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John Cyr is a New York based photographer and Assistant Professor of Photographic Imaging at Suffolk County Community College. Cyr earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2010 and his work has been featured in various publications including the New York Times, BBC News, ARTnews, TIME, NPR, Popular Photography, the Telegraph and Photo District News. He is the author of the powerHouse published monograph, Developer Trays. Cyr's photography is represented in many notable public and private collections including: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York; The Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.; and The New York Public Library, New York, New York.
Downloadable CV.
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Elizabeth Houston Gallery, Developer Trays, New York, NY, 2018
Spain Media Gallery, Developer Trays, Madrid, Spain, 2014
Cassilhaus Gallery, ANALOG! John Loengard and John Cyr, Chapel Hill, NC, 2014
powerHouse Arena, Developer Trays, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Davis Orton Gallery, John Cyr and John Cervinsky, Hudson, NY, 2012
Trunk: Dumbo Arts Festival, Gowanus Oil Slicks, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
MV Gallery of Photography, Textural Compositions, New York, NY, 2006
Davenport Gallery, The Rivers School, Textural Compositions, Weston, MA, 2005
Charles P. Russell Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Textural Compositions, Deerfield, MA, 2005
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Sara Kay Gallery, Expired, New York, NY, 2019
Candela, Unbound7!, Richmond, VA, 2018
Anzenberger Gallery, Curator’s Desktop, Vienna, Austria, 2018
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, What's New? Recent Acquisitions, New York, NY, 2018
Cassilhaus Gallery, Thinly Veiled, Chapel Hill, NC, 2018
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Gallery Artists, Chicago, IL, 2017
Elizabeth Houston Gallery, 8:, New York, NY, 2017
Cassilhaus Gallery, Exquisite Corpse, Chapel Hill, NC, 2017
Bell Gallery, The Rivers School, Centennial Arts Exhibition, Weston, MA, 2015
William Benton Museum of Art, CHEM 101: The Science of Photography, Storrs, CT, 2014
New Mexico Museum of Art, Tales from a Dark Room, Santa Fe, NM, 2014
Amarillo Museum of Art, The Fred and Laura Bidwell Collection of Photography, Amarillo, TX, 2014
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Paris Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
Catherine Edelman Gallery, AIPAD, New York, NY, 2013
University of Hartford, Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition, Hartford, CT, 2012
Catherine Edelman Gallery, What Was I Thinking: 25 Year Anniversary, Chicago, IL, 2012
KAUNAS PHOTO Festival, the National M. K. Cluilionis Art Museum, About Photography, Lithuania, 2012
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Installed, Chicago, IL, 2012
RayKo Photo Center, Critical Mass, San Francisco, CA, 2012
Newspace Center for Photography, Critical Mass, Portland, OR, 2012
Catherine Edelman Gallery, AIPAD, New York, NY, 2012
Photo Center NW, Critical Mass, Seattle, WA, 2012
Joanne Toor Cummings Gallery, Connecticut College, Centennial Alumni Show, New London, CT, 2012
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Daylight Photo Awards Exhibition, Durham, NC, 2011
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Ctrl+ P, Photography Taken Offline, Chicago, NY, 2011
Affordable Arts Fair, Recent Graduates curated by amani olu, New York, NY, 2011
Photographic Center Peri, New York Photo Awards, Turku, Finland, 2011
powerHouse Arena, New York Photo Awards, New York, NY, 2011
Chelsea Art Museum, The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography, New York, NY, 2011
Taschen Store New York, Group Show Taschen, New York, NY, 2010
Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York, NY, 2010
SVA Gallery, More or Less, New York, NY, 2010
MV Gallery of Photography, Collector’s Show, New York, NY, 2008
Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Group Exhibition, Framingham, MA, 2007
MPG Contemporary, New Art 2007, Boston, MA, 2007
Joanne Toor Cummings Gallery, Connecticut College, Making Our Mark, New London, CT, 2003
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA, 2003
The Burnished Chariot, The Ballrooms of New London, New London, CT, 2003
PUBLICATIONS
Aperture, Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe, Marvin Heiferman, 2019
Rizzoli, Brooklyn Photographs Now, Marla Hamburg Kennedy, 2018
Seeing Science, John Cyr: Developer Abstractions, Marvin Heiferman, 2017
B & H, Explora, Studio Visit with John Cyr, Cory Rice, 2017
Musee Magazine, John Cyr: the Collector, John Hutt, 2014
Feature Shoot, Photos Reveal the Developer Trays of America’s Greatest Photographers, Ellyn Sunstein, 2014
BBC NEWS Magazine, A Look at the Great Photographers’ Developer Trays, J. Hamblett and L. Rinehart, 2014
Esquire (Espana), The Darkroom of John Cyr, Alejandro Avilleira, 2014
Harper’s Bazaar (Espana), Ode to Negatives, Javier Caballero, 2014
AnOther Magazine, Developer Trays of the World’s Greatest Photographers, 2014
Hyperallergic, Darkroom Developer Trays as Portraits of the Artists, Allison Meier, 2014
Juxtapoz, John Cyr’s Developer Trays, Canbra Hodsdon, 2014
powerHouse Books, Developer Trays (monograph), John Cyr and Lyle Rexer, 2014
ARTnews, A Developing Love Affair with Film, Rebecca Robertson, New York, NY, 2014
Aperture, The Photographer’s Playbook, Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern, 2014
Standard Magazine, Developer Trays, Caroline de Greef, Paris, France, 2013
Paper Sea Quarterly, In the Dark, Andrew Summons, Australia, 2013
TagesWoche, John Cyr: Developer Trays, Basel, Switzerland, 2012
Focus Magazine, John Cyr: Developer Trays. Jannie de Kruijff, Haarlem, ND, 2012
Popular Photography, Post Process, by Lori Fredrickson, 2012
Amateur Photographer, All in a Tray’s Work, Oliver Atwell, London, UK, 2012
The New York Times, Developing in the Darkroom, Tray by Tray, Todd Heisler, 2012
The Telegraph, John Cyr: Developer Trays, London, UK, 2012
Daylight Multimedia, John Cyr: Developer Trays, Dualtagh Herr, 2012
Daylight Magazine, A Conversation with John Cyr, Kate Levy, 2012
Aperture Exposures, A Photographic Scavenger Hunt, Paula Kupfer, 2012
Connecticut College, Centennial Alumni Show, 2012
Underexposed, In Focus: John Cyr, Susan Burnstine, 2011
TIME Magazine, Lightbox, Developing Trays: Recording the Photographic Process, Christina Clusiau, 2011
PDN Photo of the Day, A Developing Story, Amber Terranova, 2011
PHOTO+, John Cyr: Developer Trays, by Jae Hee, Seoul, Korea, 2011
Rizzoli, New York: A Photographer’s City, Marla Hamburg Kennedy, 2011
Humble Arts Foundation, The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume Two, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
NPR, The Picture Show, A Photographer’s Unlikely Passion for Trays, Claire O’Neill, 2010
Wired, Raw File, For Photo-Geek Eyes Only: Famous Developer Trays, Pete Brook, 2010
aCurator, John Cyr: Developer Trays, Julie Grahame, 2010
SVA MFA Catalogue, School of Visual Arts, 2010
AWARDS
PDN PHOTO ANNUAL, New York, NY, Personal Series Winner 2012
PHOTOLUCIDA, Portland, OR, Critical Mass Top 50 2011
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, Honorable Mention, Still Life Pro 2011
DAYLIGHT/CDS PHOTO AWARDS, Durham, NC, Anthony Bannon’s Juror’s Choice 2011
THE NEW YORK PHOTO AWARDS, New York, NY, Fine Art Series Winner 2011
THE ONE LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT, New York, NY, The Top 100 2011
JEN BEKMAN, New York, NY, Hey Hot Shot Contender 2010
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY,Aaron Siskind Fellowship 2009
BLACK AND WHITE SPIDER AWARD, CA, Architectural Nominee 2007
ARTIST LECTURES
Penumbra Foundation, A Personal Process, New York, NY, 2016
B & H Event Space, Developer Trays, New York, NY, 2014
powerHouse Arena, Conversation with Lyle Rexer, New York, NY, 2014
Drexel University, Developer Trays, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
COLLECTIONS
The George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
The Bullock Family Photography Archive, The University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Bidwell Projects, Akron, OH
BMO Harris Bank, Chicago, IL
O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, VA