Chris McCaw: Reversals and Revolutions

Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Haines proudly presents Reversals and Revolutions, our second solo exhibition with renowned photographer Chris McCaw. This highly anticipated exhibition marks McCaw's first solo showing in San Francisco in nearly a decade, and debuts his newest body of work, Inverse, alongside a selection of his signature Sunburn prints. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, January 23 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, in tandem with the Fort Mason Art Walk and SF Art Week 2026.

Preview the Exhibition

McCaw's singular artistic practice foregrounds photography's essential components — light and time, lenses and light-sensitive materials — to generate startlingly inventive photographic forms. From the tonally bifurcated landscapes in Inverse to the sun-scorched horizons in Sunburn, the works on view are singular photographic objects, direct prints rendered entirely in-camera through the artist's years long mastery of his analog tools and complex photographic processes. Across both bodies of work, McCaw pushes the medium beyond conventions, revealing landscapes shaped not only by geography and astronomy, but by his own experimental rigor.

Chris McCaw, Sunburned GSP #1155 (Eastern Sierras), 2025

Chris McCaw: Reversals and Revolutions is on view through March 7, 2026

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Chris McCaw’s (b. 1971, lives and works in Pacifica, CA) work is collected by such institutions as George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among many others. He is the recipient of awards including the Andy Warhol Foundation's New Works Grant and Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant, as well as the Emerging Icon in Photography Award from the George Eastman House. McCaw’s work has been the subject of two monographic publications: Sunburn (Candela Books, 2012) and Marking Time (Datz Press, 2023).