“Driven by an overriding desire to explore photography in its many permutations, Ritterman is easeful in shifting between reportage through to abstraction, from the meaning inherent in the image to the meaning inherent in the photograph as object.”
Naomi Cass, Director, Centre for Contemporary Photography 2012
Hedy Ritterman has academic achievements in psychology, design, photography and fine arts and has integrated these with her life experiences to create meaningful artworks that address the human condition in today’s world. Most recently she exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne, and won the prestigious Human Justice Award in the 63rd Blake Prize with a powerful photographic portrait of a Holocaust survivor taken just a few weeks before his death. Her photographic works have been shortlisted in numerous prizes such as the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize (Ltd), Olive Cotton Award (NSW), National Photographic Purchase Award (NSW) and she won the 2003 Linden Postcard Award (VIC) and the 2005 Still Life Award at the Kodak Photographic Salon (VIC).
AWARDS
2016 Finalist DUO Magasine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize
2014 Awarded MUA Blake Prize for Human Justice
2013 Finalist Blake Prize, Director's Cut
2012 Finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize
2011 Finalist Olive Cotton Award
2010 Finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize
2009 Finalist The 58th Blake Prize
2009 Finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize
2006 Finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize
2005 Finalist National Photographic Purchase Award
2005 Awarded Still Life Prize, Kodak Photographic Salon
2003 Awarded First Prize, Linden Gallery Postcard Show
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2016 …and one man in his time,Jewish Museum of Australia,St Kilda Vic
2015 …and one man in his time …..HedsPace Projects, South Yarra Vic
2012 To Know A Veil, Colour Factory Gallery, Fitzroy VIC
2011 Preservation, Focus Gallery, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill VIC
2009 Guarded II, Obscura Gallery, 285 Carlisle Street East St.Kilda VIC
2008 Guarded, Chapman & Bailey Gallery, 350 Johnston Street Abbotsford VIC
2004 Sometimes, Foyer Gallery ANZ Towers, 55 Collins Street Melbourne VIC
2004 Sometimes, Royal Melbourne Hospital Gallery, Parkville VIC
GRoUP
EXHIBITIONS
2016 Percival Photographic Portrait Exibition, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville QLD
2016 We Are Here curated Dr Helen Light, City of Glen Eira Gallery Elsternwick, Vic
2015 Contemporary Australian Drawings #5;Facsimilies, Saci Institute, Florence, Italy
2014 63rd Blake Prize, UNSW Gallery, Sydney
2014 'Location' - Crossing the Line 2, Drawing in the Middle East - Jam Jar Gallery, Dubai
2013 Enigma, Artman Gallery, Glenhuntly Road,Caulfield Vic
2013 Blake Prize, Directors Cut, Online Exhibition.
2012 Out of the dark, the emotional legacy of the Holocaust, Migration Museum, Adelaide
2012 Josephine Ulrick Win Schubert Photography Prize, GCCAG QLD
2011 Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW
2010 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize, GCCAG QLD
2009 Out of the dark, Cunningham Dax Collection, Parkville VIC
2009 The 58th Blake Prize Exhibition, National Art School Gallery NSW
2009 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize, GCCAG QLD
2006 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Prize, GCCAG QLD
2005 National Photographic Purchase Award, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury VIC
2005 Kodak Photographic Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography Collingwood VIC
2005 Foreward, Backward, Forward, Graduate Show, Monash University, Caulfield VIC
2004 Two points in time, Smyrnios Gallery, Prahran VIC
2003 Linden Gallery Postcard Show, Linden Gallery St Kilda VIC
2001 Circles of Confusion, Photographers’ Gallery, South Yarra VIC
2000 Boxed In, Playbox Theatre CUB Malthouse, South Melbourne VIC
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education
1974 Bachelor of Science (Honours) Psychology, Monash University
1978-81 Interior Design, RMIT, Melbourne
2000 Diploma of Photography, Photographic Imaging College, Hawthorn
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Photomedia, Monash University
RESIDENCY
2006 Three month, La Ribera Studio, Barcelona, Spain