Kovi Konowiecki (b.1992) was born in Long Beach, California, and has spent much of the past five years between Los Angeles and Mexico City. He holds a BA in Media Communications from Wake Forest University and an MA in Photography from University of the Arts London.
After playing professional soccer in Europe, he turned to photography as a way to document the things around him and shed light on different aspects of his identity. Kovi was selected to be a part for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in 2016, 2018 and 2019, and was the first ever nominee to have two images shortlisted for the first place prize. He was also an honorable mention for the 2020 Hariban Award (Kyoto, Japan), and was a Red Hook Labs New Artist in 2018.
Kovi has been featured and published on platforms such as The New Yorker, British Journal of Photography, i-D, The Guardian and The California Sunday Magazine, amongst many others. Kovi has exhibited his work in galleries and museums such as ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica, CA), Salut Au Monde! (Porto, Portugal), and The National Portrait Gallery in London.
In 2018, Kovi co founded a small publication, Mula Press, to explore his love for book making and to publish personal projects and special artist editions. Kovi is working on his first monograph with Deadbeat Club Press, which is set to release in Winter 2021.
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