EDUCATION
M.F.A., Syracuse University, College of Art Media Studies,1999
B.F.A., University of Ottawa / Universite d'Ottawa, Visual Arts Department, Ottawa, Canada, 1996
Internship with Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, 1994
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Gibbs Street Gallery, VisArts at Rockville, Rockville, MD, 2016
Depree Gallery, Hope College, Solid State, Holland, MI, 2012
West Gallery, Texas Woman's Univerisity, Calla Thompson: Selected Works, Denton, TX, 2010
PROJECT 4 Gallery, Hero and Baddie, Washington, DC, 2009
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Bleak and Bleaker, Toronto, ON, 2006
The Nightingale Gallery of Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR, 2005
Open Studio Gallery, Dirty Dog, Toronto, ON, 2002
Maryland Art Place, Slip, Baltimore, MD, 2002
The Ottawa School Art Gallery, Dirty Dog, Ottawa, ON, 2002
Soho 20 Gallery, Break, New York, NY 2001
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Katzen Arts Center, American University, In Residence: The Neighbors, Washington, DC, 2014
Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Hydroflow, Baltimore, MD, 2013
The Center for Contemporary Art, Through You Into Action, Bedminster, NJ, 2012
Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Power Struggles: Leveraging Control, Baltimore, MD, 2011
The Center for Fine Arts Photography, Consumption, Fort Collins, CO, 2010
Las Manos Gallery, The Evidence Against Us, Chicago, IL, 2010
New Galerie, FAX, Paris, France, 2010
Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, College at Cortland, FAX, Cortland, NY, 2010
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, FAX, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010
Burnaby Art Gallery, FAX, Burnaby, BC, 2010
Para/Site Art Space, FAX, Hong Kong, 2010
Torrance Art Museum, FAX, Torrance, CA, 2010
Plug in ICA, FAX, Winnipeg, MA, 2009-2010
contemporary museum, FAX, Baltimore, MD, 2009
International House, Homeland Video Festival, screening of Bleak and Bleaker, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Sentinel Gallery, Artifice: An Exploration of Deception, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Washington Project for the Arts Exhibition, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC, 2009
AiOP (Art in Odd Places), RE-UNION, Union Square, New York, NY, 2008
Fox Gallery, Semi-Finalist, Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2008
Gallery Aferro, In The Country of Last Refuge, Newark, NJ, 2007
Woodstock Center for Photography, Homeland Video Festival, screening of Bleak and Bleaker, Woodstock, NY, 2007
Cooper Union, Residency Exhibition, New York, NY, 2006
Baltimore Museum of Art, Flag, Baltimore, MD, 2006
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2006
Baltimore Museum of Art, Observation Deck, Baltimore, MD, 2005
MPG Contemporary Gallery, New Art 2005, Boston, MA, 2005
Museum of Fine Arts, The Florida State University Sex, Politics, and the Pursuit of Global Domination, Tallahassee, FL, 2005
John A. Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery, Errata: The Role of Errors and Misinterpretation in Art, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD, 2004
James Backas Gallery, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD 2004
EAFIT University Gallery, Fotofiesta: 1st International Photography Biennial, The Body Politic, Medellin, Columbia, 2003
The Painted Bride Arts Center, Puff, Philadelphia, PA, 2003
Polk Museum of Art, Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post- War America, Lakeland, FL, 2003
Madison Art Center, Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post- War America, Madison, WI, 2003
Everson Museum of Art, Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post- War America, Syracuse, NY, 2002
The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, The Body Politic, Wilmington, DE, 2002
Korean Cultural Center Gallery of Los Angeles Dis.embody, Los Angeles, CA, 2002
Joan Grona Gallery, Puff, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX, 2002
Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, College at Cortland, [Un]related, Cortland, NY, 2002
Arlington Arts Center, Installation Exhibition, Arlington, VA, 2001
Meyerhoff Gallery, Fruit Fly, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2000
State of the Art Gallery, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Exhibition, Ithaca, NY, 2000
Adambomb Gallery, Serious Play, Milwaulkee, WI, 2000
Rosenberg Gallery, Obsession, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, 2000
School 33 Art Center, Break, Baltimore, MD, 2000
IMAGE REGISTRIES
2007-present, Museum of Modern Art's Artist Files Archive, New York, NY
2007-present, The Drawing Center On-line Registry, New York, NY
GRANTS
Maryland State Arts Council Award, 2009
Maryland State Arts Council Award, 2007
Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts-Production Grants to Professional Artists, 2005
Maryland State Arts Council Award, 2004
Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts-Production Grants to Professional Artists, 2004
REVIEWS, ESSAYS, AND CATALOGS
Burns, Laura. “Maryland Art Place.” RADAR 1 May 2002: 16
Burns, Laura. Obsession. Baltimore, MD: Rosenberg Gallery, 2000. Exhibition essay
Durant, Mark Alice. “Some Assembly Required: Ten Fragments Toward a Picture of
Collage.” Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America.
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 2002. 25 and 79. Exhibition Essay
Durant, Mark Alice. All You Pretty Proletarians. Toronto, ON: Open Studio Gallery,
2002. Exhibition essay
Giuliano, Mike. “Dangerous Curves: There’s a Fine Line Running Through the Work in a
New MAP Exhibition.” CITYPAPER 1-8 May 2002: 37-38
Hirsch, Robert. Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age. Burlington, MA:
Elsevier’s Focal Press, 2007. 244
Inselmann, Andrea. Calla Thompson. Contact Sheet, The Light Work Annual No.
167. Syracuse NY: Light Work/Community Darkrooms, 2012.
Jones, R. Stevie. Hero and Baddie: Calla Thompson at Project 4. Washington, DC:
Project 4 Gallery, 2009. Exhibition Essay
Mahoney, James. Calla Thompson: Bleak and Bleaker. Toronto, ON: Centre for
Contemporary Art, 2006. Exhibition Essay
McNatt, Glen. “’Artscape at BMA’ is simply terrific: Exhibiton succeeds at showing
vibrancy of city’s art scene.” The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD): July 5, 2005. C1
Miller, Nicole. “In Arlington, A Real Breakthrough.” The Washington Post 18 October,
2001: C5
Ober, Cara. “Reviews / Mid-Atlantic / Baltimore.” Art Papers: September /
October 2005. 44
Purchase, Steve. “School 33 Presents a Provocative Wallpaper Exhibition.”
The Baltimore Guide 15 June 2000: 1 and 12