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Yale University, MFA, 2025
(School of Art Scholarship)

Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA, 2017
(Transfer Scholarship)

Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Artist in Residence, Rockland, Maine, 2026 

Clifford Ross Scholarship, Yale School of Art, 2024 

Toby Devan Lewis Scholarship, Yale School of Art, 2023

Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize Shortlist, Traditional Category, 2021 

SIPF Photobook Award Shortlist, 2020 

Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore, 2020 

Annual Juried Exhibition - Juried by Matthew Leifheit, Honorable mention, Baxter St at Camera Club of New York, 2020

Jan Meyer Travel Photography Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2017

Society of Photographic Education (SPE) Mid-Atlantic Travel Fellowship, 2016

First Breath Second Sight Thesis presentation
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT 2025

RABBIT / HARE In collaboration with Ian Kline, 
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville 2021

Texas is the Reason in collaboration with Ian Kline, The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY, 2018

Texas is the Reason in collaboration with Ian Kline, Maryland Institute College of Art, Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2018

Cheese Popcorn, Gateway Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2017

On Maple Street, in collaboration with Ian Kline
Wilgus Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2016

Right, Turn, Collaboration with Ian Kline, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design Photography Gallery, Lancaster, PA, 2015

First Breath Second Sight Curated by Awol Erizku
Webber Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2025

Jetzeit (Now-Time)’ Curated by Alissa Bennet
Gladstone Gallery, 530 W 21st ST, New York, NY, 2025

Pop Up For Sunsets, Zone 7a Gallery, Providence, RI, 2024

SIPF Photobook Showcase, Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore, 2020

Honorable Mention Exhibition, Baxter St. at Camera Club of New York back yard, New York, NY, 2018

Summer Sun Day Dream, The Lab @ Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018

Guest room curated by Mathew Leifheit, Der Greif online, 2018

Twist My Arm, Goldilocks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2015

Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME, 2026

Rowan University Visiting Artist / Lecturer, NJ, 2021

Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA, 2021

Aperture Foundation, Online class lecture, 2020

Hampden Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 2017

“Visuals that defined the year in Arts”, The New York Times, 2025

“Thesis Exhibition challenges the digital gaze and captures the present”, Yale Daily News, 2025

“Best entertainment photos of 2023”, The Los Angeles Times, 2023

“Curiosity drives eloquence of this book’s images” The Washington Post, 2022

“Rabbit / Hare”, The Farmville Herald, 2021

American Chordata print issue 10, 2020

“Rabbit / Hare”, Phases Magazine, 2020

“David Billet & Ian Kline’s Rabbit/Hare Texas Reason”, American Suburb X, 2020

“Rabbit / Hare”, C-41 Magazine, 2020

“Down the Rabbit Hole”, Office Magazine, 2020

“David Billet and Ian Kline Rabbit/Hare”, Collector Daily, 2020

“Rabbit/Hare David Billet and Ian Kline”, PhMuseum, 2020

“Rabbit/Hare Reviewed”, Photo-Eye, 2020

“Rabbit/Hare by David Billet and Ian Kline”, Booooooom, 2020

Pix 004: Ryan McGinley print issue, 2019

Ain't Bad Print Issue # 13, 2019  

“Cheese popcorn, David Billet”, Self Publish Be Happy, 2018

“Friday Fry-up”, The Heavy Collective, 2018

“Spotlight”, Booooooom, 2017

“Discovering Masculinity through the lens of David Billet”, Ignant, 2017

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