Anne Zahalka (b. 1957), photo-media artist, often explores cultural diversity and environmental issues in her work. After studying at East Sydney Technical College and Sydney College of the Arts, Zahalka began participating in group exhibitions in Australia and Germany in the early 1980s. She has held over 40 solo exhibitions since 1986 including the touring shows Woven Threads, Leisureland and Wild Life; Welcome to Sydney was shown in the International Terminal of Sydney Airport in 2003; and Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery on the Canberra leg of an extensive tour in 2007. Zahalka's work was included in the international photography exhibition Civilization: The Way We Live Now, shown at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, in 2018 and the National Gallery of Victoria in 2019. She undertook a residency at the Béhal Fejér Institute in Prague in 2019, tracing her family's story of persecution, exile and survival. Zahalka won the Macarthur Cook Art Prize (2008), the National Photographic Prize (2007) and the Leopold Godowsky Photography Award in Boston (2005). Her work is held in the National Gallery of Australia, state and regional galleries, university collections and the National Art Gallery of New Zealand.
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