Lisa Tomasetti is a Sydney based photographer who has been exhibited extensively throughout Australia and Internationally with exhibitions in London, Barcelona and Shanghai. She holds a Masters in Documentary Photography from Sydney College of the Arts and has been awarded the Australia Council studio residency in Besozzi, Italy, and the South Australian Department for the Arts International travel grant.
Tomasetti has been a regular exhibited finalist in significant juried photographic awards including the 2023 Olive Cotton Prize; the 2023 Julia Cameron Photographic Award; The 2019 & 2007 William Bowness Photographic Award; The 2016 Archibald Photographic Prize; The 2011& 2009 National Photographic Portrait Prize; the 2020 Paris Photo Prize (PX3),to mention a selection.
Internationally she has been recognised as winner, and with Honourable Mention prizes, in numerous International Photographic including the recent 2024 London Photo Awards; the 2023 New York Photography Awards; the 2023 Muse International Photo Awards; the 2023 European Photo Awards; the 2023 London Photo Awards; the 2020 Tokyo Foto Awards; and the 2020 Paris Photo Awards PX3.
Tomasetti’s work is widely collected and is held in the collections of The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Albury Regional Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, The National Gallery of Australia, ArtBank and The Chekhov Museum, Moscow, Russia.
Parallel to her arts photography practice, Tomasetti is a highly regarded Film and Television Stills photographer, and her film photographic work was featured in the National Portrait Gallery's touring exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.
During 2006-2018 she was the official International tour photographer for The Australian Ballet travelling to Paris, Beijing ,Tokyo , New York , San Francisco and Los Angeles. These award winning images were exhibited extensively with the publication of Tomasetti's photographic book, The Australian Ballet on the International Stage, in 2020.
Tomasetti's photographs will be included in the 2024/25 National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Dancer, featuring dancers from The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 2019 North American Tour.
Solo Exhibitions
LISA TOMASETTI: The Manifest
‘The Manifest’ reflects on gender identity and the role contemporary digital photographic portraiture plays in the representation of the ‘female’ image.
Does it capture or construct sexual identity?
In this series I respond to historic, costumed representations of ‘authentic‘ gender by first establishing the constancy and indifference of clouds. Utopia and dystopia symbolically collide to present an alternative vision of the future of gender constructs and limitations; celebrating the power of portraiture to deconstruct stereotypes and explore new ways of capturing sexual identity in photographic form.
~ Lisa Tomasetti 2024
