Bio

Clint Baclawski (b. 1981) is a contemporary artist working with photography, technology, light, and space. He received his BFA in Advertising Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Post-Baccalaureate from Bucknell University, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Design. He has been an adjunct professor in Graduate Studies at MassArt since 2017.

In 2022, Baclawski had residencies in both Venice, Italy, and Wassaic, NY. He was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in Photography in 2019. He was also awarded a St. Botolph Emerging Artists Award, Santo Foundation Solo Exhibition Honorarium.

Clint exhibits his work extensively throughout the United States, and has had an international solo exhibition. His work is included in many private and institutional collections including Children’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Whitehead Institute, and Fidelity. He has been published in Boston Art Review, FRAME (Amsterdam), Boston Home Magazine, Designboom, The Boston Globe, and The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume II (New York, NY). Clint’s studio is located in Boston’s South End.

I work with methods, formats and materials that push the physical boundaries of photography and I rely on my advertising background to display images in unconventional ways. Light itself is reconfigured. I utilize a single photograph as the source materials for each artwork, influenced by my travels throughout the United States. 

Growing up as an identical twin, and viewing my world through the lens of similarity or sameness, thematically, it has been central to my work. Whether the photographic image is flipped vertically, horizontally, or presented on mirrored plexiglas, you can expect a duality to be exposed.

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