John Chiara

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

Chiara holds a B.F.A. from the University of Utah (1995) and a M.F.A. in photography from the California College of the Arts (2004) where he studied with Larry Sultan.

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

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.

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 by Chiara

• John Chiara: California. New York: Aperture; San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, 2017. ISBN 978-1597114233

Publications with contributions by Chiara

• Here., San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9839917-0-0.
• A Sense of Place, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9839917-4-8. Exhibition catalog.
• Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. ISBN 978-1606064375

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.