Born 1989, Durham, NC, US

Lives and works in Vancouver, BC, CA

EDUCATION

2007-2011 BFA Visual Arts University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 Nozaki Island, Sacred Landscapes, Gallery Mugen, Tokyo, Japan [solo]

2019 Durham Dances, The Fruit Company Durham, NC [solo]

2016 Super Shitty Art Show, The Mothership, Durham, NC

2015 The Shore + The Bestiary, The Looking Glass, Carrboro, NC [solo]

2015 Carrack Community Show, The Carrack, Durham, NC

2014 Tree, Art Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle, WA, US

2013 Transitions!, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, US

2012 Occupy!, Governors Island, New York, NY
2012 Self Observed, North Carolina Museum of Art, NC
2011 Conceptual Photography Exhibit, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
2010 Works in progress, The Artery, Chapel Hill, NC

PUBLICATIONS

“30 Portraits for 30 Years,” co-published with the North Carolina Dance Festival, Blurb, 2021

“Iceland a World in Black and White,” Blurb, 2020

“Durham Dances,” Blurb, 2019

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Woods, Byron, “Zoe Litaker’s Photobook “Durham Dances” Captures the Vitality of the Bull City’s Dance Scene.” Indy Week Oct 29th 2019

Litaker, Zoe, “Photo essay: Southerners shut down the Klan.” Scalawag Magazine, December 2016.

“Instagram Yoga Star Jessamyn Stanley Shares Her Headstand Secrets.” Glamour Magazine, June 2016. Print.

"Turkey and Scotland." Passport Magazine, Spring 2011: 31-32. Print.

"Portrait of a Shrinking Village." Endeavors, Fall 2011: 24-29. Print.

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS

2021 Pas de Deux Photo Competition, On Location Finalist, USA

2010 Burch Fellowship: Undergraduate Research Fund Grant for Photography and Demography Project

2010 1st place UNC Global Education Center Study Abroad Photography Contest

Born in 1989 in Durham, North Carolina, Zoe Litaker studied photography and fine art at the University of North Carolina from 2007-2011. Zoe has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions from 2010 to the present day, featuring works in photography, collage, and mixed media. Recurrant themes in her work include transience, resiliency, ecocentrism, (in)fertility and blurring the lines between imagined and objective reality. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, CA.