Resume
Represented By
Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID
Merritt Galleries, Chevy Chase, MD and Haverford, PA
Photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Renaissance Fine Arts, Baltimore, MD
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID
2019 Photo-eye, Santa Fe, NM + book release
Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018 Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA + book release
2016 Themes+Projects, San Francisco, CA
2015 Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2014 Photo-eye, Santa Fe, NM
Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco, CA + book release
2011 Photo-eye, Santa Fe, NM
Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Galería Clave, Cordoba, Spain
National Museum of Photography, Bogotá, Colombia
2008 Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
Oswald Gallery, Jackson, WY
2007 Photo-eye, Santa Fe, NM
Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Staunton-Augusta Art Center, Staunton, VA
2005 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
ArtSpace Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2001 Main Art Gallery, Richmond, VA
2000 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1998 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Fellowships
2006 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2000 Virginia Commission For The Arts
1983, 1984, 1985 Selby Foundation Grant, Sarasota, FL
Other Honors
World Photography Gala Awards, Artistic Advisory Board
Builder of National Museum of Colombian Photography
Selected Books
Hearts and Bones, Unicorn Publishing, London, UK
Entropic Kingdom, Modernbook Editions, USA
Education
Ringling Collage of Art and Design, 1985, BFA, (honors program)
Selected Group Shows
2023 Shutter To Think, Chroma Projects Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (2 person show)
2021 Shades of Compassion project, multiple international exhibitions
The SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SE - “Fauna”
Los Angeles Center for Photography Gala and Auction
2020 Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas, TX - “Human Portrait”
Seeing Women 2020, Chateau de Lomenie and Chateau de Lalande, France
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, ME
2019 Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA (2 person show)
Photo LA, Los Angeles
2018 Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM - “Wait Until Dark”
Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, VA, (2 person show) - “Tales of Heroines”
5th Biennial of Fine Arts and Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2017 Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, (4 person show) - “Chop Shop”
2016 Pennsylvania Center For Photography, Doylestown, PA
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), San Diego, CA - “The Beauty and The Beast”
2015 AFK Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal - “Staging and Revelation”
Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong
2014 United Photo Industries, Boston, Brooklyn, and Atlanta - “The Fence”
FotoFest Biennial, Houston, TX
LA Art, Los Angeles, CA
Affordable Art Fair, London, UK
London Art Fair, London, UK
Taiwan Photo, Taiwan
2013 bo.lee Gallery, London, UK - “Lucid”
Affordable Art Fair, London & New York
Scope Basel, Miami, FL
2012 Photo Vernissage, St. Petersburg, Russia
Worldwide Photography Biennial Exhibition, Buenos Aires
LA Art, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Awards
2023 LA Photo Curator, Surrealism, Merit Award
2022 New York Center for Photographic Art, The Human Body, Grand Prize, Forever in a Day and Honorable Mention, Now Now
2021 New York Center for Photographic Art, Portals, 2nd place, Blue Fox
14th International Color Awards (ICA): First Place Fine Art, Hide Your Eyes
WPE International Photographers Award - silver award
The Portrait Project, Lucie Foundation, finalist
2020 SeeingWOMEN Awards 2020 by Photos de Femmes, Co-Grand Prize Winner
Human Portrait Awards, Dallas Center for Photography, Third Place
Rfotofolio - Merit Award for Tales of Heroines
All About Photo (AAP) Magazine #10 Portrait Awards, Merit Award for Tales of Heroines
One Eyeland’s World Top Ten Fashion Photographers 2019, Bronze Prize
2019 International Photography Awards (IPA), Fine Art Book, 1st Place; Fine Art Portrait, 1st Place
Px3 - Prix de La Photographie Paris, Book Monograph category, Silver award
2018 Px3 - Prix de La Photographie Paris, Digitally Enhanced category, Bronze award
11th Annual Pollux Awards, Digital Manipulation & Collage category, 1st Place
Biennial Of Fine Art and Documentary Photography’s 2nd Biennial Grant, 2nd place
2016 Gala Awards, winner of the 9th Pollux Award and winner of the alternative processes category
Neutral Density (ND) Photography Awards, Honorable Mention - Fine Art Photo Manipulation
Transformations, Pennsylvania Center For Photography, First Place Digital Exhibition and Curator's Choice
International Photograph Awards (IPA), Fine Art Collage, Honorable Mention
2015 International Photography Awards (IPA), Professional Special Photographer of Year; Professional Digitally Enhanced, 1st Place
2012 International Photography Awards (IPA), Digitally Enhanced, 2nd Place; Fine Art Book, Honorable Mention
Px3, Prix de La Photographie Paris, Fine Art Book, Honorable Mention; Fine Art Digitally Enhanced, Honorable Mention
2011 PDN Magazine Photo of the Day
Jacob Riis Photography Awards, Finalist
International Photography Awards (IPA), Digitally Enhanced, 1st Place
Px3 Prix de La Photographie Paris, Fine Art Digitally Enhanced Category, Silver Award
2010 Jacob Riis Photography Awards, Finalist
Px3, Prix de La Photographie Paris, 2nd Place, Fine Art Digitally Enhanced
Critical Mass Top 50: 2010, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon
PhotoSpiva: 34th Annual National Photography Competition and Exhibition, 1st Place
2009 Intenational Aperture Awards, 3rd Place, Abstract/Illustrative Category
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Madrid, Spain, 1st Place, Digitally Enhanced Category
Fotoweek DC Awards, Washington, DC, 1st Place, Fine Arts Category
2008 TPS #18: The National Competition, Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio, TX, 1st Place
Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon
2006 TPS #15, The National Competition, Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio, TX, 3rd Place
Art Miami, Miami, FL
2005 Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
Selected Publications
2021 Photographer’s Companion Magazine (China) - Tales of Heroines
Lenscratch - Tales of Heroines
Expert Photography on 35 Most Influential Conceptual Portrait Photographers
Photo Eye Blog - New Work from Tom Chambers
Your Daily Photograph - May
Photo-Eye Blog - From the Flat Files: Narrative Photography
2020 Photo-Eye Blog - Put A Bow On It
2019 Miroir Magazine + Cover photo, February
2018 Adobe Create magazine, Fairytales and Photo Collage, February
Pasatiempo, Santa Fe Arts Weekly, cover photo and article, December
2014 Wall Street Journal Arts Blog, Tom Chambers’ ‘Reverie’: Photos That Blend Reality With Dreams, July
INSIGHT Magazine, Photomedia Center, March
2013 Slate, Using Dreams as Inspiration, May
Huffington Post Image Blog, March
Rangefinder, Book Roundup, December
2012 Zoom magazine, "Animals in the Mirror", Spring
PDN, Fine Art Issue, "Behind the Scene", interview, July
Photograph Magazine, Cover Photo, March-April
The Huffington Post, "Tom Chambers' Photography "Illumination" Comes to Modernbook Gallery, March
Oxford American, "Visual South", Issue 76, February
2011 Arbus Magazine, Atmospheric Perspectives: New Works in Photography, September-October
Photo+, South Korea, Ex Votos, June
The Huffington Post, Mexican Reveries: An Enchanting Journey, March
2010 Color Magazine, Portfolio Contest, Front Cover Photo and Award of Excellence, August
2009 NPR's All Things Considered & Project Song, October
2008 The Huffington Post, Photography Undergoes a Sex Change: The Art Of Tom Chambers, May
2004 The New Yorker, December, calendar insert