Kovi (b. 1992) is based in Long Beach, CA
Contact
k.konowiecki@gmail.com
Publications
And In Its Place, Another. Deadbeat Club Press. 2021
Cherry Ave. Paper Journal Annual. 2019
Delivering Flowers to Grandpa Jack. Handmade Postcard Box Set. Mula Press. 2018
Publication / Client List (Commissions + Print / Online Press)
Aesthetica, Ain’t-Bad, BBC, British Journal of Photography, The California Sunday Magazine, Der Greif, Fisheye, Fotofilmic, Fotoroom, FT Weekend, The Guardian, The Heavy Collective, Hoxton Mini Press, huck, i-D, It’s Nice That, L’Officiel, Lakes Studio, Lucie Foundation, Melete Studio, The New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Palm*, Paper Journal, PDN, PHMuseum, Phases Mag, Photolucida, SoccerBible, Third Way, TIME, UK Evening Standard, Vogue Italia, The Washington Post, Wildsam
Education
MA in Photography, University of the Arts London, 2016
BA in Media Communications, Minor in English, Wake Forest University, 2014
Solo Exhibitions
And In Its Place, Another, Salt and Pepper, Tokyo, February - March 2022
And In Its Place, Another, These Days, Los Angeles, July - August 2021
The Hawks Come Up Before the Sun // Driftwood, Salut Au Monde! , Porto, Portugal, May-June 2019
Delivering Flowers to Grandpa Jack, Alchemy Works, Los Angeles, March- April 2018
Wake Forest University 5 & Under, Start Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC, February 2018
Group Exhibitions
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, November 2024
Staring Into the Sun, Webber Gallery, Los Angeles, December 2023 - January 2024
Interludes, Prairie Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 2023 - July 2023
Long Beach Museum of Art Juried Photography Exhibition, Long Beach, CA, December 2022 - March 2023
We Are Family, Centro Niemeyer, Avilés, Spain, February -May 2022
We Are Family, Imago Lisboa, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2021
Palm* Photo Prize, 1014 Gallery, London, UK, July-August 2021
This Seems A Home, Chapter 3, ROSEGALLERY (Online Exhibition), May - June 2020
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, November 2019-February 2020
Collettiva Lessico Familiare: Ragusa Foto Festival, Sicily, Italy, July- August 2019
Palm* Photo Prize, theprintspace gallery, London, UK, May 2019
REMEMBERANCE, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, December 2018- February 2019
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, October 2018-January 2019
Portrait of Britain, British Journal of Photography, 2018
Labs New Artists II, Red Hook Labs, Brooklyn, NY, USA (June 2018); Frogner Station, Oslow, Norway (October 2018); Photo Vogue Festival, Milan, Italy (November 2018)
Palm* Photo Prize, House of Vans, London, UK, May- June 2018
Lucie Foundation Month of Photography (MOPLA) Group Show, Los Angeles, April 2018
FOTOFILMIC17 Traveling Exhibition— Vancouver BC, Canada: March- May 2018, Burrard Arts Foundation; Paris, France: September 2018, Binome Galerie; Thessaloniki, Greece: October- November 2018, Stereosis School of Photography; New York, NY, USA: Spring 2019, FotoFilmic EXPO Gallery
Photolucida Love It & Leave With It Show, Portland, Oregon, 2018
Hanina Gallery Group Show, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2018
FOTOFILMIC17 Summer Shortlist Show, PULP Gallery, Bowen Island, Vancouver, Canada, 2017
Indian Photography Festival, State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India, 2017
Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Art Gallery, UK, 2017
Head On Photo Awards Festival, Museum of Sydney, Australia, 2017
Negative Feedback Exhibition, theprintspace, London, UK, September 2017
Magnum Swap Shop, theprintspace, London, UK, 2017
I.P.F. Photo Prize, House of Vans, London, UK, 2017
Life Framer Photography Prize Exhibition, ClampArt Gallery, New York; RPS Gallery, Tokyo; Officine Fotografiche, Rome, 2017
London College of Fashion MA Exhibition Found In Translation, House of Vans, London, UK, 2017
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, November 2016
Portrait of Britain, British Journal of Photography, 2016
Blurred Borders, 71a Gallery, London, UK, 2016
Blurring the Lines, Paris College of Art, Paris, France, 2016
Mirrors and Windows, Paris College of Art, Paris, France, 2016
Student Art Exhibition + Honors Exhibitions,Hanes Gallery, Winston- Salem, NC, 2014
Image as Word/ Word as Image, Start Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC, 2013
Selected Awards & Honors
2022 The 30
2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Finalist
2020 Hariban Award, Honourable Mention, Kyoto, Japan
Red Hook Labs New Artists II, Selected Artist, 2018
Portrait of Britain: British Journal of Photography, 2018
Wake Forest University 5 & Under Artist, 2018
Life Framer Open Call Finalist, 2018
Fotofilmic Summer Shortlist, 2017
The Independent Photographer Open Call Finalist, 2017
Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted Artist, 2017
PDN Storytellers Winner, 2017
Head On Photo Awards Finalist, 2017
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, Third Place, 2016
Portrait of Britain: British Journal of Photography, 2016
Association of Photographers (AOP) Open Award, Series, 2016
Life Framer Winner Humans of the World, 2016
Permanent Collections
University of the Arts London
Wake Forest University
Lectures & Artist Talks
Long Beach Art Museum Downtown, Beyond the Frame: The Art of Photography, Artist Panel, Long Beach, CA, February 2023
ROSEGALLERY, REMEMBERANCE Artist Talk, Santa Monica, CA, 2018
Wake Forest University, 5 & Under Artist Talk, Scales Fine Art Center, Winston-Salem, NC, February 2018
National Portrait Gallery, In Conversation: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017
Selected Bibliography (print)
Two Italian Rascals - ISSUE 3 - AMERICAN DREAM, June, 2024
OK, NO RESPONSE, Twin Palms, December 2021
Hariban Award 2020 Catalogue
Photographic Bandwidth Issue 01, May 2021
L’Officiel Argentina N°22, May 2020
Amadeus Issue 18, 2019
Portrait of Britain Book (BJP), Hoxton Mini Press, 2018
British Journal of Photography July 2018 Issue: Shifting Territory, 2018
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition Catalogue, 2019, 2018, 2016
Paperback L.A. Book 3, A Casual Anthology: Secrets. SigALerts. Ravines. Records, 2019
Fisheye Photobook Vol. 2, 2018
Wake Forest Magazine Fall 2017 Issue
Aesthetica Magazine Issue 79, 2017
PDN Magazine: The Photography & Ethics Issue, 2017
Future Now: 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize, 2017
British Journal of Photography: Portrait of Britain Issue, 2016
SoccerBible Magazine Issue 6: Stage & Spotlight, 2016
Press / Interviews / Features / Commissions
Wildsam, The Mother Road, January 2024
The New York Times, The Case of the Eco-Terrorists and the Book Deal, online & print, February 2023
Los Angeles Times, The ‘Stranger Things’ kids are headed for scarier adventures this season, online & print, May 2022
The Guardian, ‘Like witnessing a birth in a morgue’: the volunteers working to save the Joshua trees, online, January 2022
The New Yorker, “The Queen of the Desert”, online, January 2022
TIME, “TIME's Best Portraits of 2021”, online, December 2021
TIME, “Inside the Nation's Largest Guaranteed Income Experiment”, online and print, September 2021
Nowhere Diary, “Story 18: Kovi Konowiecki”, online, January 2021
Intimate Structures, “Delivering Flowers to Grandpa Jack”, online, January 2021
It’s Nice That, “Kovi Konowiecki’s monochromatic photography is filled with intuitive encounters”, online, July 2020
Lenscratch, “Kovi Konowiecki: Storytellers”, online, June 2020
Der Greif, “Artist Blog - Kovi Konowiecki”, online, June 2020
Der Greif, “Artist Feature- Kovi Konowiecki - And In Its Place, Another”, online, June 2020
L’Officiel Argentina, “Cinco minutos con Kovi Konowiecki”, online and print, May 2020
Canal180, “What can be the role of art in a crisis?”, online, April 2020
The California Sunday Magazine, “Roommates: The creative and sometimes cramped ways people live together”, online and print, April 2020
The New Yorker, “Channel Tres’s Stylish Blend of Hip-House and G-Funk”, online & print, November 2019
British Journal of Photography, “Star Wars Families in the United States”, online, December 2019
Plain Magazine, “The Poetic Meanderings of Kovi Konowiecki’s Series, Borderlands”, online, November 2019
BOOOOOOOM, “ “Borderlands” by Photographer Kovi Konowiecki”, online, October 2019
Photo-Emphasis, “Project Spotlight: Borderlands”, online interview, September 2019
Der Greif, “Guest-Room, Selection by Emma Bowkett, July 2019
PHmuseum, “The Uncertain Spaces of the Borderlands”, online interview, Lucia De Stefani, July 2019
Paper Journal, “Interview – Kovi Konowiecki’, online interview, Francesca Marcaccio Hitzeman, May 2019
It’s Nice That, “Kovi Konowiecki’s series for Paper Journal Annual 2019 is a lyrical documentation of his hometown”, online interview, Daniel Milroy Maher, April 2019
British Journal of Photography, “Portrait of Britain: Kovi Konowiecki on photographing liminal spaces”, online interview, Sarah Roberts, March 2019
Stranger Collective, “How I See It – Kovi Konowiecki”, online interview, Jon Denham, March 2019
British Journal of Photography, “ “Incredible and inspiring”: stories of success from Portrait of Britain”, online, February 2019
Aint - Bad, “Kovi Konowiecki: Borderlands”, online, February 2019
C41, “Kovi Konowiecki and the desert valley that lives on freedom”, online, January 2019
The Guardian, “Winner of the 2018 Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize announced – in pictures”, online, October 2018
Palm*, online interview, Kris Kozlowski-Moore, October 2018
Fotoroom, “Kovi Konowiecki Photographs the People and Landscapes of the California Desert”, online, October 2018
Paper Journal, “Paper Journal photobook – announcing our selected photographers”, online, September 2018
British Journal of Photography, “Meet our Portrait of Britain 2018 winners”, online, August 2018
The Ones We Love, “Portraits online exhibition”, Curated by Lindley Warren, July 2018
Portrait of Britain, online, July 2018
Vogue Italia, “Borderlands”, online, July 2018
British Journal of Photography, “Beyond the Borderlands with Kovi Konowiecki”, Sophie Wright, June 2018
Anywhere Blvd, online interview, Rhombie Sandoval, June 2018
C41, “Konowiecki pays tribute to that banality of Long Beach that makes it special”, online, January 2018
Fotoroom, “Kovi Konowiecki Explores the Border as Both a Physical and an Emotional Barrier”, online, December 2017
Edge of Humanity, “Intimate Portraits Bringing Together Members Of A Orthodox Jewish Family”, online, September 2017
Fotofilmic, online interview, July 2017
Photomonitor, “Delivering Flowers to Grandpa Jack”, Christiane Monarchi, online interview, June 2017
Aesthetica, “Temporal Visualisation”, online, June 2017
Phases, “Delivering Flowers to Grandpa Jack, Kovi Konowiecki”, online, June 2017
Fisheye, “Kovi Konowiecki : Delivering flowers to Grandpa Jack” , online, May 2017
The Heavy Collective, “Q&A: Kovi Konowiecki”, Jack Harries, online interview, March 2017
Aint - Bad, “Kovi Konowiecki : Delivering Flowers to Grandpa Jack", online, February 2017
i-D Magazine, “Intimate Portraits of an Orthodox Jewish Family”, Emily Manning, online interview, November 2016
It's Nice That, “Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016 winners announced by the National Portrait Gallery”, online, November 2016
huck, “Celebrating the strength and diversity of faces from around the globe”, online, November 2016
BBC, “Taylor Wessing prize for Johannesburg schoolboy photo”, online, November 2016
The Washington Post, “These striking photographs show many interpretations of what makes a portrait”, online, November 2016
The Guardian // The Guardian, “Shortlist announced for Taylor Wessing portrait prize // Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize 2016 – in pictures”, online, November 2016
UAL, “30 minutes with Taylor Wessing Prize winner Kovi Konowiecki”, online interview, November 2016
The printspace, “Another theprintspace client shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Prize”, online interview, October 2016
Aesthetica Magazine, “Highlighting Tradition in Modern Society”, online interview, October 2016
Life Framer, “The Liminal Space between History and Modernity”, Ralph Wilson, online interview, October 2016
British Journal of Photography, “Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Announce Shortlist”, online, September 2016
TIME, “Shortlist for National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Prize Announced”, online, September 2016
UK Evening Standard, “Former footballer shortlisted for Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize”, online, September 2016
Portrait of Britain, online, August 2016
Pigeons & Peacocks, “Blurred Borders: An exhibition that explores new ways of displaying photography”, online, May 2016
UAL, “MA Fashion Photography students create Blurred Borders exhibition”, online, May 2016