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Education
MFA — 2008, Integrated Media Arts, Film & Media, Hunter College, New York City
BFA — 1972, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
1968-70, Washington University School of Fine Arts in Saint Louis
Screenings and Performances (partial list)
2024
Filmmakers Coop, Lost Shoe Blues, New York City (NYC), curated by Matt McKinzie
2023
Century of 16mm, commissioned film Visible Spectrum Between Buildings in Saint Louis and two preservation presentations, IU Moving Image Archive conference.
2022-4
Screening of works from Le Centre National de la Cinematographie du Mali (CNCM), films digitized by the XFR Collective, presented at the P.I.T. in Williamsburg, NYC.
2019
The Times Square Show Slideshow, installation at Basquiat and His New York Scene at The Schunk, Heerlen, Netherlands
2017
"Lungs of Sugar," installation of three films at OnArte, Minusio, Switzerland, curated by Katrin Wolkowicz
2016
The Times Square Show Slideshow, installation at the Museum Brandhorst. Also, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. Ludwig, Painting 2.0, Expression in the Information Age
Some Food May Be Found in the Desert, Orphans Film Symposium and also presentation of archived audio files and an installation of Something Medical (2015)
An Evening with Andrea Callard, multiple short films at the Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg, NYC
2015
Something Medical (2015) at Union Docs in Williamsburg, NYC
La Petite Versailles, two evenings of XFR Collective material, in partnership with Carmel Curtis NYC
2014-15
11 thru 12 and Fluorescent/Azalea, No Wave series curated by Kyle Stephens with Ministry of Culture of Brazil, multiple locations throughout Brazil
2014
MoRUS Film Festival, Notes on Ailanthus, Women of the Lower East Side
Spectacle Theater, "In and Around Collaborative Projects"
Radical Archives Conference, More COLAB TV, NYU
New Terrain: 8th Annual Landscape, Space, Place Conference at Indiana University, Notes on Ailanthus
2013
DOXA, Vancouver, Talking Landscape: Early Media Work 1974-1984
Ambulante, screenings of 11 thru 12 throughout 11 states in Mexico
11 thru 12 and Fluorescent/Azalea, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Pickford Film Center Linwood Dunn Theater, presented by Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Foundation
2012
Maysles Cinema, NYC, theatrical release Talking Landscape: Early Media Work 1974-1984
Times Square Show Revisited, The Times Square Show Slideshow, Hunter College NYC
2011-12
11 thru 12, Walker Art Center, Disarming Domesticity, curated by Dean Otto
2011
Screenings of 11 thru 12, Flora Funera, Fluorescent/Azalea, Lost Shoe Blues:
- Preserve and Protect, presented by Dan Strieble, MOMA, NYC
- Vera, Groningen, The Netherlands
- WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- BUTFF, Breda, The Netherlands
- Nova Cinema, Brussels, Belgium
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Glasgow Film Festival
- POP Montreal Commuting from Point to Point
- Wisconsin Film Festival
- Union Docs, NYC
- UCLA Film Library Film & Television Archive, Celebrating Orphan Films
2010
Listening for the Future, audio and radio presentations symposium, The American Society of Acoustic Ecology, Chicago
Screenings of 11 thru 12 and/or Fluorescent/Azalea:
- 56th Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
- Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
- Orphans 7 Film Symposium, NYC
- 20th Anniversary Celebration, Pleasure Dome, Toronto
- Orphans West, UCLA
- DOC NYC at IFC
- Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
2009
GAIA Studio, Wonder Women Residency and exhibiting Comfort with Money, Part 1, at ABC No Rio, NYC
Welcome Sound: Audio Art in Roosevelt N.J. Homes, Laughing and Clapping, curator: Viktoria Estok
Giant Ear, monthly segments of online radio
Moving Water, performance and video collaboration with the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology & the Wave Farm, Catskill, NY
Herd Gathering at the Farm River, parade and performance in Branford, CT
2008
Repositioning Myself in the Marketplace, CD, monologue and field recordings
Giant Ear and Inside/Out audio CD, Wave Farm Audio Dispatch Series (AD036)
2007
Slapp Happy, City Sol Festival, NYC installation with David Watson
Soundlab, Rhizome NYC
2006
Conflux Festival, Audiobus B61, NYC
Rhizome/ Surge LIVE, New York
Observatori Festival, Valencia, Spain
Protest, Transport, Celebrate, New York Society for Acoustic Ecology
2005
Protest, Transport, Celebrate, Media Ballistics, Hunter College
Films and Videotapes
2025 — Water Log: Immersion, Displacement, Buoyancy, 32 minutes
2024 — Wind, Freshkills Park, 8:15 minutes
2023 — Visible Spectrum Between Buildings in Saint Louis, 3 minutes
2022 — Bella in the Rain with Landscapes, 10:24 minutes
2008-19 — 120+ short informational or marketing films for Green Planet 21 and American Shredding, with 2M+ YouTube views
2015 — Something Medical, 10 seconds
2013 — Sample Map #1, 13 minutes
2012 — Talking Landscape: Early Media Work 1974-1984, 73 minutes
1999 — Justice, collaborative documentary about the Diallo shooting, Hudson Guild
1988 — Split Britches, production, set and audio design
1987 — Bees & Thoroughbreds, editorial consultant
Landing/ San Diego, work in progress, videotape
1985 — Notes on Ailanthus, Super-8, 28 min.
1984 — Pus Factory, animated video graphics, 26 sec. b/w. silent
Everglades City, editorial & production consultant
1981 — Writer & performer, White Columns, video
1980 — Freckled Rice, 16mm film by Steve Ning, Set design
1977 — 11 thru 12, Super-8, 12 min.
Standard Adult Wheelchair, Super-8, 12 min.
Some Food May Be Found in the Desert, Super-8, 8 min.
Continental Drift, 16mm film by Paula Longendyke, Set design
1976 — Fluorescent/Azalea, Super-8, 3 min.
Flora Funera (for Battery Park City), Super-8, 3 min.
Lost Shoes Blues, Super-8, 3 min.
1974 — Fragments of a Self-portrait, video, b/w, 12 min.
Installations and One or Two Person Exhibitions
2001 — Multiple Connections: Master Printers' Portfolios, Bronx River Art Center
1990 — Home Turf, Art in General, NYC
The Waste Stream, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC
1989 — Town Meeting Series on Housing, Dia Art Foundation, NYC
The Tenement; Place for Survival, Object of Reform, Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1987 — Pearl River Public Library, Pearl River, NY
Nanuet Public Library, Nanuet, NY
1984 — New American Landscapes, Mill Gallery, Malone, NY
1983 — Mill Gallery, Malone, NY
Inside/Out, The Garden Signs, Bronx River Art Center, NYC
Chaos & Fellowship, Chicago Books, NYC
1982 — NYC Wildlife Museum, Theater Row, 42nd Street, NYC
1981 — White Columns, NYC
1980 — The Times Square Show, COLAB NYC
Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie IN
Site, Cite, Sight, San Francisco, CA
1979 — Custom & Culture II, Customs House, Creative Time, Inc., NYC
Ailanthus Projects, P.S. 1, Special Projects, NYC
Group Shows
2023-4 — Avocet Portfolio at the Bronx River Art Center, NYC
2023 — Avocet Portfolio 2023, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
2022 — Ruderal Futures, SixtyEight, Copenhagen, Notes on Ailanthus, Flora Funera
2020 — No More Store, COLAB, James Fuentes Gallery NYC
2019 — Basquiat and His New York Scene, Times Square Slide Show, The Schunk, Heerlen, Netherlands
2017 — Lungs of Sugar, OnArte, Minusio, Switzerland, Flora Funera, Fluorescent/Azalea, Lost Shoe Blues
2016 — Printed Matter, COLAB's A. More Store
2012 — COLAB at Printed Matter, NYC
2001 — Daily Drawings, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2000 — Bronx River Art Center
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1999 — Directors Choice, Bronx River Art Center
1998 — Studio In A School, The Gallery on E. 53rd, NYC
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
1994 — The Future of the Book, University of South Florida at Tallahassee
Red Windows, Barney's, NYC
1993 — ES Vandam, NYC
Exquisite Corpse, The Drawing Center, NYC
Studio in a School, Artists Space, NYC
1992 — Arte Roma, Sala 1, Rome
1990 — Tulip Tree Gallery, Muncie, IN
Garbage Out Front: A New Era of Public Design, Municipal Art Society, NYC
University Gallery, SUNY, Fredonia, NY
1989 — Abstract Places, Art in General, NYC
1988 — Branches, The Boat House in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
Pacific States National Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii
1986 — Rockland Center for the Arts, Rockland County, NY
Bronx River Art Center
Consensus: Art in an Overcrowded City, Exit Art
1985 — TV and the Artist's Imagination, HBO Studios Gallery, NYC
Synaesthetics, Institute for Art & Urban Resources at PS 1, NYC
It's a Material World, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
Prints & Sculpture, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1984 — New American Landscapes, Mill Gallery, Malone, NY
Artists' Call, Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC
Up with People, COLAB, Concord Gallery, NYC
A. More Store, COLAB, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC
A. More Store, COLAB, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
1983 — The Ritz, COLAB at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Artists Space, NYC
1982 — Animal Life, COLAB, Erikson Gallery, NYC
Colab Graphics, SUNY, Purchase, NY
Mural America, New Harmony Gallery, Indiana (multiple entries)
Mural America, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
White Columns, NYC
1981 — White Columns, NYC
Ten-Gum Show, Centre D'Art Contemporian, COLAB, Geneva, Switzerland
1980 — The Times Square Show, COLAB, NYC
Colab Benefit, Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC
Animals Living in the City, COLAB - ABC No Rio, NYC
1979 — Animals Living in the City, Fashion Moda, NYC
1977 — Batman Show, Dog Show, Doctors & Dentists Show, Income & Wealth Show, 5 Bleeker Street / 591 Broadway, NYC
Honors and Grant Prizes
2022-2023 — Preserving Mali's Motion Picture Film Heritage, led by Callard and Janet Goldner, a XFR Collective project with the Center National de la Cinematographie du Mali, USA Public Diplomacy Small Grant (25k)
2020-2024 — Media preservation awards from National Film Preservation Foundation awards for media preservations of works on obsolete media by Callard and the XFR Collective
2014 — New York Women in Film & Television award to preserve Callard's Some Food May Be Found in the Desert. Further preservations achieved as part of the Moving Image Archiving Program (MIAP), New York University (NYU)
2009 — National Film Preservation Foundation award to preserve Callard's films 11 thru 12 and Fluorescent/Azalea
2004 — Andrea Callard papers collected by the Fales Library & Special Collections NYU
Avocet portfolio sponsored by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
1976 — Individual Artist's Fellowship for Drawing, National Endowment for the Arts
1975 — Ball State University Drawing & Small Sculpture Show, cash prize
Residencies and Lectures
1993 — Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
1992-1 — Visiting artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1990 — Williams College, Williamstown, MA
The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1988 — Baldwinsville Schools, NY Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) AIR Project
1986-7 — Rockland Center for the Arts, NYFA AIR Project
Studio in the Schools, Art Partners Project, NYC
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1985 — Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1984 — Virginia Commonwealth University
Center for Media Arts, NYC
1984-5 — Carthage Central Schools, Black River, NY. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) AIR Project
1983 — Malone Arts Council, Malone, NY. NYFA AIR Project
Hecksher Museum & Huntington Public Library, NYFA AIR Project
1981 — Cummington Community for the Arts, Cummington, MA, also '78
1980 — University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Partial Bibliography
- Madeleine Anderson, The Insistence of Weeds, Sixty-Eight Institute, Copenhagen
- Katrin Wolkowicz, Re-relating in Art Practice, Rotterdam 2021, Ailanthus Thru Azalea, an interview with Andrea Callard by Walter Forsberg, pp. 21-30
- Magasin, Especes D'Espace, The Eighties First Part, pp. 178-9
- Lisa Phillips, The American Century, Art & Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum, photos: pp.298,291
- Holland Cotter, "Way Up In the Bronx a Hardy Spirit Blooms" NY Times, May 7 1999
- Robert Kahn, ed. City Secrets Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy, The Little Bookroom 2001, pp. 292, 296, 320, 340, 346
- Robert Kahn, ed. City Secrets Rome, The Little Bookroom 1999, pp. 17, 25, 83, 85, 97, 169, 219
- Peter Bellamy, The Artist Project, IN Publishing, NY 1991, pp. 51
- Roni Henning, Screenprinting: Water-Based Techniques, Watson Guptill Publications 1994, pp. 9,24,42,55,67,81,87,103,125
- Brian Wallis, ed., If You Lived Here...The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism, The Dia Art Foundation Bay Press 1991, pp. 300-306
- Andrea Callard & Sue Darmstedter, "The Idea of Pretty", Artists in Residence - Partners In Education, published by the New York Foundation for the Arts, 1989, pp. 25-26
- Andrea Callard & Sam Sue, "The Tenement; Place for Survival, Object of Reform", Real Life Magazine, Winter 88/89, pp. 17-20
- Andrea Callard, Terminal Clusters, drawing, Bomb Magazine #6, 1983, pp.74
- John Howell, "Synesthetics" Art Forum, 1985
- Geurt Imanse, "Colab, Kunst en de Lower Eastside", Metropolis M, Nov.1984, pp.5-6
- Sarah Booth Conroy, "Art in Raw", Washington Post, May 4, 1983, pp.87
- Sylvia Falcon, "Inside/Out", East Village Eye, June 1983, pp.33
- Peter Halley, "Beat, Minimalism, New Wave & Robert Smithson", Arts Magazine, May 1981, pp.120
- Jeffery Deitch, "Report from Time Square", Art in America, 9/80. pp.61-3
- Lucy R. Lippard, "Sex and Death and Shock and Schlock, A Long Review of the Times Square Show," Art Forum, October 1980, pp.50-55
- Grace Glueck, New York Times, May 30, 1980
- Grace Glueck, New York Times, May 4, 1979
- John Perrault, "Custom Made" Soho Weekly News, May 17, 1979
- Willoughby Sharp, Impulse Magazine, Summer 1979, pp.39
Professional Experience
2016-2020 — Adjunct Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Technology, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) City University of New York
2008-19 — Media Producer, Green Planet 21, documenting industrial recycling solutions
Adjunct professor, Documentary Photography, Empire State College, State University of New York (SUNY)
2009-10 — Co-leader with Mel Rosenthal, Documentary Photography, Women in Photography, and Photojournalism, Empire State College, SUNY
2006-08 — NYC Department of Education, fine art, literacy tie-ins, Community School for Social Justice, South Bronx
1999-04 — NYC Department of Education: fine art teaching and art therapy, Project Arts Coordinator, grant writer, staff development, District 75, PS 231
AHRC art therapy group leader for adults in recovery
1985-98 — Studio In a School: teaching artist, staff developer, researcher in over 30 public schools, NYC
National Council of Jewish Women, NY Section: Art Coordinator, Council Senior Center
1991-01 — Brant Lake Camp: Key Staff, Director of Arts & Crafts
Service
2024-5 — Co-created in-person screenings in St. Louis for the 69th & 70th Flaherty Film Series organized in collaboration with Webster University Film Series
2013-2024 — Founding member and Secretary for the XFR Collective, Inc., a non-profit org partnering with artists, activists, individuals, & groups to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk a/v materials. Numerous projects.
2000-2023 — Advisory Board, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
1992 — Consultant, Printed Matter
1990 — Consultant, "From Receiver to Remote Control: The TV Set", New Museum of Contemporary Art
1985-91 — Director, Avocet Portfolio, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1989 — panelist, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
1987 — Curator, Artist's Window, Chicago Books, NYC
1984-77 — Officer, Member Collaborative Projects
1978-80 — Collaborative Projects organizing gang: "The Times Square Show"
1984 — Guest Curator, Mill Gallery, Malone, NY
1980-77 — CO-Director, LINE Association, re-granting for artists' books