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Ingvar Kenne

Sweden

Ingvar Kenne born 1965 Sweden, studied photography at the University of Gothenburg and had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Boras, Sweden in 1992.

After completing university in the early 1990s, Kenne set off on a global motorcycle journey that spanned two and a half years. That trip culminated in his second monograph ‘Chasing Summer’ and was the catalyst for his permanent migration to Australia. Now a Sydney local, he has many works as part of the permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.

This recent work, an ongoing photographic series titled ‘a portrait of [country]’, continues for Kenne, as an exploration of abandonment as he experiences magical, often inaccessible and harrowing parts of the Land that still echo with their pre-colonial life.

In 2024 two of Kenne's portraits were selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London.