PETE PIN

Pete Pin was born in the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the border of Cambodia and Thailand in 1982. His family were resettled as refugees in Stockton, California in the 1980's. Pin's work explores themes of memory, migration, and inter-generational trauma among the Cambodian American community across the United States and among his own family in the U.S. and Cambodia. A high school drop-out, Pin is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he did Honors and was awarded the Louis and Charles Outstanding Honors Thesis Award, the International Center of Photography, and the University of Hartford's MFA in Photography. He received fellowships and grants from the Magnum Foundation and Open Society Foundations Photography Project, among others. His writing and photographs have been featured in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, NPR, and VICE. Pin has exhibited at the International Center of Photography, Smith College, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum, and the Library of Congress, and has completed artist residencies at the Bronx Museum, TILT (formerly the Philadelphia Photographic Arts Center), and Kala Arts. His series on the Cambodian diaspora is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress and is currently featured in the inaugural exhibition - Collecting Memories - at the Treasures Gallery at the Library of Congress. He lives in the Hudson Valley in a pre-Civil War farmhouse with his wife, writer Jane Rose Porter, their children and a house full of animals.