Cal Crawford
Los Angeles, CA
calcrawford(at)gmail.com

 

Biography
Born 1979 in San Diego, California. Spent formative years in eastern
Canada and is currently living in Los Angeles.

Academic Studies:
2007 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
2004 BFA, Concordia University Montreal, Quebec
2000 Diploma Photography, Nova Scotia Community College Halifax, NS

Exhibitions (solo)
2013 PISTOL POND POISON, Brennan & Griffin, NYC
2009 POSSIBILITIESOFFISTS, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles

Exhibitions (group)(selected):
2008 LA25 HALF-LIFE, Curated by Thomas Solomon, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Performance, Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles
Glow Festival, SASSAS, Santa Monica
Performance, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2007 Group Exhibition, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
START, Curated by Christof Migone, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal
Jorge Pardo Juried Exhibition, The Treehouse Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 "Closed Universe" Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal
"Problems of spatial experience" VAV Gallery, Montreal
"In direct angle" Galerie ONZE, Montreal
"invitation or welcome" cover without a record, Casa del Popolo, Montreal
2002 "The distance of effacement" VAV Gallery, Montreal
"Something presented may be false" Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal

Performances (sound)(selected)
2003 voltAA, Society for Art and Technology, Montreal, Quebec
Mutek (music sound & new technologies), Montreal, Quebec
PRÉrien, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Rad'a Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
2002 PRÉrien (w/François Lemieux, Alexandre St-Onge & Simon Brown), Casa del Popolo, Montréal, Québec
Postrien, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, Quebec
2001 Halifax Experimental Music Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Published Audio Works
2004 "Sitting on theories on the frontier on extension" solo CD, Squint fucker press, 00F, Montreal, Quebec
2002 "The Freest of Radicals", various artists CD, No Type, IMNT 0201/02, Montreal, Quebec
"colorless in small amounts", solo 3" cdr, Throat, throat 4, Oakland, California
"phonography.org 5", various artists CDR, and/OAR, Seattle, Washington
"60 somewhere/60 somewhere else", various artists 3"CDR, Throat, throat hz 3&4, Oakland, California
2000 "KLANG#3", various artists CD, Klang, Stuttgart, Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Awards:
2004 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
Gabor Szilasi Prize in Studio Arts
2003 Bank of Montreal Undergraduate Scholarship
2002 Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts Development Fund Scholarship

Bibliography:
2008 Migone, Christof. "START. STOP" Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal, 2008.
2003 Lamarche, Bernard. “Closed Universe” Le Devior, 04/05/03
Couture, François. "sitting on theories..." All Music Guide, 6/13/03
de Waard, Frans. "colorless in small amounts" Vital Weekly, #371 week 20
Chojnacki, Przemek. "colorless in small amounts, sitting on theories…" Eld Rich Palmer, issue 12
Ingvar Loco Nordin. "freest of radicals" Sonoloco Record Reviews, 01/06/02
2002 Meelkop, Roel. "colorless in small amounts" Vital Weekly, #335 week 33
Keens, Jeremy. "colorless in small amounts" Ampersand Electrica, 12/09/02
Covey, James. "Impulse to Injury Recordings" Reverb, April 2000

 

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