Bio

I am an artist & a photographer. I was born in New York City in 1982, and I have yet to escape.


Contact

kkunstadt@gmail.com
@toomanyphotosintheworld



Writing

2023
—Photography is a Playground, C4 Journal (Interview)

2022
Burn Out Bibliography

2020
Elephants and Whales — The Photobook Genome
— Material Futures — Dismantling the Confederate Mythology







Education

2017
— MFA Photography, Hartford Art School

2004
— BA Visual Art, Brown University


Awards

2019
— Winner + People's Choice Award, Monument Avenue GD/GD

2018
— Shortlist, La Fabrica Book Dummy Award
— Shortlist, Fiebre Dummy Book Award
— Shortlist, Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, Arles
— Shortlist, Kassel Dummy Award, Kassel
— Nominee, First Book Award, Mack

2015 – 2017
— Presidential Scholarship, Hartford Art School
— Merit Scholarship, Hartford Art School


Solo Exhibitions

2020
— All for the Best, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY

2012
— Dolomites, Smith College, Northampton, MA


Group Exhibitions

2024
—Press Print: Risograph Photobooks, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY
—2nd Edition, Art Bites, High Falls, NY

2019
— Faculty Exhibition, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
— Stories We Tell Ourselves, Green Gallery, Biola University, CA

2018
— Stories We Tell Ourselves, Wrong Gallery, Marfa, TX
— Photobook Showcase, National Design Centre, Singapore
— Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, Monoprix, Arles, France
— Kassel Dummy Award, documenta-Halle, Kassel, Germany
— APhF:18 Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

2017
— 13, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT

2016
— Should Birds Attack, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2014
— ONWARD Compé ‘14, Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA

2013
— VISTA, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2012
— Emerging Realities, GE World Headquarters, Fairfield, CT

2011
— Aground, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA
— It’s Hot Inside, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
— KK08 ROAD TRIP PA, K&K, Brooklyn, NY


Books & Zines

2022
— Time = Color, Self Published

2021
— Police Department, Self Published
— At my window, Self Published

2020
— All for the Best, Penumbra Foundation

2019
— As of Late, Oranbeg Press
— Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie, Self Published


Publications

2020
— Booooooom.com

2018
— A New Nothing

2015
— American Photography 31
— Aint Bad Magazine
— Wired.com
— Artist’s Notebook, Animal New York
— National Geographic, PROOF

2014
— TIME.COM
— International Photography Annual 2, Manifest Gallery
— Metropolis
— Bloomberg Businessweek
— Landscape Stories
— C-41.it

2013
— Cult, Talent
— Documentary Platform

2012
— It’s Nice That
— International Photography Annual 1, Manifest Gallery
— Visions of Earth, National Geographic
— Freckled Magazine

2011
— Booooooom.com
— No Borders Magazine
— Volume, Vuu Collective
— Asymptote Journal

2010
— ARTHOUND.net

2009
— PAPER Magazine


Publications (Commissions)

2024
— Tunnel Vision, Design Milk

2023
— Z House, Architectural Record

2022
— Nassau Street Loft No. 2, Curbed
— Nassau Street Loft, Dwell

2019
— Publisher’s Loft, Dwell
— Rowhouse Modern, The Cut
— Publisher’s Loft, The Cut
— Sterling Place, Dezeen

2018
— Switchback House, Abitare
— Switchback House, Dwell
— Switchback House, Dezeen
— Switchback House, The Cut
— Silver Clouds, Whitewall

2017
— Parallax Gap, Dezeen
— Parallax Gap, Designboom
— KMAC, Architectural Record
— Parallax Gap, ArchDaily
— American Prairie Reserve, Bloomberg Pursuits

2015
— Bosco Sodi, Braus
— Telfair Studio, Dwell

2014
— Telfair Studio, The Architect’s Newspaper

2012
— Slipstream, Archdaily
— Slipstream, Frame

2012
— Stephen Burks, ELLE Decor

2011
— The Hybrid, Whitewall
— Alan Shields: Something Goin' On & On, Greenberg Van Doren
— Stephen Burks Man Made, Designboom

2009
— Slash, MAD


Teaching

2021 – Present
— Long Term Program: The Photobook, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY

2021
— Intro to Risograph for Photography, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY

2019 – 2020
— The Riso Photo Zine + Book, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY

2019
— Montreal Photobook Club × Image Threads Workshop, Montreal, Canada

2018 – 2019
— Digital Photography 1 & 2, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2017 – 2018
— Todo lo Que es Aire se Forja en un Libro, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba


Work

2020 – 2023
— Risograph Residency Program Coordinator, Penumbra Foundation

2017 – Present
— Organizer & Instructor, Image Threads Collective

2009 – 2012
— Founder & Director, K&K Gallery


Selected Clients

Bloomberg Pursuits, Büro Koray Duman, Calvin Klein, Christoff : Finio, CWB Architects, Doyle Partners, FreelandBuck, Future Expansion Architects, High Tide, Independent Curators International, L/AND/A, Love Craft Beauty, Moschella + Roberts Architects, Move Matter, Öpinionated, Pratt Institute, P.R.O. Architects, Readymade Projects, Rogers Marvel Architects, Studio Bosco Sodi, TIME, Van Doren Waxter