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Cléo Sương Mai Richez b. Angers, France. Lives and works in New York, NY. 


EDUCATION


Masters of Fine Arts, Photography
Pratt Institute, 2025

Bachelor of Arts, Film & Television
London College of Communications, 2023


SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS


2025 as if it is
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY

Thesis Show
Dock 72 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY



SELECTED GROUP SHOWS


2025  From Here On, On From Here
Stuyvesant Fish House, New York, NY


2024my cards, your table
Dock 72 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Artemisia Vulgaris
91N First Street Loft, Brooklyn, NY

Newtown Creek Summer Show

Newtown Creek, Brooklyn, NY

Treasure Hunt
Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Chainletter
Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Tale Train
ARC Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2023  Mid-Stride
Fine Arts Faculty Office, Brooklyn, NY


2022Queer Sex
Candid Arts Trust, London, UK



SCREENINGS


2025  iRRRegular screenings presents: a night of video
ARC Building, Brooklyn, NY


2024  
in my room
ARC Building, Brooklyn, NY

Vănguard 6: Vietnamese Futurisms and Queer Posterity
3Nam Studio, Ho-Chi Minh City, VN


        
READINGS


2025as if it is: a reading about friendship
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY

Dear Giulia
Early Yves, Brooklyn, NY
    


TALKS


2024Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World
(organized by Deana Lawson)
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ



SELECTED CURATORIAL WORK


2025as if it is: a bookstore
(w. Shala Miller, Nick Relph, Riven Ratanavanh, Kaden Bard, Prithvi Singh…)
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY

as if it is: a reading about friendship
(w. Aidan McLellan, Andrew Riad, and Claire Donato)
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY

iRRRegular Screenings series
(w. Shala Miller, Asha Schechter, Carlos Jimenez Cahua, Noor Shoresh, Abu Maen Safadi, Jaylen Brannon…)
ARC Building, Brooklyn, NY


2024zero view collective
(co-curated w. Aidan McLellan, Eric, William Kim)
   

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES


2025  Pratt Institute’s Merit Award
2024  COPE NYC (residency)
2023  Photography Merit Scholarship


PRESS & PUBLICATIONS


2025Photographers on photographers: Cléo Sương Mai Richez and Shala Miller in conversation, Lenscratch

Chen Kan interviews Cléo Sương Mai Richez, Pratt MFA Thesis Publication

Meet Cléo Sương Mai Richez, Canvas Rebel

The dust is settling too fast in my room - Carte Blanche to Cléo Sương Mai Richez, Apocalypse Magazine

Phamtran, Vănguard


2024Art School Texts, With Friends Like These

2023Cléo Richez in conversation with Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Apocalypse Magazine

2022Les Fleurs Plastiques de Tes Morts, Werkhaus Zine  


COLLECTIONS


Pratt Institute Library