About Chad Coombs

Chad Coombs is an award-winning, internationally recognized artist. He specializes in minimalistic and abstract portraiture that embraces individuality as well as Polaroid film manipulations. In 2010, Coombs had a solo exhibit at the Stroke.03 Urban Art Fair in Berlin, and in 2011 he had a solo show, "Expired" at the Candela Gallery in Munich. His work has been exhibited in Greece, Indonesia, Germany, and throughout Canada. Publications include Analog Forever, TCHAD, Prism, Frankfurter, PhotoChina, Printausgabe, Junge Kunst, Photoicon, PlayBoy, and more.

Coombs has spent time working on his craft in Saskatoon, Toronto, and Vancouver Canada. He focuses on people through portraiture and states that people scare and intrigue him equally. Longing for a better understanding of people, Coombs uses his camera and art as a way to inspect, dissect, and analyze in ways he is uncomfortable to in person as an individual living with autism.

Coombs has worked with Playboy, Pernod, TCHAD, PhotoChina, Digital Photographer, Lyrics Born, St Germain, Photo Icon, PhotoEd, Practical Photogropahy, Doc Walker, Diageo, Reignwolf, Red Bull, and more.