John Chiara (b. 1971) received a B.F.A. in Photography from University of Utah in 1994, an M.F.A. in Photography from California College of the Arts in 2004, and was recently an artist in residence at Crown Point Press (2006).

Chiara photographs cityscapes in a process that is part photography, part event and part sculpture – an undertaking in apparatus and patience.  Many times this process involves composing pictures from the inside of a large hand-built camera, that is mounted on a flatbed trailer, and produces large scale, one of a kind, positive exposures. Chiara is a native Californian who lives and works in San Francisco.


Forthcoming Exhibition:
A Photograph Printed as an Etching - Learning the Language of the Realm, Acconci, Baldessari, Boltanski, Chiara, Kounellis, Levine, Marioni, Middleton, Outlaw, Ruscha, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
February 27 - March 22, 2009


Recent Exhibitions:
2008 Lands End: Starr King, Solo Exhibition, Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Alabama Street at 25th, Street San Francisco, CA

2008 Summer Group Show, Breuer, Chiara, Ellis, Fischer, Helbling, Jaudon, Kaoru, Maguire, Maisel, Roan, Sheinkman, Zielske, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Innovation in Tradition, Curated by Muriel Maffre, Sponsored by the Museum of Performance and Design, San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA

2008 Land's End, Solo Exhibition, Von Lintel Gallery
555 West 25th Street, New York, NY

2008 Winter Group Show: Appleby, Chiara, Fries, Levine, Napangardi, Owens, Outlaw, Reed, Steir, Tuttle, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA


Telvision Documentary:
2006 Spark, Television Documentary. Experimenting, KQED, Channel 9, May


Bibliography:
2009 Ishola, Olubunmi. John Chiara, SCI Q Magazine, January, p.24
2008 Helfland, Glen. John Chiara, Art Forum Magazine, November, p.359-360
2008 Bennett, Kim. John Chiara at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Art Week Magazine, November p.15-16
2008 Ryan, Christine. Watch This Space, 7X7 Magazine, November p.121
2008 Bamberger, Alan, John Chiara, Lands End, Starr King, Art Business.com , August 23rd
2008 Aletti, Vince. Goings On About Town John Chiara, The New Yorker, February 25th, p.16
2008 Wolff, Rachel. John Chiara is His Own Camera, New York Magazine, February 26th
2008 Baker, R.C. Best in Show: Big Shots, Village Voice, February 12th
2008 Hicks, Erin. Camera Obscura, BlackBook, February 21st
2008 Daily Candy, New York. See John Chiara, February 21st
2008 Roaff, Peggy. John Chiara - Lands End, Design Arts Daily Telegraph, January 23rd
2007 Blind Spot, 36th Edition, Walead Beshty, Marco Breuer, John Chiara, Liz Deschenes, Rob Fischer, Joan Fontcuberta, Michelle Kloehn, Roman Signer
2007 Works on Paper Originally in B&W, ZYZZYVA, Issue 79, the last word: west coast writers & artists, Spring, pp. 133-135
2007 Bennett, Kim. Imperfect Beauty, A Conversation with John Chiara, ARTICLE, art and the imaginative promise, Summer pp. 2-6
2007 Spark, Television Documentary. Inside Crown Point Press
2007 Spicer, Jakki K. On the Wall, East Bay Express, March 21
2007 Harmanci, Reyhan. Special pairings, 'Visual Alchemy' Exhibition brings together diverse artists at different stages, San Francisco Chronicle, February 15
2005 Twomey, Chris. The Photograph In Question at Von Lintel Gallery, M: The New York Art World, September Edition.
2005 Bamberger, Alan. Lands End - New Work by John Chiara and Liz Walsh at Adobe Books, ArtBusiness.com, December
2004 Artist Portfolio, Eleven Eleven, Annual Journal of Literature and Art. May


Representation:
Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA


Collections:
General Gallery Collection, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Flat Files Collection, Pierogi 2000, Williamsburg, NY
General Gallery Collection, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Crown Point Press Archive, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Crown Point Press Archive, National Gallery of Art