Alexis CALLENDER
Easthampton, MA
Education
2003-2005 MFA, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art
1998-2002 BA, Painting, Connecticut College
Artist Residencies and Awards
2020 Labor Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Residency and Fellowship, June 2021
2019 Alice Yard, Artist-in-Residence, Trinidad and Tobago
The Hopper Prize, Grant Award Recipient
2018 BAU Institute Residency, Cassis, France, Travel Award for Diversity
The Drawing Center, 2018-2020 Open Sessions Program, Participating Artist Fellow, New York
2016 DRAW-international Residency Program, Calyus, France
2013 Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Printmaking Studio Residency and Fellowship
2012 Urban Glass, Residency and Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space Studio Residency, Governor’s Island, NY
2011 Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency, Lincoln, NE (regretfully declined)
Contemporary Artist Center, Residency and Grant Award, Troy, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Residency and Grant Award, Johnson, VT
Exhibitions
(*)Solo Projects, and Two + Three Person Exhibitions
2020 *Difficult Love (What Scatters and Then Comes Back Together), LookOut Gallery, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, curated by Tessa Paneth-Pollack
*Difficult Love (What Scatters and Then Comes Back Together), The Gallatin Gallery, New York
University, NY
2019 New Works, Office Space Gallery, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, curated by
Christina Renfer Vogel
2016 Beside the Bloom, Sculptural Installation, American Embassy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2015 Poems Made of Plastic, Limits Project Space, Biarritz, France
2014 Bottomless Valves and Boundless Flood, Sidney Lawson Gallery, Columbia College, MO
*Everything Has Its Nature, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, CA
Failure(s) New Work, Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2013 *From the Skin of Birds, Chashama Window Project Space, New York, NY
Landscaping, Curated by Joe Winter, Westchester Center for the Arts, NY
2012 *Where They Are from and Where They Are Going, Public Installation,
Project for Empty Space Curated by Jasmine Wahi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Revolution on Trial: May Day and The People’s Art, New Haven’s Black Panther @ 50,
Arstapce, New Haven, CT, curated by Sarah Fritchey and LaTanya Autry
2019 Context Art Fair, Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art, Miami Florida
What’s Love Got to Do With It?, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments, Old Stone House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Core Samples OS13, The Drawing Center, New York, New York
Your Silence Will Not Protect You, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Finding Home: The Global Refugee Crisis, The University of Central Florida Art Gallery
2017 The Gig Economy, Boston Center for the Arts, juried curator Robert Moeller
Up/Rooted, Brookline Arts Center, Boston, MA, juried by Magdalena Campos-Pons
Loving Blackness, Asian Arts Initiative, curated by Jaishri Abichandani, Philadelphia, PA
Nasty Woman, Helmuth Projects, San Deigo, CA
2016 Open Studio Exhibition, DRAWInternational, Caylus, France
2015 Winter Group Show, Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art, New York, NY
2014 Balls to the Wall, Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Between The Door and The Street, curated by Suzanne Lacey and presented by Creative
Time and The Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn, NY
Etiquette 4 Lucid Dreaming, Curated by Project for Empty Space/ Solo(s) Project House,
The Gateway, Newark, NJ
Building a Factory, The Pajama Factory, Williamsport, PA
Stuck! Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Fountain Art Fair Armory Show, Arcilsei Homberg Fine Art, NY
2012 South Asian Women’s Creative Collective Benefit, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Artist Residence Open Studios, NY
2011 The Kitchen Benefit Auction, The Kitchen, New York, NY
4 Heads, Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY
Artist in Residence Exhibition, The Pajama Factory, Public Art Academy, PA
Oops! On Purpose, Grey Gallery, Williamsport, PA
New Directions in Drawing Symposium, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Artist and Landscape, Group Show, Pinion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Migration, Identity and Belonging, Group Show, Gowanus Print Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Nurture Art Benefit, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
Running on Empty, Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art, NewYork, NY
Co-Incidental, Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art @ White Box, NY, NY
Movement, Lana Santorelli Gallery, NY, NY
2008 Raising Consensus, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, CT
Young Emerging Artists, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Apparitions, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Memento Mori, Artist Space, NewYork, NY
Selected Press
2020 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/05/new-haven-nine- black-panthers-exhibition
2019 https://antemag.com/2019/11/27/aha-fine-art-brings-bold-forms-to-context-mi ami/
A Review of: Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments, Heather Radke
https://believermag.com/logger/race-and-revolution/
“What’s Love Got To Do With It”, Johanna Fateman
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it
2017 Loving Blackness at Asian Arts Initiative, a complex exhibition about color, Ilana Napoli
https://www.theartblog.org/2017/04/loving-blackness-at-asian-arts-initiative-a-complex-exhi bitionabout-color/
Selected Lectures
2019 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, visiting artist lecture and visiting critic, MA
University of Tennessee, visiting studio critic and artist lecture, Chattanooga, TN
Speak to Me of Rivers, UMass Museum of Contemporary Art, panel participant, MA
2018 Ithaca College, visiting studio critic and artist lecture, Ithaca, NY
Connecticut College, visiting studio critic and artist lecture, New London, CT
Black Portraiture{s} IV The Color of Silence, presentation of artistic research and panelist,
Representing the Art of the Caribbean, moderated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace, The
Hutchinson Center, Cambridge, MA
2017 MassArt, Visiting Critic
2015 Drawing and Contemporary Processes, Chuikov College of Art, Lecture and Workshop,
Bishkek, Kyrgzstan
Drawing and Craft, Tumar Art Artisan Collective, Lecture and demonstration, Bishkek,
Kyrgzstan
2014 Bottomless Valves and Boundless Floods, Artist talk about the exhibition for students and
community members, Columbia College, MO
Everything Has Its Nature Artist Talk, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, CA
2013 The Life of Water and Plastic, studio discussion on the roles of art process and social
justice. Residency program Tides Museum and Institute of Art, ME
Artist and Curator Talk, Landscaping Exhibition, Center For the Arts, Westchester, NY
2012 “Art in Public Spaces” International Panel of Project For Empty
Space Artists, curated by Jasmine Wahi and Meenakhi Thirukode, Christie’s Education
Programs, NY, NY
2011 Where They Are from and Where They Are Going, Interview and talk about Project for
Empty Space, New York, NY