Axel Garay is an emerging multidisciplinary artist with strong connections to his ancestral homelands in the Eastern Torres Strait (Mer), Puerto Rico & Malaysia. His practice forms a constellation of photography (specifically alternative photographic processes), digital video, sound, installation and performance.
Exhibiting since 2024, Axel has shown work at Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), Yirramboi Festival, Next Wave, State Library of Qld, Counihan Gallery, Koorie Heritage Trust, NotFair Art fair and in the public realm. He received an Honourable Mention in the 2024 Bowness Photography Prize and Highly Commended in the 2025 Brisbane Portrait Prize. Axel is completing a PhD in Art at RMIT university where he is exploring the entanglement between spirituality, media technology and immersive arts practice.
He is currently on the Next Wave inaugural Artist Advisory.