John Chiara

John Chiara (born in 1971, in San Francisco, California) is an American contemporary artist and photographer.

Education 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.

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, 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, 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.

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, CA. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.