Born 1993, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
EDUCATION
2020 BFA in Photography, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2016 BA in Mathematics, McGill University, Montreal, QC
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Garnished Sundries, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
2023 Ornamental Cookery, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada
2022 Looking for Representation, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver, Canada
2022 Garnished Sundries, Telephone Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Photorama 36, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
2022 VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation Art Collection, Trapp Projects, Vancouver, BC
2022 Open Studios Group Show, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2022 The Big Camera Show, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
2021 To Stay Related, Nextdoor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2021 Discovery, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2020 The Lind Prize, Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2020 I Spy…, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Reading and Being Read, Capture Photo Festival, Vancouver, BC
2020 We Are a Lighthouse, Michael O’Brien Exhibition Commons, Vancouver, BC
2018 Living Image, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, USA
PUBLIC ART
2022 Works from the Crudités Series, commissioned by Burrard Arts Foundation for Marine Drive Canada Line Station, Vancouver, BC
2022 Garnished sundries, commissioned by the City of Vancouver for display on 20 city bus shelters, Vancouver, BC
2020 TV Dinner, projection for Main Street Prime Time, Vancouver, Canada
ART FAIRS
2023 Art Toronto, with Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
2022 NADA Miami, with Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Miami, USA
AWARDS
2022 PENN Idea Art Award, Shortlist
2021 New Generation Photography Award, Longlist
2021 Critical Mass, Longlist
2020 Lenscratch Top 25 to Watch
2020 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, Shortlist
2020 Discovery Award, Honourable Mention
2019 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, Longlist
GRANTS
2024 BC Arts Council, Individual Art Award
2021 Canada Arts Council, Research & Creation Grant
2020 BC Arts Council, Early Career Development Grant
2020 Capture Photo Festival, Tricera Printing Grant
COLLECTIONS
RBC Art Collection
Private collections
RESIDENCIES
2021 Visual Art Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
2020 Local Residency, Duplex Artist Society, Vancouver, Canada
SELECT PRESS
2023 Kristin Lim, “Fruit, Meat, Flowers & Lace: Deconstructing the Still Life with Local Artist, Svava Tergesen,” Scout Magazine, March 31
2023 Gail Johnson “Vancouver’s Svava Tergesen turns food photography on its head in Ornamental Cookery” Create a Stir, March 30
2023 Katherine Fawcett “Ornamental Cookery: An Intimate Look at Taste,” Whistler Traveller, May 1
2023 Yani Kong, “Ornamental Cookery: Svava Tergesen bends the tropes of glossy food photography” Galleries West, May 16
2021 Lea Zöller, “Svava Tergesen: Shifting the Perception of Food Photography” METAL Magazine, March 11
2021 Jeanne Alexandre, “Weekend Portfolio: Svava Tergesen” Musée Magazine, April 16
2020 Kimi Hamada, “Crudités by photographer Svava Tergesen” Booooooom!, March 12
2020 Francesca Rusalen, “Aural Fixation” L’emergere del Possibile, April 3
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Emmy Lee Wall, “Svava Tergesen: Ornamental Cookery” Capture Photography Festival 2022-2023 catalogue, pp. 72-75
2023 PhotoEd Magazine, The Food Issue, p.38-43
2022 Studio Saudari, Fruta, pp. 188-193
2020 The Analog Cookbook, Issue 2, pp. 74-75
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2022 Aural Fixation. VIFF Micro Theatre x XINEMA society, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Aural Fixation. Cineworks x Capture, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Rider. Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, Canada
2020 Aural Fixation. Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2020 Aural Fixation. Artifact Small Format Film Festival, Calgary, Canada
2019 Aural Fixation. Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, Canada
2019 Aural Fixation. WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
2019 Rider. When Colour Bursts Through, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Aural Fixation. Ground Floor Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Second Sight. One Take Super 8 Event, Montréal, Canada