Chris McCaw

03/06/2025

Tremendously excited to be in Richmond, VA for the opening of my show Solar Relics at fantastic Candela Gallery tomorrow night, Friday, March 7th. Hope to see you there!

Solar Relics marks Chris McCaw’s third solo exhibition at Candela Gallery , showcasing his continually evolving, innovative exploration of light, time, and material. The exhibition spotlights new and old works marked by the sun using solar exposure as both medium and process, grounding photograph

04/20/2024

Limited edition book Circuit included in the exhibition The Awe of the Arctic at the New York Public Library through July 13th

Discover how the Arctic has been a source of intrigue and fascination for centuries through historic and contemporary images.

04/20/2024

Book signing alert! I'll be wielding the pen (fine point and archival, of course) and signing copies of Marking Time in the AIPAD booth of Marshall Gallery, which is also presenting a selection of work from Sunburn, on Saturday, April 27th at noon. Hope to see you there!

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04/20/2024

NYC peeps! Signed copies of my new monograph Marking Time from Datz Press will be available at the Datz Press table at NYABF, as well as in their booth at AIPAD!

04/20/2024

My first solo show in France of work from the Sunburn series and ensuing projects is opening Tuesday, April 23rd at Bigaignon Gallery in Paris. I'll be there 6-9pm signing my new monograph Marking Time from Datz Press.

As part of our annual curatorial program which aims at inviting artists who have built some exceptional body of work, this outstanding exhibition features the work of American renowned artist Chris McCaw, his very first solo show in France. The exhibition follows invitations to Hideyuki Ishibashi, J

11/01/2023

It's been over eleven years since my first monograph Sunburn was published by Candela Books. Long since sold out, I'm happy to share that a new monograph encompassing the varied work I've been making the last decade is available now from Datz Press! I'm deeply grateful for the team at Datz who brought patience, creativity and technical mastery to this book.

For ParisPhoto folks, I'll be signing copies Saturday, November 11th at 3pm at the Datz Press booth in the book arena!

Marking Time Chris McCaw “Sunburn was a conceptual experiment and adventure in connecting time and analog photographic tools. …I continuously study what directions and shapes of sun trajectories I can obtain in various times and spaces on the Earth. I expect a magical scene to appear, but it is ...

02/16/2023

Always extra-nice to have work on the walls of museums in your home town. Excited to have a piece in this show alongside lotsa friends. As the kids say: woot!

Major exhibition places America’s most famous landscape photographer and environmentalist in conversation with contemporary artists  de Young museum / April 8–July 23, 2023

02/16/2023

Opening this weekend alongside all the Frieze shenanigans in LA. Touch The Sun at Marshall Gallery in Bergamont with Roger Ackling and Alia Malley. Hope you can come out and say hi during the opening on Saturday!

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02/16/2023

The honor of the year in 2022 to get to travel to South Korea to see the amazing work Datz Museum did creating a show including Sunburn, Heliograph, Tidal Work and Polaroids. Lovely installation photos online, including the fab curving wall they constructed to install an Alaska Cirkut piece!

Datz Museum of Art

02/16/2023

I'm thrilled to be working with Datz Press in South Korea. They published this handmade artist book with me last year.

CIRKUT Chris McCaw “The longer you’re up there, the greater the sensation of the Earth’s rotation—this blue marble spinning in space. It’s an amazing experience to be so aware of the circular rotation of our planet as you watch the sun seemingly cycle all the way around you in the sky with...

10/17/2020

Been cleaning the studio for days...it can only mean a virtual studio tour and slideshow talk are coming your way! Courtesy of the New Museum Los Gatos and their exhibition Image+Object.

Image+Object Virtual Artist Talk and Tour
Thursday, October 22, 2020
5:00 PM 6:00 PM

In this NU 4-part series, curator Allison Railo takes us into the homes and studios of the artists featured in the alternative process photography exhibition, Image + Object . It virtually doesn’t get any better than this! Meet photographer Chris McCaw as he takes us through his Pacifica stu

10/17/2020

BIDDING HAPPENING NOW! Supporting the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel by donating this 4x5" sunburn pieces—the Center remains a welcoming community space in which I've been honored to show and speak. Work courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery

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