Alan Chimacoff

Alan Chimacoff, Klimt Au Gratin, 22″x17″

My photographic perspective is shaped by my knowledge, as an architect, of real and illusory space, a love of materials and the making of things, and an abiding interest in an inherent contradiction between clarity and ambiguity. Seeking abstraction in the constructed, natural and ordinary, my photographs explore the explicit geometries as well as the faceted, ambiguous spatial characteristics of cubism—often confounding the obvious in seeking the non- objective. I am enchanted by the abstractions of Aaron Siskind, Paul Strand, and Minor White—how their photographs combine strong geometric constructions with lyrical moments of reality.

Museum Collections and Exhibitions

▪ Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (Collection)
▪ Princeton University Art Museum (Collection)
▪ Art at Prospect House, Princeton University Art Museum aegis (Permanent Exhibition)
▪ JAMuse. Cornell University Johnson Art Museum. Ithaca, NY. 2013 (Exhibition)

Exhibitions
▪ New York, New York: two bites of the apple. A collaboration with Jim Lustenader. Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, 2025
▪ Purposeful Ambiguities. Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, 2025
▪ PAIRS: A collaboration with Teri Darnell. Meitar Awards / Photo IS: REAL, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2024
▪ Composites & Tapestries. Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, 2024
▪ Urban Plight: Trenton 2018. Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, Online 2023
▪ Composites & Tapestries. Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, Online 2023
▪ Ephemera. Soho Photo Gallery, Online, NYC, 2023
▪ Buona Serra: Steel. Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, 2023
▪ Floor Show. Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, 2023
▪ HIGHLY VISIBLE – PAIRS: With Teri Darnell; Atlanta Photography Group; Atlanta, Georgia, 2020
▪ Steel Evocations. Morpeth Contemporary Gallery, Hopewell, NJ 2015

Two Person Exhibitions
▪ UNDERLYING Structure. With photographer Danielle Picard-Sheehan; Art Times Two Gallery; Princeton, NJ, 2014
▪ METALLICA. With sculptor Joel Perlman. Gensler New York, Architects Gallery. New York, NY 2014

Three Person Exhibitions

SLEEP IS USELESS. With photographers Michael Massaia and Jenny Montgomery; J. Cacciola Gallery; New York, NY; 2014

Group Exhibitions
Various exhibitions beginning in 2009, including: Hans Weiss Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Soho Photo Gallery, NYC; Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ; Atlanta Photography Group Gallery; John Cacciola Gallery, NYC; Twenty-Two Gallery, Philadelphia; Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT; Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO; Monmouth Museum, NJ; Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University;

Competitions & Awards
Various competitions and awards beginning 2010.
▪ PHOTOLUCIDA CRITICAL MASS 2023, TOP 200 – PAIRS – A Collaboration with Teri Darnell

Permanent Installations

Preservation Design Partnership. Philadelphia, PA. Architectural Photographs. 2014
Maclean House at Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. Princeton Buildings. 2014
Harding Loevner. Bridgewater, NJ. 2013

Collections

Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art
Princeton University Collections
PNC Bank Corporate Collection
Private Collections

Competitions & Awards

The Photo Review 2015 Competition; Online Exhibition
Photographer’s Forum Magazine; 35th Annual Spring Photography Contest 2015; Finalist
IPA International Photography Awards 2014; 3rd Place; Architecture—City Scapes
The Photo Review 2014 Competition; Online Exhibition
Epson International Pano Awards 2013; Five Bronze Awards
Photographer’s Forum Magazine; 33rd Annual Spring Photography Contest 2013; Finalist
The Photo Review 2011 International Competition. Selected.
Photographer’s Forum Magazine; 31st Annual Spring Photography Contest 2011; Finalist
Epson International Pano Awards 2011 —Built Environment. Two Bronze Awards
Epson International Pano Awards 2010 —Built Environment – Bronze Award & Nature – Bronze Award

Education

Cornell University, Bachelor of Architecture

Harvard University, Master of Architecture