Mitch Kern is a Canadian/American photographer whose work explores the social landscape through portraiture; fine art, editorial, commercial, and experimental. He's based in Calgary, where he's a professor at Alberta University of the Arts.

His current series COUPLES explores how power is distributed in couples, MASKING investigates social belonging, and TIME TRAVEL plays with the tension of displacement. 

He has a BA from the University of Maryland, an MFA from Penn State University, and over three decades of industry experience.

His career highlights include 50+ group shows, ten solo exhibitions, numerous grants, awards, commissions, and international artist residencies. 

Born and raised in New York, he's lived in California, New Mexico, Texas, Maryland, Louisiana,  Pennsylvania, and Missouri. And for the past 20 years, has proudly called Western Canada home.