Brian Calvin | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

Education

1969: Born in Visalia, CA
1992: Studied at University of California, Berkeley, BA
1994: School of The Art Institute of Chicago, MFA

: Lives and works in Ojai, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2023: 2023 Frieze Los Angeles, Anton Kern Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2022: "More," Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
: "New Year," Corvi-Mora, London, UK
: "Something or Other," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2021: "Brian Calvin," Almine Rech, Paris, Matignon, France
2020: "Waiting," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
: "Sound", Almine Rech Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019: "Fugue," Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2018: "Pressing on," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
: "Così fan tutte," Gallery Met, Met Opera, New York, NY
2017: Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
: "Major Minor," Corvi Mora, London, UK
: "Brian Calvin | Wendy White," Cabinet, Milan (two person
: exhibition) States, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
2016: "Early Work," Anton Kern Gallery, New York
: "Hours," Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
: "The Meditations: Chicago 1991 – 1999," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL [cat.]
2015: "End of Messages," Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
: "End of Messages," Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2014: Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2013: "End of Messages," The Finley, Los Angeles, CA
: Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2011: Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2010: Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2009: "Head," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2007: Corvi-Mora, London, UK
: "Things," Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
2006: Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2005: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
: Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2004: Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2003: Corvi-Mora, London, UK
: "The Conversation," Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Unreal," Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
2001: Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2000: "Days," Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
1999: "It’s Easy To Make Friends," Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
1998: "Good News," Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
1996: "God’s Plot & John Wilkes Booth," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL
1994: "New Paintings: Brian Calvin," Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: “Something Like a Self. Brian Calvin – William N. Copley – Karl Wirsum,” Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany
: “Speed to Roam,” Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA
: “Romancing Relevance,” Woaw Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
: “Marriage: From Antiques to Contemporary Art,” WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
: “BodyLand,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2021: “Eau de Vallotton,” Tif Sigfrids, New York, NY
: “La Bohème,” ALFONSO ARTIACO, Naples, Italy
: “36 Paintings,” Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY
: “Brian Calvin Marcus Jahmal at WINDOW,” curated by Chris Martin, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2020: “Sympathetic Magic,” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
: “Drawing 2020,” Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
2019: “Small Painting,” Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL
: “Reflections,” Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2018: “Line and Verse,” Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
: Cliché, organized by Bill Powers, Almine Rech, New York, NY
2017: “Tomorrow’s Man 4,” curated by Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: “la mère la mer,” McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA [cat.]
: “American Genre: Contemporary Painting,” Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
: “Forest on the Edge of Time,” The Pit II, Los Angeles, CA
: “Los Angeles: A Fiction, Museum of Contemporary Art,” Lyon, France
2016: “Implosion 20,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
: “Los Angeles: A Fiction,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
: Outside, curated by Matthew Higgs, Karma, Amagansett, New York
: “Wild Style,” Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany [cat.]
2015: “About Face,” curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Guston Effect,” Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
: “intimate paintings,” Half Gallery, New York, NY
: “Tracing Shadows,” PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
: “The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits, & Shapes),” Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
: “SELF: Portraits of Artists in their Absence,” curated by Filippo Fossati, National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY
2014: “Another Cat Show,” 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
2013: “California Landscape Into Abstraction: Works From The Orange County Museum Of Art,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2012: “We the People,” Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project, New York, NY
: “About Face,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2011: “Brian Calvin, Charles Garabedian, Zach Harris, John McAllister,” David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Knock, Knock!,” Anderson Gallery VCU Arts, Richmond, VA
: “Dystopia,” CAPC Museé d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2010: “This and That,” Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2009: “Electric Mud,” Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2008: “Dinner and a Group Show,” GBE@passeby, New York, NY
: “Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s enterprise,” Maccarone, New York, NY
: “Live Undead,” Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
: “If Everybody had an Ocean,” Musée d´art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
2007: “Good Morning, Midnight,” Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
: “If Everybody Had an Ocean Brian Wilson: an Art Exhibition,” Tate St Ives, St Ives; Travelling to
: CAPC, Bordeaux, France
: “After Cezanne,” MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: “Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative,” Thomas Dane, London, UK
2004: California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: “Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art,” CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: “Red Eye,” Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL [cat.]
: “Now and Then Some,” curated by David Pagel, Claremont College, Claremont, CA
2003: “Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; MCA San Diego; Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, British Columbia; CCAC Watts Institute, Oakland, CA [cat.]
: “Painting Pictures, Painting and Media in the Digital Age,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany [cat.]
: “ISHTAR,” curated by Bruce Hainley, Midway, St. Paul, MN [cat.]
: “Giverny,” Salon 94, New York, NY
: Prague Biennale 1, Veletrzní Palác, Prague, Czech Republic
: “The Great Drawing Show: 1550-2003 AD,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes,” curated by Francesco Bonami & Raf Simons, Stazione, Leopolda,” Florence, Italy [cat.]
: “Youngstars,” Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
: “Painting Pictures,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
: “Dear Painter, paint me,” Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [cat.]
2002: “Dear Painter, paint me…,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France [cat.]
: “Paintings,” Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
: “Grey Gardens,” curated by Bruce Hainley, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Painting and Illustration,” Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
: “Collectors Program: Sammlung Köhn,” Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
: “Grey Gardens,” curated by Bruce Hainley, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
: “Paintings,” Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
: “Dear Painter, paint me,” Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria [cat.]
2001: “The Devil is in the Details,” Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
: “The Americans. New art.” The Barbican, London, UK [cat.]
2000: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
: Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
1999: “Brian Calvin, Keiko Sono, Maureen Gallace,” Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
: “Meanwhile…,” Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996: “Brian Calvin, Suzanne Doremus, Edward Henderson & Deborah Orapallo,” Foster Gallery, The University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, WI
1995: “X-sightings,” Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1994: “Discontents & Debutantes: Brian Calvin & Mike Cockrill,” Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
: “Don Baum’s Grab Bag,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
: “Recent Paintings,” Gallery 2, School of The Art Institute, Chicago, IL
: “Created Here: a salon d’Ecole,” Richard Himmel Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993: “Whose Broad Stripes & Bright Stars: Death, Reverence & the Struggle for Equality In America,” Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
: “All-Illinois Graduate Art Exhibition,” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1991: “New & Improved,” Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
: Merit Scholarship Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Exhibition Catalogues and Publications

2016: The Meditations: Chicago 1991 – 1999. Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2016.
2014: Brian Calvin. New York and London: Anton Kern Gallery and Black Dog Publishing, 2014.
2011: Von Schlegell, Mark. New Dystopia. Berlin: Sternberg Press and CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeau, 2011, p.153,171.
2007: Darling, Michael and Michael Holte. RED EYE, LA Artists fom the The Rubell Family Collection, Ecuador: Rubell Family Collection, 2007.
2006: Anton Kern Gallery 10 Year Anniversary: Implosion. New York: Anton Kern Gallery, 2006.
2005: Kraus, Tumlir & McFadden. LA Artland. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2005, p.76-77.
: Alex Farquharson. Brian Wilson: An Art Book. London: Four Corners Books, 2005.
2003: The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes. Florence: Stazione Leopolda.
2002: Dear Painter, paint me… Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002.
2001: Sladen, Mark. The Americans. New art. London: Booth-Clibborn, 2001.

Bibliography

2020: “The Everlasting “Waiting” Game: New Works by Brian Calvin @ Anton Kern, NY,” Juxtapoz, October 30, 2020.
2019: Cowan, Katy. “Brian Calvin’s latest pantings of Californian youth dazzle in pastel-coloured West Cost cool,” Creative Boom, March 13 2019.
: Maertens, Marie. “Brian Calvin,” Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, April 22, 2019
2017: Bogojev, Sasha. Brian Calvin Paints Luscious Lips and Gap-Toothed Faces in London, Juxtapoz, May 26, 2017.
2016: Powers, Bill. “Brian Calvin: Flow West,” Muse Magazine, 2006.
: “Brian Calvin,” Flaunt Magazine, September 15, 2016.
2015: Pagel, David. “Review: ‘About Face’ a disparate collection, with each work enhanced by those around it,” Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2015.
2014: Gingeras, Alison. “Top Ten: 10 The Instagram Feeds of Francis Stark, Stanya Kahn, and Brian
: Calvin,” Artforum, December 2014, p.263.
: Gauss, Daniel. “Brian Calvin paints emptiness at Anton Kern Gallery,” Arte Fuse, September 23, 2014
: Prentnieks, Anne. “Critics’ Picks: Brian Calvin,” Artforum, September 19, 2014.
: Balestin, Juliana. “BRIAN CALVIN AT ANTON KERN GALLERY,” Purple MagazineDdiary, September 2014
: Johnson, Paddy and Whitney Kimball. “Brian Calvin’s Dewy-Eyed Girls: The Same Is Not the Same,” Art Fag City, September 10, 2014.
2013: “Brian Calvin’s L.A. Youths: the artist behind Raf Simons’ spring 13 prints,” SSENSE, May 2013.
: Davis, Thomas. “Brian Calvin at the Corvi-Mora Gallery,” Hero Magazine, October 28, 2013.
: Web T.S., “7 Questions: Brian Calvin.” Painting in L.A. Blog, April 24, 2013. Web
2012: Hainley, Bruce. “Sadgasm.” Spike Issue 34, Winter 2012: 79-89.
: Oliver, William. “The, Now, Next – Raf Simons Talks to Dazed, Reflecting on his Stellar Collection,
: Dior Couture, LA Artist Brian Calvin and Grunge,” Dazeddigital.com June, 28, 2012. Web
2011: Griffin, Jonathan. Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon Inc, 2011, p.70- 71.
: Johnston, Devin. “Traveler Poems,” Farrar Straus and Giroux.
2009: Lavrador, Judicaël. “Qu-est-ce Que La Peinture Aujourd’hui?” Beaux Arts Éditions, November 2009, p.70-1.
2008: “Mute 2 – The Face: Stripped,” Tanin Inc., Tokyo, 2008, p.54-61.
2006: “Brian Calvin/Jim Lambie,” The New Yorker, October 2, 2006, p.21.
: Campagnola, Sonia. “Focus Los Angeles,” Flash Art, January-February 2006, vol 39. No 246, p.69.
: Goodbody, Bridget. “Brian Calvin at Anton Kern Gallery,” Time Out New York, September 28 – October 4, 2006, p.72.
2005: “Brian Calvin.” Flash Art July-September 2005 Vol.38. No. 243
: Horyn, Cathy. “Raf.” The New York Times September, 18, 2005
: Mullins, Charlotte. “Telling Tales.” Vogue October 2005: p.117-120
: Pagel, David. “Sober, Stedy, Yet Electrifying,” L.A. Times, May 13, 2005, p.E24.
2004: Bankowsky, Jack. “Best of 2004,” Artforum, December 2004, p.162-163.
: Cohen, David. “Ellen Gallagher: Exelento. Brian Calvin. James Rielly,” New York Sun, October 7, 2004
: Johnson, Ken. “Review: Brian Calvin at Anton Kern,” The New York Times, September 17, 2004.
: Knight, Christopher. “Coastal Confluence.” L.A. Times Sunday, February 1, 2004, p.E1,41,48- 49
: Wilson, Michael. “Brian Calvin,” Artforum, December 2004, p.195.
: Devin Johnston, "Looking Out", Lung, Issue 8.
2003: Fisun, Güner. “A Touch Too Matisse,” Metro, September 9, 2003, p.22.
: Harrison, Sara. “Brian Calvin at Corvi Mora,” Time Out London, September 17-24, 2003, p.62.
: Lack, Jessica. “Brian Calvin,” The Guardian (G2), September 9, 2003, p.18.
: Pagel, David. “Review: The Unmemorable Now Unforgetable,” L.A. Times, May 9, 2003, p.E21.
: "Still Waters Run Deep." ArtReview, September 2003, p.22.
2002: Boriacossa, Ilaria. “The Americans: New Art,” Flashart, January 2001, p.48.
: “Focus Painting Part I,” Flash Art, October 2002, p.80.
: Sewell, Brian. "The Galleries Show at the Royal Academy." Metro Life (Evening Standard), September 19- 25, 2002, p.48-49.
: Smith, Roberta. “Review: The Staying Power (and It’s Not a Freeze Frame) of Paint,” The New York Times, July 21, 2002, p.25, 27.
: Zoo No. 12, March 2002, p.84.
2001: Corrigan, Susan. “New York Sucks,” i-D, October 2001, p.184-190.
: Gleeson, David. “Brian Calvin,” TimeOut, June 20-27 2001, p.59.
: Hainley, Bruce. “Openings: Brian Calvin,” Artforum, February, p.140-141.
: Herbert, Martin. “States of the Art,” ArtReview, Autmn 2001, p.50-51.
: Higgie, Jennifer. “Brian Calvin,” Frieze, September 2001, p.89,96.
: Sladen, Mark. “Young Americans,” Blueprint, November 2001, p.50-56.
2000: Gingeras, Alison. “Subversion du kitsch: Conjectures on Conceptual Uses of Figurative Realism,” Art Press, no. 263, December 2000, p.28-36.
: Hainley, Bruce. “Best of 2000,” Artforum, December 2000, p.132-133.
: Knight, Christopher. “Art: Paintings Look at Our Cartoonish Nature,” L.A. Times, December 15, 2000.
1999: DiPietro, Monty. “Brian Calvin: Documenting the Moments in the Nooksand Crannies of Life.” The
: Japan Times, December 25, 1999.
: Hanatsubakii, no.585, Tokyo, Japan, March 1999.
1998: After Hours, no.7, Tokyo, Japan, October 1998.
: LUNG, no.7, Chicago, IL.
1997: Chicago Review, Vol. 43, No.1, Winter 1997.
: New American Paintings, no.11 August 1997.
1996: Buck-Morse, Susan. “Galleries,” Chicago Tribune February 2, 1996.
: Hawkins, Margaret. “Evil Is the Watchword in Separate Exhibitions,” The Chicago Sun Times, January 19, 1996.
: Meyers, Todd. “Reviews: Brian Calvin,” New Art Examiner, April 1996.

Awards & Grants

2003: California Arts Council Fellowship
: Artist Residency, Art Production Fund, Giverny, France
1997: Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
1994: William M.R. French Traveling Fellowship, School of The Art Institute of
: Chicago 1993-94 Merit Scholarship, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1991: James T. Phelan Merit Scholarship in Fine Arts, University of California at Berkeley

Public Collections

: Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
: DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego, CA
: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR