John Chiara

• Name — John Chiara • Born — 1971 • Birthplace — San Francisco, California • Field — Fine Art Photography • Education — B.F.A. – University of Utah M.F.A. – California College of the Arts • Website — https: www.johnchiara.com

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.

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

• 2017: John Chiara Lands End: California at Larkin, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 2017: John Chiara: New Cityscapes, Crown Point Press, 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.

• 2012: Here, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA. • 2013: Twsited Sisters: Reimaging Urban Portraiture, Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, CH. • 2013: Crown Point Press at 50, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. • 2014: A Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA. • 2015: Light, Paper, Process, Reinventing Photography, Curated by Virginia Heckert, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. • 2016: Boundless: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA. • 2016: A Matter of Memory, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY. • 2018: New Southern Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 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, Denver, CO.

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

• 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.

Chiara's work is held in the following public collections: • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA. • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.