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Lucas Blalock is a photographer dwelling in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from UCLA . His work has been included in current exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and MoMA PS1. He has held solo exhibitions at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels), White …