SHIRA GOLD
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Confessions of an Untamed Mind Garden (selections), Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2026 Clever Notions and Hopscotch, Atlas of the Present, Los Angeles Center of Photography
2025 The Things We Say To Ourselves, Times Square Billboard, Visual Poetry Journal, NY, USA
2025 Little Distance, Parker Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2025 Arts Umbrella Splash Auction, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2025 Diversity, Photo SC, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
2024 All and Everything, Parker Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2024 Fine Art Awards, Painted Hearts and Tattered Love Notes, Dodho, Online
2024 Arts Umbrella Splash Auction, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2024 Expressive Nature (group show), ArtDoc Photography Magazine, Online
2023 Arts Umbrella Splash Auction, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2023 Sea of Small Change, Vancouver, Canada
2023 If Memory Was a Layer, Solo Sideshow, Fotonostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Barcelona Foto Biennale, Julia Margaret Cameron and Pollux Award Exhibition, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Arts Umbrella Splash Auction, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2022 War and Peace, ArtDoc Photography Magazine, Online
2021–22 6th Biennale of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Arts Umbrella Splash Auction, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Dusk To Dawn, Don't Take Pictures, Online
2021 Melancholia, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Arts Umbrella Splash Auction Exhibition, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2020 From A Seed... World of Botanicals, New York Center of Photographic Arts, New York, USA, Online
2020 Growth, Open Walls Arles, British Journal of Photography & 1854 Media in collaboration with Galerie Huit Arles, Arles Contemporain Festival, France
2020 The 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, FotoNostrum, Barcelona
2020 The 14th Pollux Awards, FotoNostrum, Barcelona
2020 The Fence, Photoville/United Photo Industries, Exposure Festival, Calgary, Canada
2019 Portal, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, USA
2019 The 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Abandoned Landscapes, The SE Center of Photography, Greenville, South Carolina
2019 Unfinished Business Art Show, Los Angeles, USA
2019 Altered Realities, curated by Brooke Shaden, Photoplace Gallery, Online
2018 Semi-Final Show, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Address Assembly Design Show, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Memories, Loosen Art at the Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2018 Altered Spaces – Interventions in Landscape, Fort Langley, Canada
2018 Landscape, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2017 Sasquatch Photographers Appreciation Show, Glazer's, Seattle, USA
2017 Canada 150, Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Griffin Summer Passion, Griffin Museum, Online
PODCASTS, PUBLICATIONS, PRESS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2026 Order vs. Chaos, selections from Architecture of Thought, PhotoEd Magazine, Canada
2025 Expressive Nature, Loving Me... Loving You, Art Doc Magazine, Online
2025 The Things We Say to Ourselves, Visual Poetry Journal Issue #5, USA
2024 Highlight, Spun Gold and Vintage Cloth, Divide Magazine Issue #11
2024 "Fine Art" The Book, feature — 100 images from the Fine Art Photography Awards
2024 The Ten, Interview and profile of If Memory Was a Layer, See-Zeen Magazine Issue #12
2023 In The Name of Love, Lens Magazine Issue #87, Israel
2023 FRESH 2023 Catalogue, Klompching Gallery
2022 New Visionary Art Magazine Issue 3, NY, USA
2022 Shira Gold: Against the Haste of Things, Talking Pictures, Alasdair Foster, Australia
2022 Shira Gold, Vancouver's Most Visionary Photographer, Park Magazine NY, USA
2022 Vancouver's 'Mothpocalypse' Highlights the Fragility of Our Planet, Feature Shoot, Ellyn Kail, Sydney, Australia
2021 Best Modern Photographers of December 2021, All About Photo.com, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, CA, USA
2021 In Living Colour: Shots From All About Photo's Latest Competition, The Times (UK), November 11, 2021
2021 Colour Makes a Fantastic Splash at AAP Magazine #21, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, CA, USA
2021 Meet Shira Gold, Fine Art Photographer, Shoutout SoCal Magazine, CA, USA
2021 Melancholia, FotoNostrum Gallery, Spain — Exhibition Catalogue, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Something Has to Change: Portraits of Growth from OpenWalls Arles 2020, 1854 Media, British Journal of Photography
2020 North by Northwest with Sheryl Mackay, CBC Radio Podcast, Vancouver, Canada
2020 The Fine Art of Letting Go, feature, Dodho Magazine, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Shira Gold: Ultimate Contradictions — Beauty and Grief in the Personal and Collective Spheres, FotoNostrum Magazine #2, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Photography As Therapy, feature, Galleries West Magazine, Peppa Martin, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Shira Gold, Online Artist Talk, Exposure Photo Festival / United Photo Industries, The Fence, Calgary, Canada
2020 Shira Gold Inspiracie: Przyroda/Krajobraz, Szeroki Kadr by Nikon
2020 Shira Gold, Landscape Portraits: An Intimate Journey Through Grief, Rediscovery and Change, The Female Curators
2020 Finding Her Breath, cover feature, PhotoEd Magazine Issue #58, Peppa Martin, Toronto, Canada
2019 Shock, L'ingresso nel mondo del dolore di Shira Gold, feature, Frizzi Frizzi Magazine, Giulia Ficicchia
2019 The Click Podcast Episode 7: The Intersection of Photography, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Peppa Martin
2019 Ruby Slippers and Retrotopia: Lensculture Winners, The Guardian, Mee-Lai Stone, United Kingdom
2019 Collage, Clouds and Contemplation Meet at West of Main Art Walk, Georgia Straight, Janet Smith, Canada
2019 Creating Pause and Reflection, feature, Jewish Independent, Canada, Cynthia Ramsay
2018 Black, ArtAscent Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2014–18 Sasquatch! Music Festival online publications and website
1998 The Truth is Out There, The Peak Magazine, Singapore
AWARDS
2026 Nomination, Confessions of an Untamed Mind Garden, Nature, Fine Art Photo Awards
2025 Honourable Mention, Confessions of an Untamed Mind Garden, Professional (series), Nature, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2024 Best Images, Painted Hearts and Tattered Love Notes, Fine Art Awards, Dodho
2024 Honourable Mention, If Memory Was a Layer (series), Nature: Trees, International Photography Awards (IPA)
2024 Bronze, If Memory Was a Layer, Nature, Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3)
2024 Honourable Mention, If Memory Was a Layer (series) Essay, Fine Art, Foto Slovo Awards
2024 Honourable Mention, If Memory Was a Layer (series), Fine Art: Collage & Effects, APA Awards
2023 Honourable Mention, If Memory Was a Layer, Annual Photography Awards
2023 Finalist, If Memory Was a Layer, FRESH 2023, Klompching Gallery
2022 Honourable Mention, By a Thread, Professional (series), Fine Art, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2022 Honourable Mention, Bare Essentials, Professional (series), Pandemic/New Normal, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2022 Finalist, This Too Shall Pass, Object category, Carte Blanche, Lucie Foundation
2022 Nominee, Bare Essentials (series), Professional, Open Theme, Fine Art Photo Awards
2022 Nominee, By a Thread (series), Professional, Nature, Fine Art Photo Awards
2022 Honourable Mention, So Far I Just Can't See (single), Still Life, International Color Awards
2022 Honourable Mention, Bare Essentials (series), Fine Art, Annual Photo Awards
2021 Honourable Mention, Longing, Professional, Fine Art, Monochrome Awards
2021 Honourable Mention, So Far I Just Can't See (single image), Professional, Nature/Other, ND Awards
2021 Award of Merit, Eyes Are Dim, All About Photos.com Issue 21 Color
2021 2nd Place, Eyes Are Dim / Untangled Tomorrow / This Too Shall Pass (single image), Still Life, Pollux Awards
2021 Short List, Exhale, Night Life Collection, Life Framer
2020 Honourable Mention, Bare Essentials (series), Fine Art, APA Awards
2020 Honourable Mention, The Fine Art of Letting Go (series), Professional, Fine Art, Still Life, International Photography Awards (IPA)
2020 Winner, Longtime Longing (single image), 1854 Media & British Journal of Photography in collaboration with Galerie Huit Arles, OpenWalls Arles, France
2020 1st Place, Free Hugs, From a Seed... The World of Botanicals, New York Centre of Photographic Arts, New York, USA
2020 Nominee, The Fine Art of Letting Go (series), Professional, Fine Art Photography, Fine Art Photo Awards
2020 Honourable Mention, The Fine Art of Letting Go (series), Fine Art, 14th Pollux Awards, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Honourable Mention, Shock (series), Fine Art, 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Honourable Mention, Shock (series), Nature, Trees, International Photography Awards (IPA)
2019 Finalist, Shock (series), Art Photography Awards, Lensculture, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Honourable Mention, Reflect, Transform, Become, Women Seen by Women, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Nominee, Isolation (series), Nature, Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA)
2018 Vancouver Semi-Finalist, Exhale, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Distinguished Artist, ArtAscent Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2016 Honourable Mention, Reflect, Transform, Become, Family of Man, International Photography Awards (IPA)
ART DONATIONS
2025–26 Workout for Women's Day, Silent Auction, Vancouver, BC
2025 Homes for the Holidays, Silent Auction, Vancouver, BC
2025 Make-A-Wish Foundation, Silent Auction, Vancouver, BC
2024 Dr. Peters Centre, Passions Silent Auction, Vancouver, BC
2024 Take A Hike Foundation, Homes for the Holidays, Silent Auction, Vancouver, BC
2023 Music Heals, Strike a Chord, Silent Auction, Vancouver, BC
2020–25 Arts Umbrella, Splash Art Auction, Vancouver, BC
2022 BC Women's Foundation, Changemakers Market, Vancouver, BC
2021 Vancouver Police Foundation, Vancouver, BC
2020 JDRF, Dream Gala, Silent Auction, Seattle, USA
2018 Artists for Progress, Art of the Steal Silent Auction, Seattle, USA
2018 Music — Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery Auction for Festival Harikud, Vancouver, BC
2014 Westside Family Place, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Artists for Education, Vancouver, Canada
COMMISSIONS
2020 Cut From The Same, Two Pieces of Cloth, Cover art, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Sway, Earls corporate collection, Earls Ambleside, West Vancouver, Canada
2018 Selected print works, Adam Zacks Productions, Sasquatc