Group Show 37

Bios

Pedro Coube Arieta was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His Mother is a watercolor painter and his father an ophthalmologist. In Sao Paulo, he attended to Academia Brasileira de Artes and the Escola Panamerica de Artes. In 2006, he moved to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts. Graduated in 2010 and started an independent magazine dedicated to new fine art photography, called 8×10 magazine.

Christian Chaize, a self-taught French artist, lives and works in Lyon, France. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix European Panorama de Kodak for Young European Photographer in Arles, France. For the past 20 years, he has had a successful career as a commercial photographer. Recently, however, Chaize became obsessed with a small stretch of coastline in southern Portugal while vacationing there in 2004. It gave new life to his on-going personal work, which began to take precedence over his professional ambitions. His commitment to this series has, thus far, garnered Chaize a one-person gallery exhibition in Lyon, and two museum exhibitions in Portugal (Sines and Lisbon).

John Cyr went to Connecticut College and graduated as a Studio Art major in 2003. In 2003, he moved to New York where he worked as a black and white printer under the direction of Jim Megargee at MV Labs for 5 years. In 2008, he returned to school and received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in May of 2010. He currently have my own darkroom in DUMBO, titled Silver 68, where he make traditional silver gelatin prints for working photographers. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the International Center of Photography.

Jessica Eaton (b. Regina, Saskatchewan, 1977) holds a BFA in photography from the Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver. Her work has been recognized by the Humble Arts Foundation for the 2010 “31 Women in Art Photography” exhibit, Jen Bekman Projects as a 2009 winner of Hey Hot Shot! and in 2008 by the Magenta Foundation for their Flash Forward Emerging Photographers. Since 2006, she has been exhibiting regularly across North America in both group and solo shows. Galleries exhibiting her work include Angell Gallery (Toronto), Galerie PUSH (Montreal), LES Gallery (Vancouver), Hunter and Cook (Toronto), Access Gallery (Vancouver), Jen Bekman Projects (NYC) and Blanket Gallery (Vancouver). Her photographs have been published in numerous publications including Pyramid Power, Hunter and Cook and most recently Lay Flat 02: Meta. Currently Jessica is preparing for her third solo exhibition, upcoming November 2010 at Red Bull 381 Projects (Toronto).

Tealia Ellis Ritter was born in Illinois in 1978. After attending Columbia College Chicago, where she completed her BA in Fine Art Photography, she earned her MFA at the University of Iowa with a major in Fine Art Photography and a minor in Printmaking. Her work has been exhibited across the U.S., most recently at the Griffin Museum, through the Magenta Foundation as a part of Flash Forward 2009, at Humble Arts “31 Under 31” exhibition, Silver Eye Center for Photography, The Photographic Center Northwest and in the multimedia project, “Pause to Begin.”

Andrew Fladeboe was born in California in 1984, but grew up in Japan, Russia, and Austria before obtaining his BFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. Since then, he has worked in the U.S. Congress, taught digital photography workshops, and was a print assistant for the Boston Public Library. Andrew now lives and works in New York City.

Anna Huix is a Barcelona based photographer doing fine art and editorial photography. She studied Media Studies at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain and graduated from a BFA in photography at Parsons School for Design in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at The Educational Center of The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Calumet Gallery and Perfect Wave Gallery in New York City and Espace Commines and Letellier Gallery in Paris. Her photographs have been featured in Colors Magazine and DXI Magazine. Anna Huix has been photographing for The Wall Street Journal in Europe.

Robin Juan was born and raised in San Francisco in 1987. She received a BFA with concentration in Art History and Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in December 2009. She has worked as a studio assistant for Bay Area painter Julie Chang and Chicago photographer Alan Cohen. Her photographs have been shown at Pentagon Gallery and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. She is currently a co-founder and director of the independent art space HungryMan Gallery in Chicago, IL.

Jin Lee is a Chicago-based artist who has been photographing the Midwestern landscapes for the past ten years to explore particularities of a place. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections at the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Madison Art Center, and Museum of Contemporary Photography. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2005, and is currently a Professor of Art at Illinois State University. She is represented by devening projects + editions in Chicago.

Samuel S. Morgan was born and raised in New York City. It was not until he first arrived at Bard College and followed a girl to the Photography Department portfolio reviews that he really fell for Photography (and the girl fell for someone else). Sam now lives and works in NYC, living on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, which he affectionately calls “Queeklyn.” His work has been shown with Metro Color Collision in New York, at the Frisbee Festival during Art Basel, Miami, and with the Humble Arts Foundation in Brooklyn, Chelsea and the World Wide Web.

Soi Park was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. After several years of experience as an art director in advertising agency, she moved to New York to study photography. She received her BFA from Purchase College and is currently pursuing her MFA in photography at Yale School of Art. She lives and works between New York and New Haven.

Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1975, Carlo Van de Roer graduated with a BFA from Victoria University. Since leaving New Zealand in 1999, Van de Roer was lost in Central America and various other corners of the world before landing in New York where he currently lives and works. He has received awards from ADC, APA, PDN and Photolucida for his photography which has been exhibited worldwide, most recently Van de Roer was invited to exhibit at the 2010 Festival d’Hyères and with M+B Gallery in LA.

Brian Shumway’s work blurs the line between portraiture, documentary and fine art photography – a distinctive output of journalistic responsibility and artistic perception. He received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and went on to briefly study photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. After attending school, Brian moved to New York City, where he currently lives and works.

Bill Sullivan is an artist who lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited and published internationally. He worked for more than a decade on a conceptual body of artwork entitled Das Blaue Auto, which used a variety of media to chronicle the evolution of a fictional lost European Art movement. He took up photography with a focus on street photography in 2002 and began to fuse his conceptual concerns with his experience as a portrait painter, culminating in the project 3Situations, completed in 2007. His recent works deals with, among other things, the optical structure of images and has taken the form of photographs, prints, paintings and works on paper.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Youngsuk Suh has received his BFA at Pratt Institute and his MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He had solo exhibitions with Haines Gallery, San Francisco, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, and Gallery ON, Seoul, Korea. His work was also shown at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Seoul International Photography Festival. He has been Assistant Professor of Photography at University of California, Davis since 2006. He is currently working on the second part of the “Wildfires” project on prescribed fires in public lands.

Sophia Wallace is a photographer and video artist. Her series ‘Truer’, was awarded honorable mention by MAGENTA Flash Forward 2010, CENTER Project Competition 2010, American Photography AP-25 and ARTslant. Recent exhibitions include Umbrella Arts Gallery, Kopeikin Gallery, Carnegie Art Museum, Aperture Gallery and Sasha Wolf Gallery. In addition to her fine art practice, Wallace shoots editorially for The New York Times and The Guardian. Wallace holds a BA in Government from Smith College and an MA in Photography from New York University and the International Center of Photography. Born in Seattle in 1978, Wallace currently resides in New York City.

Born and raised in Missouri, Sarah Wilmer lives and works in New York, with her cat, Tubs.