CHRIS MCCAW

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1971, Daly City, California, USA
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA since 1994

EDUCATION

1995
BFA, photography, Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA

1990
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA. Studies-photographic arts, film production

www.chrismccaw.com

Ride Into the Sun, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, October 20-December 22, 2011

Sunburned, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, February 17 - March 27, 2010

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011
Ride Into the Sun, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
Sun Works, two-person exhibition  with Sarah Charlesworth, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Bending the Light, Oakland International Airport Exhibition, Oakland CA
Heavens: Photographs of the Sky and Cosmos, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Seeing is Knowing: The Universe, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Out of the Dark Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Pure Photography, Post Production and Mixed Media, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
California Continued: New Approaches in West Coast Photography, Smith Anderson North, San Anselmo, CA
EcoArchive: Meditiations on Time and Nature, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Open Season, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2010
Sunburned, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
The Edge of Vision, organized by Aperture Foundation, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Redisplay of the Photography Collection
, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Past Forward: Marking Time in Recent Photography, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Exposed: Today’s Photography, Yesterday’s Technology, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
Elemental,
Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Edges of Light: Explorations of the Photographic Process
, ArtsBenicia, Benicia, CA
State of Mind, A California Invitational at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area Part 2: The Future Lasts Forever, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
Burning Desire, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY

2009
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Aperture Gallery, NY. Traveling to Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
10 x 10 x 10:
An Invitational Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Transmutations
, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, NY
Landmark, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Keeping Time, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

2008
New work from the Sunburn Project, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, NY (solo)
Landscape/Other, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
Sunburn, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Sunburns, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
People & Places, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Each Sun, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Grace, PEER Gallery, New York, NY
Mineral, Hous Projects, New York, NY
Sunburn, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX

2007
Time Tracers, Center of Photography @ Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Sunburn, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX
Strange Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
Sunburn, Burien Art Gallery , Burien , WA 
Sunburns and Platinum work, Moab Art works, Utah
Lucky Day, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA

2006
Sunburned & Waterlogged, Gallery of Urban Art, Oakland, CA
Eyewitness II, UC Berkeley School of Journalism, Berkeley, CA
Platinum places, Watermark Fine Art, Houston, TX
Outmoded, The Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA
Lost Out West, 19th & Union Gallery, Oakland, CA
Contemporary Landscape, Baxter/Chang/Patri Fine Art, San Francisco
The Family Farm, San Francisco International Airport Museum, CA

2005
Romancing the Shadows, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Contemporary American Photography, International Fototage, Mannheim, Germany
Vital Signs, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The Family Farm, Watermark Fine Art, Houston, TX
Travelogue, Fusion Artspace, San Francisco, CA

2004
Live Free or Die, Freewheel, San Francisco, CA

2003
Chris McCaw-American photographs, Image/Imatge Gallery, Orthez, France

2002
Identity, San Francisco Main library, San Francisco, CA

2001
SF Camerawork, Fine Print Collection
Vivid, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

2000
Timeless Light, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR

1999
Portraits, Bloom Studio, Oakland, CA

1998
Road Trip Documents, Spindler, San Francisco, CA

1995
Graduate show, Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA

1993
Friends of the South Bay punk scene, the Other Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA

1991
Infrared views
, the Other Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Berkeley Art Museum
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, CA
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, NY
Harry Ransom Center of Humanities at University of Texas, TX
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Monterey Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
Museum of Photographic Arts of San Diego, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Portland Art Museum, OR
Princeton University Art Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
University of Oregon, OR
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2011
Photo District News, June

2010
Prince, Andrew. “’Sunburn’ Photograph, No SPF Necessary, NPR, The Picture Show, November 15.
Kelly, Anne.  “Chris McCaw on his Sunburn Series,” PhotoEye Blog, October 12.
Smyth, Diane. “Self-Made Men: Building your own cameras,” British Journal of Photography, December.
Cheng, Dewitt. “Chris McCaw & Mario Giacomelli @ Stephen Wirtz,” Square Cylinder.com, March 17.
Polednik, Marcelle. “Chris McCaw and the cutting edge of photography,” B&W Magazine, October.
View Camera Magazine, July/August.
Shumacher, Mary Louise. “Chris McCaw at Stephen Wirtz in San Francisco,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 4.
PQ, A Journal For Contemporary Photography, Number 99/Volume 25/Number 1
Baker, Kenneth. “Giacomelli and McCaw at Wirtz,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 27.
Moya, Laura. Critic's Pick, Griffin Museum of PHotography website

2009
Ollman, Leah. “Black Hole Sun: Chris McCaw burns a photograph,” art on paper, May/June
Artkopel online French publication
SeeSaw online magazine, issue #11 Winter
Stockdale, Douglas. Chris McCaw, Sunburn, book review, The PhotoBook, December 8.

2008
Chris McCaw, essay by Thom Sempere, Cavallo Point

2007
Daylight magazine, fall issue
View Camera Magazine, July/August 2007 issue

2005
7. International Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Das Bild Forum, Germany

2004
Lens Culture.com

2003
Recontres Photographiques Image/Imatge, Annexe H, 2003, France

2002
View Camera, Volume XV, Number 4, July/August

2001
SF Camerawork Journal of Photographic Art, Vol.28, No.2

2000
Raygun, September/October issue

1998
Photo Metro, issue 151, October

1996
Photo Metro, contest issue, honorable mention

1994
Thrasher, August

1992
Maximum Rock & Roll, March issue

AWARDS

2008
New Works Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation / SF Camerawork, SF, CA

2007
Alternative Exposure Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation / Southern Exposure, SF, CA

1996
Honorable mention, Photo Metro

1992
John Long Memorial photography scholarship, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA