Education

2000 M.F.A. - Columbia University, New York, NY (Photography, Video) 1997 B.F.A. - Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ (Photography, Sculpture)

Teaching Experience

7/2015 – Present Stanford University, Stanford, CA Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History 7/2013 – 6/2015 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Director: Senior Thesis ProgramFull-Time Regular Faculty: Undergraduate & Graduate Courses 9/2012 – 12/2013 Columbia University, New York, NY Lecturer in Photography: Undergraduate & Graduate Courses 1/2009 – 6/2013 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Co-Director: Senior Thesis Program Full-Time Visiting Faculty: Undergraduate & Graduate Courses

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Jonathan Calm: Hands on the Wheel, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (February 19-April 27, 2022) 2020 Jonathan Calm: Hands on the Wheel, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (September 1-October 31, 2020). Cancelled due to COVID-19 2018 African-American Automobility, Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery / Fisk University, Nashville, TN (April 12, 2018 – September 15, 2018) African-American Automobility: The Dangerous Freedom of the Open Road , Stanford Art Gallery / Stanford University, Stanford, CA (January 23, 2018 – March 18, 2018) 2014 Jonathan Calm: Chambers, LMAKprojects, New York, NY 2013 Jonathan Calm: Reconstruction, Painted Bride Art Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Jonathan Calm: Projects, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY Jonathan Calm: Scratching Chance, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 2005 Jonathan Calm: Offline and Infamous, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY 2004 Up and Coming: Solo, Jonathan Calm, Arco, Madrid, Spain 2003 Jonathan Calm: Solo, Loop ’00, Barcelona, Spain Jonathan Calm: Installation, ArtForum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2002 Jonathan Calm: Liquor, Lotto, and Chinese Food, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Memory and Loss, McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA (Spring 2023) 2022 Expo Chicago, Rena Bransten Gallery, Chicago, IL 2021 The Way We Remember: Fritz Koenig’s Sphere, the Trauma of 9/11, and the Politics of Memory , Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY (September 10 – November 14, 2021) Becoming, St. Joseph’s Art Society, San Francisco, CA (June 3 – September 17, 2021) When Nobody’s Watching, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (May 22 – July 10, 2021) Door into the Dark, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (March 6 – April 21, 2021) 2020 American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present , SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (Summer 2020). Live show cancelled due to COVID. 2019 Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (June 15 - September 2019) 2018 Portraiture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Summer 2018) 2017 Occupancy, Gallery 808, Boston University, Boston, MA 2015 Theatre Piece No.1 X 50: Passing Time, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 2014 Rooted Movements, LMAKprojects, New York, NY The Infinite Conversation, Castle Fritzjohns, New York, NY 2013 The 2013 deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA Histories, Clifford Chance US Collection, New York, NY 2012 Harlem Postcards Tenth Anniversary, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2011 Streetwise, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY 2010 Photography 2010: World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures, Dakar Etoile, Senegal Boston Does Boston IV, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA It’s The Uncertainty, Theodore:Art, New York, NY 2009 Video Studio: Psychogeography, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Black Is, Black Ain’t, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI Black Is, Black Ain’t, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 2008 Black Is, Black Ain’t, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Taking Shelter, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH Streetwise, Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, Spain 2007 For the Love of the Game, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Taking Possession, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR Harlem Postcards: Spring/Summer, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Partners in Crime, MC Gallery, New York, NY 2006 KAPITAL, Kent Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY HRLM, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY We Are The World, Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, Spain The City: Views of the Built Environment, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Currents: African American Video Art Today, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN The Crystal Land, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ We Are The World, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY Toys In The Attic, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY One Channel Only, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 2003 New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Anacostia Museum for African American Art, Washington, DC Main Space=Project Space, Artist Space, New York, NY Veni Vidi Video, Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY 2002 Angstrom Gallery, Art Cologne Fair, Cologne, Germany A Moments Notice, Kerry Inman Gallery, Houston, TX Proper Villains, Untitled Space, New Haven, CT Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada Mass Appeal, Montreal Arts Interculturels, Montreal, Quebec Mass Appeal, The Khyber Center for the Arts, Halifax, Canada Mass Appeal, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Canada 2001 Respirator, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY Superimposition, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY At Home, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY Flatterers, Flat Space, New York, NY 2000 Dusk I-20 Gallery, New York, NY Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, Columbia University, New York, NY 1999 Episode One, Columbia University, Gair Building Space, New York, NY Zero, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY 1997 Love and Technology International Exhibition, Graz University, Graz, Austria In Vito Veritas, Montclair State University Gallery One, Upper Montclair, NJ BFA Thesis Exhibition, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ

Residences

2019 – 2022 Montalvo Arts Center Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program, Saratoga, CA 2019 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Awards, Grants and Honors

2020 Jonathan Calm Revisits ‘Green Book’ Locations in Search of America’s Past and Present” KQED Arts & Culture Represent Series, San Francisco, CA *Nominated for 49th Northern California Area Emmy Award 2019-2020 in category Historic/ Cultural-Feature/Segment 2019 Headlands Center for the Arts: Larry Sultan Photography Award, Hellman Faculty Scholar Fund at Stanford University 2018 Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art at Stanford 2014 SMFA 2014-2015 Faculty Travel Support Grant 2008 Art Matters Grant 2003 MTA Poetry in Motion Award

Selected Broadcasts and Screenings

2019 Jonathan Calm Revisits ‘Green Book’ Locations in Search of America’s Past and Present Kelly Whalen, Producer; Serginho Roosblad, director/ director of photography; Elie Khandra, editor, KQED Arts & Culture Represent Series, San Francisco, CA (Premier broadcast on 10/10/2019) 2016 The Green Book Program, BBC Radio 4, London, UK (Premier broadcast on 11/29/2016) 2013 Thompson Hotel, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Carousel Microcinema: 10 Wondrous Motion Pictures, San Diego, CA Brick & Mortar International Video Art Festival, Greenfield, MA 2007 Role Play, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 2006 Sagamore Video Collection: Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FL Role Play, Tate Britain, London, UK 2005 Poetry in Motion Screening, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2004 Reel New York: Season 9, PBS Channel 13, New York, NY 2003 Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands Documentary Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art at Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY 2002 Reel New York: Season 7, PBS Channel 13, New York, NY

Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2021 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Phillips Sandra, “American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present,” Summer 2020, 255- 257, Plate 61, (illustration) 2019 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Reisenfeld Robin, “Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture,” June 15 - September 2019, 34-35, (illustrations) 2013 deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, Garza, Evan, “2013 deCordova Biennial,” October 9, 2013 – April 20, 2013, 20-21, (illustration) 2008 The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Walker, Hamza, “Black Is, Black Ain’t,” April 20, 2008 – June 8, 2008, 62, 118-119, (illustration) 2006 Studio Museum of Art, NYC, Minto, Brooke, “Frequency,” November 9, 2005 – March 12, 2006, 34-35, (illustration) 2003 The Smithsonian Institute, Anacostia Center for African American Art, “New Visions, Emerging Trends in African American Art 2003,” 3, 6-7, (illustration) Art Forum Berlin, Berlin Germany “Art Forum Berlin 2003,” 148-9, (illustration) 2002 Gallery 101, Sirmans, Frank, “Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip-Hop Culture,” Ottawa, Canada, August 2002 2000 I-20 Gallery, New York, NY, Hunt, David, “Dusk,” September 16 - October 28, 2000, 6 (illustration)

Selected Reviews and Articles

  • Archer, Barbara, “An Insiders Tour of Chelsea,” The Record, April 19, 2002, 39
  • Bischoll, Dan, “Crystal Land Revisited: New Art In New Jersey,” the Sunday Star-Ledger, November 7, 2004, 3, (illustration)
  • Copeland, Huey, “The Blackness of Blackness”, Artforum, October 2008, 151
  • Cote Christian, “Hip Hop Bof!,” Le Droit, September 14, 2002, A16
  • Cotter, Holland, “Cinema a la Warhol, With Cowboys, Stillness and Glamour,” New York Times, April 5, 2002, E31
  • Cotter, Holland, “Superimposition,” New York Times, July 6, 2001, E33
  • Dawson, Jessica, “African-American Art, forward and Backward,” Washington Post, November 27, 2003, C05
  • Finch, Charlie, “Video Choices, Kiki Seror, Annika Larsson, Jeremy Blake, Jonathan Calm,” Artnet.com/Magazine, March 29, 2002 (illustration)
  • Finch, Charlie, “My Own Private Biennial,” Artnet.com Magazine, November 29, 2001
  • Finch, Charlie, “Greetings Friends,” Artnet.com/Magazine, December 22, 2000
  • Genocchio, Benjamin, “Images on a Transcultural Highway,” The New York Times, December 12, 2004, 16.
  • Gladman, Randy, “Jonathan Calm,” NY Arts, July/August 2002, 17 (illustration)
  • Goodman, Christy, “PBS Finds Reel New York in Brooklyn: Focus on Homegrown Filmmakers,” 24/7, June 7, 2004, cover illustration, 3, 18-24.
  • Green, Hillary N., “Art and Disrupting the Confederate Monumental Landscape” American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present,” Summer 2021, 255-257, Plate     61, (illustration)
  • Hall, Robert, “New Visions” Valentine New York, The Magazine, Vol. 1, issue IV, Winter 2003, 17-19 (illustration)
  • Harris, Jane, “Short List,” Village Voice, June 2005, 43
  • Honigman, Ana Finel, “Pinning It Down,” Sleek, Summer 2008, 214 (illustration)
  • Huester, Webke, “Da ist die Junge Kunst, die Sich der Natur Zuwendet,” Frankfurter, October 4, 2003
  • Hunt, David, “Jonathan Calm,” Artext, Fall 2002 (illustration)
  • Jenkins, Mark,” At Anacostia, Hats & Accessories,” Washington Post, January 16, 2004
  • Joiner, Dorothy, “Taking Possession,” Art Papers, November/ December 2007, 67-68
  • Kerr, Merrily, “David Hunt’s Superimposition,” NY Arts, September 2001
  • Kerr Merrily, “Man Hunt”, NY Arts, November 2001, 28
  • Levin, Kim, “Voice Choice, Jonathan Calm,” Village Voice, April 16, 2002
  • Michel, Rita, “Loop ’00 Art Barcelona” NY Arts, Jan/Feb 2004, 31
  • Pollack, Barbara, “Frequency,” Art News, Feb. 2006, 129
  • Pritikin, Renny, “Jonathan Calm & Rena Bransten,” SquareCylinder, March 31, 2021, (Illustrations)
  • Renfro, Angie, “Challenging Perspectives: African-American Experience as Viewed Through
  • Different Lenses,” Nashville Arts Magazine, April 12, 2018, (illustration)
  • Robinson, Walter, “Weekend Update,” Artnet.com/Magazine, June 23, 2005, (illustration)
  • Simmons, Frank, “Jonathan Calm,” Time Out NY, April 19-25, 2002, 62, (illustration)
  • Schwendener, Martha, “Jonathan Calm,” The New Yorker, June 27, 2005
  • Schwenderer, Martha, “Superimposition,” Artforum Online, July 14, 2001
  • Trieschmann, Werner, “Taking Possession- is a strong display by black artists,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, September 14, 2007
  • Valdez, Sarah, “Report From New York, Bling and Beyond,” Artnet.com/Magazine, April 2006, 63 (illustration)
  • Valdez, Sarah, “Jonathan Calm,” Paper, February 2002, 132
  • Young, Lisa J., “Jonathan Calm,” Tema Celeste, July-August 2002, 90 (illustration)
  • Zamudio, Raul, “Superimposition,” Tema Celeste, September-October 2000, 84

Published Writing

2020 Calm, Jonathan, “Ride or Die,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2020, (illustrations) 2017 Calm, Jonathan, “A Safe Place,” Art21.org/Magazine, July / August Issue Inspired by a True Story, August 22, 2017 2016 Calm, Jonathan, “The Green Book – A Visual Journey,” BBC.co.uk/ BBC Radio 4, November 29, 2016

Selected Lectures, Panels and Symposiums

2022 Visiting Artist Colloquium: Jonathan Calm, University Wisconsin, Madison, WI (3/30/2021) 2021 Honoring Photographer Chris Johnson, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (9/26/2021) Creating a Photography Collection with Alvin Hall & Rick Wester, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (9/25/2021) The Roof is on Fire: Artists Responding to Climate Change, Binh Danh, David Maisel, and Aspen Mays, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (9/23/2021) NFT Curated Artists with Chuck Anderson, Moyosore Briggs, Jawn Diego, Devon Moore, Hasain Rasheed, Synchrodogs, and Raven Trammell Moderated by Mark Sabb, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (9/17/2021) Philip Brookman of the National Gallery of Art on “Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work, 1940-50”, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (9/11/2021) Becoming, St. Joseph’s Society, San Francisco, CA (06/12/2021) Document / Documentation, East Bay Photo Coalition, Oakland, CA (05/31/2021) In Conversation: Mikael Owunna and Jonathan Calm, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (02/18/2021) Photography Curators Circle, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA (11/30/2020) Artist Profile Redwood City Collection, Stanford University, Redwood City, CA (10/15/2020) 2020 African American Automobility, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (06/19/2020) Cancelled due to COVID 2019 Recording a Green Book Journey, High Museum, Atlanta, GA (12/7/2019) Sultan Award Artist Presentation: Jonathan Calm, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA, (10/10/2019) African American Automobility, Toldeo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (09/05/2019) 2018 Recording a Green Book Journey, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (04/07/2018) Art Practice Talk Series: Jonathan Calm, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA (03/08/2018) Photography Lecture Series: Jonathan Calm, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA (03/05/2018) 2017 The Pioneers of African American Cinema, with IDA, Brown & CCRMA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (4/11/2017) 2016 Public Space in Iran: Murals, Graffiti, Performance with Ala Ebtekar , IDA at Stanford University, Stanford CA (10/19/2016) 2015 Seeing Race Now: The Arts, Racial Justice, and Cultural Equity , IDA & AAAS with the Nation Magazine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (11/19/2015) Theatre Piece No.1 X 50: Passing Time, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (11/5/2015) 2013 The Role of Documentation in Art and The 2013 deCordova Biennial , Lincoln, MA Current Works, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT 2012 Current Works, Union College, Schenectady, NY 2009 Grantee Panel Discussion, Art Matters, New York, NY 8 Photographers Lecture Series, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, MA 2008 NY Current Works, Rockland Community College, Rockland 2003 Current Works, Museum of Modern Art at Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY 2001 The Grotesque Body, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Contemporary Art Scene, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Artist and Career, Rockland Community College, Rockland, NJ 2000 Contemporary Art Scene, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

Public Collections

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  • Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
  • Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
    • *Private collections on request

Gallery Affiliation

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA