Public Collections

Carl Chiarenza's archives are available at the following institutions:


  • Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill)
  • Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA)
  • Agfa Division/Bayer Corporation Photography Collection
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY)
  • Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth, TX)
  • Anderson Gallery (Buffalo, NY)
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Paris)
  • Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID)
  • Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA)
  • Boston University, College of Communications; College of Arts & Sciences (Boston, MA)
  • Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ)
  • Center for Photographic Art, (Carmel, CA)
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA)
  • Department of Fine Arts Program Atlantic Richfield Company (Los Angeles)
  • El Pomar Foundation (given by R. Thayer Tutt, Jr), (Colorado Springs, CO)
  • Exchange National Bank (Chicago, IL)
  • George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY)
  • Gleason Library, University of Rochester, NY
  • Glendale College, (Glendale, CA)
  • Grunwald Collection at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Hallmark Fine Art Collection at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO)
  • Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
  • Harvard University Art Museums
  • The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle WA)
  • Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
  • International Center of Photography (NYC)
  • Jamestown Community College, (NY)
  • Jewish Community Center, Rochester, NY
  • Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Yamanashi, Japan)
  • Krannert Art Museum (Illinois)
  • LaSalle National Bank Collection (Chicago)
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Mead Museum of Art (Amherst)
  • Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY)
  • Meridian Centre (Brighton, NY)
  • Mind Body Float, (Rochester, NY)
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts
  • Morgan Library and Museum (NYC)
  • Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (South Hadley, MA)
  • Museum of Art (Princeton University)
  • Museum of Art (St. Petersburg)
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago)
  • Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
  • Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
  • Museum of Fine Arts, (St. Petersburg, FL)
  • Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
  • National Museum of American Art (Washington, DC)
  • New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe)
  • New Orleans Museum of Art
  • Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Phoenix College, Arizona
  • Polaroid Corporation Collection, West Licht, Schauplatz fur Fotografie, (Austria)
  • Portland Museum (Portland, ME)
  • Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR)
  • Project Art, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, (Iowa City, IA)
  • Ransom Center, University of Texas (Austin, TX)
  • Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art (Providence)
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library; Photography Department Building; and Lobozzo Alumni House; (Rochester, NY)
  • Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University)
  • Riverson University (Toronto, Canada)
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA)
  • Shadai Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA)
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC)
  • Solari Foundation Photography Collection (Tempe, AZ)
  • Spectrum Gallery (Rochester, NY)
  • State University New York (SUNY) Brockport, NY
  • Tampa Museum of Art
  • The Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada)
  • The Artists Foundation (Los Angeles, CA)
  • The Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA)
  • The Colby College Art Museum (Waterville, ME)
  • The College (University of Rochester)
  • The Currier Gallery of Art (Manchester, NH)
  • The Elizabeth Collection at Artisan Works (Rochester, NY)
  • The Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg MA)
  • The Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
  • The Jewish Home (Rochester, NY)
  • The Joy of Giving Something, Inc. (NYC)
  • The National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
  • The Photographic Archive, University of Louisville, (Louisville, KY)
  • The Saunders Group (Rochester, NY)
  • Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics (Shadai Gallery) Tokyo Kogei Daigaku
  • University of California (Los Angeles, CA)
  • University of Colorado Denver (Denver, CO)
  • University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Project Art
  • University of Iowa Museum of Art
  • University of Louisville, The Photography Archive
  • University of Michigan Art Museum (Ann Arbor, MI)
  • University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
  • University of Richmond Museums (Richmond, VA)
  • University of Rochester, Wilson Commons and the Rush Rhees Library (Rochester, NY)
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)
  • Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY)
  • Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • Weeks Gallery, (Jamestown, NY)
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, (NYC)
  • Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA)
  • Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT)