Education
Master of Fine Arts Photography, Parsons The New School for Design – New York City, USA (2021)
Bachelor of Digital Media and Film, Deakin University – Melbourne, AUS (2014)
Awards
2024 Monash Room Emerging Artist Prize – AUS Consulate New York City, USA (2024)
AY2019 / Parsons Graduate Student Research Fund (2019)
Parsons School of Design Dean’s Merit Scholarship (2019)
Solo Exhibitions
Natural Configuration - Monash Room Emerging Artist Prize – AUS Consulate New York City, USA (2025)
Select Group Exhibitions
Mighty Small – Cascade Art Concept – Brisbane, AUS (2024)
Gumnut Babies - Unassigned Gallery – Melbourne, AUS (2024)
Photography Residency Exhibition - Revela’T Festival – Barcelona, ES (2023)
If You Surrender - Tiger Strikes Asteroid – New York City, USA (2023)
Future is Now Bandung Photo Triennale – Bandung, ID (2022)
No Space, Know Space, Parsons MFA Exhibit - Stephen Kellen Gallery – New York City, USA (2021)
Road to Bandung Photo Triennale – Bandung, ID (2021)
Pingyao International Photography Festival – Pingyao, CN (2021)
Photoville NYC – New York City, USA (2021)
Femalia - PRAXIS Photo Arts Center – Minneapolis, USA (2021)
Mono-Kromatik - PRAXIS Photo Arts Center – Minneapolis, USA (2021)
In Flux - Parsons MFA Photo Exhibit – New York City, USA (2019)
All The Rivers Run - AUS Consulate New York – New York City, USA (2019)
CAMP - RMIT Workspace Gallery – Melbourne, AUS (2019)
Kris Kringle - NOIR Darkroom – Melbourne, AUS (2018)
For The Love of The Dark - Colour Factory Gallery – Melbourne, AUS (2017)
BOTANICA - In.Cube8r Gallery – Melbourne, AUS (2017)
The Heysen Prize for Landscape - Hahndorf Academy – Adelaide Hills, AUS (2016)
Residencies
Photography Creation and Experimentation Residency of Revela’T - Barcelona, ES (2022)
Curatorial Experience
Natural Configuration - Monash Room Emerging Artist Prize – AUS Consulate New York City, USA (2025)
In Flux - Parsons MFA Photo exhibit New York City, USA (2019)
Assistant Curatorial Experience
All The Rivers Run - NYC Australian Consulate – New York, USA (2019)
Teaching Experience
Instructor – Digital Photo Academy – New York, USA (2024 - present)
Teacher - The Alice Austen House – Staten Island, USA (2023 - 2024)
Teacher - The Cardboard Studio – New York City, USA (2022 - 2024)
Teaching Assistant – The New School for Design – New York City, USA (2020 - 2021)
Parsons BFA Photo Reviews - The New School for Design – New York, USA (2019 - 2021)
Studio Lighting Workshop 1:1 - NOIR Darkroom – Melbourne, AUS (2018)
Wet Plate Collodion Workshop - The Fox Darkroom – Melbourne, AUS (2017)
Alternative Process Assistant Training – Melbourne, AUS (2015 - 2017)
Professional Experience
Darkroom Assistant to Jill Enfield (2024)
Freelance Portrait Artist, Photographer & Printmaker (2015 - 2025)
Copy Editor - worm, root, wort… & bane (2024)
Co-host & Producer - ArtLust Podcast (2022 - 2024)
Artists for Artists (AfA) Core Member (2020 - 2024)
Assistant Copy Editor - Where is Art? Space, Time and Location in Contemporary Art (2022)
Assistant Copy Editor - Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes (2020)
Research Assistant to Professor Simone Douglas (2019 - 2021)
Educational Workshops
Artists for Artists (AfA) Masterclass Program – Radical Care (2020)
SAAS - Fee Summer Institute of Art – Care, Caring and Repair in Cognitive Capitalism (2020)
Platinum Printing course, Gold St Studios – Trentham East, AUS (2017)
Wet Plate Master Class, Gold St Studios – Trentham East, AUS (2016)
Tintype Workshop, Gold St Studios – Trentham East, AUS (2015)
Nominations
Finalist, Passepartout Photo Prize 5th Edition – Rome, IT (2022)
Finalist, The Heysen Prize for Landscape – Adelaide, AUS (2016)
Select Events / Workshops
Photographer ATEA Exhibit Closing Ceremony - The MET – New York City, USA (2019)
BMATA Roaring 20s and All that Jazz Festival – Blue Mountains, AUS (2016)
Bibliographies
Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes (2020)
Publications
Vogue India July-August, Interview with Erin Parsons 2025 – physical (2025)
Reckless Magazine – Online (2023)
LA Weekly – Online (2023)
Fashion Week Daily – Online (2023)
View Camera Australia – Online (2018)
Vintage Life Magazine – Physical (2016)