MARK CHESTER EDITIONS
MARK CHESTER has been a professional photographer since nineteen & seventy two.
He was Director of Photography and staff photographer at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), in New York City. His photographs are in the permanent collections of Baltimore, Brooklyn, American University Corcoran Legacy Collection Washington DC, Denver, Portland (Maine), and San Francisco museums, among others.
National museum and gallery exhibitions of his work, solo and group, include OK Harris and SoHo Photo (NYC); Camera Obscura (CO); the San Francisco Airport, and other venues. Chester is a Copley Artist of the Copley Society of Art in Boston.
His photographs also accompany his own travel articles as published by the L.A. Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor among other newspapers and special interest magazines.
His 1987 traveling exhibition and catalogue "Shanghai in Black and White" commemorated San Francisco's Sister City as part of a cultural exchange program displayed at the Fort Lauderdale, FL, Museum of Art; The Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC; and the San Francisco Main Library.
Mark Chester Self Portrait, Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Twosomes, Reykjavík, Iceland
Mark Chester Self Portrait
2023
Springfield Museums, Twosomes, Springfield, MA
2016
The Gauvin Gallery, Twosomes, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
2015
The Gauvin Gallery, Twosomes, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
The Wellesley Free Library, Twosomes, Wellesley, MA
2014
Harbor Gallery, Twosomes, Boston, MA
Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Twosomes, Reykjavík, Iceland
Parish Center for the Arts, Twosomes, Westford, MA
TJCC Gallery, Twosomes | Chiaroscuros, with Ben Golden, Tucson, AZ
2013
Scandinavian Cultural Center, Twosomes, Newton, MA
Busboys & Poets, Twosomes, Washington, DC
2012
Mashpee Public Library, Twosomes, Mashpee, MA
FJC, Twosomes, Falmouth, MA
Panopticon Gallery, Twosomes, Boston, MA
URI Feinstein Gallery, Twosomes | Urban Extensions, with Ofill Echevarria, Providence, RI
O.K. Harris Gallery, Twosomes, New York, NY
Balance, Twosomes, Baltimore, MD
2011
Alliance Française, Twosomes: Reportage, Washington, D.C.
Highfield Hall, Clark Gallery, Twosomes, Falmouth, MA
The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Twosomes, Dennis, MA
2009
French Library Alliance Française, Reportage, Boston, MA
2007
Isole Gallery, The NO Show, Boston, MA
Mark Chester Photography Archives, Wyoming Road, 1978, Copyright © Mark Chester
Mark Chester Photography Archives, Elephant Tail, Copyright © Mark Chester
Mark Chester Photography Archives, Clowns, Copyright © Mark Chester
Mark Chester Photography Archives, Livestock Truck, Copyright © Mark Chester
Mark Chester Photography Archives, Twosomes, Cut-Out Man, Copyright © Mark Chester
Mark Chester Photography Archives, Twosomes, Man With Opera Glasses, Copyright © Mark Chester