EDUCATION
2010 MFA Art Practice, Stanford University
2003 BFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
RESIDENCIES
2024 Radio28 Creative Studio, Mexico City
Montalvo Arts Center, CA
2023 The Space Program, San Francisco, US
2022 Cow House Studios, Ireland
2015-2016 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, US
2014 Recology Artist-in-Residence Program, San Francisco, US
2010-2011 Headlands Center for the Arts, US
2008 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Face to Face, Harold J. Miossi Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2023 Odyssey, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
2021 Hues, The Armory Show, Rebecca Camacho Presents, New York, NY
2020 Jamil Hellu: Together, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2018 Hues, Facebook Artist-in-Residence Program, San Francisco, CA
2017 Jamil Hellu: Shopping Carts, San Francisco International Airport, CA
2016 Once Upon a Time, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, CA
2016 All Ways Lead to the Mill, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 Present Tense, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2015 Darrin, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2014 Portraits, Recology San Francisco, CA
2008 Les photographies de Jamil Hellu, Les Mots à la Bouche, Paris, France
2008 Vos souvenirs, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris France
2007 Unfinished Meanings in Time of War Clouds, Project Gallery 52, SF, CA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 David King & Jamil Hellu, Jon Stevenson Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011 Between You and Me, JayJay Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011 People we know, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
CURATORIAL PROJECT
2023 Dismantling Monoliths Exhibition, San Francisco Camerawork, CA
2010 MFA Art Practice, Stanford University
2003 BFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
RESIDENCIES
2024 Radio28 Creative Studio, Mexico City
Montalvo Arts Center, CA
2023 The Space Program, San Francisco, US
2022 Cow House Studios, Ireland
2015-2016 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, US
2014 Recology Artist-in-Residence Program, San Francisco, US
2010-2011 Headlands Center for the Arts, US
2008 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Face to Face, Harold J. Miossi Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2023 Odyssey, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
2021 Hues, The Armory Show, Rebecca Camacho Presents, New York, NY
2020 Jamil Hellu: Together, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2018 Hues, Facebook Artist-in-Residence Program, San Francisco, CA
2017 Jamil Hellu: Shopping Carts, San Francisco International Airport, CA
2016 Once Upon a Time, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, CA
2016 All Ways Lead to the Mill, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 Present Tense, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2015 Darrin, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2014 Portraits, Recology San Francisco, CA
2008 Les photographies de Jamil Hellu, Les Mots à la Bouche, Paris, France
2008 Vos souvenirs, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris France
2007 Unfinished Meanings in Time of War Clouds, Project Gallery 52, SF, CA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 David King & Jamil Hellu, Jon Stevenson Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011 Between You and Me, JayJay Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011 People we know, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
CURATORIAL PROJECT
2023 Dismantling Monoliths Exhibition, San Francisco Camerawork, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (upcoming)
2024
En Presencia de lo Ausente, Radio28 CS, Mexico City, Mexico
CULT Turns 10, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Irving Archives and Museum, Irving, TX
FOG Design+Art, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
We Are Stardust, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2025
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (upcoming)
2024
En Presencia de lo Ausente, Radio28 CS, Mexico City, Mexico
CULT Turns 10, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Irving Archives and Museum, Irving, TX
FOG Design+Art, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
We Are Stardust, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2023
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Full Figure, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
NADA Miami, Rebecca Camacho Presents, FL
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI
The Hornik Collection: Some Dogs, Four One Nine Studio, San Francisco, CA
Looking Back, Moving Forward, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver CO
Have You Seen Me, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, CA
FOG Design+Art, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
2022
Gaze Interrupted, CULT Bureau, Oakland CA
Hope is a Discipline, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
A Library of Forms, Robert F. Agrella Gallery, Santa Rosa Junior College, CA
Witness, The Neon Heater Art Gallery, Findlay, OH
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Full Figure, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
NADA Miami, Rebecca Camacho Presents, FL
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI
The Hornik Collection: Some Dogs, Four One Nine Studio, San Francisco, CA
Looking Back, Moving Forward, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver CO
Have You Seen Me, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, CA
FOG Design+Art, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
2022
Gaze Interrupted, CULT Bureau, Oakland CA
Hope is a Discipline, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
A Library of Forms, Robert F. Agrella Gallery, Santa Rosa Junior College, CA
Witness, The Neon Heater Art Gallery, Findlay, OH
2021
Witness, School of Art Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Queer-y-ing the Arab: The Canary in the Freedom Mine, Apexart, New York, NY
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Witness, School of Art Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Queer-y-ing the Arab: The Canary in the Freedom Mine, Apexart, New York, NY
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2020
Invocation Democracy, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
The American Dream, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Home/Body, Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Mills College, Oakland, CA
The Queer Archive Festival, Romantso Gallery, Athens, Greece
Sense of Self, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Invocation Democracy, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
The American Dream, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Home/Body, Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Mills College, Oakland, CA
The Queer Archive Festival, Romantso Gallery, Athens, Greece
Sense of Self, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2019
Recology Artist-in-Residence Program’s 30th Anniversary, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Tallest Part of the Arch, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Picturing Identity, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
2018
Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Reorienting the Imaginaries, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Mark for Redaction, Flux Factory, New York, NY
Intersection of Gazes, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Queer Voices, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
Trove: Selections from Recology, San Marco Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
Academic Practice: Bay Area Photography Now, Coulter Art Gallery, Stanford University, CA
The Tipping Point, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A History of Violence, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
The Third Muslim, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2017
The Yud Video Project, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Campions, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX
Where We Find Ourselves, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Where We Find Ourselves, Penn State Abington Art Gallery, Abington, PA
Can We Design Freedom?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Magic Word Mother Tongue, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Kala 2017, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Justice for All?, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2016
Recology's Photography and Video Retrospective, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Collections, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Architecture and the City, American Institute of Architecture, San Francisco, CA
Appro-propagation: Kala Fellows, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Zones of Representation, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Climate Change, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
From Me to You, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015
Armados de Impaciencia, LANAU Espacio Creativo, Madrid, Spain
The Kinsey Institute Art Show, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, IN
Performing Mythologies, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
The Rights of Summer, Ripe Art Gallery, Huntington, NY
June Art Month, Innovation Hanger, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Make Art, Not Landfill, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
Quoting Ourselves, SFSU Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Artists' Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Parts of the Whole, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
Art at the Dump, San Francisco Federal Building, San Francisco, CA
The Art of Recology, Voila Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Trashed and Treasured, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA
2014
More Than One Way, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
30th Anniversary, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Last Photograph, Unbox Festival, New Delhi, India
Knight Finalists, Anne & Mark’s Art Party, San Jose, CA
Long Shot 2014, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
New Orleans Culture Photography Exhibition, Moscow House of Photography, Russia
2013
It’s a Thin Line Between Love & Hate, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY
Take Me Away, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Cover to Cover: Survey of members' books, SF Camerawork, SF, CA
Image and Identity, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
Faculty Art Show, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
Long Shot 2013, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
This Will Never Work, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2012
Equivalents, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Portrait: Mirror Mirror, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2011
Kiss: New Sincerity & New Romanticism in Art, Clara M Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY
Graduate Fellows Exhibition, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Long Shot 2011, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Sincerely Yours, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2010
Select Gender, Farmani Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Co-Existing and Co-Laborating, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Roll Call, SF Camerawork, SF, CA
Chronotopia, Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archives, SOMArts, SF, CA
Square Root, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Thomas Welton Gallery, Stanford, CA
2009
Men and the Domestic Interior, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
Co-Existing and Co-Laborating, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Passive/Aggressive, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Ersatz, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Sweet and Matchless, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Very Close to Far Away, Thomas Welton Gallery, Stanford, CA
2008
Brazil, Hotel des Arts, San Francisco, CA
National Juried Exhibition, Toledo Friends of Photography, Toledo, OH
2023 Lucas Artists Residency Program Fellowship, Montalvo Arts Center
2020 Community Arts Grant, Zellerbach Family Foundation
2019 Individual Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission
2018 Eureka Fellowship Award, Fleishhacker Foundation
2018 Salon 2018 Publication Fellowship Award, Peripheral Vision Press
2016-2017 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellowship: Freedom Cohort
2016 Endeavor Foundation for the Arts Grant
2015-2016 San Francisco Queer Cultural Center Grant
2015 Kala Institute Fellowship Award
2015 Vevey International Photo Award Shortlist
2014 Knight Foundation Grant
2014 MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana Grant
2011 San Francisco Artist Award Nomination, Frey Norris Gallery
2010 Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship Award
2010 Suzanne Baruch Lewis MFA Grant, Stanford University
2008-2010 The Markowski-Leach Scholarship Award
2004 Public Industry Council Scholarship, Bay Area Video Coalition
2000-2003 Scholarship for the Arts Award, San Francisco Art Institute
1998-2000 English as a Second Language Scholarship , Cabrillo College
1999 Spring Show Award, Cabrillo College
1999 Photojournalism Contest Award, Cabrillo College
1999 Photographer’s Forum 19th Annual Contest, Honorable Mention
BOARDS / JURIES / PANELS
2023/Present SF Camerawork Board of Directors
2014/Present Recology's Artist-in-Residence Program, Advisory Board Member
2023 Center for Photographic Art, Artist Grants, Juror
2017-2021 Aggregate Space Gallery, Advisory Board Member
2021 Queer Intersections, Recology AIR, Panelist
2021 Queer-y-ing the Arab Queerness, Apexart in partnership with ArteEast, Panelist
2018 Sustainable Art Practices, stARTup Art Fair, Panelist
2017 Headlands Center for the Arts: Artist-in-Residence Program, Juror
2017 Kala Fellowship Award, Juror
2017 San Francisco Art Institute Public Education Exhibition, Juror
2017 De Anza College Annual Student Show, Juror
2017 Thinking FWD: The 18th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual, Juror
2017 Artist in Residencies, stARTup Art Fair, Panelist
2016 Headlands Center for the Arts: Graduate Fellow & Affiliate Artist programs, Juror
Recology Artist-in-Residence Program’s 30th Anniversary, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Tallest Part of the Arch, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Picturing Identity, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
2018
Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Reorienting the Imaginaries, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Mark for Redaction, Flux Factory, New York, NY
Intersection of Gazes, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Queer Voices, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
Trove: Selections from Recology, San Marco Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
Academic Practice: Bay Area Photography Now, Coulter Art Gallery, Stanford University, CA
The Tipping Point, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A History of Violence, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
The Third Muslim, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2017
The Yud Video Project, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Campions, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX
Where We Find Ourselves, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Where We Find Ourselves, Penn State Abington Art Gallery, Abington, PA
Can We Design Freedom?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Magic Word Mother Tongue, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Kala 2017, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Justice for All?, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2016
Recology's Photography and Video Retrospective, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Collections, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Architecture and the City, American Institute of Architecture, San Francisco, CA
Appro-propagation: Kala Fellows, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Zones of Representation, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Climate Change, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
From Me to You, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015
Armados de Impaciencia, LANAU Espacio Creativo, Madrid, Spain
The Kinsey Institute Art Show, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, IN
Performing Mythologies, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
The Rights of Summer, Ripe Art Gallery, Huntington, NY
June Art Month, Innovation Hanger, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Make Art, Not Landfill, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
Quoting Ourselves, SFSU Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Artists' Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Parts of the Whole, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
Art at the Dump, San Francisco Federal Building, San Francisco, CA
The Art of Recology, Voila Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Trashed and Treasured, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA
2014
More Than One Way, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
30th Anniversary, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Last Photograph, Unbox Festival, New Delhi, India
Knight Finalists, Anne & Mark’s Art Party, San Jose, CA
Long Shot 2014, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
New Orleans Culture Photography Exhibition, Moscow House of Photography, Russia
2013
It’s a Thin Line Between Love & Hate, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY
Take Me Away, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Cover to Cover: Survey of members' books, SF Camerawork, SF, CA
Image and Identity, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
Faculty Art Show, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
Long Shot 2013, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
This Will Never Work, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2012
Equivalents, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Portrait: Mirror Mirror, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2011
Kiss: New Sincerity & New Romanticism in Art, Clara M Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY
Graduate Fellows Exhibition, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Long Shot 2011, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Sincerely Yours, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2010
Select Gender, Farmani Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Co-Existing and Co-Laborating, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Roll Call, SF Camerawork, SF, CA
Chronotopia, Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archives, SOMArts, SF, CA
Square Root, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Thomas Welton Gallery, Stanford, CA
2009
Men and the Domestic Interior, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
Co-Existing and Co-Laborating, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Passive/Aggressive, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Ersatz, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Sweet and Matchless, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Very Close to Far Away, Thomas Welton Gallery, Stanford, CA
2008
Brazil, Hotel des Arts, San Francisco, CA
National Juried Exhibition, Toledo Friends of Photography, Toledo, OH
ART COMMISSION INSTALLATION
2020 Art for Essential Workers, 100 Days of Action, Sutter Health, San Francisco, CA
2018 Facebook Headquarters, Artist-in-Residence Program, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS2020 Art for Essential Workers, 100 Days of Action, Sutter Health, San Francisco, CA
2018 Facebook Headquarters, Artist-in-Residence Program, San Francisco, CA
2023 Lucas Artists Residency Program Fellowship, Montalvo Arts Center
2020 Community Arts Grant, Zellerbach Family Foundation
2019 Individual Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission
2018 Eureka Fellowship Award, Fleishhacker Foundation
2018 Salon 2018 Publication Fellowship Award, Peripheral Vision Press
2016-2017 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellowship: Freedom Cohort
2016 Endeavor Foundation for the Arts Grant
2015-2016 San Francisco Queer Cultural Center Grant
2015 Kala Institute Fellowship Award
2015 Vevey International Photo Award Shortlist
2014 Knight Foundation Grant
2014 MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana Grant
2011 San Francisco Artist Award Nomination, Frey Norris Gallery
2010 Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship Award
2010 Suzanne Baruch Lewis MFA Grant, Stanford University
2008-2010 The Markowski-Leach Scholarship Award
2004 Public Industry Council Scholarship, Bay Area Video Coalition
2000-2003 Scholarship for the Arts Award, San Francisco Art Institute
1998-2000 English as a Second Language Scholarship , Cabrillo College
1999 Spring Show Award, Cabrillo College
1999 Photojournalism Contest Award, Cabrillo College
1999 Photographer’s Forum 19th Annual Contest, Honorable Mention
BOARDS / JURIES / PANELS
2023/Present SF Camerawork Board of Directors
2014/Present Recology's Artist-in-Residence Program, Advisory Board Member
2023 Center for Photographic Art, Artist Grants, Juror
2017-2021 Aggregate Space Gallery, Advisory Board Member
2021 Queer Intersections, Recology AIR, Panelist
2021 Queer-y-ing the Arab Queerness, Apexart in partnership with ArteEast, Panelist
2018 Sustainable Art Practices, stARTup Art Fair, Panelist
2017 Headlands Center for the Arts: Artist-in-Residence Program, Juror
2017 Kala Fellowship Award, Juror
2017 San Francisco Art Institute Public Education Exhibition, Juror
2017 De Anza College Annual Student Show, Juror
2017 Thinking FWD: The 18th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual, Juror
2017 Artist in Residencies, stARTup Art Fair, Panelist
2016 Headlands Center for the Arts: Graduate Fellow & Affiliate Artist programs, Juror