About

Ayman Kaake is a Lebanon-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based photo-media artist working across photography, video, and installation. His practice explores diasporic identity, memory, and queer experience through staged, cinematic imagery that blurs reality and fiction. Drawing on personal and political histories, his work reflects on displacement, belonging, and the intersections of religion and power.

Awards

2025 Finalist at the National Photographic Portrait Prize
2025 Honourable Mention, Olive Cotton Award
2024 Honourable Mention, Bowness Prize 2022
2023 Finalist at the National Photographic Portrait Prize
2023 Finalist at Nillumbik Prize Contemporary Art
2022 Finalist at Vantage Point Sharjah 10 in Dubai
2022 Finalist at Bowness Prize
2022 Finalist at Incinirator art Award
2022 Finalist at the National Photographic Portrait Prize
2022 Winner of Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award
2022 Winner of Best Self-Portrait RMIT at CCP Salon
2022 Winner of Best Video Work ACMI at CCp Salon
2022 Winner of Small Work Art Prize (Solo Exhibition) at Brunswick street Gallery
2021 High Commendation at the 5th Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award
2021 Finalist at Wyndham Art Prize.
2020 Art Residency at Collingwood yards - Room to Create Program
2020 Finalist at the Islamic Museu of Australia-AMA2020
2020 Finalist at Morland Summer Show
2019 winner of RMIT excellence in staged photography at CCP Salon.
2019 Commended, The Mono Awards
2018 Top 20 in the art category for Australian top emerging photographers.
2018 Winner of Emerging Artist Award at Fortyfive Downstairs.
2018 People’s Choice Award at Company Of Men exhibition.
2017 Finalist at the Athens Photo Festival.
2017 Photography award at “Provocare”.
2016 Winner of Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery.

Solo Shows

2025 'rūḥ al-rūḥ – jan-e janān' , West Space
2025 'Misbaha| The Prayer Beads|مسبحة', Counihan Gallery
2024 Feature Artist at PHOTO24
2024 'In Their Names', Eltham Library Community Gallery
2023 '99 Names', EDGE GALLERIES, Maldon
2023 '99 Names' represented by Midsumma Festival, Brunswick Street Gallery.
2023 'Exulansis', Monash Gallery of Art.
2019 'Hommage' a show in collaboration with Anna Kiparis, Off The Kerb.