Education

2014  Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Photography
          School of Visual Arts | New York, NY
        * Awarded Thesis Scholarship 2014
2013  Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography
          School of Visual Arts | New York, NY  
        (selected as an exchange student for Willem de Kooning Academie in 2012)
        * Dean’s List 

Selected Exhibitions

2024  Rotterdam Photo Festival | Rotterdam, Netherlands
           [Imagine]
2023  MSU Broad Art Museum | Michigan, USA
           [Shouldn’t You Be Working? 100 Years of Working from Home]
2022  Rotterdam Photo Festival | Rotterdam, Netherlands
           [Planet Human]
          ClampArt Gallery | NYC, USA
          [Emerging Photography Awards]
2019  Space Place | Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2018  Photoville | Brooklyn, USA
          [The Color Of…]
2017  Photoville | Brooklyn, USA
          [Photoville 2017]
          Beyond Studios | Brooklyn, USA
          [Bushwick Open Studio]
2016  Gallery Korea | NYC, USA
          [UNSETTLED]
          Palazzo Italia | Berlin, Germany 
          [4th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography]
2014  The Powerhouse Arena at Dumbo Arts Festival | Brooklyn, USA
          [Photoworld 2014]
          The Center for Fine Art Photography | Colorado, USA
          [OPEN]
          Castell Photography Gallery | North Carolina, USA
          [NEXT : New Photographic Visions] 
          SVA Gramercy Gallery | NYC, USA
          [23/7]
          St. Remy de Provence | Arles, France
          [Springtime and Rebirth]
          SVA Flatiron Gallery | NYC, USA
          [Nearly Distant]
           Municipal Heritage Museum | Malaga, Spain 
          [Third International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography] 
          Calumet Gallery | NYC, USA
          [Natural Selection]
2013  School of Visual Arts | NYC, USA
          [Senior Show]
2012  School of Visual Arts | NYC, USA
          [The Evolution Unfolding]
          Dek 22 Gallery | Rotterdam, Netherlands
          [Low Budget & High Class]
          WdKA Gallery | Rotterdam, Netherlands
          [& Thanks for all the fish]
          Kareldoormanstraat – Weena | Rotterdam, Netherlands
          [The (In)Visible Harbour]
2010  Space Womb Gallery | NYC, USA
          [Up Close]

Selected Awards & Invitations

2024  Selected artistImagine by Rotterdam Photo Festival 
2022  Single image winner, 7th Annual Emerging Photography Awards by Feature Shoot
2021  Selected artistPlanet Human by Rotterdam Photo Festival 
2018  Invited artistArchitecture Now by Pakhuis de Zwijger 
2016  Selected artist2016 Call for Artists by Korean Cultural Service New York
2015  Second PrizePrix de la Photographie Paris
          Invited artistThird Annual New York Portfolio Review by New York Times 
2014  FinalistPhotoworld 2014 by New York Photo Festival 
          Selected artistNEXT | Curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Castell Photography
          Selected artistOPEN | The Center for Fine Art Photography
          Honorable mentionPeople/Lifestyle, International Photography Awards
          Humanitarian Documentary winner,  Pollux Awards (Worldwide Photography Gala) 
2013 Selected artistLensCulture: 21 New & Emerging Photographers
          Third PrizeArchitecture/Interior, International Photography Awards
          Honorable mentionDeeper Perspective, International Photography Awards 
          Honorable mentionPeople/Lifestyle, International Photography Awards 
          Honorable mentionArchitecture/Other, International Photography Awards 
          Juror Award of MeritInternational Fine Art Photography Awards 
          First PrizeArchitecture/Cityscape, American Aperture Awards
          Honorable mentionStreet Photography, American Aperture Awards
2012  Honorable mentionOne Shot/Spaces, International Photography Awards

Selected Press & Publications

2022  DIGIFOTO PRO (Netherlands)
2019  Far Out mazagine (UK)
2018  DEZWIJGER (Netherlands)
          Monthly Photography (Korea)
2017  BuzzFeed (AUS)
2016  BuzzFeed (Japan)
          Bird in Flight
2015  Daily Mail
          Metro
          Vice       
          The Creators Project          
          Brigitte
          Business Insider
          Esquire
          IGNANT
          Feature Shoot
          Fast Company Co. Design
          kwerfeldein
          DesignTAXI
          Fotografia 
          BoredPanda
          Lost At E Minor
          RP Online
          AMY&PINK
          la Repubblica
          il Post
          Motherboard
          Prism Photo Magazine
          F-Stop
          Artwort
          LIFO         
2014  New York Times T magazine
          Digital Camera World
          Obscura
2013  LensCulture
          IPA & Lucie Awards Annual
          Photographer’s Forum