John Chiara (born in 1971, in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

) is an American contemporary artist and photographer.

Education

Chiara holds a B.F.A. from the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

(1995) and an M.F.A. in photography from the

California College of the Arts California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996 it opened a second campus in San ...

(2004) where he studied with

Larry Sultan Larry Sultan (July 13, 1946 – December 13, 2009) was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco ...

Career

Chiara builds custom large-format cameras, and exposes his images directly onto hand-cut photographic paper. He built his first camera in 1997.

Exhibitions

Solo

*2017: ''John Chiara Lands End: California at Larkin'', Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA. *2017: John Chiara: New Cityscapes,

Crown Point Press Crown Point Press is a long-established printmaking workshop, primarily creating and publishing etched, intaglio prints. Located in San Francisco since 1986, Crown Point Press was first established in 1962 in Richmond California by Kathan Brown. ...

, San Francisco, CA *2018: ''John Chiara: California/Mississippi'', Galerie Miranda, Paris, France. *2018: ''Pike Slip to Sugar Hill'', Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY. *2021: ''John Chiara: La Poussière des Anges'', Galerie Miranda, Paris, France.

Group

*2012: ''Here'',

Pier 24 Photography Pier 24 Photography is a non-profit art museum located on the Port of San Francisco directly under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The organization houses the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation, which collects, preserves and exh ...

, San Francisco, CA. *2013: ''Twsited Sisters: Reimaging Urban Portraiture'', Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, CH. *2013: ''Crown Point Press at 50'',

de Young Museum The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California. Located in Golden Gate Park, it is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, along with the Legion of Honor ...

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. The permanent collection of the ...

, San Francisco, CA. *2014: ''A Sense of Place'',

, San Francisco, CA. *2015: ''Light, Paper, Process, Reinventing Photography'', Curated by Virginia Heckert,

J. Paul Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The Getty Center is located in the Brentwood, Los Angeles, Brentwood neighborhood ...

, Los Angeles, CA. *2016: ''Boundless: A California Invitational'',

Museum of Photographic Arts The Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) is a museum in San Diego's Balboa Park. First founded in 1974, MOPA opened in 1983.George Eastman Museum The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...

, Rochester, NY. *2018: ''New Southern Photography'',

Ogden Museum of Southern Art The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located in the Warehouse Arts District of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. Established in 1999, and in Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street since 2003. The building The Ogden consists of two main buildin ...

, New Orleans, LA. *2018: ''Triennale de l’art imprimé contemporain'', Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, CH. *2018: ''A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography'', Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA. *2018: ''New Territory Landscape Photography Today,''

Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With encyclopedic collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums between t ...

, Denver, CO.

Publications

Publications by Chiara

* ''John Chiara: California.'' New York: Aperture; San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, 2017.

Publications with contributions by Chiara

*''Here.'', San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2011. . *''A Sense of Place'', San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2015. . Exhibition catalog. *''Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography'', Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015.

Collections

Chiara's work is held in the following public collections: *J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. *

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

, CA. *

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...

, Washington, D.C. *

, San Francisco, CA. *

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...

, San Francisco, CA.

References

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