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
2024 | 06.09 – 05.10 Our life is full of sunshine and Daughters – and be new here again – group exhibition at Gris Gallery, Ghent
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.