EDUCATION
MFA, Visual Art, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2013-2015
BFA, Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, USA, 2004-2008
International Exchange, Parsons Paris School of Design, Paris, France, 2006
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
The Great Kind Mystery, Sunbury Shores, St. Andrews, NB, Canada, curated by Caroline Walker, 2024
The Great Kind Mystery, Tina Dolter Gallery - Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL, Canada, curated by Samantha Osmond, 2023-24
Procession of Ghosts, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada, curated by Simone Rojas-Pick, 2023
Cold Comfort, SPAO Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada, curated by Jonathan Hobin, 2023
The Dissolving Landscape, Pictura Gallery at the Far Center for Contemporary Arts, Bloomington, IN, USA, curated by Lisa Woodward and Mia Dalglish, 2022-23
Dreams of a Northern Outpost, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada, curated by Simone Rojas-Pick, 2022
En Verden i Søgen efter Balance / A World in Search of Balance, two-person exhibition with Jesper Dalgaard, Hanstholm Art Space at the North Atlantic Lighthouse, Hanstholm, Denmark, curated by Signe Højmark, 2020
The Dissolving Landscape, Galérie AVE, Montréal, QC, Canada, curated by André Masson and Alexandre Hurtubise, 2017
Dubious Cosmology, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2015
Geotrope, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC, Canada, curated by Lorna McParland, 2014
Sightings, Viewpoint Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada, 2012
Snæland: Photographs From Iceland, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA, curated by Ann Pallesen, 2011
Night Vision, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Canning, NS, Canada, 2010
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Geohaptics: Sensing Climate, 516 Arts, Albuquerque NM, USA, curated by Daniela Naomi Molnar, 2024
Circular Solutions, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, USA, curated by Mary Anne Redding, 2023
This We Have Now, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, USA, with Adriene Hughes and Cannupa Hanska Luger, curated by Hamidah Glasgow, 2021
Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change, Virtual Exhibition presented by Strange Fire Collective, curated by InHae Yap, Keavy Handley-Byrne, Jon Feinstein, & Roula Seikaly, 2021
Exposure Photography Festival International Open Call, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, curated by MaryAnn Camilleri, 2021
Rebel Lens, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada, curated by Simone Rojas-Pick for Contact Photography Festival, 2020
Exposed 2019, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, Canada, juried by Laurence Butet-Roch, Jayne Wilkinson and Natalie Spagnol, 2019
The Handmade Photograph: Contemporary Photographers Working in Historical Processes, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM, USA, curated by Christopher James, 2019
Northern Tendencies, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada, juried by Frances Patella, Joseph Muscat, Lisa Johnson and Gwen Tooth, 2018
The Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Orillia, ON, Canada, juried by Ted Fullerton and Emily McKibbon, 2018
Fragile Latitudes, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA, curated by Mary Neubauer, 2018
Nes Alumni Exhibition, Deiglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland, curated by Vicki O’Shea and Kerryn McMurdo, 2018
Faux Éveil / False Awakening, Galérie AVE, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2017
Analog v. Digital, Foley Gallery, New York, NY, USA, curated by Michael Foley, 2017
SHOW.17, Idea Exchange, Cambridge, ON, Canada, curated by Iga Janik, 2017
Space Within, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada, curated by Raquel Vilhena for Contact Photography Festival, 2017
Land-Shape, Hanstholm, Denmark, juried by Ben Tufnell, Wolfgang Buntrock, Charlotte Bagger Brandt, Trine Rytter Andersen and Stefan Darlan Boris, 2015
Encounters, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON, Canada, curated by Vanessa Fleet & Megan Toye, 2015
as (it) is, Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2014
Future is Now!, Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2014
Untapped Emerging Artists Competition, The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, Better Living Centre Exhibition Place, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2014
Proem, Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2013
Welcome Back Ye Annunaki!, Open Space Artist Run Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada, curated by Noxious Sector (Ted Hiebert, Doug Jarvis and Jackson 2bears), 2012
Opi∂ Hús, Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, 2010
Paradise Lost, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Terrance Lindall, 2008
Parsons BFA Photography Senior Exhibition, Calumet Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2008
SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS
Crushed Between Ocean and Sky, International Film Screening AT THE FRINGE, Tranås, Sweden, 2024
Crushed Between Ocean and Sky, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, YK, Canada, 2024
The Great Kind Mystery, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2023
The Great Kind Mystery, Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2023
The Great Kind Mystery, VideoEx Festival, Zürich, Switzerland, 2023
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun, International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2023
The Great Kind Mystery, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, YK, Canada, 2023
Kajanaqtuq, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023
The Great Kind Mystery, Cinema on the Bayou, Lafayette, LA, USA, 2023
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun, 16mm Film Festival, Harkat Studios, Mumbai, India, 2022
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun, Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022
Kajanaqtuq, Short Circuit Film Festival, Brighton, UK, 2022
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun, ANALOGICA 11, Bolzano, Italy, 2021
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun, VASTLAB Experimental, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2021
Kajanaqtuq, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 2021
Late Winter (For the Left Hand), COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2021
Kajanaqtuq, Annual Copenhagen Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun, International Film Screening AT THE FRINGE, Tranås, Sweden, 2021
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun, Antimatter Media Art Festival, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada, curated by Deborah de Boer, 2021
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, WA, USA, 2021
Kajanaqtuq, Honourable Mention, Deep Focus Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2021
Deepest Darkness Flaming Sun, Bideodromo International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain, 2021
Kajanaqtuq, Future of Film Showcase on CBC Gem, Toronto, ON, 2021
Deepest Darkness Flaming Sun, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, 2021
Deepest Darkness Flaming Sun, Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival, Boston, MA, USA, 2021
Kajanaqtuq, Arctic Film Festival, Kulturhuset, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, 2021
Kajanaqtuq, Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra, Australia, 2021
Kajanaqtuq, Kinoskop International Festival of Analog Experimental Cinema, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Aleksandra Dalichow, 2020
Kajanaqtuq, Antimatter Media Art Festival, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada, curated by Deborah de Boer, 2020
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS & COMMISSIONS
The Dissolving Landscape – Local Scenes with Mordançage, Commission for the Lighthouse East Tower with Artscape Atelier, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020
Meteor Shower, Public Art Installation – Land-Shape, Hjallerup, Denmark, 2016
Somewhere Strange, Window Display – Roadside Attractions, We See Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, curated by Roy Kohn and Kate Vasyliw, 2016
Fortune, Mural – The Crying Room Projects, Vancouver, BC, Canada, curated by Colleen Heslin, 2012
You Are Here, Independent Project – Nocturne: Art at Night, Halifax, NS, Canada, 2011
GRANTS & AWARDS
Chalmers Arts Fellowship, Ontario Arts Council, 2023
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant, 2023
Ontario Arts Council Media Arts Creation Projects Grant, 2023
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant, 2023
Canada Council for the Arts Residency Grant, 2023
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2022
Post-Production Support Grant, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, 2022
Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Professional Development Grant, 2021
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant, 2021
Ontario Arts Council Media Arts Creation Project Grant, 2021
Canada Council for the Arts Professional Development Grant, 2021
Environmental Award, CENTER Awards, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2021
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2021
Filmmaker Assistance Program Grant, National Film Board of Canada, 2020
Community Choice Award & RBC Sponsor Choice, Exposed Auction, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, Canada, 2019
Toronto Artscape Foundation Launchpad Bursary, 2019
Shortlist, Hariban Award, Benrido Atelier, Kyoto, Japan, 2019
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant, 2019
Finalist, Penumbra Foundation Workspace Program, New York, NY, USA, 2019
Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Creation Project Grant, 2018
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2017
Ontario Arts Council National and International Residency Grant, 2016
Shortlist, Jeux de la Francophonie, Canada Council for the Arts, 2016
Artscape Lofts at PACE Live/Work Apartment Recipient, 2015
SSHRC Award, Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship, 2014
British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship Award, 2013
York University Graduate Scholarship, 2013
Print Sponsorship Program, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA, 2010
Cyril and Mary Paris Scholarship, The Banff Centre, 2008
Parsons BFA Dean’s Scholarship, 2004-2008
RESIDENCIES
La Wayaka Current - Desert Residency, Atacama, Chile, 2024
The Arctic Circle Alumni Expedition, Svalbard, Norway, 2024
Tjørnuvík Artist Residency, Tjørnuvík, Faroe Islands, 2023
Union House Arts, Port Union, NL, Canada, 2022
Hanstholm Art Space at the North Atlantic Lighthouse, Hanstholm, Denmark, 2020
The Jennifer Keefe Studio, Tilting, Fogo Island, NL, Canada, 2018
Silence, Awareness, Existence, Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland, 2018
The Arctic Circle, Svalbard, Norway, 2016
Full Tilt Creative Centre, McIvers, NL, Canada, 2012
Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Canning, NS, Canada, 2010
Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, 2010
Cosmic Ray Thematic Residency, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada, 2008
ARTIST TALKS
Fragility and Volatility: Experimental Processes in Extreme Landscapes with Dale Rio, Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona, Spain, 2024
Climate Concerns Panel Discussion, Turchin Center for Visual Arts, Boone, NC, USA, 2023
Climate Crisis and Non-Human Photography Panel Discussion, Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
It’s Alive!!! Analogue Film Thriving in the Digital Age Panel Discussion, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, YK, Canada, 2023
Lux et Libera: Women at the Intersection of Light and Chemistry Panel Discussion, Auckland Photography Festival, Auckland, New Zealand, 2022
School of Photographic Arts Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2022
Visions of Place, Center Awards Presentation, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2021
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, USA, 2021
In Conversation with Ella Morton, Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary, AB, Canada, 2021
Hanstholm Art Space, Hanstholm, Denmark, 2020
Meteor Shower Inauguration, Dronninglund Hovedgård, Dronninglund, Denmark, 2016
Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC, Canada, 2014
Science World Winter Speakers Series, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2013
Viewpoint Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada, 2012
Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Canning, NS, Canada, 2010
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Jenny Sampson, “13 Wet Plate Collodion Photographers You Need to Know in 2024,” Analog Forever Magazine, April 2024.
Corinna Vangerwen, “Ella Morton: Northern Curiosity,” PhotoEd Magazine, Fall 2023.
Amy Elizabeth, “16 Experimental Film Soup Photographers You Need to Know in 2023!” Analog Forever Magazine, July 2023.
Alasdair Foster, “Ella Morton: A Fragile Sublime,” Talking Pictures (Australia), July 2023.
Galina Kurlat, “Ella Morton: The Dissolving Landscape,” Lenscratch, 22 Sept, 2022.
Jessica Parry, “Ella Morton: The Dissolving Landscape,” Foto Femme United, 24 May, 2022.
Elisa Parrino, “Climate Crises and Analogue Photography: Awareness Through Film,” Lomography Magazine, 22 April, 2022.
Catie Dull, “These otherworldly photos convey climate change's effects on Arctic regions,” NPR Picture Show, 3 Nov, 2021.
Nilofer Khan, “A World Without Us,” Better Photography Magazine (India), 14 Sept, 2021.
Michael Kirchoff, “Interview: Ella Morton - ‘The Dissolving Landscape,’” Analog Forever Magazine, 13 July, 2021.
Dale Rio, Artist feature, “Ella Morton,” Point A to Point B: Analog Explorations, Summer 2021.
InHae Yap, “The Distancing Effect,” Strange Fire Collective, 15 July, 2021.
“‘Kajanaqtuq’ shows life and land in Nunavut on Super 8MM film,” She Does the City (Toronto), 8 July, 2021.
Sam Laskaris, “Make sure you’re wearing a hat when the Northern Lights appear, cautions Inuk Elder in film,” Toronto Star, 7 July, 2021.
Elizabeth Wayne, “The Center Awards: Environmental Award Winner: Ella Morton,” Lenscratch, 23 June, 2021.
Image Feature, “Poetry,” Shutter Hub Editions (United Kingdom), Summer 2021.
Aileen Wessely, “Im Gespräch mit Ella Morton / In Conversation with Ella Morton,” Kwerfeldein (Germany), 28 May, 2021.
Daniel Milroy-Maher, “Calgary’s Exposure Photography Festival celebrates emerging Canadian talent in its 17th edition,” British Journal of Photography, 5 Feb. 2021.
Easton Plourde & Tania Kaaz, Artist feature, “Ella Morton: Visual Artist,” AlterAnalog Magazine Vol. 2, 2018.
Phil Treagus, “Ella Morton: The Physical Experience of Turning Pages,” The Reading Lists, 3 Mar. 2017.
Image feature, Der Greif Magazine (Augsburg, Germany) Issue 8, Apr. 2015.
Jude Campbell, “Road Trip Inspired Geotrope Exhibit,” The Daily Courier (Kelowna, BC), 9 Feb. 2014.
Mat Wilush, “Sightings in the Dark,” Dalhousie Gazette (Halifax, NS), 28 Sept. 2012.
Stephanie Johns, “UFO yes,” The Coast (Halifax, NS), 6 Sept. 2012, p. 27.
Wendy Elliot, “Light and Life Along the Shore,” Kings County Advertiser (Kentville, NS) 21 Dec. 2010, p. 22.
COLLECTIONS
Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, Barrie, ON, Canada
Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA
Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Private collections across Canada, the US, the UK, the Netherlands, France and Denmark