Petros has presented his work at venues including Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; MoMA, New York City, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LO; Tate Modern, London, UK; Biennale de Quebec, QC; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, DE; Spanish Biennial of African Photography, Malaga, SP; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA; Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway; 13th Biennial of Havana, Matanzas; Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, NL; The Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University, Athens, OH; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC; The National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, MI; The Durban Art Gallery in Durban, SA; Medina Galerie Mediatheque in Bamako, Mali; The Royal Ontario Museum of Art in Toronto, ON and The Lianzhou International Photo Festival in Lianzhou, China.
His work has been recognized with awards including a Terra Foundation For American Art Research Fellow, the Paul De Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award in Art Photography, The Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography, an Art Matters Foundation Fellowship, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Publication & Critical Documentation, Fulbright Fellowship, J. Armand Bombardier Internationalist Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts, Long Term Project Grant.
Petros has been an Artist In Residence at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, LJMU School of Art and Design, G.A.S Foundation, Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The McColl Center for Visual Art, and Addis Ababa Photo Fest.
He has conducted workshops with artists in Lubumbashi, Congo; Lagos, Nigeria; Liverpool, UK; Asmara, Eritrea and Berlin, DE.
Dawit L. Petros is a co-founder with Heba Y. Amin of Black Athena Collective. He is represented by Tiwani Contemporary in London, UK and Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal, Canada.