BIO

Kavion Sabio (b. 1990, New York) is a contemporary fine art photographer based in the New York Metropolitan Area. Working exclusively in 35mm film, his practice centers on narrative contact sheet work; transforming a single roll of film into a complete cinematic sequence printed on Cool Tone Rag Photo Paper.

Sabio has exhibited locally at The Blanc Gallery (Midtown, New York), One Art Space (Tribeca, New York), Jutta Gallery (Hudson Square, New York), and Awita New York Studio (Williamsburg, New York) as well as internationally at Galeria Nueva (Mexico City, Mexico), CASA DEL ARTE Palma (Palma, Spain), & Thomson Gallery (Zug, Switzerland). His work has been featured in Artistic Tribe NYC Newspaper and AP News

His flagship project, “The Crimson Night Before Goodbye” (2024), is the first installment of a ten-part anthology capturing the emotional landscape of twentieth century America. Sabio is currently developing subsequent chapters of the anthology from his studio in the New York Metropolitan Area.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I create large-scale cinematic contact sheets from single rolls of 35mm film, transforming raw sequential frames into complete narrative artworks that explore the emotional residue of places and moments history passes too quickly. Working exclusively in analog, I embrace grain, color, and texture to slow time, revealing dignity in an empty street, weight in a neon sign, and memory in light itself.

These works form fragments of a larger ten-part anthology reimagining twentieth-century America through forgotten lives — ordinary men and women navigating love, race, class, and duty against the backdrop of a country in constant tension with itself. Each chapter is shot on a single roll of film, a deliberate constraint that mirrors the intimacy and limitation of memory. Each contact sheet stands as both a standalone immersive piece and part of an ongoing story about what we inherit, and what we carry forward without knowing it.