Robbie Mcclaran

Robbie McClaran is a documentary and fine art photographer whose work focuses on the American people, culture and landscape. His work has been widely exhibited and published, appearing in numerous magazines throughout the world.

He began his study in photography in 1975 at the Center for Photographic Studies and continued at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester NY where he studied with Joan and Nathan Lyons as well as many others.
Robbie’s work is held in several private and public collections including Portland Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Center for Creative Photography, and Memphis Brooks Art Museum. The prints from his controversial book project Angry White Men are in the permanent collection of the University of Oregon.

His commissioned work has appeared in such diverse publications as Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Bloomberg, and Forbes.

His work has been featured in The Oxford American, Lenscratch, Plazm, Juxtapoz, Photo District News, The Photo Review, ID Design, and has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, American Photography, The New York Art Director’s Club, G...

Visual Studies Workshop

2021 - "The Great River of the West" - Pushdot Studio (solo show)
2019 - “Qualities of Light”, Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
2019 – Bullseye Projects Gallery, Portland - Solo
2018 – “New Year’s Day” Hoffman Center for the Arts, Manzanita, Oregon - Solo
2017 – “Recent Acquisitions” - Portland Art Museum
2017 – “A Place in Time, Selections from the Permanent Collection” - Ogden Museum of Southern Art
2017- Ft Collins Museum of Art (group – Speaking Volumes)
2016 - InFocus – Phoenix Art Museum (group)
2016 – “Currents” (group), Ogden Museum of Southern Art
2016 - "Celebrating the Music Triangle", New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival / New Orleans Photo Alliance
2016 – “PDX 30” – Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon (Juried Group)
2016 – “People of the Northwest” – Chehalis Cultural Center, Newberg, Oregon (Juried Group)
2016 – Blue Sky Gallery Northwest Viewing Drawers – “July 4th, Rockaway Beach” – (Juried Group)
2015 - Severio Gallery / PhotoNOLA, New Orleans – Mardi Gras 1979 (Solo)
2015 – Houston Center for Photography (Juried Group)
2015 - Living Arts, Tulsa OK – Speaking Volumes (Group)
2015 - Blue Sky Gallery - Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Hot Rod (Juried Selection)
2014 - The Ev...