Jorge Calvo
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New York City New York USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Jorge Calvo (Costa Rica), along with Michele Beck, is a multidisciplinary artist working with video, sound and performance. Michele and Jorge met in New York City in December 1998 and have been working together ever since. They are recipients of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant and they SOS grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Michele and Jorge have shown their work nationally and internationally at venues including The ICA in London, The Blaffer Gallery at The Art Museum at the University of Texas Museum, Galerie Chez Valentin in Paris, France and The Queens Museum of Art. Jorge pursued his studies in experimental theatre in Sydney, Australia. After finishing his training, he performed with the alternative theatre companies G.R.O.U.P and Dangerous Visions Theatre, both of which received funding from the Australian Arts Council. He works as a sound designer for film and video. Filmography/Awards Info: Exhibitions 2005 Collection of the Sound Art Museum, Rome, Italy 2004 Whirlwind White, ARC Gallery Media Room, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition) Video X, Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Contemporneity, Kyrgyz Republic. Curated by Leeza Ahmady Video Salon, Alternator Gallery of Contemporary Art, BC, Canada 2003 Randall’s Tunnel, HEREart, NY (solo project sponsored by Dept of Cultural Affairs & NYFA) Single Channel, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum at the University of Texas Museum, Texas SELF/PROJECTED, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Immedia 2003, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2002 Kinda Figurative, HEREart, NY, NY Multiplex, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France Zwishenraum vol. II, Satellite Project Space, LIC, NY 2001 Zwishenraum, Satellite Project Space, LIC, NY BOX, Villa Julie College Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2000 Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD Bulgaria, NY, Elizabeth Foundation, NY, NY (funded by The Trust for Mutual Understanding) Reaching the Heights, Columbia Medical Center, NY, NY Exchange: An Evening of Performance, 16 Beaver Group, NY, NY 1999 XMAS, Kent Gallery, New York, NY Screenings 2005 The Videodrome, Marseilles, France Fake Snow, Magic Lantern Theatre, Providence, RI 2004 Angle International Film & Video Festival, Xiamen, China Inport Video- Performance Festival, Tallinn, Estonia Festival Images Contre Nature, Cedex, France Fine Arts Theatre, Asheville, NC Hidden Camera, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY Drift, aRaMoNa Gallery, NY, NY. Whiz Bang, New York, NY. Curated by Meg Shiffler LABoratory Exhibition of Experimental Film & Video, Salt Lake City, Utah 2003 Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour L’image Contemporaine, Geneva DUMBO Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY backup2003_festival.new media in film, Weimar, Germany New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York Experimental Video selected by the Video Data Bank, Sofia, Bulgaria Rencontre Internationales Paris/Berlin New Forms Festival, Montreal, Canada Antimatter Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada Bridge Magazine, Artists DVD Project Detroit International Film Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI- “Best of Show” Vertical Video, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Spark Video, Beacon, NY Love and Other Difficulties, Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA, Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Firestation #3, Houston, TX, Cinema Obscura, Santa Barbara, CA Visual Affect, Remote Lounge, NY, NY. Curated by Susan Joyce Art in General Video Marathon, Art in General, NY, NY 2002 Digital Showcase, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England Z Film Festival, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL Media[less]Medium, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Spark Video International, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY Mash Bash Video, Bcat-TV, Brooklyn, NY LA Freewaves Los Angeles, CA MediaArt Friesland, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Video-Zone, International Video Art Biennial TA Cinematheque, Israel Photophobia, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada Tagawa International Short Film Festival, Japan Video 825, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA Independent Exposure June 2002, Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Experimental Show, Hotel Astor, South Beach, Fla. Screeners Club, Level X, Brooklyn, NY Nomad Video Film Festival, Fine Arts Cinema, Berkley, CA Music Video, Coolidge Center Theatre, Brookline, MA HiLow Film Festival, Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA The Best of Z Fest. 21 Grand, Oakland, California Tratado de Libre Video, Centro Multimedia, Mexico City, Mexico Art in General Video Marathon, Art in General, NY, NY 2001 Festival des Cinémas Différents, Paris, France Z Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL. backup2001_festival.new media in film, Weimar, Germany Kassler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel, Germany Leeds International Film Festival, Millennium Square, Leeds, UK EATOMSK, Toynbee Studios, London, UK Video Catalyst, Bronx Museum of Art, NY, NY Fully Human, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Open Zone 6, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY The 2:30 Show, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD Expanded Media: (VIDEACY), Side Street Live, Los Angeles, CA 2000 Vancouver Underground Film Festival, BC Canada Axelgrease, Squeaky Wheel Cable Access, Buffalo, NY Wigged.net, http://www.wigged.net This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. 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