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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
2019
Instant Archeology: The Culture of Food and Waste, Carol Shen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
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
2019
Stand For Girls, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy.
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
Food Sustainability Media Award, Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation- 2018
American Photography Annual- 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007 and 2006
Communication Arts Photography Annual- 2018, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009
Magnum Photography Awards, Finalist, 2017
PDN Photo Annual- 2015, 2007, 2006
American Society of Publication Designers Award- 2015, 2010, 2009, 1999
Tokyo International Photography Award- 2013
NY Press Club Journalism Award- 2011
Kelly Awards, Finalist- 2007
Investigative Reporters and Editors Award- 2001
Ruttenberg Foundation Award, Finalist- 1998