EDUCATION

2018 – 2020 | degree in Art Education, Luca School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2017 – 2019 | Master in Photography, School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2014 – 2017  | Bachelor in Photography, School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium

 

EXHIBITIONS

2022 | Our life is full of sunshine – billboard, de blauwe poort, Ghent
2022 | Our life is full of sunshine – Moving pictures, curated by Sofie Crabbé, Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent
2022 | Our life is full of sunshine – Group exhibition, CCHA, Hasselt
2021 | Our life is full of sunshine – Slippery slope, de blauwe poort, Ghent
2021 | Our life is full of sunshine – Iconobelge III, AntwerpPhoto, Antwerp
2021 | Our life is full of sunshine – Track & Trace, Kortrijk
2019 | Our life is full of sunshine – Graduation, KASK, Ghent
2019 | Our life is full of sunshine – MAP #96 with Elena Vloeberghen, KASK, Ghent
2019 | Our life is full of sunshine – Group exhibition, Groeten uit Convent, Ghent
2019 | Our life is full of sunshine  – Group exhibition curated by Joachim Naudts, KASK, Ghent
2018 | Manual – Group exhibition, Sint-Antonius Church, Ghent
2017 | Yao  – Group exhibition, See you when the sun sets east,  Nest, Ghent
2016 | üksildus  – Group exhibition, STOCK, Ghent
2015 | Black Hills  – Group exhibition, Kompass, Ghent

 

BOOKS

2019 | Our life is full of sunshine – selfpublished handmade dummy edition of 40
2017 | Yao – selfpublished handmade edition of 5
2016 | üksildus – selfpublished edition of 20

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2022 | Our life is full of sunshine, selected for Belgian Photobooks in Arles
2021 | Selected among the top 200 PhMuseum’s Stories of 2021 with Our life is full of sunshine
2021 | Third prize for Our life is full of sunshine at Track & Trace, Kortrijk
2021 | Selected for Track & Trace with Our life is full of sunshine
2019 | First prize for pitching Our life is full of sunshine at De Donkere Kamer

 

 

Cato Van Rijckeghem (°1996) lives and works in Ghent. She graduated from KASK School of Arts in Ghent with her work Our life is full of sunshine about a generation of young women who were born in China during the one-child policy.