Jo Ann Callis

Curriculum Vitae

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

  • 2009
    • J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, "Woman Twirling"
  • 2005
    • Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "New Work: Painting and Photography"
  • 2004
    • Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, Jo Ann Callis: Cake Hat Pillow
  • 2001
    • Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Painting and Photography" (brochure)
  • 1999
    • Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Dogs"
  • 1995
    • Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. "Domestic Setups" (brochure)
    • Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Domestic: The Setups"
  • 1994
    • Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica CA. "Just Desserts"
    • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, "Color Mysteries"
  • 1993
    • Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY, "New Work in Color"
    • G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Material"
  • 1992
    • Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1991
    • Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    • Rewdex Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
  • 1989-90
    • Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO, "Objects of Reverie, Selected Photographs," Survey Exhibition (catalogue); travel to: Presentation House, North Vancouver, B.C.
  • 1988
    • Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1987
    • Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (brochure)
  • 1986
    • Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
  • 1985
    • The Temporary Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
  • 1983
    • Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2006
    • Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, "Rebels & Revelers: Experimental Decades 1970’s-1980’s
  • 2005
    • Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, "Heartfelt"
    • Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Borrowed Time"
    • USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "insatiable desires"
  • 2004
    • UCR California Museum of Photography, "Dog Days of Summer", Riverside, CA
  • 2002
    • Japanese American Museum of Art, "C.O.L.A." Grant recipients, Los Angeles
  • 2000
    • Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, "Bestiary" (catalogue)
    • Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson "Our First Quarter Century"
    • USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity"
  • 2000
    • USC Fisher Gallery, Quinn Wing, "Unapocalyptic: The Future That Never Was"
  • 1997
    • International Center of Photography, New York City, "Eye of the Beholder"
    • Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Sensuality in the Abstract"
    • Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, "Collectors' Print Program"
  • 1996
    • California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, "Inside"
    • Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, "Blessings and Beginnings"
    • Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, "Let the Games Begin"
    • UCLA Hammer, Los Angeles, CA. "L.A. Current: The Female Perspective"
  • 1995
    • Saidye Bronfman Center for the Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada;
    • San Diego State University, "Staging: The Prefabricated Image"
    • Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA., University of Las Vegas. NV,"Sexy"
    • Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA. "Beyond 15 Minutes"
    • Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, "Inscrutable Objects"
  • 1993
    • Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "American Made - The New Still Life" (catalogue)
    • University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, "Clay Out of Context"
  • 1992
    • Center of Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, "Patterns of Influence"
    • Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, "(Basically) Black & White"
  • 1991
    • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort"
    • Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Individual Realities"
    • Denver Art Museum, "Visions/Revisions, Selections from the Contemporary Collection"
    • Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, "de Persona"
    • de Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Los Angeles Artists"
  • 1990
    • Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Fantasies Fables and Fabrications: Photo-Works from the 1980's"
  • 1989
    • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "California Photography: Remaking Make- Believe"
    • "Awards in the Visual Arts," traveling exhibition (catalogue): High Museum, Atlanta, GA; La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, "The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the '80's"
  • 1988
    • Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Detroit, MI, "Under Construction: New Photomontage" (catalogue)
  • 1987
    • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Photography and Art Interactions Since 1946" (catalogue)
    • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, "JoAnn Callis and Eileen Cowin"
    • Hoffman Borman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "The New Who's Who"
  • 1986
    • Photographers Gallery, London, England, "Photography as Performance"
    • Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT, "Photographic Fictions"
    • White Columns, New York, NY, "Signs of the Real"
  • 1984
    • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, "10 Photographers - Olympic Images"
    • Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA, "Anxious Interiors"
    • Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, "Content, A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984"
    • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Pushing the Boundaries, California Photography, 1945-1980"
    • Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies and Otis Parsons Exhibition Space, Los Angeles, CA, "Contemporary Constructs"
  • 1983
    • Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, "In Color: Ten California Photographers"
    • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Recent Acquisitions"
  • 1982
    • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
    • Cologne, West Germany, "Photokina"
    • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Studio Works; Ten Contemporary L.A. Photographers"
    • Rhode Island School of Design, RI, "California Photography"
    • International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY, "Color as Form"
    • Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA, "LA/Ways of Working"
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Fugitive Color"
  • 1981
    • Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, "Three Photographers"
    • Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, "The New Photography"
    • Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
    • The Photographers Gallery, London, England, "California Colour"
    • Baxter Art Gallery, California Technical Institute, Pasadena, CA, "Anti Static"
    • Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, "Photography Invitational"
    • Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, "New Work"
  • 1980
    • Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
    • Image Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 1979
    • Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, "Color: A Spectrum of Recent Photography"
    • University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, "Color Transformations; Callis and Divola"
    • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, "Attitudes"
    • Witkin Gallery, New York, NY, "The New Season"
    • University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, "Spectrum - New Directions in Color Photography"
    • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, "Southern California Invitational 1979"
    • Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA, "Photographic Directions"
    • T.E.S.C. Gallery, Olympia, WA, "Callis/Cummings," travel to Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
  • 1978
    • G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    • California State University, Long Beach, CA, "The Photograph as Artifice"
    • Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, "100+ Exhibitions"
  • 1977
    • Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, "Silver and Ink"
    • Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, "Callis, Kasten and Zimmerman"
    • Tasmania, Australia, "International Invitational Australian Arts Festival"
    • Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Erotica"
  • 1976
    • State University of New York, Albany, "The Manipulation of Light"
    • Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Exposing: Photographic Definitions"
    • Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, "Emerging L.A. Photographers"
  • 1975
    • University of Oregon, Eugene, "Silver 70's"
    • Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, CA, "Photography II"
    • Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA