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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
2025  Fotonostrum - Satellite exhibition alongside BOWIE X SUKITA - Fotonostrum Mediterranean House Of Photography - Barcelona - SPAIN​​ - MAY 29 - 08 JUN
2024/2025 MAPh - Museum of Australian Photography Sonia Payes - Renaissance: A Journey of Transformation  - VIC - AUS

2025 Frankston City Council - Public Art - Mornington Peninsula - VIC - AUS

2025 8th Biennial Fine Art & Photography - FotoNostrum - Barcelona - SPAIN​​ - 03 APR  - 14 MAY

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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2025 Sorrento Art Prize SAP25 - & Gallery - Sorrento - VIC - AUS -  28 JUN - 31 AUG
2025 The 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers -  Fotonostrum - Barcelona - SPAIN - 19 JUN - 03 JUL

2025 The 25th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers -  Fotonostrum - Barcelona - SPAIN - 04 DEC - 18 DEC

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SELECTED RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 SONIA PAYES  Alchemy 2.0 - Fotonostrum - Barcelona - SPAIN

2024 SONIA PAYES - Alchemy - Ocean Drive Hotel -  Barcelona - SPAIN

2024 SONIA PAYES - Alchemy - SOHO Galleries - Sydney - NSW - AUS
2023 Scott Livesey Galleries - ALCHEMY - Prahran - VIC - AUS

2022 Transmutations 2022 - Assembly Point - Creative Spaces City Of Melbourne  - VIC - AUS

2022 There-is - Fringe World Festival - Northbridge - WA - AUS

2017 Scott Livesey Galleries - Emergence -  VIC - AUS

2016 McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park - Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Gallery & The French Gallery - Parallel Futures - VIC - AUS

2016 Art16 London - Fehily Contemporary - UK

SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Venice Art Bienniale - Personal Structures | Beyond Boundaries - Monument (ARTPark Sculpture Walks) - Marinaressa Gardens - Venice - ITALY

2024 Photo2024 International Festival of Photography - Sonia Payes - Renaissance: A Journey of Transformation - Museum of Australian Photography MAPh - VIC - AUS

 2024 IbizArt Guide Annual Collective Exhibition - Centro Cultural de Jesús - IBIZA - SPAIN

2024 Woolloomooloo Sculpture Walk - ARTPark Australia -  NSW - AUS
2023 The World of Photography -  Fotonostrum - Barcelona - CAT - SPAIN
 2023 Summer Exhibition - Scott Livesey Galleries - Melbourne - AUS 

2023 IbizArt Guide Annual Collective Exhibition - Centro Cultural de Jesús - IBIZA - SPAIN 

2023 The Blue Period - One Star Gallery - West Melbourne - VIC - AUS 

2023 Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2023 - Campbelltown Arts Centre - Campbelltown - NSW - AUS

2023 Das Kapital - Cecil Place Precinct - Prahran  - VIC - AUS

2023 Bowness Photography Prize - Museum of Australian Photography - VIC - AUS
2023 Meridian Foundry 50th Exhibition - Fitzroy - VIC - AUS

2023 SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023 - Currumbin - QLD - AUS
2023 Arts in the Valley - Kangaroo Valley - NSW - AUS
2023 Olive Cotton Award - Tweed Regional Gallery - NSW - AUS

2023 SONIA PAYES  - Fotonostrum - Barcelona - CAT - SPAIN
2023 The 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award -  Fotonostrum - Barcelona - CAT - SPAIN

2022 3rd BARCELONA FOTO BIENNALE - Fotonostrum Mediterranean House Of Photography - Barcelona - CAT - SPAIN

2022 Montalto Sculpture Prize - Mornington Peninsula - VIC -AUS

2022 Fotonostrum - ALCHEMY coinciding with HELMUT NEWTON PRIVATE PROPERTY

Fotonostrum Mediterranean House Of Photography - Barcelona - CAT - SPAIN​​

2022 Linden Postcard Show 2022-23 - ST KILDA - VIC - AUS

2022 BIG Sculpture St Kilda - Veg Out - ST KILDA - VIC - AUS

2022 PCP Collective 2022: 30th Anniversary Edition - Perth Centre For Photography - PERTH - AUS

2022 Sculpture By The Sea & Sculpture Inside - BONDI - NSW - AUS

2022 Bowness Photography Prize - Museum of Australian Photography, MAPh - VIC - AUS

2022 Sculptures In The Garden - Mudgee - NSW - AUS
2022 Sculpture In The Vineyards - Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival - NSW - AUS

2022 Mandorla Art Award - Holmes à Court Gallery - WEST PERTH - AUS

2022 Tom Bass Prize For Figurative Sculpture - Juniper Hall - SYD - AUS

2022 Sculpture By The Sea & Sculpture Inside - Cottesloe - WA - AUS 
2022 6th Biennial Fine Art & Photography - FotoNostrum - BCN - SPAIN​​  
2021 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award - VIC - AUS 
2021 Victoria Sculpture Exhibition - Gippsland - VIC - AUS 

2021 Scott Livesey Galleries - Twenty One - Gallery Artists  - VIC - AUS

2021 Museum of Australian Photography, MAPh - STAGES: life in lockdown - VIC - AUS

2021 I AM HERE – Arthouse Gallery - NSW - AUS

2021 Mandorla Art Prize – Stala Contemporary - WA - AUS

2021 Sculpture By The Sea - Cottesloe - WA - AUS
2021 notfair project space – Windsor -VIC - AUS

2021 Southeast Museum of Photography - FLORIDA - USA​

2021 Montalto Sculpture Prize - Red Hill - VIC - AUS

2020 Sculpture In The Gardens - Mudgee - NSW - AUS

2020 Wyndham Art Gallery Online Art Prize - Wyndham - VIC - AUS​

2020 Gippsland Art Aid - Gippsland Art Gallery - VIC - AUS​

2019 NOW Contemporary - Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - NSW - AUS

2019 Bowness Prize - Museum of Australian Photography, MAPh - VIC - AUS

2019 Sydney Contemporary - Scott Livesey Galleries - NSW - AUS

2019 Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award - QLD - AUS​

2019 Sculpture In The Valley - Kangaroo Valley - NSW - AUS

2019 Sculpture By The Sea - WA - AUS
2017 Museum of Australian Photography, MAPh - Australians in PNG - Terra Mysteria - VIC - AUS

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PUBLIC ART – SCULPTURE
2025 City of Monash – MAPh - Corner Ferntree Gully Road & Jells Road, Wheelers Hill, VIC, AUS 
2025 Mornington Peninsula, Frankston City Council, Dandenong Road West, VIC, AUS
2016 Permanent - City of Melville, Robert Street Park, Cnr Leach Hwy, Winthrop, WA, AUS

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