Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Chris Fraser

Saturday, October 19, 2024 @ 12:30pm, Conference Hall

The Magic Lantern

Chris Fraser is an artist and educator living and working in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He constructs environments modeled on historical image-making technologies, from the camera obscura to the magic lantern. Fraser has exhibited projects in North America, Europe, and Asia, at venues including the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; the D-Museum in Seoul, South Korea; and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. His work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. He is Artist-in-Residence and Head of Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art.