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

from the University of Utah (1995) and an M.F.A.

in photography from the California College of the Arts (2004) where he studied with Larry Sultan.

[3][4] Chiara builds custom large-format cameras, and exposes his images directly onto hand-cut photographic paper.

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