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EDUCATION
MA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
MFA, New York University, New York, NY.
BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Night Falls, Spot Photo Works, Hollywood, CA.
7 Days of Garbage, Union Station, Toronto.
2014
7 Days of Garbage, Kuminda Festival, Parma, Italy.
2013
None of the Above, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR.
State of the Union, O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, VA.
State of the Union, Warehouse Row, Chattanooga, TN.
2012
State of the Union, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Enactments, Chelsea Market, New York, NY.
2011
Remembered, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
2006
Super Heroes at Home, Arc Light Cinema, Hollywood, CA.
2004
Lost Vegas, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV.
2002
Endangered Places, Nicholas Gallery at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA.
1997
Ordinary Souls: The Life of Los Angeles, Brand Library and Art Gallery, Glendale, CA.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Food Revolution 5.0, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Wer is(s)t Denn Da?, Kulturama Museum Des Menschen, Zurich, Switzerland.
Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Seoul, Korea.
Photon Festival, Valencia, Spain.
Korea International Photography Festival, Seoul, Korea.
The Big LA Portrait Gallery, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA.
Horizonte Zingst, Zingst, Germany.
Zeytinburnu International Photography Festival, Istanbul, Turkey.
2017
Lens Culture Winter Exhibition, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Qu’est-ce qu’on mange? C’est moi qui choisis, The French Ministry of Culture, Paris.
Magnum Photo Award Finalists, The Photographer’s Gallery, London.
The Fence at Photoville, Brooklyn, Santa Fe, Atlanta, Denver, Durham, Boston, Houston.
Semblance, Refraction Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
The Big LA Portrait Gallery, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA.
2016
Dispossessed, Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
2015
Reverta – Art and Sustainability, Oca do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo.
Bitume Photofest, Gallipoli.
Beyond Plastic Med, Monaco.
Scarcity/Waste, Syngenta Photography Exhibition, Somerset House, London.
Whole Earth?, Universities throughout England, Sweden and India.
You Are Here, Snap Space, Orlando, FL.
That Other Place, 03 Gallery, Oxford Castle, UK.
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art.
The Fence at Photoville, Brooklyn, Atlanta & Houston.
2014
International Photo Festival Leiden, Netherlands.
Eating a Wall, Centre Cultural Les Chiroux, Liège, Belgium.
American Trash, earthWE Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.
Super Human, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO.
POP! The Art of the Geek, Michael J. Wolf Fine Arts, San Diego, CA.
The Fence at Photoville, Brooklyn & Atlanta.
2013
Drones, Gallery Project, Detroit & Ann Arbor, MI.
Tokyo International Photography Festival, Gallery 72, Tokyo, JP.
War/Photography Slideshow, Annenberg Space for Photography, LA, CA.
Projekt LA/MOPLA, Space 15Twenty, LA, CA.
2012
Slideluck Potshow, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, ON.
(super)heroes, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY.
The Fence at Photoville, Brooklyn, NY.
Urban Wild/SNAP! Orlando, Orlando, Fl.
2011
A Place in the Sun: Picturing California, Hi-Lite Project Space, LA, CA.
2009
Super Heroes, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
Crusaders & Haters, Royal/T Gallery, Culver City, CA.
2008
Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY.
Water = Life, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA.
2006
Strange New World, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
2004
Picturing the Modern World, James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
About Face, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
2002
Buscando una Vida Mejor, Museo Latino, LA, CA.
2000
Moments Between the Millennium, Los Angeles Public Library, LA, CA.
1998
A Place in the Sun: Visualizing Public Spaces, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA.
AWARDS/LECTURES
2017
Magnum Photography Awards, Finalist: Daily Bread
American Photography 33: The Public Pool
2015
American Photography 31: 7 Days of Garbage
PDN Photo Annual: 7 Days of Garbage
American Society of Publication Designers Award: Saturday Night in LA
2014
Annenberg Space for Photography, Iris Nights Lecture Series: Enactments
American Photography 30: Ext. Night
2013
American Photography 29: Christmas Tree Harvest
Communication Arts 54: Senior Moments; Christmas Tree Harvest
2012
American Photography 28: State of the Union.
2011
American Photography 27: The Disney Fire Department.
Communication Arts 52: State of the Union.
NY Press Club Journalism Award: The Directors.
2010
American Photography 26: Remembered; Gang Green.
Communication Arts 51: Gang Green.
American Society of Publication Designers Award: The Me I Used to Be.
2009
American Photography 25: iT House:Joshua Tree.
American Society of Publication Designers Award: iT House:Joshua Tree; Bag Revolution.
Communication Arts 50: Bag Revolution.
2007
American Photography 23: Forest Whitacre.
PDN 2007 Awards: Super Heroes at Home.
Kelly Awards: Finalist, Rozerem Ad Campaign.
2006
American Photography 22: Transforming Tijuana.
PDN 2006 Awards: When War Hits Home.
2005
American Photography 21: Nightshade.
2004
American Photography 20: Freeway Close.
2001
Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards: Debt to Society.
1999
American Society of Publication Designers Award: Still Lives.
1998
Ruttenberg Foundation Award: Finalist, Still Lives.