JOSH CALLAGHAN Born 1969 in Doylestown, PA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. EDUCATION 2005 M.F.A., New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1992 B.A., Cultural Anthropology, Magna Cum Laude, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Legacy, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2016 LIFEFORCE, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Chess Set, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Soft Targets, Royale Projects, Palm Desert, CA 2011 Elysian Parking, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA 2009 A Lost and Found, Works Sited, Los Angeles Central Library, Los Angeles, CA The Distended Hand Truck and other Curiosities, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA One Hundred Year Anniversary Commemorative Ford Model-T Lamp and Alarm Clock, Volta NY with Haas & Fischer Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Bachsteintauben, Hass & Fischer Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Very Concerned, Somewhat Concerned, Not at all Concerned, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Shaggy Dog Stories, curated by Audrey Moyer and Paulina Samborska, San Pedro, CA 2018 Art-o-rama, presentation with Night Gallery, Marseilles, France Paradise, Organized by Edgar Bryan and Adrianne Rubenstein, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Note to Self, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA Dallas Art Fair with Night Gallery, Dallas, TX Elemental, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA 2017 Transporter, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Note to Self, Elephant, Los Angeles, CA Nada New York, with Night Gallery, New York, NY 2016 Hydroponic Forms, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany Flowers in your hair, Fused, San Francisco, CA Current LA: Water, Los Angeles Public Art Biennial, Los Angeles, CA Flat Foldability, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Display System Four, Eastern Star Gallery, Archer School, Los Angeles, CA Eight Artists Walk into a Bar, Falcon s Nest, Los Angeles, CA Vapegoat Rising, Arturo Bandini at Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, TX Round Trip Ticket, Soulangh Cultural Village, Tainan, Taiwan Art Bandini Los Angeles, with Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Tickles, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA The Arroyo Seco Golf Classic, Los Angeles, CA Thank You PF Chang s, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA Feigned, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA Wünderkammer, Pitzer College Nichols Gallery, Claremont, CA 2014 Push Me Pull You, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Another Thing Coming, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA The Beach that Never Was, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore 2013, Rochor, Singapore Pistonhead, Venus Over Manhattan, 1111 Lincoln Blvd, Miami, FL Unlimited Art Fair, with Royale Projects, Miami, FL Made in Space, Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY Masters of Irreverence, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA Cry Hope Cry Fury, Aran Cravey Gallery, Venice, CA Neo Povera, L&M Arts, Venice, CA Bienal Del Sur en Panama, Panama City, Panama Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Dialogs of Practice I & II, West LA College, Culver City, CA, and First Street Art Center Gallery, Pomona, CA Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Night Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012 The Big Bang, the 19th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit, Water Mill, NY Döppelgangsters, Area 1, Santa Monica, CA The Planter Show, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA The Holodeck, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Volta Basel Art Fair, with Steve Turner Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland Frieze New York Art Fair, Sculpture Park, New York, NY Prince at the Forum, Beacon Arts Center, Inglewood, CA Sun Don't Look Angry at Me, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA 2011 Aqua Art Miami, with Steve Turner Contemporary, Miami, FL Art Platform LA, with Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA Baker s Dozen, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA Playtime, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Art Contemporary, with Steve Turner Contemporary and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Law of the Jungle, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (N)either Swords (N)or Plowshares: Functional (F)utilities, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA 5 X 5, ESPAI, Centro d art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain Larvel Stages, Latned Atsar, Los Angeles, CA Dr. Zomb, Glendale Community College Gallery, Glendale, CA Casa Bella, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Hidden Bodies, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Minimum Yields Maximum, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA 2009 The Livingroom, Haas & Fischer Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Marine Salon 03, Marine Contemporary, Venice CA Big Ass Sculpture Show, Summercamp Projects, Los Angeles, CA Summer Show, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland Works Sited, Los Angeles Central Library, Los Angeles, CA Nu, Galleria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil 2008 Miami Basel Art Fair, with Galleria Fortes Vilaça, Miami, FL The White Elephant Complex, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Los Angeles, CA Whatcha See is Whatcha Get, Whatcha Don't See is Better Yet, 533, Los Angeles, CA Mr. Reverse Psychology, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles, CA Space as a Space, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA Project(OR) Art Fair, with Fette's Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands Abre Allas, O Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2007 Le Flaneur, Fette's Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Preview Berlin Art Fair, with Bank Gallery, Berlin, Germany Rogue Wave '07, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Kairos, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Phantom Galleries LA, Pasadena, CA Material Witness, UC Riverside Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA Campari (this is Not Sponsored By), Park Projects, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary, Magazzino d Arte Modern, Rome, Italy Good Work, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA High-Desert Test Sites, Christening of a Cabin, Yucca Valley, CA That Funny Way I Laugh, South la Brea Gallery, Inglewood, CA Invitational, USC Master of Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 New Sculpture So-Cal, Guggenheim Gallery Project Room, Chapman University, Orange, CA ESL/Esthetics as a Second Language, The Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Off the Map, at the home of Corina Gamma, Los Angeles, CA Red White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY Supersonic LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA Character Traits, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA MFA 4, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Counterfeit Copyright Protection, Artist's Television Access Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 Repurpose, Southern Exposure Annual Juried Exhibition, San Francisco, CA Emerge, Gen Arts SF 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, San Francisco, CA 1998 Gabinet do Chico, Festival VideoBrasil, with Chelpa Ferro, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil 1997 Danger and Safety, Salon 75, collaborative project with Jesse Berg, New York, NY 1996 Domestic Anxiety, Salon 75, collaborative project with Jesse Berg, New York, NY 1994 Work and Wonder, Franklin Furnace, Collaborative Project with Jesse Berg, New York, NY Group Show, Team Gallery, Washington, DC PUBLIC PROJECTS 2017 Berry Berkus Monument, for Brookfield Residential, Playa Vista, CA Elan Huntington Beach, for Greystar Inc., Huntington Beach,CA 2016 Soulangh Artist s Village Residency 2015 Playa Vista Phase II, Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Town Park Plaza Project, Culver City CA, for the City of Culver City Union Jack and Voyager Mall Project, Marina Del Rey CA 2013 Ladder at Full Reach, Armory Center for the Arts, Casita, Pasadena, CA 2012 The Beach Collection, for Standard Pacific Homes, Venice CA Bryant Park Project II, for the Bryant Park Corporation, New York, NY 2011 Waterfront Park Project, The Campus at Playa Vista, Los Angeles CA Art With Wind, Tianmu Neighborhood, Taipei, Taiwan 2010 Bryant Park, Herald and Greeley Square Project, for the Bryant Park Corporation, New York, NY Manhattan Beach Project, Manhattan Beach, CA 5x5 International Contemporary Art Prize Diputació de Castelló, nominee 2006-08 Playa Vista Project, Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Hollywood and Silverlake Project, for the Hollywood Beautification Team, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Hollywood Renaissance Hotel Project, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Town Park Plaza Project, Culver City, CA GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES 1995 Fulbright Fellowship, Nepal
PUBLICATIONS 2015 Raul Mourão, Volume One, Editor Raul Mourão, Galleria Nara Roseler, São Paulo, Brazil The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2, Editors Shana Lutker and Jesse Benson, Project X Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Life Transmissions Catalog, Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Ed. Marcus Herse The Beach That Never Was Catalog, editors Mike Chang, Juka Araikawa, Kristor Olsson, Hayama Projects/Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore 2012 Joyful Noise, visual artist contributor and cover design, Matthew Timmons, Jaded Ibis Press, Seattle, WA 2007 Art in the Age of Technological Seduction, Media-n spring 2007, online journal of the College Association New Media Caucus, co-editor with Legier Biederman 2005 Show Meat, artist book published with Amir H. Fallah, Analia Saban, and Adrian Ellis 2004 Dark Side of the Sun, Wight Biennale Show Catalog, University of California, Los Angeles SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2017 Tai, Cedric, Brevity or Bust (Under 250 words for "Legacy", Josh Callaghan @ Night Gallery), Cedric Tai as a Blog, Oct 23 Wagley, Catherine, 5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week, LA Weekly, Oct 25 Border Crossings, Art Toronto 2017 Editor s Picks Day 4, Bordercrossings, Oct 29 Makuuchi, Josh Callaghan: Legacy @ NIGHT GALLERY, Los Angeles, ex-chamber memo 5, Oct 30 Rockwell, Steve, FOCUS: Los Angeles / Art Toronto 2017, Artoronto, Oct 2016 Guerin, Emily, LA s New Public Art Biennial Wants to Change the Way You Think About Water, KPCC, July 21 Terremoto Blog, Flat Foldability, June 5 Wagley, Catherine, A Look Inside a Door Within a Door at a Downtown Gallery, LA Weekly, May 25 Coiro, Alec, The Wrapping Man s Wrapper, RavelinMagazine.com 2014 Engelhorn, Patricia, Los Angeles: Sun, Sea, Sand and Celebrities, Swiss Magazine, Dec. - Jan. Knight, Christopher, Object Lessons at Torrance Museum s Another Thing Coming, LA Times, Sep. 8 2013 Berk, Brett, The Art Cars of Art Basel, vanityfair.com, Dec. 10 Wolfcale, James, Car Art Exhibition Takes over Miami Parking Deck, Roadandtrack.com, Dec. 9 Walsh, Brienne, 10 Artists to Watch at Art Basel Miami Beach, Artpfaire.com, Dec. 5 McDermott, Emily, Miami Beach s Auto Bodies, Interview Magazine, Dec. 3 Smith, Roberta, 2013, Review, Made in Space, New York Times, Aug. 1 Russeth, Andrew, Made in Space, at Gavin Brown s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan, GalleryNY.com, July 23 Olman, Leah, Neo Povera at L&M reveals an altered Arte Povera, Los Angeles Times, May 30 Griffin, Jonathan, Made in Space, Art Agenda, March 28 2012 Bittencourt, Ela, Impressions from Frieze New York, Slant Magazine.com, May 9 Fremson, Ruth, Second Act as a Sculpture at the Frieze Art Fair (photo), The New York Times, May 4 BlouinArtInfo.com, Photo Essay: Frieze New York's Fantastic Sculpture Park, May 4 Robinsoon, Walter, New Art Debuts at Frieze NY, Artnet.com. May 4 2011 Nolte, Annette, Die Kunst Liegt auf der Straße, Exclusive Lufthansa, July Myers, Holly, A Sculptor Elevates the Humble, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 30 Chang, Chloe, 2011, Humanity Profile: Joshua Callaghan, IW Magazine, Issue #81, Oct.
2010 Finger, Kerstin, The Infamous Chair: 220º C Virus Monoblock, Gestalten Books, Berlin Krols, Birgit, 3D Street Art, Tectum Publishers, Antwerp, Belgium Danilowicz, Nathan, Review: The Distended Hand Truck, Art US, Spring Klanten, R; Huebner, M, Urban Interventions, Personal Projects in Public Spaces, Gestalten Books, Berlin Miranda, Krystal, Profile: Joshua Callaghan, Title Magazine, pgs. 26-29, No. 5 Dec.-Jan 2009 De Jong, Afaina, Joshua Callaghan Tidies up the Boxes, Mark Magazine, No. 20, June-July Klanten, R., Ehmann, S., and Huebner, M. eds., Tangible: High Touch Visuals, Gestalten Books, Berlin Klanten, Robert and Feireiss, Lucas eds., Beyond Architecture: Imaginative Buildings and Fictional Cities, pgs.104-105, Gestalten Books, Berlin Jingjie, Zhou, 2009, He Makes the Street Invisible, Surface China, February, pg 192-195 2008 Telegraph UK, The urban art of Joshua Callaghan: the man who can turn street objects invisible, November 13 Rubin, Josh, Joshua Callaghan, Coolhunting.com, Nov. 4 Designboom.com, 2008, Jul. 31 2007 Ollman, Leah, Rouge Wave takes a Fresh Turn, Los Angeles Times, July 6 Melrod, George, Rogue Wave 07: 12 Artists from Los Angeles at LA Louver, Art Ltd., July 2004 Jarvis, Michael T., Accessorizing your City, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Dec.19 2002 Baker, Kenneth, The Juror Reaches His Verdict, San Francisco Chronicle, pg D3, Nov. 27