Mitch Kern is a Canadian/American photographer whose work explores the social landscape through constructed and observational portraiture.  

COUPLES investigates how partners negotiate power within intimate relationships, FACES examines the face as a socially constructed site of meaning shaped by culture, MASK explores social belonging and the performance of identity on the edge of the Western Canadian wild, and TIME TRAVEL plays with the distortion of time through temporal displacement. 

Born and raised in New York City, he's a dual citizen who's lived in Canada for the past 20 years, holds a BA from the University of Maryland, and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. 

His work has been featured in fifty+ group exhibitions, ten solo shows, and he's received numerous, grants, awards, commissions, and artist residencies.