B. 1979: Los Angeles
1997-1999: New York University (AA)
2000: N.O.L.S. Cascade Wilderness Fall Semester (WFR)
2001-2002: Sarah Lawrence College (BA)
2002-2008: Brooklyn, NY
2008-2011:Santa Fe, NM
2011-2012: Los Angeles, CA
2012-2015: University of Arizona Tucson/CCP (MFA)
2015-2018: Milwaukee, WI
2018-2020: Los Angeles, CA
2020-2021: Silverthorne, CO
2022- : Fox Point, WI + Chicago, IL
Jesse Chehak
email@jessechehak.com
917.767.9474
Commissions:
Chris Ehrmann
Goldteeth & Co.
chris@goldteethandco.com
212.256.1776
Jesse Chehak (chee-hock) [b. 1979, USA] is an artist and educator who creates photographs, films, and other projects. His pictures are inquisitive encounters with place, community, the environment, and the experiences that follow. His approach to portraiture and landscape takes its contemporary departure from the established traditions of these genres, which he developed with the guidance of the preeminent American photographers Joel Sternfeld at Sarah Lawrence College and with Frank Gohlke at the University of Arizona/CCP. His art practice is underpinned by independent projects, exhibitions, and collaborations across a wide spectrum of printed and digital media. Chehak applies his curiosity about the world and capacity to create visual entry points to extensive assignment work for publications including Dwell, Fortune, T Magazine, Newsweek, Nowness, Travel + Leisure, W, Wallpaper, Wire, and WSJ. Magazine. He has done campaigns for brands including Aetna, Dupont, Johnson & Johnson, Lexus, Nike, American Express, Orange, Vestas, LP, and T-Mobile. Chehak is Visual Arts faculty at the Latin School of Chicago.
Client Work
MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
WSJ., Dwell, Fortune, TMagazine, Newsweek, Nowness, Travel + Leisure, W, ID,Wonderland, Wallpaper*, Wire, More, Time Out, Vibe, Life, Ski, Outside, V, Telegraph, Stella, Time, Discover, Toro, Dujour, Christie's, Art & Auction, Christie's, Monocle, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Dazed, Toro, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Elle, Esquire
AGENCIES
Mother London, Ogilvy + Mather, Fallon London, Saatchi + Saatchi, Winkreative London, Digitas NY, Euro RCSG Paris, MFPNY, Forward WW
BRANDS
Aetna, Dupont, Johnson & Johnson, Lexus, Orange, Philippe Patek, Vestas, Nike, LP, American Express, T-Mobile, Eurostar, Lugz
Teaching
Latin School of Chicago
Visual Arts Faculty
Upper School Filmmaking and Photography
Global Studies: Visual Art
Harvard-Westlake School
Visual Arts Faculty
Photography and Video Art
Co-Director: Westflix Film Festival
Director: HW-Go! Story-Telling Adventures
Design Director: Stone-Cutters Literary Magazine
Milwaukee Institutute of Art & Design
Adjunct Faculty
Spring 2021: Cross-Cultural Engagement Through Filmmaking
Summer 2018: Pre-College: Photography
Spring 2018: Continuing Ed: Through The Lens (Photography as Contemporary Art)
Mt. Mary University
Adjunct Faculty
Fall 2017: Drawing 101
Spring 2017: 2D Design + Color Theory
Fall 2016: Drawing 101
University of Arizona
Instructor of Record
Fall 2014: Intermediate Analog Darkroom
Spring 2014 Gaze: Fundamentals in Photography
Fall 2013 Undergraduate Digital Workflow/Critique
Fall 2012 Undergraduate Black & White Darkroom/Critique
Santa Fe University of Art & Design
Adjunct Faculty
Fall 2010 History of Photography III: The Photograph as Contemporary Art
College of Santa Fe
Adjunct Faculty
Spring 2010 Large Format Camera/Advanced Studio Practice
Press
The Morning News
August 28, 2012: "Autotypes"
The Herald Sun
April 7, 2011: "Conservation and ecology at Art Guild"
New York Times Lens Blog
July 30, 2010: "Figures in a Western Landscape"
A Public Space
Issue 8: June 2009
The Morning News
October 13, 2008: "Western Views"
Guernica Magazine
October 2008: "Western Views"
Print Magazine
January 2007: "Jesse Chehak: Film Still Lives"
AK47
Issue 9: Jan/Feb 2006: "Twos & Threes"
Solo Exhibition
Blame The Sun
2016 Perspectives (Milwaukee, WI)
Fool's Gold
2014 Lionel Rombach (Tucson, AZ, USA)
In These Woods
2011 Durham Arts Guild (Durham, NC, USA)
Fool's Gold
2008 Silverstein (New York, NY, USA)
Here We Are
2006 Lucas (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
New Landscapes
2005 Lucas (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Opening Landscapes
2002 A-Space (Bronxville, NY, USA)
Awards
Picture This Scholarship, University of Arizona
2014-15
Nicholas Diana Scholar, University of Arizona
2013
Anne Morten Scholar, University of Arizona
2012
American Photography 25
2009
Baum Award Short List
2008
Magenta Foundation Emerging Artist
2007
PDN30
2005
Print Magazine New Visual Artist
2004
Group Exhibition
Shifting Perspectives: Landscape Photographs from the Collection
Milwaukee Art Museum
2022.03.18-07.03
Recent Work (Blame The Sun)
with Sonja Thomsen + Will Pergl
University of Wisconsin Parkside: Kenosha, WI, USA
2017.11.03-12.11
Photography Is Magic
Aperture Foundation: New York, NY, USA
2016.07.14-08.11
1% Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
2015-2017 (16+ International Galleries & Exhibition Venues)
Arizona Biennial
Tucson Museum of Art: Tucson, AZ, USA
2015.07.24-10.11
University of Arizona School of Art MFA Exhibition
University of Arizona Museum of Art: Tucson, AZ, USA
2015.04.17-05.15
Marking Time
Laboratory of Tree Ring Research Tucson, AZ, USA
2015
The Scattering Effect
Lionel Rombach Gallery: Tucson, AZ, USA
2014.01.12-2014.01.19
Among the Trees
Laboratory of Tree Ring Research Tucson, AZ, USA
2013.05-2013.09
642-1
University of Arizona School of Art Graduate Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA
2013.03.18-22
Confluence
Night Gallery, Tempe, AZ, USA
2013.03.01-31
Heat Wave: Desert Photography Exhibit and Symposium
John Sommers Gallery: Albuquerque, NM, Northlight Gallery: Tempe, AZ, and Lionel Rombach Gallery: Tucson, AZ, USA
2013.01-2013.03
Looking at the Land | 21st Century American Views
2012-3 Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design
Play It As It Lays
2012 Edgar Varelas Fine Art (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
After Hours Progressive Arts Fair
2011 Santa Fe Railyard District (Santa Fe, NM, USA)
A Place In The Sun: Picturing California
2011 Soho House (West Hollywood, CA, USA)
2011 Hi-Lite Studio and Project Space (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Forces of Nature
2009 Danese (New York, NY, USA)
Gruesometwosome
August 28, 2009 Pennbrick Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)
Camp Homeward Bound
2008 Chelsea Museum (New York, NY, USA)
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward
2007 Lennox Contemporary (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward
2007 Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts (New York, NY, USA)
Friends of The Highline Benefit
2006 Cipriani (New York, NY, USA)
The New Yorker's Passport To the Arts
2006 (New York, NY, USA)