A camera enables me to spot the extraordinary in the ordinary. Some of my recent works are based on still life photography with a personal theme, molding aluminum foil as a skin on people, its metallic surface reflecting light, creating abstract images. All colors are created in a simple analog manner by placing colored paper in front of the foil. Ordinary foil deconstructing people into chaotic shapes.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2021: “Love Positive Women” with VisualAIDS, at MoMA PS1, New York.

• 2019: “Shinjuku Story” at AKTA Community Center, Tokyo, Japan

• 2019: “Impact+” at The Center, New York.

• 2018: “Shinjuku Story” at The Bureau of General Services - Queer Division, The Center, New York.

• 2018: “Day With(out) Art” with VisualAIDS at SVA Theatre, New York.

• 2018: “Shinjuku Story” at CLUB with Tiona Nekkia McClodden at Performance Space, New York.

• 2017: “Day With(out) Art” with VisualAIDS at Whitney Museum, New York.

• 2016: “Postcard from the Edge” with VisualAIDS, at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York.

• 2015: "LIC Arts Open", REIS group Show, Long Island City, New York.

• 2015: “Interpretations: Best Of”, at The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

• 2012: “Contemporary Interpretations of Beauty in the Museum”, at The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

• 2012: Case Gallery, New York, NY.

• 2012: AMO Studio, Brooklyn, NY.

Internship

• 2012 Vik Muniz http://vikmuniz.net/

• 2011 Brian Finke http://brianfinke.com/

Press/Publications

• 2021: Sassy Planet by Prestel.

• 2018: “Shinjuku Story vol1 & vol 2.

• 2016: “Forgotten Landscape”

• 2014: Documentary film “3 Years Past”, about students from Fukushima, Japan.

Awards/Grants

• 2015 The Exposure Award, The Ultra Color Collection.

• 2010 Merit Award from Black & White Magazine. 

Education

• 2018 Bard College / The International Center of Photography MFA, New York.

• 2012 PARSONS photography department B.F.A., New York.