CLIENTS
Volvo, Samsung, Pandora, Budweiser, Billabong Womens, Liberated Brands, Village Roadshow, Warner Bros Movie World, ACP Magazines, Topgolf, Saatchi Art, Hospitality Art Advisory, Hewlett Packard (HP), Polaroid, Valley Eyewear, Anti-Order, Culture Kings, Universal Store, Silk Laundry, Witchery, Z Supply, Grab Denim, Oscar Oscar, Lisa Brown, Mimosa, Phyllis Boho, Boom Shankar, Cubic Collective, MySpace, Huawei, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Danvas, Future Athletics, Princess Luxury Yachts.
PUBLISHED
Harper's Bazaar, W magazine, Cosmopolitan, Black Magazine, Oyster, Carbon Copy, Fucking Young!, Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th century, Bloomsbury Publishing, NOI.SE Magazine, HIGHLIGHTS Magazine, AND MEN Magazine, Fashion Journal, French Photo,, Academy for Men, Yen Magazine, Frankie Magazine, UCE Mag, Laud Magazine, Vulture Magazine, Nordic Style Magazine, Australian Art Review, Art World, Lino Magazine, Clay Mag.
AWARDS
International Photography Awards, International Color Awards, International Spider Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, Moran Contemporary Art Prize, New York Photo Festival, Saatchi & Saatchi, Premiere Selection French Photo, Queensland Arts Council, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Thiess Art Prize, Photography Served, Behance, The Annual, Capture Magazine, ACMP.
BIO
Thor Elias Engelstad is a Norwegian born Australia based visual artist, known for his innovative and recognisable characteristic style combination of fashion and fine art photography. Some of his fashion and advertising clients include Pandora, Valley Eyewear, Volvo, Hewlett Packard, Samsung, Billabong Womens, Village Roadshow, Warner Bros, The Anti-Order, Culture Kings, Oscar Oscar, Mimosa, Universal Store, Stockland, Brookfield Multiplex, Robina Group, Lisa Brown, Witchery, Boom Shankar, Gold Coast Tourism Corporation, National Breast Cancer Foundation and Princess Luxury Yachts.
His work has been featured in publications such as a Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th century, Harper’s Bazaar, W magazine, Cosmopolitan, Oyster, NOI.SE Mag, Vulture Magazine, Carbon Copy, Black Magazine, Laud Magazine, Fucking Young!, Fashion Journal, Frankie Magazine, Yen, AND MEN Magazine, HIGHLIGHTS Magazine, UCE Magazine, Lino, Art World, Australian Art Review, Academy for Men, Cleo, and French Photo.
He also has been the recipient of international awards such as the Gold Award in the fashion category in the Tokyo International Foto Awards, International photography Awards, International Color Awards, The International Black and White Spider Awards, and The Centre for Fine Art Photography in the USA.
He is also involved in many diverse art projects and commissions. Thor Elias has had several solo exhibitions, as well as being represented in many group shows worldwide in New York, LA, Paris, London, Oslo, Sydney, Tokyo, Dubai and Hong Kong.
When not shooting for clients Thor Elias travels the continents adding to his varied influences and inspirations, balancing his personal photo media projects and visual experimentation work
EXHIBITIONS
2023 NFT.NYC, Artist Village, New York, USA.
2023 Billboard Art Exhibition, Art Innovation, Art Basel, Hong Kong.
2022 Floating Pixels, Art Innovation exhibition, Art Basel, Miami, USA.
2022 2022 NFT, Contemporary and Digital Art, Times Square, New York, USA.
2022 Danvas, West Coast launch, Hollywood Hills, LA, USA.
2022 NFT.NYC, Times Square, New York, USA.
2022 NFT Liverpool, Adelia Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
2022 Digital Futures exhibition, Portion Museum, Decentraland.
2021 NFT Multiverse Art Show, Blockchain Economy, World Expo 2020, Dubai.
2020 MvVO AD ART SHOW, World Trade Centre, New York, USA.
2019 Tokyo International Foto Awards yearly exhibition, Gold Award in the Professional Fashion Category, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 Dali Land, ‘Unconscious Contemporary’, selected artists exhibited alongside Salvador Dali’s exhibition at Metro City, Perth, Aus.
2015 Windows to the Sacred, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic, Australia.
2014 Art Takes Times Square Exhibition, New York City, USA.
2014 Windows to the Sacred, Devonport Gallery, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.
2013 Windows to the Sacred, an exploration of the exoteric, National Trust S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2013 The Story of the Creative, International Exhibition, See Me, NY, USA.
2012/13 Vente De Photographies D’Art, Sakura Gallery, Paris, France.
2012 Capturing Light | New Mediums in photography, part of the Queensland Festival of Photography, Byron Bay, Aus.
2010/11 Moran Contemporary Photographic Art Prize, State Library, Sydney, Australian touring exhibition.
2010 New York Photo Festival, Human Kind Exhibition, The PowerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
2010 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne, Australia.
2010 Art Sydney 2010, Hall of Industries, Sydney, Australia.
2009 30x40, A Snapshot of Contemporary Australian art, United Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
2008 Hip Pop, Showcasing 4 hip and 4 pop artists, United Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
2008 Tales from the Cold Ghost II, Tinygold, 19 Karen Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia.
2008 Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK.
2008 Unwrapped 08, Australia’s Premier Showcase of Emerging Art, United Galleries, Perth, Australia.
2008 A Hundred Nations, multicultural festival, Sandefjord, Norway.
2008/09 Moran Contemporary Photographic Art Prize.
2008, State Library, Sydney, Australian touring exhibition.
2007 Unwrapped 07, Australia’s Premier Showcase of Emerging Art, United Galleries, Perth, Australia. 2007 Projections 07, Federation square, Melbourne, Australia.
2007 Projections 07, Saatchi gallery Sydney, Australia.
2006 Juvenarte, Galleri Fimbul, Oslo, Norway.
2006 On The Edge, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA.
2006 Project 30, June Exhibition, New York, USA.
2006 Queensland Open Photographer of the Year Awards, Brisbane, Australia.
2006 Project 30, May Exhibition, New York, USA.
2006 ACMP Trampoline 06 finalist, emerging photo media artist’s, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, Aus.
2006 ScanArt 06, Scandinavian art exhibition, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2005 Allure, Logan Art Gallery, exhibition with William Yang: Selected Photographs, Qld. Australia.
2005 Thiess Art Prize finalists, Dell Gallery, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia
2005 Resolution, graduating photography exhibition, QCA White Box Gallery, Brisbane, Aus.
2005 ScanArt, Scandinavian art exhibition (Juvenarte), Tap Gallery, Sydney, Aus.
2004 Colourbox ‘This way up’ emerging artist’s exhibition, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Aus.