Dawit L. Petros

Recent exhibitions include: From the Edge of the Horizon, Part I & Part 2, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (solo - 2025); Recent Works, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada (solo - 2025); A World in Common, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany (group - 2025); Prospetto a Mare, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL, USA (solo - 2024); As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, Saatchi Gallery, London (group - 2024); Inner Spirits and Outer Landscapes, Hangar Artistic Research Center, Lisbon, Portugal (group - 2024); A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK (group - 2024); Trace: Formations of Likeness, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (group - 2023); As We Rise, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA, USA  (group - 2023); Africa Supernova, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (group - 2023); Ozangé, Spanish Biennial of African Photography, Malaga, Spain, (group - 2022); Spazio Disponible, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal (solo - 2022); Realistic Utopias, KØS Museum for Art in Public Space, Nørregade in Køge, Denmark (group - 2022); 1,000 Miles Per Hour, Beeler Gallery, Columbus OH, USA (group - 2022); Spazio Disponible, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada (solo - 2021); Prospetto a Mare, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada (solo - 2021); Gaps, holes, fissures, and frictions, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada (solo - 2021); To the Edge of Time, KU Leuven, Belgium (group - 2021); A Recurrrence of Forms, Space 204 Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA (solo - 2020); Spazio Disponibile, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York NY, USA (solo - 2020); Spazio Disponible, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (solo - 2020); Here We Are, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (group - 2018); Nowhere Is A Place, Rencontres de Bamako, Bamako Biennale, Bamako, Mali  (group - 2017); Prospect.4 The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA, USA (group - 2017); Recent Histories, Walther Collection Project Space, New York (group - 2016); Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands (grup - 2016); The Stranger’s Notebook, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO, USA  (2016); The View From Here, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (group - 2016); 56th Venice Biennale international exhibition, Venice, Italy (2015); Under Another Name, the Studio Museum in Harlem NY, USA  (group - 2014); Sense of Place, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, USA (group - 2013); Earth Matters: The Land As Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, The National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, USA (group - 2013); Mimesis, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China (group - 2011).

Very Recently, this year 2025,  he won the 15th annual Scotiabank Photography Award, recognizing his exceptional contributions to contemporary art. He was awarded an Independent Study Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2012. In 2021 he received the title of Museum of Contemporary Photography Terra Foundation for American Art Fellow and the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography.