Joachim Froese was born in Montreal, Canada, grew up in Germany and migrated to Australia in 1991. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art in Launceston in 1995, a Master of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art (QCA) in Brisbane in 2001, and a PhD (Art) at RMIT in Melbourne in 2017.

Since 1996 Froese has exhibited widely across Australia, Europe, Asia and North America and his work is included in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and QAGOMA. His work has featured in numerous national and international art publications and in 2009 the Queensland Centre for Photography published a monograph of his work.

Combining exceptional technical expertise with a conceptual approach, his eclectic body of work is driven by the principal question, how we use diverse photographic technologies to understand and form the world around us. Investigating the shifting boundaries between still life, nature photography, and portraiture, he works across a wide range of analogue and digital processes, including alternative printing techniques and smartphones. 

Since 2001 he holds regular teaching appointments at universities in Australia and Germany and he received numerous grants from the Australia Council, Arts Queensland and Arts Tasmania. Today he lives in Brisbane and Berlin.

Froese has exhibited widely in Australia and abroad and his work is represented in a number of public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Redland Art Gallery and Artbank Australia.

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