title: John Chiara
text: # John Chiara
  
  John Chiara (born 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 a 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.
  
  ### 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. 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
  
  ## 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.
  