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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
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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
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