EXHIBITIONS AND PRESS
2017- Providence Center for Photographic Arts. Group show. State Fair portfolio
2016- Edge of Humanity magazine, Featured photographer.
A dozen photographs from STATE FAIR portfolio included with article.
2016-Fidelity Investments Corporate Headquarters Gallery. Solo show. STATE FAIR portfolio.
2016- Griffin Museum of Photography, NEPR exhibition.
Curated by Elin Spring.WONDERLAND image included
2016- ‘Visionary Vistas’ exhibition and gallery discussion
at the Carol Calo Gallery at Sonehill College. Images from the WONDERLAND portfolio included.
2016- ‘LIFE FORCE- the Magazine of the Art Form of the Photo Essay.
Feature article with 12 photographs from the STATE FAIR portfolio.
2016- Paris publisher requests usage of portraits from the Delta Blues portfolio seen in an Athens gallery for a book on women of the world.
2015- Selected as Critical Mass Finalist for the second time basesd on ‘WONDRLAND: Following the Tracks of Beauty and the Beast’-a portfolio of landscape photographs of how the railroad right of way shaped and reveals the American landscape.
2015- 2015- Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece. Image from
‘Holy week in Sicily’ included in ‘Portraits’ exhibition.
2015- Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece. Image from
WONDERLAND portfolio included in ‘Cityscape’ exhibition.
2014 - Lenscratch, Feature article on the book, ‘STATE FAIR The Last Living Munchkin From the Wizard of Oz and Other Stories’.
2014 - PDN,Photo of the Day, Article and 10 photographs from the book State Fair
2014 - Group Exhibition, Slow Exposure: Photography of the Rural South
2014 - San Francisco International Photographic Exhibition
Recipient of Gold Medal Award for ‘Miss Georgia State Fair’ from State Fair portfolio
2014 - Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Off the Wall/Community of Artists annual show. Work from State Fair portfolio.
2014 - Dei Zeit, press, Germany, Article on State Fair
2014 - Zeit Online, Germany
Feature article with 13 photographs of State Fair.
2014 - Griffin Museum of Photography
“Images from Easter Week, Sicily portfolio selected for online exhibition of 20th Annual Juried Competition by competition curator Aline Smithson, editor of Lenscratch.
2014 - What Will They Remember Photo Blog
Book review of State Fair: “You won’t want to miss this tantalizing book of photographs by Christopher Chadbourne.”
2014 - Review by The Independent, London’s morning newspaper.
State Fair featured on front page of Art Section of Sunday’s paper.
2014 - Contributing essays by Bill Kouwenhoven, International Editor of HotsShoe magazine, and Paula Tognarelli, Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, 108 pages, 84 images.
2014 - State Fair: The Last Living Munchkin from the Wizard of Oz, published by Kehrer Verlag.
Released in Europe and the United States in June
2013 - The book Juke published
Contributing photographer to study of the Mississippi Delta Blues directed and edited by Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey.
2013 - Exhibition Catalog for Wonderland.
Self-designed and published by MagCloud.
2013 – I-95 Triennial 2013 UMaine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
2013 - Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
City Streets/Country Roads, Group Exhibition, curated by Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb. Work from Sicily portfolio.
2013 - Yankee Magazine
Review of the work of selected artists from I-95 Triennial. One of two featured photographers
2013 - I-95 Triennial, University of Maine Museum of Contemporary Art
Selection of best contemporary art from all media in last 3 years in New England
2013 – Maine Home + DESIGN Magazine
Review of the work of selected artists in the I-95 Centennial Exhibition
2013- American University requests permission to house the Archives of the exhibition design works of Christopher Chadbourne and Associates.
2012 – KATALOG 24.3, The Journal of Photography and Video, Denmark
Featured Artist, 4 pages, 6 images.
2012 – IPA, International Photography Awards.
Recipient of 6 Honorable
Mention citations in 6 different categories.
2012 – Internacional Festival de Fotographia, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Featured Foreign Artist (1 of 3) selected by Director Carlos Carvalho (who saw the work at FotoFest in Houston). 38 images from ‘STATE FAIR: the Last Living Munchkin From the Wizard of Oz and Other Stories’ accompanied by a 5 minute film on my work followed by a panel discussion titled ‘International Dialogues’ on the relationship of surrealism to the development of the photograph as document and art.
2012 – Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
Images from “Right-of- Way” portfolio selected for “18th Annual Juried Competition” curated by Paul Kopeikin, Director of Kopeikin Galleries, Culver City, CA.
2012 – Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
Two images from the “Wonderland” portfolio included in the Off the Wall/ A Community of Artists exhibit, curated by Kathryn French, Director. Both purchased.
2012 – Griffin Museum of Photography
'STATE FAIR: The Last Living Munchkin From the Wizard of Oz and Other Stories.' Traveling solo exhibition curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography / Artists Talk, June 20, 2012 / Exhibit Opens June 2012
2012 – New York Photo Festival.
“The PRC in NYC: 10 New England Photographers”. Curated by Glenn Ruga. STATE FAIR.
2012 – Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
Group Exhibition titled "On the Road", curated by Sandra Chen Weinstein. January 17-February 11. Catalogue to be published by Blurb Books.
2012- Alex Webb blog. Comments on the book STATE FAIR.
2011 – Featured Photographer, Lenscratch,
edited/curated by Aline Smithson, December 2011 (www.Lenscratch.com)
2011 – New England Photography Biennial
Two Images from 'My Country 'Tis of Thee' series. One of 29 Photographers selected by guest curator George Slade.
2011 – Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA
One of ten photographers selected by curators acting on behalf of the Magenta Foundation to represent emerging New England photography in the International Flash Forward Festival.
2011 – Photo Lucida, Critical Mass Finalist
2011 – Caption Gallery, New York, NY
Three images from the State Fair series are included in a group show entitled “Unbound” at the Caption Gallery in New York City, running from March through June. Curated by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb.
2010 – Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Two images from the “Fragments” portfolio were selected by Jen Mergel, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art for inclusion in “Off the Wall”, a show of contemporary art.