Adrain Chesser is a self-taught photographer who refined his craft and practice through a personal mentor/protege relationship with the photographer Rosalind Solomon, and later with the photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery. His first critical success came with the body of work “I have something to tell you” a personal exploration of what it meant to disclose life altering news. In 2004 he was granted a year-long residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. His projects have been exhibited both nationally and internationally and in 2014 he presented at the TEDx convention in Vienna. His first book “The Return” was published in 2014 by Daylight Books. His second monograph “I Have Something to Tell You” was published by Minor Matters Books in the fall of 2017. His work is part of the permanent collections of: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Portland Museum of Art, and The Norton Museum of Art among others. He currently lives in The Columbia Gorge.
Residency
Santa Fe Art Institute, April 10, 2004 - April 10, 2005
Collections
The Museum Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Portland Museum of Fine Art, Portland, OR
Vincent Price Collection At East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA
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