Chad States interdisciplinary practice straddles the polarities between dream and reality, interior and exterior, private and public, and the abject and sublime. Through the use of narrative, light, color and sound, States’ work holds together contradictions as a way of reconciling differences.  

 

States earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art in 2007.  

 

His work has been exhibited nationally in venues that include Space Gallery, Portland ME; Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA; Napoleon, Philadelphia PA; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR; ClampArt New York, NY and Greg Kucera, Seattle WA.  

 

His book Cruising was published in the fall of 2011 by Powerhouse Books and was short listed as one of the best new photo books in 2012 by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo. He has an Artist in Residence at the Philadelphia Photographic Arts Center in 2013 as well as Light Work in 2009.

 

His work has been written about in publications such as Modern Painters and Vice.

 

He can be contacted at chad@chadstates.com