BIOGRAPHY
De Kwok is a photographer based IN San Francisco and Guerneville, CALIFORNIA. Currently, He is Also HEAD OF PROGRAMMING, ARCHIVIST and Board Member of the Bob Mizer Foundation. His work has appeared in Warm Bros Magazine, Queer Quarterly, BalaclavaQ, Self Publish/Be Happy, Color Tag magazine, TinyVices, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival and many others. His work has been shown in galleries worldwide: Seattle, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Australia, Ireland and Germany.
His last photobook, Lust to Love, was selected for inclusion in the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards/ Month of LA photobook show.
In FALL 2025, KWOK’S NEXT SOLO SHOW FEATURING WORK FROM HIS LATEST BOOK, CODEPENDENCY, WILL BE at the Plexus Projects in Brooklyn.
2024
NEW YORK QUEER ZINE FEST :: NEW YORK CITY
2023
Photoworks SF :: “Defining Images” SHOW, San Francisco
Death in The Family Book :: Mechanical Soft Press
Harvey Milk Photo CENTER :: “Soft Defiance” Show, San Francisco
Magnet :: 20th Anniversary Show, San Francisco
2021
PHmuseum LAB :: “inside” show in Bologna, Spain
Queer Quarterly :: “The Bodies” Issue
Not Exactly Art Magazine, “Among the Chaos” Photobook
Warm Bros Magazine
Tom of Finland/claw Art Show, Los Angeles
2020
South x Southeast Photo magazine
The Sky We See, Color Tag Magazine
Not Exactly: An Art Magazine
2019
Visual Aids :: “Postcard from the Edge” show, NEW YORK CITY
Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards One Shot/ Street Photo Contest
Findrangers Magazine
Photobookshow :: Lithuania
2018
Visual Aids :: “Postcard from the Edge” show, NEW YORK CITY
Paris Photo :: Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards / Month of LA, photobook show, Los Angeles
Lewis Gluckman Gallery :: Cork Photo // J Book Show, Ireland
2017
Visual Aids :: “Postcard from the Edge” show, NEW YORK CITY
Photographic Center Northwest :: “Longshot” show, SEATTLE
Balaclava Q website
Independent PhotoBook BLOGSPOT :: LUST TO LOVE
Self Publish, Be Happy :: LUST TO LOVE
Zines of the World :: Doomed Gallery, London
2016
The Photocopy Club :: "On The Road" show Lodz, Poland
2015
Book and Job Gallery :: SHOW WITH THE PHOTOCOPY CLUB, San Francisco
Photographic Center Northwest :: “LONGSHOT” SHOW, Seattle
Lenscratch :: “MASK” show
Lenscratch :: “Family Outtakes” SHOW
2014
The Photocopy Club website
Urban Spree Gallery :: GROUP show with the photocopy club, Berlin
The Doomed Gallery :: POLAROID show with the photocopy club, Berlin
One Giant Arm website :: “TIGHT”
2013
Jerwood Art Center :: “Family Politics” GROUP SHOW, London
Dose Projects
Summer Diary Project
The Photocopy Club
Stay Young ZINES
2012
International Photography Festival :: Melbourne, Australia
Blood of the Young Gallery :: Brighton, England
Muni Diaries
The Huffington Post
Summer Diary Project
2011
SFIst.COM
Future Shipwreck
Lost in E Minor
Summer Diary Project
The Sound and the Furry
Fecal Face
2010
Fearless Project
Beautiful/Decay
TinyVices
2009
The Stranger
The Seattle Weekly
Seattle Gay Times
Seattle Erotic Arts Festival