bio -

C. Bay Milin (b.1980) is a photographer and short filmmaker, whose work explores issues of identity and place. His work has been exhibited in Bangkok, Thailand, Washington, D.C., and New York City, and was recently published in a volume about the Apollo Theater by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Institution.

He feels that the tool of the camera has the ability to lift memory out of place, at the moment it is born, and insulates those occurrences from the circumstance of forgetting. The results of making visual the contemplation of these collected memories, whether on emulsion, print, or digital file, has always pushed him further into the world.

He was born in San Francisco, and raised in Albany, California. After working for many years as a self-taught photographer, both in the U.S. and S.E. Asia, he recently received a graduate degree through the Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography, from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

education -

• M.P.S. Digital Photography. School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York, 2010

• B.A. Cinema Studies. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, 2003

selected group shows -

2010

• Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), Siamese Connection, Brooklyn, New York

• The Trinity Project - Solarium Gallery, Artists Among Us, Brooklyn, New York

2005

• Gallery F-Stop, Seedart Project, Bangkok, Thailand

• National Geographic Society, GRACE Heritage Organization Second U.S.-ASEAN Film, Video, and Photography Festival, Washington, D.C.

publication -

• Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing - The National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Books, 2010

awards -

• Finalist in the GRACE Heritage Organization Second U.S.-ASEAN Film, Video, and Photography Festival, Washington, D.C., 2005