Jonathan Callan: Polythene and Drugs in Science, Paper, 2014
Jonathan Callan: Polythene and Drugs in Science, Paper, 2014, 28,5×21,5×2. Book Art Sculpture. Part of the Collection since 2014.
// Jonathan Callan / vita
1961 Born in Manchester/ UK
1980-1984 Goldsmiths College of Art, BA Honours (1st Class)
1988-1990 Slade School of Fine Arts, HDFA (Sculpture MA)
Currently lives and works in London, England.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 I don’t believe you, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne/ D
2016 Colony, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York/ USA
2015 Vacation, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels/ B
2014 Words Will Fold, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne/ D
2013 Bind, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York/ USA
2012 Prospero, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen/ DK
set, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne/ D
2011 New Works, Hopstreet, Brussels/ B
2010 Faith, Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne/ D
Blancpain Art Contemporains, Geneva/ CH
Making Subjects and Verbs agree, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan/ USA
2009 I can‘t tell you why, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Deurie/ B
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (with Jason Tomme), New York/ USA
2008 Access Denied, Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne/ D
2007 The Library of Past Choices, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Deurie/ B
2006 Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne/ D
2005 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh/ USA
Empires and Other Works, Houldsworth Gallery, London/ UK
The Apartment, Athens/ G
Trace, Zinger Gallery Tillburg/ NL
2004 Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne/ D
BearSpace London/ UK
2003 Interference, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester/ UK
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York/ USA
2002 Interference, The New Art Gallery Walsall/ UK
2001 New Work, Zwemmer Art, London/ UK
Grant Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles/ USA
2000 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York/ USA
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum/ USA
Hales Gallery, London/ UK
L’Oeil de Poisson, Montreal/ CAN
1999 Grant Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angele / USA
1995 Hales Gallery, London/ UK
1994 Entwistle Gallery, London/ UK
Winchester Gallery, Culmination of residency at Winchester School of Art/ UK
1992 Hales Gallery, London/ UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Walk the Distance and Slow Down: Selections from the Collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), Boulder, CO/ USA
Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH/ USA
On View, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York City, NY/ USA
2016 Unknown Portraits, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels/ B
Bookish, Thomas Park, Seoul/ KOR
2015 The Suspended Line, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York/ USA
2014 Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, CT/ USA
Parti Pris, 1989 – 2014, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva/ CH
A book between two stools, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels/ B
2013 The Feverish Library >>continued<<, Capitain Petzel, Berlin/ D
Drawing Up!, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York/ D
2012 Met anderen Ogen, Teylers Museum, Haarlem/ NL
Passing Time, Wesleyan University Museum, Boston / USA
Walking the line IV, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne/ D
2011 Espaces de Destin – Espèces de Dessins, le 19, CRAC Montbéliard/ F
WALKING THE LINE III, Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne/ D
Gravity‘s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh/ UK
Summer Group Show, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London/ UK
2010 Summer in the City, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen/ DK
Eraserhead, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin/ D
monochrom, Galerie Linder, Geneva/ CH
The thought of Stuff, Royal Society of British Sculpture, London/ UK
2009 On Paper, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris/ F
2008 Bookish, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork/ IE
Walking the Line, Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne/ D
Papier Raum, Galerie Thomas, Munich/ D
Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography In Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti/ USA
2007 New Lexicon, The Apartment, Athens/ G
Play, Bearspace, London/ UK
Microwave, five, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York/ USA
Rummage – Sculptors Drawings, The Winchester Gallery/ UK
Drawings and Papers, Grusenmeyer Gallery/ B
2006 Crossing The Borders, State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki/ G
Draw, Paper Sccisors, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles/ USA
Portraits, Marc Selwyn Domestic, Los Angeles/ USA
Anniversary show, The Apartment, Athens/ G
Off the Shelf, Vassar College NY/ USA
Artists books, Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco/ USA
In a Certain Place, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY/ USA
Sculpture / Object, Potteries Museum Stoke on Trent/ USA
From the Island Of Misfit Toys, Ben Maltz Gallery, LA/ USA
Black & White, Hellenic American Union, Athens/ G
Everydebris, St Pauls Gallery London/ UK
The Constant Possibility of Erasure, Dorsky Project Space, NY/ USA
Reading Writing, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York/ USA
2005 Group Show, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, LA/ USA
Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne/ D
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York/ USA
Papier = Kunst 5, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg/ D
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren/ D
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon/ P
2004 Surface (Two man show with Reinhard Doubrawa), Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne/ D
& Pistilos y Petalo, Girona / I
Heimweg, Travelling exhibition including Hamish Fulton, Kasper Konig, Richard Long,
Yoshitomo Nara & Lawrence Weiner
2003 The Book Show, The Nunnery, London/ UK
Chaotic Order, Houldsworth Gallery, London/ UK
Perforations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York/ USA
The Map is not the Territory lll, James Hockey Galley, Farnham/ USA
Fake/Real, Hunter College, New York/ USA
2002 AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum,
The University of North Carolina/ USA
Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, Samuel Dorsky Museum Of Art,
State University of New York/ USA
2001 The Silk Purse Proceedure, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol/ UK
Avalanche, Hales Gallery, London/ UK
Perfidy: Surviving Modernism, Kettle’s Yard Cambridge/ UK
2000 From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston/ USA
Barbara Gillman Gallery Miami/ USA
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara/ USA
1999 Nature/Culture, Gimpel Fils, London / UK
Hales Gallery at Old England, Paris/ F
Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Galley, New York/ USA
Manufacturers, The Paper bag Factory, Deptford, London/ UK
1988 Now, Saks Fifth Avenue Project, New York/ USA
Project 8, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul/ KOR
Drawing Center, New York/ USA
Lombard Freid Fine Art, New York/ USA
De Praktijk, Amsterdam/ NL
Not Nothing Nowhere, London/ UK
1997 The Mag Collection, Ferens Art Gallery Kingston upon Hull/ UK
Young British Artists at Marlene Eleini, London/ UK
Parasite, Toison D’Or, Brussels/ B
1995 To Whom it May Concern, Anna Bornholt, London/ UK
1994 Tight, The Tannery, London/ UK
1992 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery London/ UK
1991 Barclays Young Artist of the Year, Serpentine Gallery London/ UK
1998 Into the Nineties, the Mall Galleries London/ UK
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York / USA // The British Museum / UK // Princeton University Art Museum / USA // The Henry Moore Institute / UK // South London Art Gallery / UK // Whitworth Gallery, Manchester / UK // Progressive Art Collection Ohio / USA // The British Council / UK // The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull / UK // The High Museum Atlanta / USA // Leopold Hoesch Museum / D and several private Collections in the UK, Europe, USA, Korea and Japan