Untitled #1 by Fall 2006 Hot Shot Chad Muthard

Chad Muthard
Currently residing in: Philadelphia, PA

Website: http://www.chadmuthard.com/

Work Statement:
The work I construct is an attempt to resolve issues or conflicts in the mind. Most of the work is derived from events or moments in life, that I struggle to understand the affect of and/or outcome of the situation. These ideas are then taken and projected into narrative form in images, which tend to become elaborately fictional versions of the event. There is definitely a play between both reality and fiction in the pieces yet, I feel as though the work is still very much about documentation in how each body of work and/or series encapsulates a period of time.

Bio:
I grew up in the small town of Catasauqua, PA. A small town that was known for having a bar or church on every corner. When I was 16 my mother found an old Nikon that she had bought when I was born and gave it to me. I started shooting and then ended up at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA where I received my BFA in Photography.

Since graduating from Tyler, I have worked both solely and collaboratively, and have had a solo exhibition with the collaborative series that I worked on with Nils Orth at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.