2019
Under Twenty-Seven Solo Featured Exhibition of the Head On Photo Festival
Finalist, Portrait Prize, Head On Photo Festival
2017
Bellevue-Saal Artits's Residency and Scholarship at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Germany
2014
Visual Arts Residency Award, Banff Research in Culture, The Banff Centre, Canada
Finalist, Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, GCS Gallery, Sydney
2013
Artist in Residence Award, National Art School Storrier Onslow Studio Residency, Cite Internationale des Artes, Paris, France
2009
Travel Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
Post Graduate Research Scheme Award, University of NSW
2008
Finalist William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Monash Gallery of Art
2004-11
Australian Post Graduate Award, University of NSW
2006, 07, 12,13
Finalist Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
2006, 07, 11, 12
Finalist, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture
2006
Finalist Head On Alternative Portrait Award
2005
Finalist Australian Portrait Photographic Prize Art Gallery New South Wales
Winner of the Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture
2002
Living Out Back: People of Western NSW Rural Women’s Network, Dept of Agriculture
2001
Sponsorships by The Gender Centre, Photo Technica, Flash, Bodywise, Avant Card, Visual Arts Grant, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras FestivalMarketing Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts
2000
The Wellness Project Bankstown Older Women’s Wellness Centre
1999
Major sponsorship partner The Body Shop
Major sponsorship partner QLD Dept of Families, Youth and Community Care
Major sponsorship partner NSW Department of Ageing and Disability
United Nations International Year of Older Persons official arts event
Full Voice, publication and billboard campaign, The Body Shop
1997
Artist in residence, Birthing Unit, Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital
1996
Artist in residence, Aged Care Unit, Liverpool Hospital
1994
Artist in residence, Caroline Chisholm Centre for Women and Babies, Liverpool Hospital
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUM, PRESENTATIONS
2019
Walking in Wiesbaden University of Third Age, Millers Point
2018
Walking in Wiesbaden Inner West Chavurah Lecture Series
Walking in Wiesbaden Yom Limmud Festival of Jewish Ideas, University of NSW
Walking in Wiesbaden University of Third Age, Mosman Art Gallery
The Story of the Ransenberg Bed, Creative Approaches to the Holocaust, Emanuel School History Department
Ella Dreyfus in conversation with Maziar Moradi with Ich Werde Deutsch Exhibition, Goethe Institute Sydney
2017
Picturing Places of Meaning, Vivid Ideas Art Workshop, Sydney
Anxious Places, The Big Anxiety Art Workshop, Sydney
Walking in Wiesbaden, NAS Art Forum and Winter School
Walking in Wiesbaden, Short Street Forum, Sydney
2016
Walking in Wiesbaden, Art Department, Emanuel School, Sydney
The Bed, The Moth Radio Hour, Sydney
Body bold, body old, body beautiful, presentation at Arts Health Institute Conference, National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney Body bold, body beautiful Artist’s presentation for Creative Mamas, Sydney
2015
Je m’appelle Dreyfus, je suis juive Artists’ talk for Photo Soiree, Sydney
2014
Je m’appelle Dreyfus, je suis juive: Sites/Sights of Trauma, Autobiography, Photography and Representation, The Future of the Past: Representing the Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Trauma in the 21st Century, Deakin University, Melbourne
Je m’appelle Dreyfus, je suis juive, Art Forum, National Art School, Sydney
Je m’appelle Dreyfus, je suis juive, Postgraduate Symposium, University of Sydney
Ella Dreyfus Artist Talk, Visual Arts Lecture Program, The Banff Centre, Canada
2013
Voyeurs of Shame, Body Horror Interdisciplinary Net Conference, Sydney
Eat Weigh Art Art Forum, National Art School, Sydney
2012
Visual embodiment: feminism, photography and failure, Australian College of Applied Psychology, Sydney
2010
Scumbag and the photography of Ella Dreyfus Representing Motherhood in the Arts, Literature, Media and Popular Culture and Mamapalooza Conference, New York City
Child Photographer or Child Pornographer? Head-On Photography Festival Seminar, Sydney
Weight and Sea, Art and Health Symposium, University of Newcastle
Behind Closed Doors: giving space to the world of silence, with Dr Maree Stenglin, International Conference on Multimodality, University of Technology, Sydney
2009
Punishing Silence; Violence and the Contexts of Hostility, IDNet Conference, Budapest
2008
Under Twelves New Histories, New Practices Conference, Australian National University
Bliss, Blasphemy and Belief, Blake Prize for Religious Art Symposium, Sydney