Jane Callister

BIO

Jane Callister was born on the Isle of Man, UK in 1963 and is now a Southern California based artist who works across the mediums of painting, sculpture, drawing and installation. Over the past 20 years Callister has exhibited in many notable exhibits including Cosmic Lingerie at Gallerie Anton Weller, Paris, France in 2001; The 1st Prague Biennale at the Veletrizni Palace Prague, Czech Republic in 2003; Extreme Abstraction at the Albright  Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York in 2005;  Step into Liquid (curated by Dave Hickey for the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design in Santa Monica, California) in 2005; and the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA as well as exhibitions such as Stationary Realms at The Museum of Art, University of Arkansas, 2014; Pictures of Everything 2014 at the Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, CA; “British Invasion” at MOAH (Museum of Art and History), Lancaster, CA 2016; “Art Toronto: Focus on Los Angeles”, 2017, a recent solo exhibition at Royale Projects, Los Angeles in 2018 as well as “It Started With a Crocofish: “New Drawings by Jane Callister” at the VITA arts Center, Ventura, CA, 2019. She was included in the exhibit “Common Ground: Artists reimagining Community” at the William Roland Art Gallery” at Cal Lutherin University in February 2022. Callister’s work has also been included in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, San Francisco, Chicago, The University of Umea, Sweden; London, Germany, Texas, Arkansas, and California.

Callister’s work has also been featured in notable publications including:  Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting with essay by David Pagel and published by Phaidon Press, 2002; Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Vicky Perry published by Watson & Guptil, 2005; LA Artland by Chris Krauss published by Blackdog Press, London, 2006; and Acrylic Illuminations, by Nancy Reyner published by North Light Books, 2014. Her work is in numerous private collections as well as The Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, The New Museum, New York and The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY. In 2019 ArtSlant, an online Archive that featured her work, was accepted into the Library of Congress and The NYARC (New York Resources Consortium). Callister is currently a professor in the Department of Art UC, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

For more info. visit: https://www.janecallister.com