Born

1963                    Isle of Man, United Kingdom, lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

1994                    MFA, University of Las Vegas, NV

Solo Exhibitions

2006                    “Space Rocks”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2004                    "New Work", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2003                    "The Expanded Sticker Project", Southfirst Art, Brooklyn, NY

                           "Jane Callister", Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX

                           "Liquid Landscapes: Jane Callister", Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

                           "The Office Project", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2002                    Vitamin P: Jane Callister, University Art Museum, University of California

                                 Santa Barbara

                           Cosmic Lingerie – Brooklyn a Paris, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris

2001                    Jane Callister, Southfirst Art, Brooklyn, New York

                           Jane Callister, Frumkin/Duval, Santa Monica, California

                           Sensate, W. Keith and Janet Kellog University Art Gallery, CAL Poly

                                 Pomona, California. Curated by Patrick Merrill (5 x solo artist exhibits)

2000                           Architecture (aka The Virtual Drip Project) Contemporary Arts Forum,

                                 Santa Barbara, California. Curated by Anne Philbin

                           "Jane Callister", Tiffany Szilage Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida

1999                    "Artificial Elegance", UTSA, Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas

                           "Pornamental", Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California

Group Exhibitions

2006                   California Biennale, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, catalog

                          “southwestNET: painting”, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ,

                                   curated by Cassandra Coblentz

              “Impression/Ism: Contemporary Urban Impressions”, City of Brea Art Gallery, CA

              “Sacriluscious”, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, collaborative

                       installation by Vandalister (Jennifer Vanderpool and Jane Callister)

2005                   “Step Into Liquid”, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Design, Los Angeles, CA,

                                  curated by Dave Hickey (catalog)

                          “Wall Painting”, UTSA Art Gallery at the University of Texas at San Antonio, curated

                                  by  Frances Colpitt

                          “Just Visiting”, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

                          "WivesHusbands", collaborations @ domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA, curated by

                                  Michael Gold

                          "wunderkammer II: paisajes”, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, in

                                  collaboration with Jennifer Vanderpool

                          “It’s Not About Sex!”, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY, with Cecily Brown, Lee Gordon,

                                  Robert Mapplethorpe

                          "Adaptation Syndrome: Painting in Contemporary Image Culture", The

                                 Hand Workshop Art Center and Reynolds Gallery, curated by Dinah and Paul

                                 Ryan

                           “Re-imagining landscape”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art

                           "Extreme Abstraction", Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, curated by

                                    Claire Schneider

2004                    "American Gothic: Talent for the Dark Ages", curated by Tyler Stallings, Gallery C,

                           Hermosa Beach"Possible worlds", School of Fine Arts Gallery, University of

                                   Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, curated by Dana Sperry

                           "Sadie Hawkins Dance", Southfirst, New York, NY

2003                    "Wheeling: Krad - Kult - Tour", Cell, London, curated by Markus Sendlinger, Berlin

                           "Vanitas", Raid Projects, Los Angeles, curated by Max Presneill

                           "Midas: Gold is the new Silver", Post, curated by Sherin Girguis

                           The Prague Biennale, curated by Giancarlo Politi, Prague

                           "Raid in Chicago", The Pond, Chicago, curated by Max Presneill

                           ArtBasel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

                           Serene Beauty: the Intersections between the Sublime and Zen, Jamaica

                                    Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Queens, NY

                           The Armory Show NY, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

2002                    Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York. Curated by Lauri Firstenberg

                           21: Paintings from LA, The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California

                                    State University, San Bernardino, California. Curated by James Gobel

                           Krad-Kult-Tour, Jette Rudolf Gallerie, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Marcus

                                     Sendlinger

                           Live like there’s Yes tomorrow, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas

                           Las Vegans, James Kelley Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

                                    Curated by Dave Hickey

2001                    Cal’s Art, Sampling California Painting, University of North Texas, Art Gallery,

                           The Dreams, Stuff is made of, Frankfurt ArtFair, Germany. Curated byDavid Pagel

                           Pornoglossdope, Southfirst art., Brooklyn, New York

                           Fresh, The Altoids Curiously Strong & Original Art Collection, The New Museum,

1999                            The Next Wave, California Center for Contemporary Art, Escondido,

                                    California. Curated by Noriko Gamblin

                           Emerging US artists, Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany

                                    California Girls, Paradise Art Complex, Purple Orchid Gallery, Dallas, Texas

                           Velvet, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California

1999                            Eye Candy, The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State

                                    University, San Bernardino, California. Curated by Susan Joyce

                                    with a catalog essay by Roberta Carasso, Ph.D.

                           Blaze, Paradise Arts Complex, Purple Gallery, Dallas, Texas

                           She bugs me…she/he bugs me not, POST/downtown, Los Angeles, California

                           Pushing Paint, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange

                                    County, California. Curated by Maggie Owens with an essay by Cathy Curtis

1998                                        Sweet, FM, Gallery, New York

                           I 15, POST, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Jeffrey Vallance

                           Ultralounge, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas. Curated by Dave Hickey

1997                                        Rubber, Icing, Velvet, Meat, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California

                           The Vegas Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica,

                           Desire, Contemporary Art Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada

                           Melancholy Cure, Vaesterbottens Museum, Umea, Sweden. Curated

                                    by Jeffrey Vallance

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2006                    Pagel, David, “A sharp look, drip by dribble”, Los Angeles Times, July 7

                           Knight, Christopher, “Just Going with the Flow,” Los Angeles Times, January 14

2005                    Walsh, Daniella, “Exhibit: Just Visiting”, The Orange County Register,

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                                    Las Vegans at James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, July 2002, p 51

2001                    The Chronicle, Review: Cal’s Art, Sampling California Painting, University of

                        North Texas, Art Gallery, Denton Texas, 2001

2000                    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, Art Calendar, Catching the Next Wave

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                           Joseph Woodward, Artweek, Review of Architecture at CAF, Santa Barbara,

                                    California, April 2000

1999                    Dave Hickey, Artforum, Review of Best of the 90s, December 1999, p 113

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                                    Principal, Catalogue, Forward by Frances Colpitt, UTSA Satellite

                  Space, San Antonio, Texas, September 1999

                           David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, Art Calender: Human Appetites, Review of

                                    Pornamental at Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, California,

                           February 1999

1998                    David Hickey Ultralounge: The Return of Social Space (with Cocktails), Exhibit

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1997                    David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, Art Calendar, Review: The Vegas Show,

                                    Curated by Jeffrey Vallance at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica

                                    California, February 14, 1997