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Jo Ann Callis

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Name
  
Jo Callis


Role
  
Artist

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Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles (1977)

Books
  
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Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

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Jo Ann Callis (born Cincinnati, Ohio 1940) is an American artist who works with photography and is based in California. Her work is held in various public collections.

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Life and work

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Though Callis initially pursued a degree at Ohio State University in 1958, she dropped out in her second year when she got married. She and her husband moved to Southern California in 1961. Her father died after the birth of her first son Stephen in the same year. In 1963, her second son Michael was born. Callis enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1970 initially in graphic design. When she took a course from Robert Heinecken in photography, she was encouraged by Heinecken to explore things within her mind.

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In 1975, while still a student at UCLA, a year before finishing her Masters in Fine Arts, she was offered a position to work at California Institute of the Arts (S. CA), where she works up until now (2017).

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Callis's work is primarily surrealist. Thematically, she has traditionally been invested in drawing attention to and complicating domestic spaces and the role of motherhood. These characteristics are demonstrated in pieces such as Dish Trick (1985).

Publications


  • Woman Twirling. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. Text by Judith Keller.
  • Decor. Thistle & Weed, 2013. Essay by Jennifer A. Watts.
  • Other Rooms. New York: Aperture, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59711-275-8.

    • Collections

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    Callis' work is held in the following public collections:

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  • Museum Of Modern Art, New York.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
  • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
  • Gallery Min, Japan.

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    References

    Jo Ann Callis Wikipedia
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