"Lines, Beyond” 

Beyond the horizon there are continued horizons; just as beyond our visual scope, there are lives and incidents we cannot see. The landscape does not exist alone … it affects our experiences, just as our actions affect it. It exists in conjunction with other related environments, and it carries layers of history beneath its surface.

I remember September 11. I was at a beach near New York City and looking towards Manhattan. It was a very beautiful, sunny day; the waves were calm, and the beach was so peaceful. Although I knew of the attacks, it was impossible to conceive what was happening beyond the horizon. I remember myself looking over the peaceful landscape and feeling irritated by my uselessness.　

On another occasion, I remember traveling alone, thinking of family and someone who I wanted to share the view with. By looking into the distance of the landscape I was encouraged by the concept that the sphere continued beyond the horizon, and drew conceptual lines connecting me to them.

 In broad terms, this project is about making a profile of the earth by photographing with a medium-format camera various horizons, including oceans, cityscapes, industrial landscapes, forests, wastelands, etc. The implicit meaning, however, is not only to present a series of physical landscapes, but to allow the audience to create their own lines that extend from their own viewpoint into the distance, from their own lives and experiences out towards those of others.

 I intend to document a broad variety of places; the criteria of such sites would be that they depict sometimes-incongruous locations as one fluid line; so the viewers cannot easily disassociate themselves from the foreign landscape, but instead sees it as a continuation of their own environment.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 
2010　　　 Tosei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
　　　　　  The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan
2008　　　 Tosei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007　　　 Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2005　　　 Pingyao International Photography Festival 2005, Shanxi Province, China
　　　　　  De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX
2003　　　 Roanoke College, Salem, VA
                  Houston Center for Photography
2002　　　 New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA　　　　　　
　　　　　  The Center for Photography Woodstock, NY
　　　　　  "JAPAN WEEK" D-137 Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2001　　　 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2000　　　 Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
　　　　　  Court House Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS  

2010

Group Show, Dio Art Center, Korea
Group Show, Belgium International Cultural Center, Kobe, Japan 

2009

Group Show, “Surface of Window” Kyoto International Center, Kyoto, Japan
"Fashion Center's juried art exhibition" Gallery 8 at Port Authority, New York, NY, USA
The Sultry Show, Kris Graves Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Joshua Hellmann Foundation Auction Show, Hong Kong 

2008

Kingwood Art Gallery, Houston TX 

2007

“Wishing Tree” in Central Park supported by LMCC, New York NY
“Transparent” ONOMA, Fiskars, Finland
“Super PHAT” School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

2006

En Foco Touring Gallery Exhibition, New York, NY, North Fork Bank-Wakefield Branch
“Less is More” Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

2005

New York/New England/New Talent 2005, Hampton Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Asian Pacific American Heritage “Affinity,” Houston, TX
“Other America” Exit Art, New York, NY

2004

Sara Gris Art Gallery, New York, NY
Small Works, New Arts Programs, Kutztown, PA

2003

Galeria Galou, Williamsburg-Brooklyn, NY Juror: Yucef Merhi, Mariano Del Rosario and Claire Weiss
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
“Serene Beauty” Interactions Between Sublime And Zen Jamaica Center, New York, NY
“Exit Art Biennial The Reconstruction” New York, NY
“SCOPE” Dylan Hotel, New York, NY
“COLOR COMPLEXTIES” Newport Art, Newport, NJ
“Recession 2003 $99 Show” Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY 

2002

Estamaperi’ a Quitena, Quito, Ecuador
Grabado sin Fronteras/Printmaking Without Borders, The Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco,CA
National Museum of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
KALA Art Institute Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
"Small Works" New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
I/O, a public video program, San Francisco, CA
D-Art Projects "The Exquisite Corpse, Reaction of September 11th " T3 4Peace Oasis Festival, Chashama Theater, Times Square, New York, NY
"Annual Competition" Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
"4th NAP Biennial Video Festival" juror Dan Cameron, Ann Born, Mary Lucia, Ann-Sargent Wooster, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
MCS Gallery, Easton, PA, Art Resource Center, PA, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, Marywood University Art galleries, Zoellner Arts Center, Scranton, PA, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2001

D-Art, "The Exquisite Corpse, Reaction of September 11th " Remote Lounge, New York, NY
"4th NAP Biennial Video Festival" juror Dan Cameron, Ann Born, May Lucia, Ann-Sargent Wooster
New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
"National Juried Competition" Juror Shamim Momin, Curator of Whitney Museum of American Art Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Science, Loveladies, NJ
"2001 National Photography Competition" Juror Sarah Morthland, Curator and Director of Sarah Morthland Gallery, SOHO PHOTO Gallery, NY, NY
D-Art, Site Specific Works, Hudson River Park, NY
"Digital Portraiture" Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
"Small Works" New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA　　　
"Sublimation" Papp Gallery, New York, NY
"JAPAN WEEK" Nonconformist Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
"22nd Annual Juried Exhibition" Juror Barbara Head Millstein, Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Smithtown Township Arts Council, NY

2000　　　

BMG ENTERTAINMENT, NEUBERGER BERMAN, GETMUSIC & GEN ART "ANNOUNCE NATIONAL VISUAL ARTS SEARCH" BMG Entertainment, NY, 　　　　　　　

"International Artists" M+A Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
"Juried Annual Exhibition" Juror Nevin Mercedo, Antioch College Yellow Springs, OH
"Experimental Video Screening" Westerly Public Library, Westerly, RI
"Endurance" Down Town Art Festival, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
"Manipulated" Video Screening, VOID, New York, NY
"Eighth Annual Art Show" Water Mill Museum Water Mill, NY
"Husbands and Wives" Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
"23rd Small Works" Juror Tricia Collins, East Gallery, New York NY

1999 

"Projected Narratives" Down Town Art Festival, New York, NY
"MFA Photography and Related Media" Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Video Screening, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY　　　　　　　
"Juried Aurora Short Movie and Video Screening" Houston TX 

1998

"Emerging Artists" Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2009

Young SCMP Newspaper, Hong Kong

2008

Art Commentary, Yomiuri Feb 26, 2008
Nippon Camera Magazine, Feb 2008 

2007

The Knitting Circle Shows Its Chic, New York Times Thursday Style, July 12,2007

2002

Photographer finds beauty in the ordinary, Eagle and Times, Ron Schira, February 22, 2002, B8
Art Commentary "Varied Views: Photography at Sag Harbor Picture Gallery and Nightingale" Dan's Papers" June 8, 2001 Page 86

2000　　　

"Westhampton Exhibition Explodes Canal Prejudice" Southampton Press,
Eric Ernst, November 23, 2000, Art B-4
"Juried Annual Exhibition" Literature and Arts, The Antioch Record, E.B, September 2000, P-16
Southampton Press, Pat Rogers, February 10, 2000, Art B-1　
"Benson Gallery Gives Video A Go" East Hampton Star, Robert Long, July 27 1999, III-1

AWARDS

RESIDENCIES

Onoma, Fiskars Finland　　　　　　　　　　　　　  　2007
MacDowell, Peterborough, NH　　　　　　　　　　　　2007
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM 　　　　　　　　  2006
Art Farm, Marquette, NE　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 2005
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA　　　　　 2004
Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain　　　　　　　　　　　　  2004
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA　　　　　　　　　　　 2001
Kate Millett Farm, Poughkeepsie, NY　　　　　　　　  1999

COLLECTIONS

BMG Entertainment
Neuberger Berman
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, LLP
Kinsey Institute Museum, Bloomington, IL
Center For Photography at Woodstock
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA