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Jonathan Calm (artist)

Jonathan Calm (born 1971) is an American visual artist who specializes in photography and video.

He received his BFA from Montclair State University in 1997 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2000.

His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums on both sides of the Atlantic, and written about in numerous publications. 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 runs 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 the stakes of racial discourse in the era of what has been called Post-Blackness, “as our efforts to become less race conscious serve to make us more race conscious,”^[1] in the words of curator Hamza Walker.

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

“Jonathan Calm: Chambers,” LMAKprojects, New York, NY, 2014
“Jonathan Calm: Projects,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, 2008
“Scratching Chance ,” Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, 2008
“Offline & Infamous,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, 2005
“Liquor, Lotto and Chinese Food,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, 2002

Selected Group Exhibitions

“Video Studio: Psychogeography,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2011
“Black Is, Black Ain’t,” curated by Hamza Walker, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2008
“Taking Shelter”, curated by Michele Snyder & James Voorhies, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, 2008
“Streetwise,” curated by Elga Wimmer, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2008
“For the Love of the Game: Race and Sports,” curated by Franklin Sirmans and Rehema Barber, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, 2007
“Frequency,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2005
“The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment,”curated by Susan Hoeltzel, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY, 2005
“Currents: African American Video Art Toady”, Curated by Terri Smith, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, 2004
“The Crystal Land”, curated by Raul Zamudio, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ (catalogue), 2004
“One Channel Only,” curated by Barry Rosenberg, Contemporary Art Galleries: Stoors The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2004
“New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art,“ Smithsonian Institute, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, 2003
“Main Space = Project Spaces,” curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Artist Space, New York, NY, 2003
“Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture,” curated by Franklin Sirmans, traveling exhibition, 2003
“Dusk,” curated by David Hunt, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue), 2000

Broadcasts & Screenings

“Role Play,” curated by Cylena Simonds, in corporation with “The Black Cube,” curated by David A. Bailey, Tate Britain, London, 2006
“Reel New York: Experimental Directions,” Public Broadcasting System, Channel 13, New York, NY, Summer 2004, aired Delta, 2004
“Rotterdam Film Festival”, Rotterdam, Netherlands, screening: “A Place To Live, 2001, Trigger, 2001, Marcy’s Park at Four, 2001, Life Taste Good, 2002. Crib, 2002," 2003
“Documentary Fortnight, Museum Of Modern Art at The Gramercy Theatre”, New York, NY, screening and discussion with artist: “A Place To Live, 2001, Trigger, 2001, Marcy’s Park at Four, 2001, Life Taste Good, 2002. Crib, 2002,” 2002

In Print

Copeland, Huey. “The Blackness of Blackness,” Artforum, October, 2009, p. 151
Cotter, Holland. “Cinema à la Warhol, With Cowboys, Stillness and Glamour,”  The New York Times, April 5, 2002, p. E31
Cotter, Holland. ”Superimposition,” The New York Times^[1], July 6, 2001, p. E33
Dawson, Jessica. “African-American Art, Forward and Backward,” The Washington Post, Nov. 27, 2003, p. C05
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Images on a Transcultural Highway,” The New York Times,  December 12, 2004, p. 16
Gladman, Randy. Jonathan Calm, NYArts, July/Aug. 2002, p. 17 (illus.)
Hunt, David. “Jonathan Calm,” Artext, Fall 2002 (illus.)
Jenkins, Mark. “At Anacostia, Hats & Accessories,” The Washington Post, Jan. 16, 2004
Minto, Brooke. “Frequency,” catalogue essay, Studio Museum of Art, NYC, Nov 9, 2005–March 12, 2006, pp. 34-35 (illus.)
Pollack, Barbara, “Frequency,” Art News, Feb. 2006, p. 129
Sirmans, Franklin. “Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture,” catalogue essay, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada, August 2002
Valdez, Sarah. “Report From New York, Bling and Beyond,” Art in America, April 2006, p.63 (illus.)
Young, Lisa J. “Jonathan Calm,” Tema Celeste, July-August, 2002, p. 90 (illus.)
Zamudio, Raul. “Superimposition,” Tema Celeste, September-October, 2000, p. 84

External Links

http://www.carengoldenfineart.com

http://www.jonathancalm.com

http://www.lmakprojects.com

References

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