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American contemporary artist and photographer
John Chiara (born in 1971, in
San Francisco, California) is an American contemporary artist and photographer.
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Chiara holds a B.F.A. from the
University of Utah (1995) and an M.F.A. in photography from the
California College of the Arts (2004) where he studied with
Larry Sultan.
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Chiara builds custom large-format cameras, and exposes his images directly onto hand-cut photographic paper. He built his first camera in 1997.
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- 2017: John Chiara Lands End: California at Larkin, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
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- 2017: John Chiara: New Cityscapes,
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
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- 2018: John Chiara: California/Mississippi,
Galerie Miranda, Paris, France.
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- 2018: Pike Slip to Sugar Hill, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY.
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- 2021: John Chiara: La Poussière des Anges,
Galerie Miranda, Paris, France.
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- 2012: Here,
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA.
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- 2013: Twsited Sisters: Reimaging Urban Portraiture, Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, CH.
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- 2013: Crown Point Press at 50,
de Young Museum,
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
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- 2014: A Sense of Place,
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA.
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- 2015: Light, Paper, Process, Reinventing Photography, Curated by Virginia Heckert,
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
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- 2016: Boundless: A California Invitational,
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA.
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- 2016: A Matter of Memory,
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY.
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- 2018: New Southern Photography,
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
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- 2018: Triennale de l’art imprimé contemporain, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, CH.
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- 2018: A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
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- 2018: New Territory Landscape Photography Today,
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
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- John Chiara: California. New York: Aperture; San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, 2017.
ISBN
978-1597114233
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Publications with contributions by Chiara
Chiara's work is held in the following public collections:
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^ Leland, John (April 15, 2016).
"Big Town, Big Camera". The New York Times.
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^ McPhate, Mike (October 27, 2017).
"California Today: An Analog View of California". The New York Times.
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"John Chiara". May 3, 2006.
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"In Camera: John Chiara's American Landscapes". British Journal of Photography. April 6, 2016.
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"Photographing California with a camera as big as a truck". Los Angeles Times. October 26, 2017.
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"Nothing Outdated About John Chiara's Traditional Techniques". KQED. November 15, 2017.
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"John Chiara: New Cityscapes". crownpoint.com.
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"Photography Exhibition - JOHN CHIARA: California/Mississippi". loeildelaphotographie.com.
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^ LensCulture, John Chiara.
"New York Photos: Pike Slip to Sugar Hill - Photographs by John Chiara | Interview and text by Jim Casper". LensCulture.
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"John Chiara: La Poussière des Anges". Galerie Miranda.
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"John Chiara: Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge". Pier24.
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^ Whiting, Sam (June 16, 2011).
"John Chiara's camera obscura captures big picture". SFGate.
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"Twisted Sisters". Sanaz Mazinani.
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"Ink | Pluck Peppered with Luck: Crown Point Press Celebrates 50 Years". Art21 Magazine. 9 November 2012.
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^ staff, the SFAQ editorial (24 August 2013).
"Review: "A Sense of Place" exhibition at Pier 24, San Francisco". sfaq.us.
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"The Getty Museum". Getty Museum.
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"Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography". Photograph Magazine. June 5, 2015.
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"Californian photographers showcased in "Boundless: A California Invitational"". Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA). October 18, 2016.
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"A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age". George Eastman Museum.
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"New Southern Photography". Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 22 June 2017.
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"Triennale de l'art imprimé contemporain - Musée des Baux-Arts". sichtbar.art. 17 June 2018.
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"Santa Barbara Museum of Art exhibits works gifted/acquired in the past two years". artdaily.com.
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"New Territory: Landscape Photography Today". Denver Art Museum.
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"John Chiara: California". Aperture.org.
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"John Chiara (American, born 1971) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
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"John Chiara | LACMA Collections". LACMA.
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"Artist Info". NGA.
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"Chiara, John". Pier24.
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"John Chiara · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org.
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