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

  • Indie Photobook Library :: “TIGHT”

  • 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