Jonathan Calm

Jonathan Calm (born 1971) is an American visual artist[1] in the media of photography and video.

Early life and education

Calm was born in New York. He received his BFA from Montclair State University in 1997 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2000.

Career

Calm's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, and written about in many publications.[2][3][4] In 2008 he was the recipient of an Art Matters grant.

Since 2009, Calm has been dividing his time between his native New York and Boston, where he teaches and is director of the Senior Thesis Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Work

Jonathan Calm's photo and video work explores connections with the aesthetics of sculpture, documentary journalism, and particularly architecture. The architectural development of public housing and its socio-cultural, historical and geopolitical impact on local and global urban communities constitutes anmajor theme in his art.

Calm was one of the featured artists in the Renaissance Society of Chicago's 2008 Black Is, Black Ain't exhibition, which showcased racially related themes of what has been called Post-Blackness.

Calm participated in the 2015 Pulse New York Art Fair.[5]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions and screenings

In print

References

  1. Anand Prahlad (2006). Encyclopedia of African American folklore. Greenwood Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-313-33035-3.
  2. Genocchio, Benjamin. “Images on a Transcultural Highway,” The New York Times December 12, 2004, p. 16
  3. Art in America. 96 - 9-11. F.F. Sherman. 2008. p. 192.
  4. Jenkins, Mark. “At Anacostia, Hats & Accessories,” The Washington Post, Jan. 16, 2004
  5. "PULSE New York Art Fair 2015". HG.
  6. "Weekend Update". ArtNet by Walter Robinson
  7. "Arts This Week: New Yet Familiar". WGBH News
  8. "The artists of the deCordova Biennial". Big Red and Shiny, By John Pyper on October 30, 2013
  9. Dawson, Jessica. “African-American Art, Forward and Backward,” The Washington Post, Nov. 27, 2003, p. C05
  10. "ART IN REVIEW; 'Superimposition'" New York Times, By HOLLAND COTTER July 6, 2001 p. E33

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