ERNESTO SUMARKHO

PROJECTS
These Dreams Are Not Only Mine
Eternal Faces
The Chorus of a Million Souls
Encapuchados
Biophilia

Info

A self taught photographer and art director, Ernesto Sumarkho was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to a Venezuelan mother and Indonesian father. He is now based in Australia where he started his career in commercial art direction taking up photography as an art practice later in life.
His photographic work uses the medium as a tool to study the liminal space between reality and fiction. Allowing him to explore within it themes of identity, culture, nature and the subconcious with multiple layers of meaning.
At the core of his practice lies a deep fascination with the human experience and how identity, memory and mythology intertwine in the we images we create and stories we tell.

EXHIBITIONS 2025 Kara Art, India
2025 National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina
2024 Lone Goat Gallery, Australia
2022 Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Italy
2021 Salerno Gallery, Australia

AWARDS2025 Finalist, Sarajevo Photography Festival
2024 Finalist, Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards
2024 Finalist, HeadOn Photo Festival
2024 Finalist, Independent Photographer Award
2023 Liquida Grant One Shot, Liquida Photofestival
2021 Finalist, Indian Photo Festival

PRESSUrth, Another Magazine, Byron Bay Arts Magazine, Northern River Creative, Fubiz, Collateral Magazine, Iconic Artist and Noice Magazine.