Bio
b. San Francisco, 1971
Education
2004
MFA, Photography, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1995
BFA, Photography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Academic Posts
2015
Visiting Faculty, Photography Department, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,CA
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Pike Slip to Sugar Hill, Yossi Milo Gallery, NY
2017
John Chiara: New Cityscapes, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2016
West Side at Tioronda, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
In Camera: American Landscapes, NextLevel Galerie, Paris, France
2015
Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014
de • tached, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
John Chiara: Los Angeles, Rose Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Crestmont at Coral, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In Conversation, June Schwartz and John Chiara (two-person exhibition), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2011
Fort at Lime Point, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Point Bonita, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Land’s End, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Land’s End: Starr King, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Club Sportiva, Sponsored by Gen Art and Johnny Walker, San Francisco, CA
2003
BUILD Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2020
Process and Invention: West Coast Photographers Expanding the Medium, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
2019
A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2018
Triennial of Contemporary Prints, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
New Southern Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2017
Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary
Low Fidelity: The Action of Light, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2016
A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Boundless: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Transphotographiques 2016- These Americans, Le Tripostal, Lille, France
Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2015
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014
A Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
Initial Public Offering, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
California Dreaming, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Staking Claim: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
TWISTED SISTERS: Reimaging Urban Portraiture, Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, CH
Caspar: FORT BRAGG, LCCM, Fort Bragg, CA
The Road, Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
UNIQUE, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Cardinal (SW), Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2012
Suspended Disbelief, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Imagining Memory, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
In Conversation, June Schwartz and John Chiara, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2011
HERE, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
Science of Sight: Alternative Photography, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Views, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Bending the Light, Oakland International Airport, Oakland, CA
Donde El Tempo Se Encuentra, Ana Valasco Gallery. A Coru a. Galicia. Spain
California Continued: New Approaches to West Coast Photography, Smith Anderson North, Marin, CA
2010
There is a Way in Which, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Edges of Light, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Summer Group Show, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
You and Me Living Today / Vol. 2 / The Land, Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD
Alchemy, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Front and Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
2009
John Chiara : Sean McFarland, Swimming Pool Gallery, Chicago, IL
An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part One. SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Live & Direct, Ping Pong Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Printing a Photograph as an Etching, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2008
Summer Group Show, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Innovation in Tradition, San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA
Winter Group Show, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2007
Urban Landscapes, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Visual Alchemy, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006
Awesome: The Contemporary Sublime, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Landscapes: John Chiara and Tom Marioni, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2005
The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Lands End - New Work by John Chiara and Liz Walsh, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
2004
Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
All College Honors Exhibition, North/South Gallery, Oakland, CA
2002
Pin Up Show, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
Z Program - Infinite, Pamela Z Performance / Collaboration, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1995
Fifth Utah Photographic Biennial, Nora Eccles Museum of Fine Art, Logan, UT
Grants & Awards
2017
Budapest Art Factory, Artist in Residence, Budapest, Hungary
2010
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, Marin, CA
Gallery Four, Artist in Residence, Baltimore, MD
2006
Crown Point Press, Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA
Spark Education Honorarium, KQED, San Francisco, CA
Collections
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Pilara Foundation, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Selected Bibliography
2020
Kunzig, Robert. “Let’s not waste this crucial moment: We need to stop abusing the planet.” National Geographic 13 October, 2020
Popkin, Gabriel. “Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?” The New York Times Magazine 30 April 2020
Ross, Alex. "The Past and the Future of the Earth's Oldest Trees." The New Yorker 13 January 2020
2018
Levin, Matt. "Staff Picks: Cameras, Colonnades, and Countesses." The Paris Review 26 October 2018
“Browsings: Cherry Street near Pike Slip.” Harper’s 8 October 2018
Bourland, Ian. "Critics' Picks: John Chiara." <cite<Artforum 8 October 2018
Milstein, Kara. “New Voices in Southern Photography and Where to See Them This Fall.” Time 5 October 2018
Knoblauch, Loring. “John Chiara, Pike Slip to Sugar Hill @Yossi Milo.” Collector Daily 12 September 2018
Casper, Jim. “New York Photos: Pike Slip to Sugar Hill.” Lensculture 6 September 2018
Sante, Luc. “John Chiara’s Uncanny City.” The New York Times Magazine 12 July 2018
Delson, Susan. “In Denver, Landscapes Soaked, Digitized and Irradiated.” The Wall Street Journal 8 June 2018
2017
Tedford, Mike. “Nothing Outdated About John Chiara’s Traditional Techniques.” KQED Arts 15 November 2017
Casper, Jim. “California.” Lensculture November 2017
McPhate, Mike. “California Today: An Analog View of California.” The New York Times 27 October 2017
French, Agatha. ”Photographing California with a camera as big as a truck.” Los Angeles Times 26 October 2017
Chiara, John. California, Aperture and Pier 24 Photography, October 2017. [book]
2016
Asokan, Ratik. “John Chiara: West Side at Tioronda, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.” Photograph Magazine 17 May 2016
Knoblauch, Loring. “John Chiara, West Side at Tioronda @Yossi Milo.” Collector Daily 13 May 2016
Kurcfeld, Michael. “Photographer Spotlight: John Chiara.” Los Angeles Review of Books 12 May 2016
Aletti, Vince. “John Chiara.” The New Yorker 9 May 2016
Leland, John. “Big Town, Big Camera.” The New York Times 17 April 2016
Rong, Jiang. “Where Shall Photography Go Next—Reflections on the 36th AIPAD.” Chinese Photography April 2016
Grow, Krystal. “The Best Investments at AIPAD 2016.” American Photo 15 April 2016
“John Chiara Goes East.” Photo District News 14 April 2016
Laster, Paul. “10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before April 15.” New York Observer 11 April 2016
Seymour, Tom. “In Camera: John Chiara’s American Landscapes.” British Journal of Photography 6 April 2016
2015
Harren, Natilee. “Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography,” Artforum. September 2015
Ollman, Leah. “’Light, Paper, Process’ an inventive subversion of photography,” Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2015
Adamek, Pauline. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography’ at the Getty – Los Angeles photo exhibition review,” Arts Beat LA 30 April 2015
Schoener, Allon. “Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography at The Getty,” Cultural Weekly 30 April 2015
Wallis, Brian. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography,’” Artforum 2015
Riefe, Jordan. “Lights! Camera! Bodily Fluids! Photographers bend the rules,” The Guardian 17 April 2015
Keats, Jonathon. “Darkroom, Redux? Chemistry Bests Megapixels at the Getty’s New Photography Show,” Forbes 14 April 2015
2013
“Staking Claim: A California Invitational,” Museum of Photographic Arts: San Diego, CA, 2013
Zellen, Jody. “Uncanny Images, John Chiara in Santa Monica,” Afterimage, 2013
“A Sense of Place,” Pier 24 Publication: San Francisco, CA, 2013
“San Francisco: Arts for the City—Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932–2012,” Heyday Books: San Francisco, CA, 2013
Baker, Kenneth. “A Look Back at the Year in Bay Area Art,” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 December 2013
Wood, Sura. “Looking back at the art world, 2013,” The Bay Area Reporter, 26 December 2013
Hodgson, Simon. “The Development of John Chiara,” California College of the Arts, 6 December 2013
Portfolio Review and Interview, November issue of PEN MAGAZINE, Tokyo, Japan, 2013
de Bont, Jan. “Collectors: The Filmmakers,” Aperture, Fall 2013
Wood, Sura. “Pier 24 Revisited,” The Bay Area Reporter, 15 August 2013
Chiara, John. “Longer Ways to Go,” Harper’s, July 2013
Westerbeck, Colin. “Top Finds at Paris Photo Los Angeles,” Art in America, 7 May 2012
Scholz, Zachary Royer, “Crestmont at Coral,” Art Practical, 3 May 2013
“Haines Gallery announces its first solo exhibition with newly represented artist, John Chiara,” artdaily, 15 April 2013
Walker, David. “DIY Camera: John Chiara’s Giant Camera Obscura,” Photo District News, 6 February 2013
Alleti, Vince. “John Chiara,” The New Yorker, 2 January 2013
2012
“Paris Photo vu par David Lynch,” Steidl: Gottingen, Germany, 2012
“Fort at Lime Point,” Von Lintel Gallery: New York, NY, 2012
2011
“HERE,” Pier 24 Photography: San Francisco, CA, 2011
“Interview with Artist Portfolio,” PHOTO WORLD, Xinhua News Agency: Beijing, China, 2011
Jones, Brent Foster. “Aliens v. Venetians,” Art Practical, December 2011
Winant, Carmen. “John Chiara at Von Lintel Gallery,” Daily Serving, November 2011
Roalf, Peggy. “John Chiara at Von Lintel Gallery,” Design Arts Daily, November 2011
Baker, R.C. “Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To,” Village Voice, 20 July 2011
Whiting, Sam. “John Chiara’s Camera Obscura Captures Big Picture,” San Francisco Chronicle, 16 June 2011
2010
“An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part One. San Francisco Plays Itself,” SF Camerawork: San Francisco, CA, 2010
Bamberger, Alan. “Eleanor Harwood: John Chiara,” ArtBusiness.com, November 2010
Johnson, Martin L. “Chewing the Scenery,” Baltimore City Paper, 25 August 2010
Dawson, Jessica. “Portrait of an Artist as an Old Landscape,” The Washington Post, 13 August 2010
Scholz, Zachary Royer. “Alchemy,” Art Practical, March 2010
Vobis, Annelies. “Alchemy, Goup Exhibition,” Art Business, March 2010
Scholz, Zachary Royer. “Front + Center: Weather Streams,” Art Practical, January 2010
2009
Pearson, Laura. “John Chiara : Sean McFarland,” TimeOut Magazine, November 2009
Houston, Johnny Ray. “The Photo Issue: John Chiara,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5 August 2009
Ishola, Olubunmi. “John Chiara,” SCI Q Magazine, January 2009
2008
Bennett, Kim. “Imperfect Beauty, A Conversation with John Chiara,” ARTICLE, 2008
Helfland, Glen. “John Chiara,” Art Forum Magazine, November 2008
Bennett, Kim. “John Chiara at Eleanor Harwood Gallery,” Art Week Magazine, November 2008
Ryan, Christine. “Watch This Space,” 7X7 Magazine, November 2008
Bamberger, Alan. “Eleanor Harwood: John Chiara,” ArtBusiness.com, September 2008
Wolff, Rachel. “John Chiara is His Own Camera,” New York Magazine, 26 February 2008
Aletti, Vince. “Goings On About Town, John Chiara,” The New Yorker, 25 February 2008
Roaff, Peggy. “John Chiara - Lands End,” Design Arts Daily Telegraph, 23 January 2008
Hicks, Erin. “Camera Obscura,” BlackBook Magazine, 21 February 2008
Daily Candy, “New York. See John Chiara,” 21 February 2008
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show: Big Shots,” The Village Voice, 12 February 2008
2007
“John Chiara Land’s End,” Blind Spot Issue 34: Brooklyn, NY, 2007
Alper, Mindy. “Works on Paper Originally in B&W,” ZYZZYVA, Issue 79: San Francisco, CA, 2007
“Artist Portfolio,” Eleven Eleven: San Francisco, CA, May 2007
Spicer, Jakki K. “On the Wall,” East Bay Express, 21 March 2007
Harmanci, Reyhan. “Special pairings, 'Visual Alchemy',” San Francisco Chronicle, February 2007
2006
Twomey, Chris. “The Photograph In Question at Von Lintel Gallery,” M: The New York Art World, September 2006