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