Cassandra Klos (she/her) is a photographer, artist, and curator, currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a passion for science fiction, environment stories, and human futurisms.
Through her photo projects, she has an unexpected side-career as an analog astronaut, having participated in five simulated space missions around the United States. From 2015 to 2017, she was the artist-in-residence of the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah and led the first mission of compiled of artists as Commander of Crew 181. In 2020, she was the crew journalist for the Selene II mission at the Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation. In 2023, Cassandra was the commander of the first mission at the Space Analog for Moon/Mars Habitat in Arizona, a space simulation built for space accessibility on the site of Biosphere 2. In 2025, she participated in the first World’s Biggest Analog event, as the executive officer of the all-female simulated Moon mission ‘Nivalis’ held at the Lunares Research Station in Piła, Poland. Since 2023, she has been a Solar System Ambassador for NASA.
She earned her MFA in 2020 from Duke University’s Experimental and Documentary Arts program and her BFA in 2014 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University. She has exhibited within the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum for Photography and the Cassilhaus Collection and Gallery, as well as internationally in festivals such as the Copenhagen Photography Festival, the Bienne Festival of Photography and the Lagos Photography Festival.
She is a Critical Mass finalist, the recipient of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, a United States Emerging Photographer Award from the Magenta Foundation, as well as a Traveling Fellowship Grant from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
She is currently available for editorial and commercial clients.
Partial Publication / Client List
Business Insider
Bloomberg Businessweek
Found Sound Nation
Harvard Art Museum
MIT Technology Review
National Geographic
The Atlantic
The New York Times
TIME Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine
SUGi
Pure Barre
The Economist
The Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal / Barron’s
Wired Magazine
Education
2020 Masters of Fine Arts, Experimental and Documentary Arts, Duke University
2014 Bachelors of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston @ Tufts University
Solo Exhibitions
2026 TBA, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham NC
2020 By No Other Name, Cassilhaus Collection & Gallery, Chapel Hill NC
2018 Mars on Earth, Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library, Boston MA
2018 Mars on Earth, Bienne Festival of Photography, Nouveau Museé, Bienne Switzerland
2016 The Abductees, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA
2014 The Abductees, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
Recent Group Exhibitions
2026 Forestillinger | Scenarios, The Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Moonage Daydream, Panopticon Gallery, Boston MA
Context, Filter Photo, Chicago IL
2025 otherwise, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland ME
Shining A Light: Iconic Women, Muhammed Ali Center, Louisville KY
Joyce Elaine Biennial, Texas Women’s University, Denton TX
2024 Echo Locator, Field Projects, New York NY
Through the Lens, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta GA
Western Contemporary, Strata Editions, Placed, Livingston MT
2023 Analog Sparks Film Photography Awards Best In Show, House of Lucie, Athens, Greece
Analog Sparks Film Photography Awards Best In Show, House of Lucie, Ostuni, Italy
For A Moment, Photographic Resource Center/VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley University
Slow Exposures,R. F. Strickland Building, Concord GA
A Sense of Place, Photographic Exploration Project, B-Part am Gleisdreieck, Berlin, Germany
