Luke Abiol is a photographer from San Francisco and New York currently living and working in Berlin. He makes photographs of people and places and people in places. Photographing almost exclusively with a large format camera, Luke has collaborated with the likes of Nike, Wallpaper, Stone Island Shadow Project, Acronym and Australian Design Review. When he's not photographing something or taking up the occasional odd job Luke spends his time making books and cooking big meals for his beautiful wife and four children.





born San Francisco, 1980

Education


2004
Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography), Purchase College, New York

Exhibitions


2011
Iconoclash 1: Urban Sceneries, Rainer Sioda, Luke Abiol, Andy
Rumball, Uncommon Place Artist Agency for Young Photography, Berlin

2010
Winter's Berlin (solo), Kris Graves Projects, New York
Landmark, Book project in collaboration with writer Marina Garcia-Vasquez presented as a public work (Spring & Wooster Streets, New York)
Belongings (in collaboration with Marina Garcia-Vasquez),
La Esquina, New York

2009
Fine Art Services, Adalbertstr 9, Berlin
Belongings (in collaboration with Marina Garcia-Vasquez), Kris Graves Projects, New York

2008
Eric Hairabedian, Kris Graves and Luke Abiol: New Works, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, New York

2007
Face Off, Rush Arts, New York

2006
Beauty Shop, Rush Arts Gallery, Miami Basel
Gild Presents: Kaleidoscope, Changing Room, New York
Investigation/Contemplation/Reaction, Local Projects, Long Island City, New York
Explorations, New Century Gallery, New York

2005
Resurrections, Latin Collector Gallery, New York
Expansion, New Century Gallery, New York

2004
Spring Thesis Show, Triangle Gallery, Purchase, New York

Publications


2012
Another Something, (feature) March 2012
2011
Ein Magazin über Orte, Berlin Issue, October 2011
Australian Design Review, Interior/Exterior, September 2011
Someplace Something, August 2011

2010
Obscura, Stone Island Shadow Project, Autumn 2010
Holy Ghost Zine, Interior/Exterior (interview), October 2010
Booooooom, Interior/Exterior (selected works), September 2010
Too Much Chocolate, Artist Feature, July 2010
2009
The New Order, ACR/Stone Island, Summer 2009

2008
ffw_Mag, Seja Belim, Spring 2008 (portfolio published)

2007
Prophecy Magazine, New Berlin, New York, Fall/Winter 2007 (portfolio published)
New York Times, Cotton, 1/11/07 (review), New York, NY
Common Language of Landscape, Abiol & Garcia-Vasquez (self published)

Big Thanks to Indexhibit