Jorge Calvo, a native of Costa Rica, is a visual artist working with video, sound, performance and photography. His work has been shown at venues including, the ICA in London, Galerie Chez Valentin in Paris, PS122, Bronx Museum, and Queens Museum. Jorge works organically, using the experiences, images and sounds of his daily life as the material for his work.
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
VIDEO SCREENINGS
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Surviving Covid, Theater For the New City, NY, NY
LES, Theater For the New City, NY, NY
Paradoxically in Harmony, Hawthorne Gallery, CA
Valoarte XI ,Escazu, Costa Rica
ISE Cultural Foundation, NY, NY – Solo Show
I Am Sitting, Dixon Place, NY, NY- Solo Performance
Window, Space on White, NY,NY
Water Garden, Space on White, NY, NY
Time Passes, Space on White, NY, NY
Currents, Pulse Arts, Housatonic, MA
Pigeon House, Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Orange Echolon, Chashama Gallery, NY, NY
STATIC, performance, solo show at St. Mark's Church, NY, NY
Blue Moon, Cave, Brooklyn, NY
When the Stage Sets Collapses Radiant Movement, Long Island City, NY
Cyclops, Ferment Festival, The Cave, Brooklyn, NY
La Danza di Confine, Lerici, Italy
My Little Membrane, NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Endoskeleton at Avant-Garde-Arama, PS 122, New York, New York
Il Giardino Segreto, Primo Piano LivinGallery. Lecce, Italy
between to and from Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Experimental Video, The Incubator, Kansas City, MO
Contaminate 2, Test, Boston, MA
uneARTH, The Present Tense, Boston, MA
Genius & Madness, Primo Piano LivinGallery. Lecce, Italy
Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance,Sofia, Bulgaria
Endoskeleton NurtureArt, In celebration of PERFORMA 05 Brooklyn, NY
Chong Dam, Seoul, Korea
Paper, Papel, Papier, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY
Whirlwind White, ARC Gallery Media Room, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
Video X, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporneity, Kyrgyz Republic. Curated by Leeza Ahmady
Video Salon, Alternator Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kelowna, Canada
Randall’s Tunnel, HEREart, NY (solo project sponsored by Dept of Cultural Affairs & NYFA)
Biennale de L ’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour L’image Contemporaine, Geneva
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
Multiplex, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Kinda Figurative, HEREart, NY, NY
Zwishenraum vol. II, Satellite Project Space, LIC, NY
Performance: The Art of Daily Life”, Columbia Medical Center, New York, NY.
Zwishenraum, Satellite Project Space, LIC, NY
Shelters for Women, Sofia Municipal Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
BOX, Villa Julie College Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Reaching the Heights, Columbia Medical Center, NY, NY
Festivalleitung Forum : : Wallis, Zurich, Switzerland
Jinen Butoh, Center of Poetry, Avignon, France
SanctionedArray, White Box, NY, NY
Rencontres Internationales in Paris
ArcheTime, New York, NY
Eject 2: Mexico City International Videoperformance Festival
Festival By Chance 7002 Pecs, Hungary
Bac! Festival 2008, Barcelona, Spain
SIMULTAN04, Timisoara, Romania
Intimate and Public in Self-Portraits. Seoul, Korea
Oral Action, Studio 27, San Francisco, CA
Latin@ Media Festival, Toronto, Canada
Inport Video- Performance Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
Festival de Arte de Accion Zonadearte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Saison Video, Roubaix, France
PI Performance and Intermedia, Poland & Germany
Terminal Frontier Vancouver, Canada
Digital Showcase, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Beyond Stills, Gallery Korea, NY, NY
The Videodrome, Marseilles, France
Fake Snow, Magic Lantern Theatre, Providence, RI
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
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
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, Tel Aviv, 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, Califonia
Tratado de Libre Video, Centro Multimedia, Mexico City, Mexico
Art in General Video Marathon, Art in General, NY, NY
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
Vancouver Underground Film Festival, BC Canada
Axelgrease, Squeaky Wheel Cable Access, Buffalo, NY
Wigged.net, http://www.wigged.net
Festival Internacional de Video de Canarias, Palma de Gran Canarias, Spain
BTV (Barcelona Televisión), Barcelona, Spain
Escape, Sala Amárica, Vitoria, Spain
Catacomb Micromedia, Winnepeg Manitoba, Canada
Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Republic of Macedonia
Kicking the Machine, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand
Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Independent Exposure, Seattle, WA
The Sync, http://www.thesync.com/indexposure/arch1.html
Talking Crazy Talk, Knitting Factory Video Lounge, New York, NY