BIOGRAPHY
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1961
• Born Manchester, England
1984
• Bachelor of Arts, Goldsmiths College of Art
1990
• Slade School of Fine Arts, H.D.F.A. (Sculpture)
• Currently lives and works in London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
• I Can’t Tell You Why, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
2008
• Access Denied, Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2007
• The Library of Past Choices, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
2006
• New Works, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
2005
• Jonathan Callan: New Work, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
• Trace, Zinger Galler, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Curated by Steven Van Grinsven
• The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
• Empires and Other Worlds, Houldsworth Gallery, London, England
2004
• Platform, London, England
• Surface (with Reinhard Doubrawa), Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
2003
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2002
• *Interference: Jonathan Callan, The New Art Gallery Walsall, England. Travels to: Firstsite, Colchester, Essex, England, April 5 – May 31, 2003
2001
• Zwemmer Art, London, England
• Grant Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2000
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
• Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California
• Hales Gallery, London
1999
• L’Oeil de Poisson, Montreal
• Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
1995
• Hales Gallery, London
1994
• Entwistle Gallery, London
• Winchester Gallery, culmination of residency at Winchester School of Art
1992
• Hales Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Speaking Volumes, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2009
• Jonathan Callan, Jason Tomme, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• On Paper, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
• Opportunities, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
2008
• Bookish, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Pop Art : Now and Then, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
• Ghost Trade And The Spectre Of Change, Deptford X, APT Gallery, London
• Fantastic, Found and Fake, Potteries Museum, UK
• Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Curated by Clare Norwood
• London Calling, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Belgium
• Digital Romance, VILKA, Thessaloniki, Greece
• And Now, Greek State Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Papier & Raum, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
• Interiors, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Belgium
• Walking the Line, Kudlek Van Der Grinten Galerie, Cologne Germany
2007
• The New Lexicon, The Apartment, Greece
• Displaced, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Microwave 5, Josee Biénvenu Gallery, New York, NY
• Rummage: Sculptors' Drawings, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester, UK
• Drawings and Papers, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
• Overcraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
• Play, the Cello Factory, London, curated by Bearspace
2006
• Crossing the Borders, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessoloniki, Greece
• Draw, Paper, Scissors, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
• Portraits, Marc Selwyn, Los Angeles, CA
• Anniversary Show, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
• Jonathan Callan, Rodney Graham, Matthew Higgs, Imi Knoebel, Hirsch Perlman, Andrzej Zielinski, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• The Constant Possibility of Erasure, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY, Curated by Donna Harkavy and Gracie Mansion
• The West Collection, SEI Investments, London, UK
• Off the Shelf, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
• Book, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• From the Island of Misfit Toys, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Claremont, CA
• Sculpture / Object, Featuring Anya Gallaccio, Gavin Turk, Nina Saunders, Richard Wentworth and Hadrian Piggott, Potteries Museum, Stoke, UK
2005
• In a Certain Place, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists and Cartographers, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
• The Apartment, Athens, Greece
• Shaffenburg, Germany
• Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Paperworks, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
• Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• *Papier Kunst 5, Neuer Kunstverein, Germany
• *Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Duren, Germany
• *Romance [a novel], Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
2004
• BearSpace, London, England
• Pistilos y Petalo, Girona, Spain
• Heimwig, Traveling Exhibtion
2003
• Chaotic Order, Houldsworth, London, England
• Perforations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
• The Book Show, The Nunnery, London
• AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina of Greensboro, NC
• The Map is Not the Territory, England and Co., London, England
• Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY. Travels to: Federal Reserve, Washington, DC, 2003
2001
• The Silk Purse Proceedure, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
• PERFIDY: Surviving Modernism, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England
2000
• From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, The Institute of ContemporaryArt, Boston, MA
• Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
• Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1999
• Nature/Culture, Gimpel Fils, London
• Hales Gallery at Old England, Paris
• Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York.
• Manufacturers, The Paper Bag Factory, Deptford, London
1998
• London Now, Saks Fifth Avenue Project Art, New York, NY
• Project 8, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
• Drawing Center, New York, NY
• Lombard Freid Fine Art, New York, NY
• British Invasion, SAKS, New York, NY
• De Praktijk, Amsterdam
• Not Nothing Nowhere, London
• ART98, with Hales Gallery, Business Design Centre, London
1997
• The Mag Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull
• 20th Century British Art Fair with Hales Gallery, Royal College, London
• Young British Artists at Marlene Eleini
• Parasite, Toison D’Or, Brussels
1995
• To Whom It May Concern, Anna Bornholt, London
1994
• Tight, The Tannery, London Bridge
1992
• Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1991
• Barclays Young Artist of the Year, Serpentine Gallery, London
1989
• Into the Nineties, The Mall Galleries, London
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AWARDS
1993
Henry Moore Fellow in Sculpture, Winchester School of Art
1990
Boise Scholarship
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006
• Huth, Geof, "Remembering Books, dbqp: visualizing poetics (http://dbqp.blogspot.com), Dec. 30
• New Art On View: Celebrating the Success of the Contemporary Art Society's Special Collection Scheme, London: Scala and the Contemporary Art Society
• Helfland, Glen, "Book at Hosfelt Gallery, Art on Paper, March/April
• Camlin, Cynthia, "Messages and Communications: The Mattress Factory, Art Papers, March/April
• Ollman, Leah, "What this group can do with paper, LA Times, June 2
• "Jonathan Callan [Interview], a. The Athens Contemporary Art Review, February
• "From the Island of Misfit Toys [Review], Juxtapoz, May
• Special Collection Scheme Catalog, Published by Contemporary Art Society
2004
• Walter, Cordula, ‘Stadt Revue’, Koln Magazin, March
2003
• ‘Jonathan Callan: Interference’ ArtPreview, Dec/Jan
2002
‘• Artist toys with his exhibition’ Walsall Express & Star, Dec. 6
2001
‘• Top Shows of 2000’ (listed as #2,) Paper, January
2000
• Sarah Valdez, Art in America, March
• Gary Duehr, Art On Paper, November/December, pp.90-1.
• Katie Clifford, ARTnews, November, p.210.
• ‘Voice Choices/Best of NYC,’ The Village Voice, October 3
2000
• ‘Talent,’ New York Magazine, September 18.
• Christopher Millis, ‘Hitting paydirt: A world of wonders at the ICA,’ The Boston Phoenix, August 25, p.11
• Christine Temin, ‘Illustrating the Loss of Landscape,’ The Boston Globe, August 4, p.D1
• Mary Sherman ‘Landscapes keep distance from nature at ICA exhibit,’ Boston Herald, July 23
• Paul Parcellin, ‘View from above,’ Retro-Rocket.com, July
• Review Soundings, Artists Newsletter Magazine, March
• Piers Masterson, ‘Love Affairs of Some Famous Men’, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 28.
• Helen Sumpter, ‘Love Affairs of Some Famous Men’, The Big Issue, 07, February 13
• Duncan McLaren, ‘Love Affairs of Some Famous Men’, The Independent on Sunday, February 6
• Sacha Craddock, ‘Love Affairs of Some Famous Men’, Ionart.co.uk magazine, February 1
• Regina von Planta ‘Love Affairs of Some Famous Men’, Kunst-Bulletin, January/February
1999
• Ken Johnson, “Drawings: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery,” The New York Times, Friday, August 13
• Dorcus Taylor, Works on paper Concise Catalogue, Leeds’ Sculpture Collections, Henry Moore Institute
• Scientific American, May
• Adrian Webster, Nature, January
1997
• Nature, Essay by Martin Kemp, December
• Catalogue Parasite, Denis Gielen
1994
• David Lillington, Time Out, July
• Tight, H. Reitmar, Art Monthly, No. 81
1993
• Paul Bonaventura exhibition catalogue, March
1992
• Sarah Kent, Time Out, July
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2006
• I Can't Think of Anything, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
