EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

De Anza College Gallery, Cupertino, California, 1965

Benjamen Chinn at Home in San Francisco. Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, 2003

Benjamen Chinn: Photographs of Paris: 1949-1950, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, 2005/6

Benjamen Chinn: Paris 1950 -1951, SFO Museum, Terminal 3/Gate 76, September 2011 - November 2011  More here

Benjamen Chinn’s Paris: 1950 - 1951, Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo CA, October 2011.

Benjamen Chinn: Paris 1950-1951, Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University, February - May 2014 More here

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Mendocino, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1948

Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954

Mt. Angel College, Mt. Angel, Oregon, 1964

San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, 1960’s (four consecutive years)

California School of Fine Arts 125th Anniversary Exhibit, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, 1972

Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, Anniversary Exhibition, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, 1981

San Francisco Art Institute: 50 Years of Photography, Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, 1998

Leading the Way: Asian American Artists of the Older Generation, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, 2001

The First Decade 1946-1956, Alumni Work from The San Francisco Art Institute, Smith Anderson North Gallery, 2006

Perceptions: Bay Area Photography, 1945-1960, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA, 2006

Celebrating 60 Years of Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Art Institute,  September 2006

Asian|American|Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2008

The Golden Decade: California School of Fine Arts Photography, 1945 - 1955. Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo, 2010

The Golden Decade Photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945 - 1955. Mumm Napa Winery, Rutherford CA, 2014

Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 2021 to August 2022..

HONORS

Selected to the West Coast Screening Committee, Family of Man Exhibition, 1951

 COLLECTIONS

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
(The CCP holds the Benjamen Chinn Archive.)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

The Smithsonian American Art Museum

Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco

Chapman University, Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aperture No. 2, 1952, Cover photo

An American Century of Photography: From Dry Point to Digital, Vol.2, Keith Davis, Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1995

Benjamen Chinn, CAAABS project interview, August 14, 1998. Transcript, Asian American Art Project, Stanford University

Chinatown Losing Landmark, Anastasia Hendrix, San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2000

Leading the Way: Asian American Artists of the Older Generation, Irene Poon, Gordon College, 2001

Benjamen Chinn at Home in San Francisco, Chinese Historical Society of America, Exhibition Catalog, Irene Poon, Dennis Reed, and Paul Caponigro, 2003

Focus: Chinatown. Photographer studied with greats, traveled the world, but kept his sights on his neighborhood, Lord Martine, San Francisco Chronicle, January 31, 2003

The Golden Decade: Photography at the California School of Fine Arts 1945-1955, Ken Ball and Victoria Whyte Ball, Steidl 2016

Ten Photographers, 1946 – 54, The Legacy of Minor White: California School of Fine Arts, The Exhibition Perceptions, Deborah Klochko, 2004

The Moment of Seeing, Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts, Stephanie Comer and Deborah Klochko, 2006

San Francisco’s Chinatown, Judy Yung and the Chinese Historical Society of America, Arcadia Publishing, 2006

Asian American Art: A History, 1850 – 1970, Gordon Chang, Mark Dean Johnson and Paul Karlstrom, 2008

Asian|American|Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, Daniell Cornell and Mark Dean Johnson, editors, 2008

Benjamen Chinn dies at 87, Jon Thurber, Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2009

Envisioning Diaspora, Asian American Visual Arts Collectives, Alexandra Chang, 2009

SFJAZZ 2012, TBW Books 2012