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Finn O’Hara
b. London, UK
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada
Education
Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec
Bachelor’s degree in English Literature, 1996
Selected Exhibitions (*indicates solo)
2026 Southern Lights, Smokestack Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario*
2025 FRESH Photo Award 2025, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2025 Southern Lights, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Ontario*
2025 Salon 44 (Group Show), Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario
2024 Band on the Run, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Ontario*
2018 Giving Context, Winsor Art Projects, Vancouver, British Columbia
2017 Giving Context, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2017 Size Matters, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
2013 About Face (Group Show), Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Toronto
2009 Peep Show (Group Show), O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario
2006, 2007 Flash Forward (Group Show), Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Awards
2025 FRESH Photo Award, Finalist, Klompching Gallery, 'Southern Lights'
2025 Rhonda Wilson Award, Shortlist, 'Southern Lights'
2025 American Photography 41, Selected Winner, ‘Through the Virginia Creeper’
2025 Passepartout Photo Prize, First Place, ‘Birds of Prey’
2024 International Photography Awards, Selected Winner, Summer Sports, ‘Maggie Mac Neil’
2024 American Photography 40, Selected Winner, ‘Bird in Hand’
2023 International Photography Awards, Sports Photographer of the Year, ‘Mikaël Kingsbury’
2014 Applied Arts Award, ‘Giving Context’
2013 Cannes International Festival of Creativity, Silver Lion, ‘Budweiser Red Lights’
2013 Awards of Excellence, Society for News Design, ‘Confessions of an Unrepentant Smoker’
2008 Applied Arts Award, ‘The Hillcrest Motel’ and ‘A Moment Before’
2008 Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucida, ‘A Moment Before’
2008 Merit Award for Portrait Photography, ADCC - Directions, ‘Growing up in Cambridge Bay’
2006, 2007 Emerging Photographer Award, The Magenta Foundation
Selected Publications
2025 FRESH Photo Award (Catalogue), Klompching Gallery, USA
2025 ARRAY 3 (Book), Booooooom, USA
2025 AP 41 (Book), American Photography, USA
2024 The Colour Issue (Magazine), photoED Magazine, Canada
2024 APA Awards (Book), American Photographic Artists, USA
2023 AP 39 (Book), American Photography, USA
2017 Size Matters (Book), McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Canada
2015 Giving Context (Book), Steve Driscoll, Canada
2014 Flash Forward Tenth (Book), The Magenta Foundation, Canada
2009 10x10_3: 100 Architects 10 Critics (Book), Phaidon, UK
2009 The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture (Book), Phaidon, UK
2007 Flash Forward (Book), The Magenta Foundation, Canada
2006 Flash Forward (Book), The Magenta Foundation, Canada
2005 A Book Designed to Help (Book), Die Gestalen Verlag, Germany
Interviews & Reviews
2025 Gillian Deacon, Interview, ‘Q with Tom Power’, CBC, Toronto, ON, May 19
2025 Craig D’Arville, Interview, ‘Instagram Live’, ACT, Toronto, ON, Jan 30
2024 Craig D’Arville, Interview, ‘Conduits in Colour’, photoED, Toronto, ON, Sept 12
2024 Heather Rose, Interview, WROE Radio, Roanoke, Virginia, July 29
2024 Rashana Youtzy, Review, ‘Band on the Run’, ARTORONTO.CA, Toronto, ON, May 6
2017 Simon Termine, Review, ‘Size Matters’, ARTORONTO.CA, Toronto, ON, May 16
2017 Sarah Stanners, Interview, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg, ON, Apr 30
Collections
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Scotiabank Fine Art Collection
Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro
Works held in numerous private collections in Canada, the United States, England, and Brazil.