Press
Evokation: Esha Chiocchio Restoring Earth’s Canvas: Lordsburg Playa, 2023
Santa Fe Art Institute Tilt video, Esha Chiocchio: Soil as Black Gold, 2023
Catalyst: Interviews: Esha Chiocchio, 2022
The CENTER Awards: Environmental Award: Esha Chiocchio, 2022
KUNM Interview, Meeting Climate Change Through Soil, 2021
Down to Earth podcast, Lush and Abundant Biodiversity - in a Desert City, 2021
Shifter Dispatches: Esha Chiocchio, Interview with Dan Milnor, 2017
World Photography Organization, The 300 Year History of the Humble Strawberry, 2016
Grants
National Geographic Explorer, storyteller grant, 2023
New Mexico Department of Agriculture Healthy Soil Program, multimedia grant, 2022
New Mexico Department of Agriculture Healthy Soil Program, multimedia grant, 2020
Public Speaking
EVOKE Contemporary, Artist Talk, Santa Fe, NM, 2023
EVOKE Contemporary, New Mexico School for the Arts gallery visit and presentation, Santa Fe, NM, 2023
Turchin Center, Artist Talk and Panel Discussion, Boone, NC, 2023
Turchin Center, Good Earth series film screening with Q&A, Boone, NC, 2023
Santa Fe Garden Club, Good Earth presentation, 2023
Reunity Resources, Good Earth series film screening with Q&A, 2021
University of New Mexico International Studies Department, Malian Community Building, 2017
Publications
Table Magazine - New Mexico, Full of Beans, Fall 2023
Zeke Magazine, Good Earth, Fall 2022
Edible New Mexico, State of the Meat Market, September/October, 2022
Green Fire Times, Santa Fe as a Model for Large-Scale Water Conservation, December 2021
High Country News, The Orchardist Rescuing Fruit Trees in NM, 2021
(un)Common Life: Portraits, 2019
National Geographic Magazine, Spain/Special Best World Images, 2017
Photo District News TASTE competition grand prize winner article, 2016
ArMen La Bretagne Eclairée, La blanche et la rouge, June 2014
Le Roman de la Fraise: 300 ans d’aventure, by Chloé Batissou 2014
US Airways Magazine, Albuquerque, cover story, April 2006
One People Many Journeys (Lonely Planet), September 2005
National Geographic Traveler, Albuquerque’s Central Avenue, November/December 2003
National Geographic: Through the Lens, October 2003
America 24/7, October 2003
National Geographic School Publishing Reading Editions: Mali, October 2003
The Santa Fean, April 2003
Camera Arts, October/November 2002
A-JA, Inc. (Japan), Djenné, Mali, July 2002
National Geographic Magazine, Djenné: West Africa’s Eternal City, supplement, June 2001
Exhibitions
Regenerative Actions, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM April 19-October 20, 2024
As Above, So Below (group), FOMA Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2023
Restoring Earth’s Canvas (solo), EVOKE Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2023
Circular Solutions (group), Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, 2023
(un)Common Life (solo), The Commons, Santa Fe, 2018
The Fence (group), Santa Fe, 2017
Mayor’s Public Art Exhibition (year-long, outdoor, solo), L’histoire de la fraise, Plougastel, France 2012
Cities of the World and Environment (group), Seoul, Korea 2004
Through the Lens (group), National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC, 2003
Biophilia (group), The New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe, NM 2002
Les Femmes Maliennes (solo), Palais de Congrès, Bamako, Mali 1999
Teaching
Photography Instructor, Santa Fe Workshops, 2004, 2006, 2019, 2023
Photography Instructor, Fredric Roberts Photography Workshops: Hyderabad, India, 2017; Lisbon, Portugal 2018; Mombassa, Kenya 2018; Monterrey, Mexico, 2020.
Climate Instructor: Climate Masters and My Water, My Watershed, Santa Fe Watershed Association, 2013 -2022.
Education
Master of Arts, Sustainable Communities, Goddard College, 2013
The Eddie Adams Workshop, participant, 2002
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, operations/course assistant/work-study 2000-2001
Peace Corps Volunteer, Mali, West Africa, 1997-1999
BA in Anthropology and French, University of Colorado, 1996
Junior year abroad, l’Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 1994-1995
Awards
Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Landscapes/Seascapes, First Prize, 2023
Center, Environmental Award, 2022
Photoville, The FENCE Santa Fe, 2017
Photo District News, Taste, Grand Prize Winner, 2016
Photo District News, 30 Under 30 Award, 2004
Residencies
Santa Fe Art Institute, Changing Climate Residency, 2023
Affiliations
American Society of Media Photographers - NM Chapter, Board Member
New Mexico State Committee, National Museum of Women in the Arts
Council on the Uncertain Human Future, Convener and Facilitator
Fiscal Sponsor
Licenses
Certified FAA Part 107 Drone Operator
Languages
Fluent French, conversational Spanish, and rusty Bambara