Cassandra Klos (she/her) is a photographer, curator, and writer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts.
She earned her MFA in 2020 from Duke University’s Experimental and Documentary Arts program and her BFA in 2014 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University. She has exhibited within the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum for Photography and the Cassilhaus Collection and Gallery, as well as internationally in festivals such as the Bienne Festival of Photography and the Lagos Photo Festival.
She has a passion for science fiction, environment stories, and human futurisms that has led her to participate in space simulations missions. From 2015 to 2017, she was the artist-in-residence of the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah and led the first mission of compiled of artists as Commander of Crew 181. In 2020, she was the crew journalist for the Selene II mission at the Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation and in spring 2023, Cassandra was the commander of the first mission at the SAM Habitat in Arizona, a space simulation built for space accessibility on the site of Biosphere 2.
She is a Critical Mass finalist, the recipient of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, a United States Emerging Photographer Award from the Magenta Foundation, as well as a Traveling Fellowship Grant from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Partial Publication / Client List
Barron’s, Bloomberg Businessweek, Gilt, It’s Nice That, Libération, National Geographic, Rue La La, The Atlantic, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired
Education
2020 Masters of Fine Arts, Experimental and Documentary Arts, Duke University
2014 Bachelors of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston @ Tufts University
Solo Exhibitions
2020 By No Other Name, Cassilhaus Collection & Gallery, Chapel Hill NC
2018 Mars on Earth, Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library, Boston MA
2018 Mars on Earth, Bienne Festival of Photography, Nouveau Museé, Bienne Switzerland
2016 The Abductees, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA
2014 The Abductees, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
Group Exhibitions
2024 Through the Lens, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta GA
Western Contemporary, Strata Editions, Placed, Livingston MT
2023 Analog Sparks Film Photography Awards Best In Show, House of Lucie, Athens, Greece
Analog Sparks Film Photography Awards Best In Show, House of Lucie, Ostuni, Italy
For A Moment, Photographic Resource Center/VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley University
Slow Exposures, R. F. Strickland Building, Concord GA
A Sense of Place, Photographic Exploration Project, B-Part am Gleisdreieck, Berlin, Germany
2022 Celestial Bodies, CAV Gallery, Las Cruces NM
2021 Piece of Light, Six Feet Photography Project, Allentown & Semans Galleries, Durham NC
Fauna, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC
Open Show #39, Pasadena Photography Arts, Pasadena CA
Boundaries, Belonging, Becoming, Six Feet Photography Project, Revolve Gallery, Asheville NC
2020 Unbound9!, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond VA
Big Backyard, Supergraphic Wearhouse, Durham NC
Here and Now, Power Plant Gallery, Durham NC
Existence on the Periphery, Kenan-Keohane Gallery, Duke University, Durham NC
2019 Americans, Rankin Arts Photography Center, Columbus State University, Columbus GA
Time After Time, QUAID Gallery, Tampa FL
Deep Space Laundry, Washer Dryer Projects, Salt Lake City UT
Portraits of North Carolina's Millennial Artists, Rubenstein Art Center, Durham NC
Still Here Tomorrow to High-Five You Yesterday, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
Terrestrial Portals, Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, Dover NH
2018 Tipping Points, SPE Northeast, Palmer Gallery of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
Time Has Gone, Lagos Photography Festival, Lagos Nigeria
The Fence, Southie Plaza, SoWa Arts District, Boston MA
A Spectacle and Nothing Strange, Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University, Durham NC
Quién? Qué? Dónde?, Lafayette City Center, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston MA
Photolucida Silent Auction & Print Raffle, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland OR
2017 Manufactured Untruth, 5&J Gallery, Lubbock TX
Atomic STEaM, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque NM
Developed Work, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita KS
Isolation, Hawai'i Museum of Contemporary Art, Hilo HI
She Inspires, Untitled Space, New York City NY
Planes in the Sky, Fort Point Art Community, Boston MA
Image of the Savage, Millepiani Space, Rome, Italy
Future Isms, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle WA
The Museum of the Real and Odd, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indy IN
SMFA at Tufts Staff Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
2016 Impending Future, Lycoming College Downtown Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA
Postage Required, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro VT
Outta This World, Sulfur Studios, Savannah GA
Curated Fridge: July/August Edition, The Open Aperture Art Gallery, Newport RI
Curated Fridge: July/August Edition, Somerville MA
Imagined Realities, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT
Framework, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown MA
Art + Science, Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond IN
Of Memory, Bone, and Myth, Colonel Eugene Myers Gallery, Grand Forks ND
2015 Biennial, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester NH
Reclamation: Emerging Female Artists, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA
Other Wordly, Exeter Town Hall Gallery, Exeter NH
New New England, Gallery 263, Cambridge MA
80th Regional Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA
1st International Show, Peter Miller Fine Art Gallery, Providence RI
The Fence, Flash Forward Festival 2015, Rose F. Kennedy Greenway, Boston MA
Allegany National Photographic Exhibition, Saville Gallery, Cumberland MD
30 Under 30, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro VT
2014 Photographic Resource Center Student Exhibition, PRC, Boston University, Boston MA
Undergraduate Photography Now (Part 2) @ the Flash Forward Festival, Boston MA
Graduating Students and Award Recipient Exhibition, Grossman Gallery, SMFA
Art in April, Dowling Hall, Tufts University
SMFA Student Photo Annual Spring 2014, SMFA, Boston MA
Inner and Outer Space, Weil & Beard Galleries, Wheaton College
2013 Selections from Carousel IV, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain MA
Genetic Material: A Portrait Photography Exhibition, SMFA, Boston MA
Carousel IV, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain MA
Transitions: Benefit Show for One Fund Boston, Pop-Up Show, Brighton MA
Undergraduate Photography Now @ the Flash Forward Festival, Boston MA
Colorful Textures: Synaethesia in Art, Boston University, Boston MA
BACKLOT, Cambridge MA
2012 Annual SMFA Fall Photography Show, SMFA, Boston MA
Persistence of Vision: Photography at the SMFA, SMFA, Boston MA
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Cassilhaus Collection + Gallery
Duke University’s Rare Books & Manuscript Library