Atong Atem

MARS Gallery Christmas Online Exhibition 2024

Light Now brings together four contemporary artists who are wielding light to reconfigure how we navigate space and the constructed world, featuring light works by Meagan Streader, Diego Ramirez, Jason...

MARS is delighted to announce our exciting pop-up exhibition at Miss Midgley’s in Brisbane from 17-20 July 2024, bringing MARS’s finest plus a local art hero, Hannah Bronte, to the...

MARS is delighted to announce a pop-up exhibition with Hill Smith Art Advisory at Immersive Light and Art (ILA) in Adelaide, South Australia from 17-21 April 2024. The opening event...

Ritual and Birth: Atong Atem Atong Atem is an internationally acclaimed South Sudanese artist based in Melbourne (Naarm), who has conquered the world with her vibrant and intimate photography exploring...

Atong Atem is an Ethiopian born, South Sudanese artist and writer based in Narrm/Melbourne. She works primarily with photography and video to explore migrant narratives, postcolonial practices in the African...

Commissioned by Photo Australia for PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography, Surat (which translates from Sudanese Arabic as ‘snapshots’) is an homage to family photos and the characters that make...

Commissioned by RISING Festival 2021, Atong Atem's first video work, Banksia, explores the lesser-known history of Australia’s first African settlers. The video - accompanied by an arresting score...

As part of PHOTO 2020 International Festival of Photography, award-winning artist Atong Atem created a new series of large-scale photographic works for the Immigration Museum. In these bold, dynamic portraits,...