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.

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Globe & Mail ROB Magazine

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Marie Claire Magazine

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Men's Health Magazine

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New York Times Magazine

Oprah Winfrey Network

People Magazine

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Rogers Communications

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Time Inc.