Chris McCaw

*1971 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Double Day

SF Camerawork, San Francisco (US)
21 May 2026 – 21 Jun 2026
Reversals and Revolutions

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
23 Jan 2026 – 7 Mar 2026
Marking Time

Marshall Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
7 Sep 2024 – 2 Nov 2024
Marking Time

Bigaignon, Paris (FR)
23 Apr 2024 – 1 Jun 2024
Early Works

Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
24 Mar 2023 – 1 Jul 2023
Time and Tides

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
2 Mar 2017 – 29 Apr 2017
Direct Positive

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (US)
3 Mar 2016 – 9 Apr 2016
Marking Time

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (US)
29 Nov 2012 – 19 Jan 2013
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Duncan Miller Gallery, Paris (FR)
14 Dec 2012 – 17 Dec 2012
Sunburned

Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
15 Sep 2012 – 24 Nov 2012
Ride Into the Sun

Wirtz Art, San Francisco (US)
20 Oct 2011 – 22 Dec 2011
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Photo-Eye, Santa Fe (US)
9 Jul 2010 – 5 Sep 2010
Sunburned

Wirtz Art, San Francisco (US)
17 Feb 2010 – 27 Mar 2010
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Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
15 Dec 2009 – 10 Jan 2010
Sunburn

Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York (US)
16 Oct 2008 – 6 Dec 2008
Sunburn

SF Camerawork, San Francisco (US)
5 Jun 2008 – 23 Aug 2008
Sunburns

Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
10 Apr 2008 – 24 May 2008
The Family Farm

San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco (US)
20 Feb 2006 – 15 Mar 2006

Group

Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)
29 Jul 2026 – 3 Jan 2027

with Harold E. Edgerton, Kikuji Kawada, Edward Weston
Perceptual Shifts

Photographs from the Collection

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (US)
28 Jun 2026 – 20 Sep 2026

with Uta Barth, John Divola, Anthony Hernandez, Barbara Kasten, Susan Lakin, Trevor Paglen
ACT 2/3 : WITH TIME

Bigaignon, Roma (IT)
26 Nov 2025 – 14 Jan 2026

with Harold Feinstein, Yannig Hedel, Hideyuki Ishibashi, Morvarid K, Thomas Paquet, Olivier Ratsi, Charles Xelot
The Pulse of Life

10th Daegu Photo Biennale

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
18 Sep 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Alice Anderson, Hicham Berrada, Brodbeck & de Barbuat, HAN Chungshik, Bianca Dacosta, Xiaocong Ge, Patrick Gries, Sangyon JOO, Yeondoo JUNG, Juyon Kim, Shinwook KIM, Tina Merandon …
Elemental II: Photography and the Hand of Nature,

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
11 Jul 2025 – 5 Sep 2025

with John Chiara, Linda Connor, Binh Danh, Meghann Riepenhoff
ABOUT TIME

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York (US)
15 Feb 2024 – 30 Mar 2024

with Diane Arbus, Ilse Bing, Sebastiaan Bremer, Dorothea Lange, Vera Lutter, David Maisel, Sally Mann, Abelardo Morell, Vik Muniz, Matthew Pillsbury, Robert Polidori, Herb Ritts …
Elemental

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
7 Apr 2023 – 17 Jun 2023

with John Chiara, Binh Danh, Meghann Riepenhoff
TOUCH THE SUN

Roger Ackling

Marshall Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
15 Feb 2023 – 8 Apr 2023

with Alia Malley
Blaze Across the Firmament

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
10 Sep 2021 – 30 Oct 2021

with Linda Connor, Binh Danh
La Photographie à l'épreuve de l'abstraction

Centre Photographique, Paris (FR)
27 Sep 2020 – 13 Dec 2020

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Mustapha Azeroual, Eric Baudart, Walead Beshty, Michel Campeau, Nicolas Floch, Marina Gadonneix, Lukas Hoffmann, Anouk Kruithof, Isabelle Le Minh, Sebastien Reuze, Meghann Riepenhoff …
2019 8 x 10 Fundraising Exhibition

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel (US)
31 Aug 2019 – 27 Oct 2019

with Wynn Bullock, Mark Citret, Linda Connor, Matthew Connors, Binh Danh, Robert Dawson, Monica Denevan, Rolfe Horn, Eva Lipman, Roman Loranc, Vanessa Marsh, Klea McKenna …
A Cure for Everything

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
5 Jan 2019 – 23 Mar 2019

with Johanna Billing, John Chiara, Linda Connor, Binh Danh, Kota Ezawa, David Maisel, Meghann Riepenhoff
Painting with Light

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (US)
17 Jan 2019 – 9 Mar 2019

with Marco Breuer, Christopher Bucklow, Richard Caldicott, Harry Callahan, Ellen Carey, Luuk de Haan, Susan Derges, Jessica Eaton, Bryan Graf, Sheree Hovsepian, Gottfried Jaeger, Aspen Mays …
Auction Preview Exhibition

SF Camerawork, San Francisco (US)
8 Sep 2018 – 21 Sep 2018

with Ansel Adams, Wesaam Al-Badry, Eugene Atget, Roger Ballen, Micha Bar-Am, Debra Bloomfield, Wynn Bullock, John Chiara, Mark Citret, Janet Delaney, Matt Eich, Gregory Halpern …
Interventions

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (US)
11 Jul 2018 – 24 Aug 2018

with John Baldessari, Mary Ellen Bartley, Marco Breuer, Moyra Davey, Jay DeFeo, Bryan Graf, Sandy Haber Fifield, Pello Irazu, Mattew Jensen, Kenneth Josephson, Kensuke Koike, Elad Lassry …
COSMOS

Photo-Eye, Santa Fe (US)
25 May 2018 – 20 Jul 2018

with Kate Breakey, Linda Connor, Alan Friedman, Beth Moon
Sea Views

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
17 Jun 2017 – 17 Sep 2017

with Franco Fontana, Chip Hooper, Jo Ractliffe, Viviane Sassen, Simon van Til
A Matter of Memory

Photography as Object in the Digital Age

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
22 Oct 2016 – 29 Jan 2017

with Thomas Barrow, Mladen Bizumic, Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, Antony Cairns, Ellen Carey, Phil Chang, John Chiara, Adam Fuss, Bryan Graf, Robert Heinecken, Leslie Hewitt …
The Sun Placed in the Abyss

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (US)
7 Oct 2016 – 8 Jan 2017

with Dove Allouche, Sarah Charlesworth, Anne Collier, Linda Connor, Tacita Dean, Jan Dibbets, John Divola, Shannon Ebner, Sam Falls, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Dan Graham, Yuji Hamada …
Retro-Spective

Analog Photography In A Digital World

MoCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville (US)
24 Sep 2016 – 8 Jan 2017

with Matthew Brandt, Adam Fuss, Richard Learoyd, Christian Marclay, Alison Rossiter, Joni Sternbach, James Welling
I Am the Sun

Concurrent to Moholy-Nagy: Future Present

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
27 Sep 2016 – 5 Dec 2016

with William Henry Fox Talbot, Kikuji Kawada, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Defying Darkness: Photography at Night

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
4 Jun 2016 – 2 Oct 2016

with Berenice Abbott, Shimon Attie, Brassai, Jeff Burton, Larry Clark, Bill Henson, Andre Kertesz, Michael Lundgren, Richard Misrach, Alexander Rodchenko, Sebastiao Salgado, Edward Steichen …
THE STAND-INS

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
7 Jul 2016 – 3 Sep 2016

with Maurizio Anzeri, Kota Ezawa, Allison Smith
Out of Obscurity

Flowers , London (GB)
2 Jul 2016 – 3 Sep 2016

with Michael Benson, Boomoon, Edward Burtynsky, Julie Cockburn, Renato D'Agostin, Mona Kuhn, Michael Lundgren, John MacLean, WANG Ningde, Chloe Sells, Randy West, Hannah Whitaker …
Particle and Wave

Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco (US)
6 Feb 2016 – 19 Mar 2016

with Jim Campbell, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Susan Derges, Josef Ehm, Adam Fuss
One-of-a-Kind

Unique Photographic Objects from the Center for Creative Photography

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)
11 Apr 2015 – 25 Oct 2015

with David Emitt Adams, Pierre Cordier, Robert Fichter, Susan Rankaitis, Andy Warhol
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art

Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
3 May 2015 – 13 Sep 2015

with Uta Barth, Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Binh Danh, Moyra Davey, Adam Fuss, Idris Khan, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Mark Ruwedel, Hiroshi Sugimoto …
Light, Paper, Process

Reinventing Photography

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
14 Apr 2015 – 6 Sep 2015

with Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, John Chiara, Lisa Oppenheim, Alison Rossiter, James Welling
Take One: Contemporary Photographs

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
25 Apr 2015 – 5 Aug 2015

with Robert Adams, Caleb Charland, Moyra Davey, Jan Dibbets, John Divola, Terry Evans, Robbert Flick, Lucas Foglia, David Goldblatt, Andreas Gursky, An-My Le, Judith Joy Ross …
Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography

The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington (US)
6 Dec 2014 – 15 Mar 2015

with Matthew Brandt, Harry Callahan, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Abelardo Morell, Lucas Samaras, Aaron Siskind, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Maggie Taylor, Edmund Teske, Jerry N. Uelsmann
The Photographer's Playspace

Aperture, New York (US)
19 Nov 2014 – 29 Jan 2015

with Dawoud Bey, Eric William Carroll, Melissa Catanese, John Chiara, Elspeth Diederix, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jason Fulford, Jim Goldberg, Daniel Gordon, Katy Grannan, Gregory Halpern, Todd Hido …
SELECT CUTS & ALTERATIONS

Foley Gallery, New York (US)
19 Nov 2014 – 11 Jan 2015

with Stephen Aldrich, Thomas Allen, Julie Cockburn, Abigail Reynolds, Gerald Slota
Transformational Image Making

Handmade Photography Since 1960

Cepa Gallery, Buffalo (US)
19 Sep 2014 – 23 Nov 2014

with Thomas Barrow, Wayne Martin Belger, Stephen Berkman, Matthew Brandt, Dan Burkholder, Darryl Curran, Binh Danh, Dan Estabrook, Robert Fichter, Robert Flynt, Judith Golden, Robert Heinecken …
After Ansel Adams

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
17 May 2014 – 28 Sep 2014

with Matthew Brandt, Binh Danh, Mark Klett, Michael Lundgren, Takeshi Shikama, Millee Tibbs, Donna J. Wan, Byron Wolfe
Sun Works

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (US)
9 Nov 2011 – 6 May 2012

with Sarah Charlesworth
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
15 Sep 2009 – 16 May 2010

with Anna Atkins, Marco Breuer, Andrew Bush, Miles Coolidge, Tim Davis, Robert Demachy, Walker Evans, Roger Fenton, Lee Friedlander, Tom Friedman, Adam Fuss, Ann Hamilton …
Burning Desire

Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York (US)
18 Mar 2010 – 24 Apr 2010

with Marina Berio, Marco Breuer, Davide Cantoni, Eric William Carroll, Caleb Charland, Stan Gaz, Amanda Means
First Impression

a group exhibition of unique photographs, curated by Michael Paris Mazzeo

The Camera Club NY, New York (US)
16 Sep 2009 – 30 Oct 2009

with Marco Breuer, Eric William Carroll, Dan Estabrook, Michael Flomen, Michelle Kloehn
The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography

Curated by Lyle Rexer

Aperture, New York (US)
15 May 2009 – 9 Jul 2009

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Bill Armstrong, Carel Balth, Ellen Carey, Roland Fischer, Michael Flomen, Manuel Geerinck, Shirine Gill, Barbara Kasten, Seth Lambert , Charles Lindsay, Edward Mapplethorpe …
TRANSMUTATIONS - Abstraction in Nature

Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York (US)
13 May 2009 – 20 Jun 2009

with Caleb Charland, Christian Erroi, Yong Hee Kim, Sebastian Lemm
Art Fair

Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York (US)
4 Mar 2009 – 11 Apr 2009

with Juliana Beasley, f&d Cartier, Caleb Charland, Rachael Dunville, Lucas Foglia, Sebastian Lemm, Leah Oates, Timothy Eugene O’Tower, Cara Phillips, Josh Quigley, Christopher Rauschenberg, Robin Schwartz …
Keeping Time: Cycle and Duration in Contemporary Photography

Photographic Resource Center, Boston (US)
7 Nov 2008 – 25 Jan 2009

with Stuart Allen, Erika Blumenfeld, Rebecca Cummins, Sharon Harper, Matthew Pillsbury, Byron Wolfe
Each Sun

Togonon Gallery, San Francisco (US)
6 Mar 2008 – 12 Apr 2008

with Hiroyo Kaneko
Summertime...

sm.ART curating & consulting, München (DE)
15 Jun 2004 – 31 Jul 2004

with Sharon Harper, Mona Kuhn

Events

FOG Design+Art 2026

FOG Design+Art, San Francisco (US)
21 Jan 2026 – 25 Jan 2026

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Matthew Brandt, Alejandro Cartagena, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Katy Grannan, Todd Gray, Martine Gutierrez, Roni Horn, Peter Hujar, Agnieszka Kurant …
10th Daegu Photo Biennale

The Pulse of Life

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
18 Sep 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Matthew Abbott, Juliette Agnel, Dove Allouche, Alice Anderson, Nobuyoshi Araki, Nathalie Baetens, Hyong-Ryol BAK, Mandy Barker, Valerie Belin, Hans Bellmer, Jonas Bendiksen, Hicham Berrada …
Paris Photo 2025 - Group show

Bigaignon, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Catherine Balet, Mary Ellen Bartley, Rosella Belluschi, Rachelle Bussieres, Renato D'Agostin, Harold Feinstein, Yannig Hedel, Hideyuki Ishibashi, Thomas Paquet, Elyn Zimmerman
Art Brussels 2025

art brussels, Brussels (BE)
24 Apr 2025 – 27 Apr 2025

with Ignasi Aballi, María María Acha-Kutscher, Carlos Aires, Carlos Amorales, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Catherine Balet, Catherine Balet, Roger Ballen, Banz & Bowinkel, Mary Ellen Bartley, Abdelkader Benchamma, Evelyn Bencicova …
UNTITLED Miami Beach 2024

Untitled Art Fairs, Miami (US)
4 Dec 2024 – 8 Dec 2024

with Kevin Abosch, Albarran Cabrera, Diane Arbus, Matthew Brandt, Jim Campbell, Daniel Canogar, Petra Cortright, Samuel Fosso, ganbrood, Hassan Hajjaj, Claudia Hart, Auriea Harvey …
Paris Photo 2024 - Group show

Booth D28

Bigaignon, Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024

with Mate Dobokay, Vittoria Gerardi, Ralph Gibson, Morvarid K, Thomas Paquet, Bernard Plossu, Bernar Venet, Elyn Zimmerman
Paris Photo 2024 - Group show

Booth

Bigaignon, Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024

with Renato D'Agostin, Mate Dobokay, Vittoria Gerardi, Morvarid K, Thomas Paquet, Aleksandra Vajd, Elyn Zimmerman
Paris Gallery Weekend 2024

Paris Gallery Weekend, Paris (FR)
24 May 2024 – 26 May 2024

with Shelby Lee Adams, Bruno Barbey, Martine Barrat, Valerie Belin, Jack Dabaghian, Claudine Doury, Edouard Taufenbach & Bastien Pourtout, Raoul Hausmann, Laura Henno, Ilanit Illouz, Pierre Jahan, Juergen Klauke …
Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
18 Oct 2021 – 20 Oct 2021

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Tina Barney, Dawoud Bey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Chambi, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Doisneau, Max Dupain, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Walker Evans, Pieter Hugo …
photo london 2021

Duncan Miller Gallery, London (GB)
9 Sep 2021 – 12 Sep 2021

with Ed Asmus, Jacqueline Woods
The Armory Show 2020

The Armory Show, Inc., New York (US)
5 Mar 2020 – 8 Mar 2020

with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Olivo Barbieri, Tina Barney, Mary Ellen Bartley, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin, Dawoud Bey, Slater Bradley …
Classic & Contemporary Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
20 Feb 2020 – 24 Feb 2020

with Richard Avedon, Dawoud Bey, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Burtynsky, Harry Callahan, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Lewis Hine, Mary Ellen Mark, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston …
2018 BENEFIT AUCTION

SF Camerawork, San Francisco (US)
8 Sep 2018 – 21 Sep 2018

with Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget, Wynn Bullock, John Chiara, Janet Delaney, Doug DuBois, Matt Eich, Philippe Halsman, Alfredo Jaar, Eli Lotar, Vanessa Marsh, Joel Meyerowitz …
The Armory Show 2018

The Armory Show, Inc., New York (US)
8 Mar 2018 – 11 Mar 2018

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, James Casebere, Talia Chetrit, Louisa Clement, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Luigi Ghirri, Mimmo Jodice, Seydou Keita, Deana Lawson, Richard Misrach, Mohau Modisakeng, Richard Mosse …
PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco 2018

PHOTOFAIRS , San Francisco (US)
23 Feb 2018 – 25 Feb 2018

with Adou, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), Karl Blossfeldt, Luo Bonian, Harry Callahan, Tammy Rae Carland, John Chiara, LUO Dan, Erica Deeman, CAI Dongdong, Monique Eller, Mitch Epstein …
Postwar and Contemporary Photographs

Sotheby's New York, New York (US)

with Vito Acconci, Helena Almeida, Ilit Azoulay, Matthew Barney, Peter Beard, Walead Beshty, Marco Breuer, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Calle, Kudzanai Chiurai, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia …