Book Release
CALIFORNIA, Photographs by John Chiara,
Author - Virginia Heckert, Copublished by Aperture and Pier 24 Photography
Press:
John Chiara, and California’s Beauty and Terror, As wildfires raged across California, the photographer’s surreal landscapes put my new home in perspective, GUERNICA Magazine, Haigney. Sophie
Book Review: California by John Chiara - MUSÉE Magazine
Critically Acclaimed: 75 Experts Name the Top Photobooks of 2017
INTERVIEW: California - LensCulture
An Analog View of California - New York Times
Current Exhibitions
Selections from the Collection, group exhibition, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 - John Chiara: Sea of Glass, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 - Starr King / Lands End, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, CA
2022 - Looking Forward: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
2020 - Dust of Angels, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, CA
2018 - Pike Slip to Sugar Hill, Yossi Milo Gallery, NY, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025- Elemental II: Photography and the Hand of Nature, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2025 - Fringe Practice: Alternative Methods in Photography, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2025 - Angela West and John Chiara in Conversation, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2025 - Fragile Beauty, Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2022 - Looking Forward: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
2019 - NEW TERRITORY LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2018 - A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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
2016 - Boundless: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2016 - A Matter of Memory, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
2015 - New Photography Acquisitions, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin - February 9th - March 18th
2015 - Light, Paper, Process, Reinventing Photography, Curated by Virginia Heckert, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014 - A Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
2013 - TWISTED SISTERS: Reimaging Urban Portraiture, Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, CH
2013 - Crown Point Press at 50, de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Recent Publications
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, Exhibition Catalog, J. Paul Getty Museum
Honors & Awards
2019 - Artist in Residence, Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary
2017 - Artist in Residence, Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary
2016 - Artist in Residence, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2010 - Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Artist in Residence, Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD
2006 - Artist in Residence, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Spark Education Honorarium, KQED, Channel 9, San Francisco, CA
2004 - Dennis Leon and Christine Nelson Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
All College Honors, Masters of Fine Arts Honorable Mention, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Recent Lectures & Workshops
2019 - Artist Talk, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary
Anderman Photography Lecturer, Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
2018 - Workshop, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2017 - Keynote Speaker, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL
Speaker, Medium, San Diego, CA
2016 - Lecture, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY
2015 - Lecture, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
2014 - Workshop and Artist Talk, ITALIC Program, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Landscape Alchemy Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Creative Minds Lecture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2013 - PhotoAlliance Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Lecture, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Artist Talk / Studio Visit, VIP Collectors Circle, Paris Photo - LA, San Francisco CA
Artist Talk, Photographic Arts Council of Los Angeles, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 - Artist Talk, Getty Donors Circle, Haines Gallery, San Francisco CA
Lecture, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Museum Collections
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - San Francisco, CA
High Museum of Art - Atlanta, GA
J. Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Houston, TX
Nevada Museum of Art - Reno, NV
Oakland Museum of California - Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco, CA