Dorit Thies

Raised on a farm in her native Germany, photographer Dorit Thies conjures highly expressive and evocative imagery utilizing light, color and unexpected props to create her memorable work. In addition to her commercial photography projects done in collaboration with international beauty brands such as Estee Lauder and ELLE magazine, Dorit’s focus has been on fine art photography since the early 1990s. Her first solo show, “Modern Goddess” debuted in Los Angeles in 1993 and led to another show curated by Chris Wester of New York’s Christy Art house shown at the Katonah Art Museum, Westchester, N.Y.

Beginning with these first conceptual shows, which were all shot analog, Greek mythology and female archetypes have served as inspiration for Dorit. Her capacity to draw subjects out of themselves and integrate them into larger, memorable tableaus that transmute portraiture into powerful visual narratives led to commissions like one with Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation. For this advocacy project meant to gain support for patients during a critical point in the AIDS epidemic, Dorit traveled to Uganda and South Africa to photograph patients living with the disease. These uplifting, unwavering portraits were printed life-size...

1993 Solo Show - Cobalt Cantina - Los Angeles - Modern Goddess
1994 Solo Show - Cafe Escalera - Santa Fe, New Mexico - Modern Goddess
1996 Solo Show - Anastasia Cafe - Santa Monica, California - Modern Goddess
1996 Group show - Dark's Art Palour Gallery, NoHo, California
1997 Group show - Galgano Gallery - Beverly Hills, California - Sixteen Points View
1999 Group show - Art O'Rama - Mad River Post - Santa Monica, California
1999 Group show - Katonah Museum of Art - Westchester N.Y. - New in the Nineties II
1999 Kelloggs's Beating the Blues, Celebrity Photo exhibit, Sydney, Australia
2006 Solo Show - Art Complex Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Solo Show - World famous Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco - AfricAlive Portraits
2007 Solo Show - Rotunda, Washington D.C. - AfricAlive Portraits
2007 Group show - FOA 12 Farmani Gallery Los Angeles, California
2020 Solo Show - Space Place One - Nizhniy Tagil, Russia - Synesthesia
2021 Group show Space Place - Nizhniy Tagil, Russia - Abstract
2022 Group show - Space Place - Nizhniy Tagil, Russia - Landscape