Chad Kleitsch’s Botanical Mind is an extensive botanical survey begun in 2001 using a new photographic process called “scanography” where the artist uses a digital film scanner as a camera.

WHITE BOTANICALS

BLACK BOTANICALS

BOTANICAL MIND (IN SITU)

CHAD KLEITSCH BIO

Born: 1968, Westwood, NJ

Education: Bard College, B.A. Photography, 1991

Lives: Rhinebeck, NY

Chad Kleitsch's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum CT, CCS Bard Hessel Collection NY, The Center for Photography at Woodstock NY, Berkshire Museum MA, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art NY, Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery NYC, Yancy Richardson Gallery NYC, and Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson NY. In 2010, He received The Center for Photography Woodstock Photographers Fellowship Fund Award Fellowship

Kleitsch was born and raised in New Jersey. He earned his B.A. in photography at Bard College in New York in 1991. He has since lectured at Bard College, Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. As well he has led classes in photography at several colleges and art centers such as Bard College, Simons Rock, Woodstock Center for Photography, and LaGuardia College.

In his 30-year career, Kleitsch has produced numerous essays including a ten-year, three-part photographic survey of abandoned architectural sites: Remnants of Impermanence, a study of abandoned industrial sites in the American rust belt, Asylum images of vacant psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. northeast, and Lost & Found an essay of the Ellis Island’s buildings.

White Box, another ten-year essay was a national exploration that focused on the world that goes on behind the scenes of a museum art installation. Some of the institutions that have participated in the project are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, The Menil Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Whitney Hammer Museum.

Street Work, a street photography essay, was included in the comprehensive volume, Bystander: A History of Street Photography (Bullfinch 2001), with an accompanying exhibition for the publication held at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Botanical Mind is an extensive botanical survey that began in 2001 using a new photographic process called scanography (using a digital film scanner as a camera). The first large-scale solo exhibition of the essay was at Eclipse Gallery, North Adams Mass in August 2013.

Another essay using the same process of scanography is called Works on Paper. Capturing images of rare documents housed in the New York Public Library’s special collections as well as private collections around the country. The first solo exhibition of the essay was at The Camera Club of New York in May 2011.

Kleitsch has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtNews Magazine, Albany Times Union, Time Out, and Fortune Magazine. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Time Magazine, Money Magazine, Chronogram, and The Mountain Record.

​Awards: Woodstock Center for Photography Fellowship Winner —2010; Center Project Competition Runner Up —2007​, and Merchant & Ivory Grant —1993​

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• Still Life Like - Carrie Haddad Gallery - Hudson, NY —2019

• Going Back to My Old School - Bards College - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY —May 2016

• Works on Paper - The Camera Club of New York —May 2011

• White Box - Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery - NYC, NY —2003

• Asylum - E3 Gallery - NYC, NY —1999

• Lost & Found – Ellis Island - Carolyn J. Roy Gallery - NYC, NY —1994

• Botanical Mind - Eclipse Gallery - North Adams, MA —Aug. 2013 

• White Box - Photographs of the Unseen Museum

• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum - Ridgefield, CT —Jan. 2010

• Community Access - Puck Building - NYC, NY —1999

• Rilke’s Eighth Elegy - Zen Mt. Monastery - Mt. Tremper, NY —1997

• Remnants of Impermanence - Mansfield University Art Center - Mansfield, PA —1994

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 40th Annual Photo Regional - Opalka Gallery - Sage College of Albany - Albany, NY —March 2018

• Home Grown: Fellowship Recipients 2005-2014 - Center for Photography - Woodstock, NY —November 2014

• “On Time and Place”: Celebrating Scenic Hudson’s first 50 Years - Grand Central Station - NYC, NY —October 2013

• Warren St. - Hudson Opera House - Hudson, NY —June 2011

• Photography Now - Juried by Vince Aletti - CPW - Woodstock, NY —April 2011

• Found - Stephen Cohen Gallery - Los Angeles, CA —Sept. 2010

• Of and About Wood - Walter Randel Gallery —May 2009

• Born of the Moment and Method - Walter Randel Gallery —Dec. 2008

• Grace - Peer Gallery - NYC, NY —Jan. 2008

• Ex Libris - Lascano Gallery - Great Barrington, MA —July 2007

• The Regional Triennial of Photographic Arts - CPW - Woodstock, NY —Sept. 2005

• Adieu - A Farewell Exhibition - Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery - NYC, NY —June 2005

• This is not an Archive - CCS - Hessel Collection - Bards College - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY —2005

• Greed Envy Jealousy Fear - Time Space Limited - Hudson, NY —2004

• Wild Flowers - Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery - NYC, NY —2004

• 6th Annual Photographic Exhibition - Carrie Haddad Gallery - Hudson —2004

• Out of the Studio - Dorsky Museum of Art - New Paltz, NY —2003

• Guns & Wounds - White Box Gallery Annex - NYC, NY—2003

• Interiors & Exteriors - Williamsburg Art & Historical Center - Williamsburg, NY —2002

• The Sidewalk Never Ends - Contemporary Street Photography - The Art Institute of Chicago —2001

• Five Photographers - Columbia Green Community College - Hudson, NY —2000

• Winter Show - Wendy Cooper Gallery - Madison, WI —2000

• Carrie Haddad Gallery - Hudson, NY —1999

• Photograph the Place, Event & Person - Warren St. Gallery - Hudson, NY —1993

• Exhibition Of Photography - Judged by John Szarkowski - Pittsfield, MA —1992

• Wood, Fiber, Steel - Warren St. Gallery - Hudson, NY —1992

• Photography of the 21st Century - Curated by Kate Menconery - Troy, NY —2016

• Wall & Rha Inaugural Gallery Opening Exhibition - Millbrook, NY —2014

• Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Consortium Collections - Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art - New Paltz, NY —Aug. 2011

• Pissed Elegance - Stephen Cohen Gallery - Los Angeles CA, —May. 2011

• Still Life in Color - Carrie Haddad Photographs —Oct. 2010

• Architectural Photography - Carrie Haddad Photographs —Oct. 2009

• A Look Inside - Carrie Haddad Photographs —April 2009

• Paper - Carrie Haddad Gallery —July 2008

• The Set-Up - Nicole Fiacco Gallery - Hudson, NY —Sept. 2007

• Into The Garden - Babylon Fine Arts - Housatonic, MA —May 2007

• Photographing the Museum - Yancy Richardson Gallery - NYC, NY —Aug. 2005

• 7th Annual Photographic Exhibition - Carrie Haddad Gallery —March 2005

• Still Life & Stilled Lives - Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery - NYC, NY —2005

• Haddad Lascano Gallery - Great Barrington, MA —2004

• Inaugural Exhibition - Haddad Lascano Gallery - Great Barrington, MA —2004

• Inside/Outside? Observations in Nature - Upstate Art - Phoenicia, NY —2003

• The World We Live In - Upstate Art - Phoenicia, NY —2003

• Hudson Alley Project - Time Space Limited - Hudson, NY —2002

• Extraordinary Photographers - Carrie Haddad Gallery - Hudson, NY —2002

• Share the Vision - Cooper Union - NYC, NY —2000

• 52 Artists We Like - Wall St. Viewing Room - NYC, NY —2000

• LTD - Margaret Bodell Gallery - NYC, NY —1999

• Third Annual Photo Exhibit - Warren St. Gallery - Hudson, NY —1994

• Photographs By Chad Kleitsch - Merchant & Ivory Foundation - Claremont, NY —1993

• National Art Exhibition - World Trade Center - NYC, NY —1992

• Kanazawa College of Art - International Art Exhibition - Kanazawa, Japan —1991

AWARDS

• Woodstock Center For Photography Fellowship Winner —2010

• Center Project Competition Runner Up —2007​

• Merchant & Ivory Grant —1993​

LECTURES

• Eclipse Gallery - North Adams, MA —Aug. 2013

• The Camera Club of New York —May 2011

• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum - Ridgefield, CT —Jan. 2010

• Woodstock Center For Photography —2006

• Yale University, CT —2002

• Columbia Green College, NY —1999

• Sarah Lawrence College, NY —1997

• Mansfield University, PA —1994

• La Guardia College, NY —1993

TEACHING

• Bards College at Simon’s Rock —2014-15

• Woodstock Center For Photography —2006-08

• Bard College, NY (Substitute PhotoTeacher) —2004-12

• La Guardia College, NY —2001

• Columbia Green College, NY —2000