Austin Leong

b. 1990
Based in Oakland, CA
Awstain@gmail.com


Solo Exhibitions 

2024 - A Wonderful Offer, Climate Control SF, San Francisco, CA


Group Exhibitions 

2024 - Soft Eyes, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA

2023 - The Garden of Eden, Climate Control SF, San Francisco, CA

2023 - With Soft Eyes, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA  

2022 - Looking Forward, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA 

2022 - Naiad Cove, The Museum at The Cliff, San Francisco, CA

2022 - Summer, Baltimore Photo Space, Baltimore, MD

2021 - Looking Back, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA 

2018 - Bystander, Leica SF, San Francisco, CA

2018 - When Ends Meet, 1090 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017 - It Happens All The Time, Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017 -  Materialism, Layer Studio, Oakland, CA

2016 - Illetante Vol. 1, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA

2016 - Living Room,  Glass Rice, San Francisco, CA

2016 - Four Years Later, Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA


Publications 

2024 - Soft Eyes, DeadBeat Club, 84 pg hardcover 

2020 - On The Fence, MADWORKSHOP, 140 pg paperback

2019 - Denver Daybreak, Illetante, 24 pg paperback

2018 - From Where We Stand, Self - published, 48 pg paperback 

2017 - Our Time Together, Self - published, 74 pg paperback


Collections  

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Pier24 Photography


Honors 

2019 - MADWORKSHOP fellowship


Editorial, Writing, Reviews

2024 New York Times, Paying Their Respects at the House of the Dead

2024 New York Times, How Osgood Perkins Gave a Jolt to ‘Longlegs’

2024 Juxtapoz, A Wonderful Offer at Climate Control, SF

2023 The Atlantic, Donald Trump's gift to Adam Schiff

2023 NewYorkTimes, Arts and Leisure 

2022 The Atlantic, How San Francisco Became a Failed City

2022 PHMuseum, Story

2021 Nowhere Diary, Interview 

2021  SFMOMA Open Space, Another Year By

2020 Monthly Photo Magazine, Vol.632. September 

2019 PHOTOGRAPHERS LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS: 75 PICTURES FROM THE PILARA FOUNDATION. 2019


Education 

Bachelors of Arts in Sociology, San Francisco State University 


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