b. 1977
Nominations, awards and residencies
2019. Paris Photo-Aperture Book Award Shortlist for American Origami.
2019. Light Work Photo Book Award for American Origami.
2018. Pulitzer Center Grant.
2018. MACK Books First Book Award Shortlist.
2017. Light Work AIR. Syracuse, NY.
2017. Magnum Foundation Fund Shortlist.
2016. Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer, Nominee.
2015. Serenbe Farms AIR. Palmetto, Georgia.
2015. Center Review Santa Fe, Selectee.
2009. Canon Young Photographer’s Award (Italy).
2007. Fulbright Fellowship. Istanbul, Turkey.
2006. Photo District News Emerging 30.
2006. Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward. HM.
2004. Alexia Foundation Student Award of Excellence.
Exhibitions and lectures
2021. Museum of Contemporary Photography, American Epidemic: Guns in America. (Upcoming) Fall, 2021. Chicago, IL.
2020. SF MOMA, Close to Home, Creativity in Crisis. Group Exhibition. Winter 2020. San Francisco, CA.
2020. Bronx Documentary Center, Spring Lecture on American Origami.
2019. California College of the Arts, Fall Lecture Series. Oakland, CA.
2019. Syracuse University, Artist talk. Syracuse, NY.
2018. Pop-Up Magazine, Spring Tour (May, 2018).
2017. Tape Festival. Roulette Theater, Brooklyn, NY.
2015. Alter-Retrato // Territorios. Curated by Pedro Torres. Lisbon / Barcelona..
2012. Troche Inny Festiwal Fotografii. New Directions in the Photobook. Warsaw, Poland.
2011. Margate Photography Festival. Sunny Side Up Group Exhibition. Margate, UK.
2009. Grazia Neri Gallery. Canon Italia Young Photographer’s Award. Milan, Italy.
2009.Salt Gallery, FuturePast, Photographs from Salt Alums. Portland, Maine.
2008. New York Photo Festival. Various Photographs, curated by Tim Barber. Dumbo, Brooklyn.
2008. Ufat Photo Festival. Asia Minor. Group Show. Bursa, Turkey
2006. Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Vice Photography. NYC.
2005. Odgen Museum of Southern Art. New Orleans, LA. Permanent Collection. 2 prints acquired.
Teaching / Workshops
2020. Adjunct Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, Calif.
2014/15. SpazioLabo Photo Workshop w/ Carolyn Drake, NYC.
2013. Adjunct Faculty, University of Mississippi. Oxford, Miss.
2011/12. Photo Director / Faculty. Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Portland, Maine.
2010. The Children’s Library Photo Workshop with the US Embassy. Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Selected Press
2020. The Nation, American Origami Review by Rebecca Bengal.
2019. PDN. Thoughts and Prayers. Andres Gonzalez’s Essay on School Shootings, Trauma, and Grief. April Issue.
2018. Virginia Quarterly Review. American Origami, Reading the Relics of Grief. Fall Issue.
2018. NPR Interview, All Things Considered. What Grief Looks Like. June, 2018.
2018. Le Monde Magazine. American Origami , une histoire de la violence. June Issue.
2017. TOPIC/ First Look. Memories of a School Shooting. September Issue.
2012. Photo-eye. Some(W)Here, reviewed by Christopher Johnson.
2012. American SuburbX. Some(W)Here, reviewed by Paul Loomis.
2012. EyeCurious. Some(W)Here, review by Marc Feustel.
2012. Le Journal de la Photographie. Some(W)Here, reviewed by Laurence Cornet.
2012. New Yorker Photo Booth. Andres Gonzalez Takes a Journey Somewhere.
2011. Contact Editions. Interview with Benjamin Thomas.
Editorial / Commercial
AARP, ArtReview (UK), Bloomberg Business Week, Case de Abitare (Italy), Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Culture + Travel, ESPN The Magazine, Fast Company, Food & Wine, Garden + Gun, Monocle Magazine (UK), NEON (Germany), National Geographic, New Yorker, New York Times Style Magazine, Newsweek, Outside, Planet, Smithsonian, Spin, Time, Travel + Leisure, W, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Wallpaper*, AKQA, Bosch, BUILT NY, Codemasters Software UK, Del Monte Foods, Pictet Swiss Bank, Red Scout Creative, SMRT Design, Sony BMG, Timberland, VICE Commercial, Vodafone, Winkreative