CV
b. 1969, Campbell River, Canada
Lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021-20 Weather Patterns, San José Institute of Contemporary Art, San José USA
2019 The Last Stand, Foto Museo Casa Coyoacán, Mexico City MX
2019 The Last Stand, Campbell River Museum, CA
2018 Life: As We've Known It, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver CA
2018 The Last Stand, Kaunas Photo Festival, LT
2017 The Last Stand (virtual exhibition) Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA USA
2016 Anthropocene, Winchester Gallery, Victoria CA
2016 Weather Patterns, City Hall Skytrain Station, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver CA
2016 David Ellingsen: Photographer and Environmental Artist, Winchester Gallery, Victoria CA
2016 The Last Stand (projected exhibition) 3rd Annual Documentary Photography Days, Turkish Photography Foundation, Istanbul TR
2015 The Last Stand, Initial Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver CA
2014 The Last Stand, Old Schoolhouse Gallery, Cortes Island CA
2013 SeaLife, British Columbia Law Courts, Vancouver CA
2012 SeaLife, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver CA
2012 Hibernus, Akasha Art Projects, Vancouver CA
2012 SeaLife at Pro'jekt LA II (projected exhibition), Month of Photography Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2009 Hibernus, Galerie BMG, Woodstock USA
2009 Hibernus, Camerawork Gallery, Portland USA
TWO + THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Promise to Place; Building Relationship with the Land, Toni Onley and David Ellingsen, Winchester Gallery, Victoria CA
2019 Elements of Nature, David Ellingsen and Kevin Boyle, Winchester Gallery, Victoria CA
2019 Disappearances, David Ellingsen and Yasmeen Strang, Parker Projects, Vancouver CA
2018 Unseated, David Ellingsen, David Robinson and Jay Senetchko, Parker Projects, Vancouver CA
2017 Betwixt, Meryl McMaster and David Ellingsen, The Baldwin Gallery at The Hospital Club, London UK
2017 The Sublunary World, Tim Shaw, Meryl McMaster and David Ellingsen, The Baldwin Gallery, London UK
2013 Enviromythology, David Ellingsen, Jason Lachance and Jenny McDonell, Initial Gallery, Vancouver CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Human/Nature, Lishui Art Museum (Laura Moya, curator) , Lishui CN
2021 In Conversation With The Land (online + projected exhibitions), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Karen Haas, juror), Fort Collins USA
2021 Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel-by-the-Sea USA
2021 The Tip of the Iceberg, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George CA
2020 Nature, Conversations, Space BE Gallery with the Datz Museum of Art, Seoul KR
2020 Highlights of the Salt Spring National Art Prize, Victoria Arts Council, Victoria CA
2019 Solastalgia, The Mattatoio Museum, Rome, IT
2019 Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalists’ Exhibition, Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island CA
2019 Oak Bay Beach Hotel Art Collection by Winchester Gallery, Victoria CA
2019 shape/colour/form, Winchester Gallery, Victoria CA
2018 Silence, International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa, Krasnodar RU
2018 Daños colaterales, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Encuentros Abiertos Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires AR
2018 Collective Noun, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver CA
2018 The Big Picture, Derby Studio Project, Denver USA
2018 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Semi-Finalists, Gallery Jones, Vancouver CA
2018 Now You Don't: Photography and Extinction (online exhibition), In the In-Between, Journal of New and New Media Photography, Philadelphia USA
2018 The Big Picture (outdoor public installation), The Big Picture + Month of Photography Colorado, Denver USA
2018 Memories (online exhibition), LoosenArt, Rome IT
2017 Guardians II, Bees and Trees, Museum of Nature + Noorderlicht Photography Foundation, Leeuwarden NL
2017 Mobilità, The Print Atelier and Galerie Joyce Yahouda at Maxville Studio, Montreal CA
2016 From Walden, The Datz Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do KR
2016 Intervals: Photography in Flux, South Main Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver CA
2015 Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2015 (outdoor public installation), Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre, Cumbria UK
2013 Photography and Environmental Concern, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury USA
2013 New Year, New Works, Massey Gallery at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria CA
2012 Victoria: Art Collections from the Region, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria CA
2012 International Photography Awards Best of Show, Smashbox Studios, Los Angeles USA
2012 Sea Inside: Design, Culture and Marine Ecology, Emily Carr University, Vancouver CA
2011 Imprint, Luz Gallery, Victoria, Canada
2011 Vancouver/Vancouver, Works from the Rick Erickson Collection, Gallery 1965, Vancouver CA
2011 Kodachrome in Bloom, Luz Gallery, Victoria CA
2011 Elements of Water, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins USA
2009 Future Imperfect, Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui, CN
2009 Arbor (online) Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Boundaries (work created with Michael V. Smith), Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna CA
2008 Coastlines, Trunk Gallery, Vancouver CA
2007 Art+ 5, Onepointsix Gallery, Vancouver CA
2007 Tickle Trunk (work created with Michael V. Smith), Jeffery Boone Gallery, Vancouver CA
2005 25x1, Lumen Gallery, Vancouver CA
2005 Art+ 4, Onepointsix Gallery, Vancouver CA
2004 Vancouver, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver CA
2004 Accrochage II, Aion Art Gallery, Vancouver CA
2003 Art+2, Onepointsix Gallery, Vancouver CA
2002 A Matter of Time, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver CA
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2021 Director's Award - In Conversation With The Land, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins USA
2021 Finalist - Photolucida Critical Mass, Portland, USA
2021 Artist in Residence - hcma architecture + design TILT, Victoria CA
2019 Finalist - Salt Spring National Art Prize CA
2018 Semi-finalist - Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series CA
2018 Second Place, Single Photo - The Silence PhotoVisa 2018, Russia
2017 Shortlist - Hariban Award, Kyoto, Japan
2017 Honourable Mention - International Photography Awards, One Shot Climate Change, Los Angeles, USA
2016 Honourable Mention - International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA
2016 Shortlisted - Athens Photo Festival, Main Exhibition Program, Athens, Greece
2015 Finalist - LensCulture Earth Awards, Paris, France
2013 Winner - Applied Arts Photography + Illustration Awards, Toronto CA
2013 Shortlisted, Kontinent Awards, Uzmir, Turkey
2012 First Place, Category - International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA
2012 First Place, Category - Prix de la Photographie Paris, France
2012 Winner - Applied Arts Photography + Illustration Awards, Toronto CA
2011 Shortlisted - Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, Portland, USA
2011 Winner - PDN Awards, New York, USA
2011 Finalist - Photolucida Critical Mass, Portland, USA
2010 Winner - Creative Quarterly Magazine Awards, New York, USA
2010 Winner - The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA
2010 Finalist - International Arte Laguna, Venice, Italy
2009 Winner - Applied Arts Photography + Illustration Awards, Toronto CA
2009 Merit Award - Black + White Magazine, San Francisco, USA
2009 Honourable Mention - Prix de la Photographie Paris, France
2008 Honourable Mention - International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA
PRESS + PUBLISHED
2021 Michael Kirchoff, 'David Ellingsen', Catalyst: Interviews, USA, July 23
2021 Michael Kirchoff, 'Traverse No. 5: David Ellingsen', One Twelve Publishing, USA, May 6
2020 Alfredo Zucchi, 'La visione dall'interno", Altri Animali, Italy, October 30
2020 Eric Holthaus, 'Big disasters make headlines. But the most dangerous part of climate change is that you barely notice it’s happening', The Correspondent, USA, August 25
2020 Stefano Riccesi, 'Le fame e le ombre", Altri Animali, Italy, June 17
2020 Portia Priegert, 'David Ellingsen, Remarkable images of natural history specimens evoke the ocean's mystery', Galleries West Magazine, Canada, June 11
2020 Paloma Pacheco, 'Dip into These Specimens of the Sea', The Tyee, Canada, May 28
2020 Pier Paolo di Mino, 'La caccia", Altri Animali, Italy, May 27
2020 Andrea Cafarella, 'Manifesto della Teriantropica", Altri Animali, Italy, May 25
2019 Mike Davies, 'The Conflicting Ideas of Economy and Ecology Examined in Ellingsen's Work, Campbell River Mirror, Canada, Sept 16
2019 Kyu-young Chun, 'Eco Artist: David Ellingsen', Homeliving & Style, South Korea, July issue
2019 Megan Daly, 'David Ellingsen Feature Artist', Issue 4 Farewell Earth, Radical Art Review, United Kingdom, Jan 6
2018 Charlotte Du Cann, 'Disappearing Act', The Dark Mountain Project, United Kingdom, Dec 5
2018 Daniel Stone, '5 Things People Are Doing to Restore the Planet', National Geographic, USA, May issue
2018 Elena Cremona, 'The Last Stand', The Earth Issue USA, January
2018 Maria Oliva, 'Anthropocene', Dodho Magazine Spain, January 26
2017 Frances Litman, ‘Solutions Episode 2: Artists As Change Makers’, interview, Shaw TV and Creatively United Canada, November
2017 Sam Edmonds, ‘Conserving Canada’, interview, Photolife Canada, Aug/Sept issue
2017 Yihyun Park, ‘See the Sea’, interview, Monthly Photography South Korea, June issue
2017 Kat Kiernan,‘Photo of the Day - Lance-tooth Crosscut Saw’, Don't Take Pictures USA, May 22
2016 Amanda Marchand, ‘The Last Stand’, Magazine Gitz (Published by the Datz Museum of Art), South Korea, Volume 8
2016 Angela Cowan, ‘Photographer David Ellingsen: Facing Anthropocene’, Boulevard Magazine Canada, Dec 2016-Jan 2017 issue
2016 Walker Dawson, 'The Last Stand - Video interview with David Ellingsen', Lensculture France, October 25
2016 Janna Dotschkal, ‘The Last Stand, Seeing the Trees Through the Forest: Vestiges of Ancient Woods’, National Geographic Proof, USA, January 27
2015 Anne Grahm, ‘The Last Stand', Art Reveal Magazine, Issue #7, Finland
2013 Ashley Kauschinger ‘David Ellingsen Interview’, Light Leaked, March 11, USA
2012 Aline Smithson, ‘David Ellingsen’, Lenscratch, January 7, USA
2012 Andrew Nguyen, ‘Obsolete Delete’, CanCulture, September, Canada
BOOKS + EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2021 Dark Mountain: Issue 20, ABYSS, Nick Hunt, Joanna Pocock. Steve Wheeler, Michael McClane (poetry) and Charlotte Du Cann (art). Contributing editor: Tom Smith. Co-produced by Charlotte Du Cann and Nick Hunt. ISBN 978-1-8384160-1-0, United Kingdom
2021 Dark Mountain: Issue 19, Requiem, Nancy Campbell, Joanna Pocock, Michael McLane. Poetry: Nina Pick and Em Stramg Art and production: Charlotte Du Cann. For Borrowed Time: Christos Galanis and Mat Osmond. ISBN 978-1-8384160-0-3, United Kingdom
2019 Dark Mountain: Issue 16, Refuge 10 Years on the Mountain, Edited by Cate Chapman (poetry), Charlotte Du Cann, Anthea Lawson and Tom Smith. Additional commissioning: Nick Hunt and Steve Wheeler. Art and production: Charlotte Du Cann. ISBN 978-9-9955402-7-9, United Kingdom
2019 Salt Spring National Art Prize 2019 | 2020 Finalists' Exhibition, Edited by Sherri Israels, Design by Stimuli Creative. Published by Salt Spring Arts Council, Canada
2016 Wildside, The Enchanted Life of Hunters and Gatherers Edited by Robert Klanten and Sven Ehmann with texts by Lauren Napier, Elias Carlson and Daniel Crockett. Published by Gestalten. ISBN 978-3-89955-672-8, Berlin, Germany
2016 Intervals; Photography in Flux (Exhibition catalogue) By Edward Peck and Phyllis Schwartz. ISBN 9780993662331, Vancouver, Canada
2015 lensculture Earth15 Awards (Awards catalogue) Designed by Laura Sackett. Published by Edition One Books. Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Victoria Collects: A View into Private Art Collections from the Region(Exhibition catalogue) by Mary Jo Hughes (Curator) Published by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. ISBN 9780888853677, Victoria, Canada
2008 Body of Text by Michael V. Smith and David Ellingsen. Published by Book Thug. ISBN 9781897388280, Toronto, Canada
COLLECTIONS
Chinese Museum of Photography, Lishui, China
Datz Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver, Canada
Royal British Columbia Museum & Archives, Victoria, Canada
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, USA
Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, USA
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018-2021 Consultant, Dazed and Confucius Career Support for Artists, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Judge, Biodiversity Research Photo Competition, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Presenter, "OUTBOX: Digital Development for the Working Artist" Campbell River Arts Council, Canada
2020 Guest Speaker, It's Complicated: Changing the World through Photography, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada
2019 Guest Speaker, Artist Noon Hour Talks, Salt Spring National Art Prize, Salt Spring Island, Canada
2019 Guest Speaker, Earth Arts Festival, Campbell River, Canada
2019 Judge, Biodiversity Research Photo Competition, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver, Canada
2007- 2016 Lecturer, Vancouver Institute of Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Guest Speaker, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Guest Speaker, Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators, Vancouver, Canada
2000-2013 Freelance Assignment Photographer, Advertising and Editorial, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Guest Speaker, Langara College, Vancouver, Canada
2007-2012 Lecturer, Vancouver Photo Workshops, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Guest Speaker, Langara College, Vancouver, Canada
2008-2010 Guest Speaker, Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators, Vancouver, Canada
2000-2003 Assistant/Apprentice, Freelance Assignment Photographers, Vancouver, Canada
2000-2003 Teaching Assistant, Commercial Photography Program, Focal Point Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2000 Diploma (honours), Commercial Photography Program, Focal Point Centre, Vancouver, Canada
1998 Certificate Darkroom Studies, Camosun College, Vancouver, Canada
CHARITABLE DONATIONS + FUNDRAISING
2021 Arts Umbrella Splash Art Auction + Gala, Vancouver, Canada
2021 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Connect & Collect Fall Live Auction, San Jose, USA
2021 Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Charity Auction, Toronto, Canada
2019 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Connect & Collect Fall Live Auction, San Jose, USA
2019 Stivers School for the Arts. Fund-raising Auction, Dayton, USA
2019 Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Charity Auction, Toronto, Canada
2019 Out In Schools. Fall Gala Event + Auction, Vancouver, Canada
2018 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Connect & Collect Fall Live Auction, San Jose, USA
2018 Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Charity Auction, Toronto, Canada
2018 Stivers School for the Arts. Fund-raising Auction, Dayton, USA
2017 Out In Schools. Fall Gala Event + Auction, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Plymouth College of Art. Charity Auction to benefit graduate exhibition, Plymouth, UK
2017 Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Charity Auction, Toronto, Canada
2015 Out In Schools. Fall Gala Event, Vancouver, Canada
2015 ArtBeat Vancouver. Charity Auction, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Charity Auction, Toronto, Canada
2014 Vancouver Art Gallery Art Auction. Vancouver, Canada
2014 SA Foundation. Charity Auction, Calgary, Canada
2012 Canadian Cancer Society. Charity Auction, Vancouver, Canada
2005-2010 Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators. Vancouver, Canada (volunteer Board Member)
2009 Yaletown House, Assignment Donation, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Winter Family Ball. Annual Fundraiser, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Journalists for Human Rights. Assignment Donation, Toronto, ON
2001-2007 Art+. Annual Fundraiser, Vancouver, Canada
ART FAIRS
2016 photo l.a., Los Angeles, USA
2015 Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2015 Love Art, Toronto, Canada
COMMISSION CLIENTS | SELECTED
Business Development Bank of Canada
Canadian Medical Association
CBC Canada
DDB
Eckhart Tolle Teachings Inc.
Future Shop
Geist Magazine
Globe & Mail ROB Magazine
Grey Worldwide
Marie Claire Magazine
McCarthy Tétrault
Men's Health Magazine
MTV/Nickelodeon
Nettwerk Records
New York Times Magazine
Oprah Winfrey Network
People Magazine
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Rogers Communications
Telus
Time Inc.