Cassandra Klos (she/her) is a photographer, curator, and writer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a passion for science fiction, environment stories, and human futurisms.

Through her photo projects, she has an unexpected side-career as an analog astronaut, having participated in four simulated space missions around the United States. 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. In 2023, Cassandra was the commander of the first mission at the Space Analog for Moon/Mars Habitat in Arizona, a space simulation built for space accessibility on the site of Biosphere 2. She a 2025 candidate for the World’s Biggest Analog. Since 2023, she has been a Solar System Ambassador for NASA. Basically she’s just a big nerd.

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 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.

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Barron’s
Bloomberg Businessweek
Found Sound Nation
MIT Technology Review
National Geographic
The Atlantic
The New York Times

TIME Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine
SUGi
The Economist
The Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal
Wired Magazine