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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

2024

my 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

2022

Queer 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

2025

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

Dear Giulia
Early Yves, Brooklyn, NY

TALKS

2024

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

SELECTED CURATORIAL WORK

2025

as 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

2024

zero 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

2025

Photographers 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

2024

Art School Texts, With Friends Like These

2023

Cléo Richez in conversation with Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Apocalypse Magazine

2022

Les Fleurs Plastiques de Tes Morts, Werkhaus Zine

COLLECTIONS

Pratt Institute Library

Cléo Sương Mai Richez

Cléo richezcleo@gmail.com Instagram,CV

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Dead? I can’t say for sure, 2025

walk on by, 2023

Kill Your Parents before they die (My thesis), 2025

Cléo

richezcleo@gmail.com
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