John Chiara

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John Chiara
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John Chiara at Haines Gallery
Born1971
San Francisco, California
NationalityAmerican
Education B.F.A.University of Utah
M.F.A.California College of the Arts
Known for Fine Art Photography
Website www.johnchiara.com

John Chiara (born 1971, in San Francisco, California) is an American contemporary artist and photographer. [1] [2]

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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. [3] [4]

Career

Chiara builds custom large-format cameras, and exposes his images directly onto hand-cut photographic paper. He built his first camera in 1997. [5]

Exhibitions

Solo

Group

Publications

Publications by Chiara

Publications with contributions by Chiara

Collections

Chiara's work is held in the following public collections:

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