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Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| EDUCATION
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| 1977 |
University of California, Los Angeles, MFA in Photography |
| 1974 |
University of California, Los Angeles, BA in Art |
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| AWARDS: |
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| 2001 |
Photographers Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1990 |
Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1990 |
Awards in the Visual Arts (catalogue and travelling exhibition) |
| 1989 |
Photographers Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1985 |
Photographers Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1980 |
Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2009 |
"Paintings and Photographs", Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2009 |
"Woman Twirling", J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2008 |
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, |
| 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” |
| 1997 |
Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA, "This and That" |
| 1995 |
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. “Domestic Setups” (brochure) |
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Vernon Ezell Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Domestic Setups” |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA , “Domestic: The Setups” |
| 1994 |
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica CA. “Just Desserts” |
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, “Color Mysteries” |
| 1993 |
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY, "New Work in Color" |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Material" |
| 1992 |
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1991 |
Kyle Roberts Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Rewdex Gallery, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1989-90 |
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO, "Objects of Reverie, Selected Photographs," |
| 1988 |
Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1987 |
Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (brochure) |
| 1986 |
Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue) |
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Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN |
| 1985 |
The Temporary Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) |
| 1984 |
H.F. Manes Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1983 |
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue) |
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Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 1981 |
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1980 |
New Image Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA |
| 1978 |
Gallery of Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA |
| 1975 |
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA |
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Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA |
| 1974 |
Grandview Gallery, Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2005 |
USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “insatiable desires”, 2004 |
| 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 |
| 2001 |
Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA, “Eat It All: Art About Food” |
| 2000 |
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, “Bestiary” (catalogue) |
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Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson “Our First Quarter Century” |
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USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, “Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity” |
| 2000 |
Chapman University, Orange, CA, “The Changing Face of Portraiture”. |
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Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, “Headgear”, |
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USC Fisher Gallery, Quinn Wing, “Unapocalyptic: The Future That Never Was” |
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AH Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1999 |
Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 |
Action Space, Los Angeles, “More, More, More” |
| 1998 |
Spanish Kitchen, Los Angeles, “Head” |
| 1997 |
International Center of Photography, New York City, “Eye of the Beholder” |
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Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA, “Tasty” |
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Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Sensuality in the Abstract" |
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Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, "Collectors' Print Program" |
| 1996 |
BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, "Committed to the Light" |
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California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, “Inside” |
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Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, “Blessings and Beginnings” |
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Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, “Let the Games Begin” |
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Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA. “Sexy” |
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UCLA Hammer, Los Angeles, CA. “L.A. Current: The Female Perspective” |
| 1995 |
Saidye Bronfman Center for the Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; San Diego State |
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University, “Staging: The Prefabricated Image” |
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Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA., University of Las Vegas. NV,“Sexy” |
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Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA. “Beyond 15 Minutes” |
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Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, “Inscrutable Objects” |
| 1994 |
Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. “Romance” |
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Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. “The Art Cup” |
| 1993 |
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "American Made - The New Still Life" (catalogue) |
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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" |
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Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, "(Basically) Black & White" |
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Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "The Nude in 20th Century Photography" |
| 1991 |
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort" |
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Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Individual Realities" |
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Denver Art Museum, "Visions/Revisions, Selections from the Contemporary Collection" |
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Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, "de Persona" |
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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" |
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Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1989 |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe" |
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"Awards in the Visual Arts," traveling exhibition (catalogue): High Museum, Atlanta, GA; La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA; Henry Art Washington, Seattle, WA Gallery, University of |
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National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, "The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the '80's" |
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Krygier Landau Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Beyond Photography" |
| 1988 |
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Detroit, MI, "Under Construction: New Photomontage" (catalogue) |
| 1987-88 |
University of Illinois, Chicago, "A Visible Order"; travel to Otis Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1987 |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Photography and Art Interactions Since 1946" (catalogue) |
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Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, "JoAnn Callis and Eileen Cowin" |
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Hoffman Borman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "The New Who's Who" |
| 1986 |
Photographers Gallery, London, England, "Photography as Performance" |
| 1986 |
Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT, "Photographic Fictions" |
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White Columns, New York, NY, "Signs of the Real" |
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Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA, "Gentlemen's Choice1985 |
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Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Illuminating Color, Four Approaches in Contemporary Painting and Photography" |
| 1984 |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, "10 Photographers - Olympic Images" |
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Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA, "Anxious Interiors" |
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Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, "Content, A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984" |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Pushing the Boundaries, |
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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" |
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Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, "Callis, Toth" |
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Sam Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Recent Acquisitions" |
| 1982 |
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX |
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Cologne, West Germany, "Photokina" |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Studio Works; Ten Contemporary L.A. Photographers" |
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Rhode Island School of Design, RI, "California Photography" |
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International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY, "Color as Form" |
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Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA, "LA/Ways of Working" |
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Fugitive Color" |
| 1981 |
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, "Three Photographers" |
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Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, "The New Photography" |
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Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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Wright State University, Dayton, OH, "American Setups" |
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DBR Gallery, Cleveland, OH, "By Arrangement" |
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Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, "Light/Color" |
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The Photographers Gallery, London, England, "California Colour" |
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Baxter Art Gallery, California Technical Institute, Pasadena, CA, "Anti Static" |
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Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, "Photography Invitational" |
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Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, "New Work" |
| 1980 |
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA |
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Image Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark |
| 1979 |
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, "Color: A Spectrum of Recent Photography" |
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University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, "Color Transformations; Callis and Divola" |
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, "Attitudes" |
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Witkin Gallery, New York, NY, "The New Season" |
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University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, "Spectrum - New Directions in Color Photography" |
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, "Southern California Invitational 1979" |
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Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA, "Photographic Directions" |
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T.E.S.C. Gallery, Olympia, WA, "Callis/Cummings," travel to Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR |
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Women's Art Registry, Minneapolis, MN, "National Photography Invitational" |
| 1978 |
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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California State University, Long Beach, CA, "The Photograph as Artifice" |
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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, "100+ Exhibitions" |
| 1977 |
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, "Silver and Ink" |
| 1977 |
Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, "Callis, Kasten and Zimmerman" |
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Tasmania, Australia, "International Invitational Australian Arts Festival" |
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Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Erotica" |
| 1976 |
Memorial Union, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Premeditated Fantasies" |
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State University of New York, Albany, "The Manipulation of Light" |
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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Exposing: Photographic Definitions" |
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Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, "Emerging L.A. Photographers" |
| 1975 |
University of Oregon, Eugene, "Silver 70's" |
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Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, CA, "Photography II" |
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Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| COLLECTIONS |
| Avon Collection, NewYork, NY |
| Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France |
| Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Center of Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO |
| Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| George Eastman House, Rochester, NY |
| Hallmark Cards Inc. Kansas City, MO |
| Illinois State University, Normal, IL |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN |
| Mito Museum, Japan |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan |
| New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
| Tasmanian Museum of Art Gallery, Tasmania, Australia |
| United States Embassy, Art in the Embassies, Bern, Switzerland |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
| University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE |
| University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
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