Exhibitions at National Portrait Gallery

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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2026

22 Aug 2026 – 11 Oct 2026

Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan, Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud, Luke Austin, Nathan Beard …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize

16 Aug 2025 – 12 Oct 2025

Hoda Afshar, Atong Atem, Paul Blackmore, Michael Cook …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

if only we could take the time

contemporary Australian photography

30 Nov 2024 – 1 Jun 2025

Ying Ang, Katrin Koenning, Anu Kumar

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

Portraits

30 Nov 2024 – 3 Mar 2025

Carol Jerrems

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024

22 Jun 2024 – 13 Oct 2024

Brenda L. Croft, J Davies, Amos Gebhardt, Shea Kirk …

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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

17 Jun 2023 – 2 Oct 2023

Elliott Jerome Brown, Renato Colangelo, Teva Cosic, Brenda L. Croft …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

WHO ARE YOU

Australian portraiture

1 Oct 2022 – 29 Jan 2023

Brook Andrew, Atong Atem, Rennie Ellis, Petrina Hicks …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022

25 Jun 2022 – 9 Oct 2022

Matthew Abbott, James Brickwood, Rozalind Drummond, Tom Evangelidis …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

Living Memory National Photographic Portrait Prize

2 Jul 2021 – 16 Jan 2022

Tamara Dean, Heather Dinas, Kim Guthrie, Davina Jogi …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

6 Mar 2020 – 10 May 2020

James Brickwood, Christophe Canato, Brenda L. Croft, Shea Kirk …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

The Look

14 Sep 2019 – 9 Feb 2020

Hari Ho, Ingvar Kenne, Julian Kingma, Michael Riley …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019

23 Feb 2019 – 7 Apr 2019

James Brickwood, Aletheia Casey, Adam Ferguson, Lee Grant …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

20/20

Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions

20 Oct 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

George Fetting, Selina Ou, Sarah Rhodes, David Rosetzky

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017

1 Apr 2017 – 18 Jun 2017

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

Tough and Tender

17 Jul 2016 – 16 Oct 2016

Warwick Baker, Chris Burden, Larry Clark, Rozalind Drummond …

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

Life and time

20 Jun 2015 – 23 Aug 2015

Rod McNicol

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

In the flesh

7 Nov 2014 – 9 Mar 2015

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

Arcadia: Sound of the sea

14 Aug 2014 – 19 Oct 2014

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2014

21 Mar 2014 – 1 Jun 2014

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

Elvis at 21

7 Dec 2013 – 10 Mar 2014

Alfred Wertheimer

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

People

23 Aug 2013 – 24 Nov 2013

Richard Avedon

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2013

9 Mar 2013 – 19 May 2013

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

Citizen

2 Nov 2012 – 27 Jan 2013

Ingvar Kenne

National Portrait Gallery · Canberra (AU)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2012

20 Mar 2012 – 20 May 2012