Curriculum Vitae
Education
M.F.A. — Columbia University, New York, NY (Photography, Video)
B.F.A. — Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ (Photography, Sculpture)
Teaching Experience
Stanford University, Stanford, CA — Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University, Stanford, CA — Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA — Director: Senior Thesis Program; Full-Time Regular Faculty
Columbia University, New York, NY — Lecturer in Photography
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA — Co-Director: Senior Thesis Program; Full-Time Visiting Faculty
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Jonathan Calm: Hands on the Wheel, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
African-American Automobility, Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery / Fisk University, Nashville, TN
African-American Automobility: The Dangerous Freedom of the Open Road, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
Jonathan Calm: Chambers, LMAKprojects, New York, NY
Jonathan Calm: Reconstruction, Painted Bride Art Center of Philadelphia, PA
Jonathan Calm: Projects, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Jonathan Calm: Scratching Chance, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Jonathan Calm: Offline and Infamous, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Up and Coming: Solo, Jonathan Calm, Arco, Madrid, Spain
Jonathan Calm: Solo, Loop '00, Barcelona, Spain
Jonathan Calm: Installation, ArtForum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Jonathan Calm: Liquor, Lotto, and Chinese Food, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
Memory and Loss, McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Expo Chicago, Rena Bransten Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Way We Remember: Fritz Koenig's Sphere, the Trauma of 9/11, and the Politics of Memory, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY
Becoming, St. Joseph's Art Society, San Francisco, CA
When Nobody's Watching, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Door into the Dark, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Portraiture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Occupancy, Gallery 808, Boston University, Boston, MA
Theatre Piece No.1 X 50: Passing Time, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Rooted Movements, LMAKprojects, New York, NY
The Infinite Conversation, Castle Fritzjohns, New York, NY
The 2013 deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Histories, Clifford Chance US Collection, New York, NY
Harlem Postcards Tenth Anniversary, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Streetwise, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
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
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
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
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
KAPITAL, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
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
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
New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC
Main Space=Project Space, Artist Space, New York, NY
Veni Vidi Video, Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY
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
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
Dusk, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, Columbia University, New York, NY
Episode One, Columbia University, Gair Building Space, New York, NY
Zero, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
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
Montalvo Arts Center Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program, Saratoga, CA
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Awards, Grants and Honors
KQED Arts & Culture Represent Series — Nominated for 49th Northern California Area Emmy Award
Headlands Center for the Arts: Larry Sultan Photography Award
Hellman Faculty Scholar Fund at Stanford University
Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art at Stanford
SMFA 2014–2015 Faculty Travel Support Grant
Art Matters Grant
MTA Poetry in Motion Award
Selected Broadcasts and Screenings
Jonathan Calm Revisits 'Green Book' Locations in Search of America's Past and Present, KQED Arts & Culture Represent Series, San Francisco, CA
The Green Book Program, BBC Radio 4, London, UK
Thompson Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Carousel Microcinema: 10 Wondrous Motion Pictures, San Diego, CA
Brick & Mortar International Video Art Festival, Greenfield, MA
Role Play, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Sagamore Video Collection: Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
Role Play, Tate Britain, London, UK
Poetry in Motion Screening, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Reel New York: Season 9, PBS Channel 13, New York, NY
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Documentary Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art at Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY
Reel New York: Season 7, PBS Channel 13, New York, NY
Exhibition Catalogues and Books
SFMOMA, Sandra Phillips, "American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present"
Toledo Museum of Art, Robin Reisenfeld, "Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture"
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Evan Garza, "2013 deCordova Biennial"
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Hamza Walker, "Black Is, Black Ain't"
Studio Museum of Art, NYC, Brooke Minto, "Frequency"
The Smithsonian Institute, Anacostia Center for African American Art, "New Visions, Emerging Trends in African American Art 2003"
Art Forum Berlin, "Art Forum Berlin 2003"
Gallery 101, Frank Sirmans, "Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip-Hop Culture," Ottawa, Canada
I-20 Gallery, David Hunt, "Dusk"
Selected Reviews and Articles
- Archer, Barbara, "An Insiders Tour of Chelsea," The Record, April 19, 2002
- Bischoll, Dan, "Crystal Land Revisited: New Art In New Jersey," the Sunday Star-Ledger, November 7, 2004
- Copeland, Huey, "The Blackness of Blackness," Artforum, October 2008
- Cote, Christian, "Hip Hop Bof!," Le Droit, September 14, 2002
- Cotter, Holland, "Cinema a la Warhol, With Cowboys, Stillness and Glamour," New York Times, April 5, 2002
- Cotter, Holland, "Superimposition," New York Times, July 6, 2001
- Dawson, Jessica, "African-American Art, forward and Backward," Washington Post, November 27, 2003
- Finch, Charlie, "Video Choices," Artnet.com/Magazine, March 29, 2002
- 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
- Gladman, Randy, "Jonathan Calm," NY Arts, July/August 2002
- Goodman, Christy, "PBS Finds Reel New York in Brooklyn," 24/7, June 7, 2004
- Green, Hillary N., "Art and Disrupting the Confederate Monumental Landscape," American Geography, Summer 2021
- Hall, Robert, "New Visions," Valentine New York, The Magazine, Winter 2003
- Harris, Jane, "Short List," Village Voice, June 2005
- Honigman, Ana Finel, "Pinning It Down," Sleek, Summer 2008
- Huester, Webke, "Da ist die Junge Kunst, die Sich der Natur Zuwendet," Frankfurter, October 4, 2003
- Hunt, David, "Jonathan Calm," Artext, Fall 2002
- Jenkins, Mark, "At Anacostia, Hats & Accessories," Washington Post, January 16, 2004
- Joiner, Dorothy, "Taking Possession," Art Papers, November/December 2007
- Kerr, Merrily, "David Hunt's Superimposition," NY Arts, September 2001
- Kerr, Merrily, "Man Hunt," NY Arts, November 2001
- Levin, Kim, "Voice Choice, Jonathan Calm," Village Voice, April 16, 2002
- Michel, Rita, "Loop '00 Art Barcelona," NY Arts, Jan/Feb 2004
- Pollack, Barbara, "Frequency," Art News, Feb. 2006
- Pritikin, Renny, "Jonathan Calm & Rena Bransten," SquareCylinder, March 31, 2021
- Renfro, Angie, "Challenging Perspectives," Nashville Arts Magazine, April 12, 2018
- Robinson, Walter, "Weekend Update," Artnet.com/Magazine, June 23, 2005
- Simmons, Frank, "Jonathan Calm," Time Out NY, April 19–25, 2002
- Schwendener, Martha, "Jonathan Calm," The New Yorker, June 27, 2005
- Schwendener, 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
- Valdez, Sarah, "Jonathan Calm," Paper, February 2002
- Young, Lisa J., "Jonathan Calm," Tema Celeste, July–August 2002
- Zamudio, Raul, "Superimposition," Tema Celeste, September–October 2000
Published Writing
Calm, Jonathan, "Ride or Die," The Brooklyn Rail, February 2020
Calm, Jonathan, "A Safe Place," Art21.org/Magazine, August 22, 2017
Calm, Jonathan, "The Green Book — A Visual Journey," BBC Radio 4, November 29, 2016
Selected Lectures, Panels and Symposiums
Visiting Artist Colloquium: Jonathan Calm, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Honoring Photographer Chris Johnson, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Creating a Photography Collection with Alvin Hall & Rick Wester, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
The Roof is on Fire: Artists Responding to Climate Change, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
NFT Curated Artists, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Philip Brookman on "Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work, 1940–50," SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Becoming, St. Joseph's Society, San Francisco, CA
Document / Documentation, East Bay Photo Coalition, Oakland, CA
In Conversation: Mikael Owunna and Jonathan Calm, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Photography Curators Circle, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Artist Profile Redwood City Collection, Stanford University, Redwood City, CA
Recording a Green Book Journey, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Sultan Award Artist Presentation: Jonathan Calm, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
African American Automobility, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Recording a Green Book Journey, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Art Practice Talk Series: Jonathan Calm, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
Photography Lecture Series: Jonathan Calm, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
The Pioneers of African American Cinema, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Public Space in Iran: Murals, Graffiti, Performance, IDA at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Seeing Race Now: The Arts, Racial Justice, and Cultural Equity, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Theatre Piece No.1 X 50: Passing Time, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Role of Documentation in Art and The 2013 deCordova Biennial, Lincoln, MA
Current Works, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
Current Works, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Grantee Panel Discussion, Art Matters, New York, NY
8 Photographers Lecture Series, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, MA
NY Current Works, Rockland Community College, Rockland, NY
Current Works, Museum of Modern Art at Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY
The Grotesque Body, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Art Scene, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Artist and Career, Rockland Community College, Rockland, NJ
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
Gallery Affiliation
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA