AFTER THE FALL
The inaugural exhibition at Garis & Hahn: a survey of new photography by Gideon Barnett, Felix R. Cid, Pao Her, Matthew Monteith, Yorgos Prinos, Hrvoje Solvenc and Monika Sziladi.
Curated by
Andrea Pemberton
Opening reception January 11, 6–8 PM
263 Bowery, New York City
January 11 to February 16
Gallery Hours
Tu–Sa, 11am–7pm

GIDEON BARNETT holds a MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art where he was the 2011 recipient of the Toby
Devan Lewis Fellowship. In 2008 he had a solo exhibition in the Passage Pommeraye in Nantes, France as a part Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise. In
2011 his work was included in the New Insight exhibition at Art Chicago, a survey of emerging artists curated by Susanne Ghez of the Renaissance
Society of Chicago. His work was recently exhibited at the Miami Art Museum as a part of New Work Miami 2013.
He lives and works in Miami, Florida.
www.gideonbarnett.com

FELIX R CID is a visual artist born in 1976 in Madrid, Spain. He started working as a photographer in Ibiza and at
winters he studied Photography in Madrid. In 2002 he moved to New York and study a full time program in the International Center of Photography. He
graduated in 2005. After several international exhibitions, he was accepted in the MFA program in photography at Yale University where he graduated
last May 2012. He lives in Brooklyn.
www.felixrcid.com

PAO HOUA HER is a Hmong refugee from Laos. She currently resides in Minneapolis, MN. She is a graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a
B.F.A. in Photography.
www.paohouaher.com

MATTHEW MONTEITH graduated from the General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography in 1995, and
earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2004. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic from 2001–02 and the resulting work was published
as Czech Eden by Aperture in 2007. He had a residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in New York City in 2004–05 and received the Abigail Cohen
Rome Prize in Photography from the American Academy in Rome in 2008. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Arles, Cherbourg, Kyoto, New
York City, Paris and San Francisco. He has also participated in many group exhibitions internationally. Currently he is Assistant Professor at
Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
www.matthewmonteith.com

YORGOS PRINOS was born in Athens, Greece in 1977. Since 1999, he has been working as a professional photographer. In
2011 he received an MFA from Yale University School of Art. He lives and works in New York.
www.yorgosprinos.com

HRVOJE SLOVENC is a Croatian photographer based in New York. He holds MS in Biochemistry from University of Zagreb and MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art. His photographs have been exhibited in dozens of shows nationally and internationally including Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Museum of New Art in Detroit, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia, and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia. His work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Contemporarty Photography in Chicago, and Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, Croatia. Also, he is a recipient of London Photography Award, International Photography Award, Golden Light Award, Photography Now Award, BRIO Award, as well as Mortimer Hays-Brandeis and Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowships.
Hrvoje currently teaches at Parsons The New School for Design and County College of Morris.
www.hrvojeslovenc.com

MONIKA SZILADI was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary and lives in New York. She holds an MFA in Photography from Yale (2010) and a Maitrise in Art History and Archaeology from Sorbonne, Paris (1997). In 2008 she received the Gesso Foundation Fellowship to attend Skowhegan and she is a 2012 resident at Smack Mellon. She is a winner of The Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Competition (2010), a recipient of the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship (2010), a Juror’s Pick by Julie Saul and Alec Soth, Work-in-Progress Prize, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards (2010) and the recipient of Humble Arts’ Fall 2012 New Photography Grant. Selected exhibitions include Point of Purchase, DUMBO Arts Center, NYC (2006); Lost and Found, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (2007); Designations, NT Gallery, Bologna, Italy (2008); Market Forces, Carriage Trade Gallery, NYC and Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels (2009); US Featured Exhibition, Flash Forward Festival, Toronto (2010); 31 Women in Art Photography, Hasted Kraeutler, NYC. (2012).
www.msziladi.com
Design by Mylinh Trieu Nguyen