CV — Vikesh Kapoor

VIKESH KAPOOR
b. 1985, Pennsylvania
studio@vikeshkapoor.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Filter Space, Chicago IL
The Print Center, Philadelphia PA

2021 New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans LA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian, The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today, Washington DC

2025 Schingoethe Center at Aurora University, Eye to Eye, Aurora, IL

2024 Art Academy of Cincinnati, Deeply Rooted, Cincinnati OH
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Fellowship 24, Pittsburgh PA

2023 Reminders Photography Workshop, Photo Book Dummies, Tokyo Japan
Kyotographie Festival, Reminders Photography Stronghold, Kyoto

2022 Atlanta Photography Group, Portfolio 2022, Atlanta GA
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Experiences of Identity, Denver CO

2021 Filter Space, Chicago IL
Encontros da Imagem, Braga Portugal
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Fellowship 21, Pittsburgh PA
Naples Art, Camera USA 2020, Naples FL, Juror: Leigh Gleason, Susan Spiritus

2020 Center for Photographic Art, International Juried Exhibition, Carmel CA Juror: Aline Smithson
India Photo Festival, Hyderabad India, Juror: Alexa Keefe, Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic
   Photographic Resource Center, Exposure 2020, Boston MA, Juror: Makeda Best
Academy Art Museum, New Photography II, Easton MD, Juror: Philip Brookman
Head On Photo Festival, Portrait Award, Sydney Australia
Spiva Center for the Arts, Photo Spiva 2020, Joplin MO, Juror: April Watson

2019 Photo Vogue Festival, Milan Italy
Houston Center for Photography, 2019 Center Annual, Houston TX
SF Camerawork, Forecast 2019: Annual Survey, San Francisco CA
Silver Eye Center of Photography, Honorably Mentioned, Pittsburgh PA
MOPLA, Three-Person Exhibition, Los Angeles CA
Aperture Foundation, Lensculture: Beyond Boundaries, New York NY
MOPLA, Analogue Portrait Project, Los Angeles CA
LACDA, Ten Artists to Watch, Los Angeles CA, Juror: Meghan Doherty, Leigh Gleason
Der Greif, Guest Room: Alessia Glaviano, Vogue Italia
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, CENTER Award Winners, Boone NC

2018 The Main Museum, Office Hours In-Focus, Los Angeles CA
Save Art Space x Otis College, 100% LA, Los Angeles CA
Ain’t Bad Magazine, The Portrait, Online
   Lenscratch, Good Manners, Online, Juror: Christy Havranek

2017 The Main Museum, Office Hours, Los Angeles CA
   The Print Space, Negative Feedback, London UK
Newspace Center for Photography, Member Space, Portland OR
Black Box Gallery, Dynamic Landscapes, Portland OR
Newspace Center for Photography, Member’s Show, Portland OR

AWARDS & HONORS
2025 Honorable Mention, Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture

2024 Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Winner, Keystone Fellowship Award, Silver Eye Center for Photography

2022 Recipient, Google Image Equity Fellowship
Winner, Daylight Photo Awards, Daylight Books
Finalist, Visionary Project Award, Film Photo Award
Recipient, The 30 Photographers (formerly PDN 30)

2021 Finalist, The Print Center Annual International Competition
Grand Prize, Lucie Foundation: Notions of Home
Winner, Leica x British Journal of Photography Commission, Witnesses of: Devotion
Winner, The Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Emerging Photographer Scholarship, Houston Center for Photography

2020 Winner, The Hopper Prize, Jurors: Amber Esseiva, Associate Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art
   VCU and Leila Grotha, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art
Finalist, Documentary Essay Prize, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Second Place, Mobile Photography Prize: Home, Family and Community, PHmuseum
Finalist, Portrait Award, Head On Photo Festival, Juror: Whitney Johnson, National Geographic
Winner, Nikon Scholarship, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
Grand Prize, PhotoNOLA Review Prize, PhotoNOLA

2019 Shortlist, Fine Art Scholarship, Chromaluxe x Lucie Foundation
Winner, Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation
Shortlist, Grand Prix Images Vevey, Juried by Dayanita Singh, Emma Bowkett, Lesley A. Martin, Christoph
Wiesner and Francesco Zano
Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

2018 Top 50, Critical Mass, Photolucida
Juror’s Commendation, Keystone Award Fellowship, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Juror: Jessica Beck, Milton Fine Curator of Art, Andy Warhol Museum
Juror’s Pick, Art Photography Awards, Lensculture, Juror: Corey Keller, Curator of Photography, SFMoMA
Winner, Project Development Grant, CENTER, Juror: Leslie Ureña, Associate Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery
Shortlist, Photo Taken Scholarship, Lucie Foundation
Finalist, Alex & Rebecca Norris Webb Book Workshop Scholarship, Radius Books
Winner, Workshop Scholarship, Spirit Into Matter with James Hajicek & Carol Panaro-Smith

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2024 Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
2021 Latitude, Chicago IL
2019 Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock NY

PUBLICATIONS
2023 Photographs That Show the “Fire and Thunder” of Contemporary Life, Aperture Foundation

2021 A Story of Devotion in a Rural Pennsylvanian Town, British Journal of Photography

2021 Vikesh Kapoor’s Love Letter to his Immigrant Mother, British Journal of Photography

2020 JRNL 6,Fotofilmic, Guest Edited by Emma Bowkett, Director of Photography FT Weekend Magazine
The Ordinary and Extraordinary, Spot Magazine, Houston Center for Photography, Essay by Leigh Gleason

2020 PHmuseum, Mobile Photography Prize

2020 The Hopper Prize

2019 The Best of Lensculture: Vol. 3, Schilt Publishing

2018 Lensculture, See You At Home
The Guardian, Art’s New Frontiers
Lenscratch, Center Awards
Center, Project Development Grant
Ain’t Bad Magazine, Feature

ARTIST LECTURES
2025 Schingoethe Center at Aurora University, Aurora IL

2024 Silver Eye Center for Photography, Online

2023 Art Center College of Art & Design, Pasadena CA

2022 Medium Photo with Shana Lopes (SFMOMA), Online
Filter Space, Chicago IL
The Print Center, Philadelphia PA

2021 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA

2020 The Financial Times Weekend Festival with Emma Bowkett, Online
Latitude, Chicago IL

2019 Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone NC
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA

2018 Review Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM

COLLECTIONS
Latitude Chicago
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Lucie Foundation

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