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