Post.

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Odette England
MA, University of South Australia
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
PHD, Australian National University