Masa Hoss is a multidisciplinary artist working with process-driven,
material-forward photography and sumi painting, creating spaces
of contemplation and stillness. Her current work focuses on
transience, dissolution, and belonging.





 

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Artist CV
Masa Hoss (b 1974, Iran)
 

Select exhibitions 

 

2026        Biennial of Colour and Light, West End Art Space, Melbourne
2026        Saints and Sinners, Space2B, Melbourne

2026        In The Spotlight, Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne
2026        Bayside Local, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne

2025        Feels like Summer, Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne
2025        Under the Surface, Caelene nee Glen Gallery, Melbourne

2025        Finding Hope, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne

2025        Air, Caelene nee Glen Gallery, Melbourne
2025        Melbourne Local, Ladder Art Space, Melbourne

2025        Summer Exhibition, Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne

2024        Reality and Its Double, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2024        Nyland Art Prize, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide 
2024        Autumn Festival, Sol Gallery, Melbourne

2024        Bayside Local, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne                                          

2023        Nyland Art Prize, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide 

2023        Look Prize 2023, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne

2022        Other Self, Solo Exhibition, Stranger Gallery, Melbourne

Select awards
 

2026        Finalist, Omnia Art Prize

2025        Summer Small Works, Caelene nee Glen Gallery

2025        Finalist, Nyland Art Prize
2025        Finalist, Ripper Art Prize

2025        Finalist, Port Stephens Art Prize
2024        Finalist, Nyland Art Prize 

2024        Finalist, Omnia Art Prize

2024        Queenscliff Wildlife Photography Award
2023        Finalist, Nyland Art Prize 

2023        Finalist, Look Prize 

2023        Finalist, Omnia Art Prize

Media and publications 
 

2025-26  Guest judge and Presenter, Melbourne Camera Club

2023        SBS Persian, Artist of the Month

2023        Art Edit Magazine 

2022        Sunday Arts, Joy FM 

2022        City of Port Phillip's Top 20 Artists Magazine, Photography Issue

2022        Art Edit Magazine

2017        Film Analysis Handbook, VCE Curriculum, Insight Publications

Formal education 
 

2018        Certificate of Professional Photography, New York Institute of Photography

1996        Master of Engineering, University of Auckland

1992        Bachelor of Engineering, University of Auckland

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