Masa Hoss is a multidisciplinary artist working across fine art photography and sumi painting. Creating spaces of contemplation, stillness, and presence, her current work focuses on transience, dissolution, and belonging.
Process is central to her photographic practice. Camera-based kinetic techniques allow light, atmosphere, and form to emerge with minimal further intervention. Drawing from the principles of Australian tonalism and the characteristics of traditional Japanese ink painting, movement is translated into tonal subtlety, atmospheric depth, and a sense of dissolution.
Artist CV
Masa Hoss (b 1974, Iran)
Select exhibitions
2026 In The Spotlight, Quadrant Gallery, Melboourne
2026 Bayside Local, Bayside Gallery, Melboourne
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 Emerging Artist 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
2023-24 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 Prize Winner, 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 Prize Winner, 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