EXHIBITION: JW Toftness
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EXHIBITION: JW Toftness

Candela presents When Seeds Are Sent for Flowers, a selection of works from JW Toftness’ recent series, To Redecorate a Dream.‍ The work explores the psychological, even ontological, divide we appear to construct between digital space and tangible reality.On view from September 4 – October 24, 2026.

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EXHIBITION: Tommy Kha
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EXHIBITION: Tommy Kha

Candela presents Facades, a selection of images by Brooklyn-based artists and Guggenheim recipient Tommy Kha. Facades is a continuation of Kha’s practice of collaborative, multi-generational work wherein the artist is both photographer and performer. On view from September 4 – October 24, 2026.

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OPEN CALL: BINGO SHOW FALL 2026
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OPEN CALL: BINGO SHOW FALL 2026

Candela Photographic Arts is delighted to introduce our pilot BINGO open call, which will be on view from October 2 – October 24, and will culminate in Bingo Day: a closing day bingo fundraiser during which each work on view will go to a new home with a photo lover! 

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CANDELAR FEATURE: AUGUST
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CANDELAR FEATURE: AUGUST

Meredith Winicki is a photographer and documentary filmmaker whose work is inspired by the places she encounters and the moments that define them. Through landscape and documentary photography, she uses composition, light, and timing to create images that invite viewers to pause, look closer, and experience the world through a different lens.

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UNB15! Artist Features: IX
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UNB15! Artist Features: IX

COLLEEN KEIHM • CHRISTINE CARR• JESSE EGNER • GARY EMRICH • ROSAMUND CASEY • ISAAC MCKENNA • FURICHA (YULIIA GLADKA)

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UNB15! Artist Features: VIII
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UNB15! Artist Features: VIII

SUSAN LAPIDES • CAROL GOLEMBOSKI • ANNETE FOURNET • KEN WOOD • ANASTASIA SIERRA • ALEYANA MITCHELL • PHILIP SAGER

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UNB15! Artist Features: VI
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UNB15! Artist Features: VI

GLEN SCHEFFER • CHRISTIAAN LOPEZ-MIRO • CURTIS MILLER • KAT BAWDEN • ZACHARY KOLDEN • SHEIDA SOLEIMANI

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UNB15! Artist Features: V
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UNB15! Artist Features: V

CHRISTA BLACKWOOD • MICHAEL VALIQUETTE • ALEXANDER LAURENT RUBALCAVA • ALVIN LESTER • LALI KHALID • DAVID ZHENG

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UNB15! Artist Features: IV
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UNB15! Artist Features: IV

TOBIAS SHAW • DUSTIN RIGGS • JULIA PARRIS • MARGO GEDDES • LAUREN BERTELSON • ROSHAUN STEPHENSON • GRACE WESTON

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UNB15! Artist Features: III
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UNB15! Artist Features: III

LAILA NAHAR & AMAYA MAHMUD • DANA STIRLING • VAUNE TRACHTMAN • CLAIRE KOSKY • AMANDA SAUER • RICH-JOSEPH FACUN • ALINE SMITHSON • TOD KAPKE • JENNY YIYUN KUO

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UNB15! Artist Features: II
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UNB15! Artist Features: II

JEREMY STARN • HENRY CRAWLEY • NATHAN WILKINSON • JODY SERVON & LORENE DELANY-ULLMAN • SARA J. WINSTON & ILEANA RAMIREZ • DIMITRI STASZEWSKI • KATE THOMPSON

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UNB15! Artist Features: I
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UNB15! Artist Features: I

NICOLE ROSENTHAL • ANNE ROWLAND • JAMIE V ROBERTSON • JONAH REENDERS • BRANDON TOWNS • JACK FOX

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The 2026 CANDELAFEST Moodboard!
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The 2026 CANDELAFEST Moodboard!

Wondering what to wear to this year’s fundraising festivities? Come as you are, or grab some inspiration from our 2026 mood board!

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CANDELAR FEATURE: JULY
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CANDELAR FEATURE: JULY

Katie Prock is a photographic artist and book maker. Prock earned her MFA in Studio Art at Florida Atlantic University. Her practice utilizes alternative printing techniques and incorporates handcrafted processes which emphasize chance occurrence and imperfections. Her work and research focus on topics such as identity, gender, family history, and girlhood. In addition to being exhibited across the United States, Prock’s work has been featured abroad in the Body + Memory + City Photo Festival in Alicante, Spain, and Fotofestival Lenzburg in Switzerland.

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OPENING: UnBound15!
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OPENING: UnBound15!

Candela Photographic Arts is excited to announce the opening of our fifteenth annual summer exhibition, UnBound15!, a group show featuring the work of 66 juried and invited artists from across the contemporary photographic landscape. This year’s exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, July 1st through Saturday, August 8th, 2026, and brings together a wide range of photographic practices. Featured works will also be viewable and available for purchase on our website throughout the run of the exhibition.

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The UnBound! Party Becomes CANDELAFEST!
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The UnBound! Party Becomes CANDELAFEST!

Join us on August 1 for CANDELAFEST!, The First-ish Annual Pagan Chicken Party & Summer Fundraiser as we prepare for another year of artist labor and collective possibilities. The evening welcomes the return of the beloved back alley fried chicken, live performers, raffle prizes, mildly mischievous activities, interactive pagan goddesses, and other ritual absurdities. 

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CANDELAR FEATURE: JUNE
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CANDELAR FEATURE: JUNE

Michael Young is a lens-based artist whose work explores themes of masculinity, personal identity, community, and memory. He has been named a Top 50 artist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass (2023, 2021), a Top 10 winner of LensCulture Critics’ Choice, and a winner of Feature Shoot’s Emerging Photography Award.

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