Caleb Neelon
Born in 1976 in Boston and based in neighboring Cambridge, Caleb is an artist, writer, and educator. Caleb's paintings and installation artwork has appeared in solo and group shows in venues in America and Europe, as murals on walls in Kathmandu, Reykjavik, Bermuda, Calcutta, Sao Paulo, and across Europe, as well as in dozens of books, magazines, and newspapers around the world. Caleb Neelon's Book of Awesome, his first artist monograph, is a new release from Gingko Press.
Caleb is co-author of the Thames and Hudson book Graffiti Brasil and Street World from Thames and Hudson, Abrams and other international co-editions, author and illustrator of the children's book, Lilman Makes a Name for Himself, and a collaborator on nearly a dozen other books. He was editor-at-large at the popular culture hardbound bi-monthly Swindle, and has been a contributing writer to several other magazines and journals. He has lectured at several international conferences and festivals, as well as Harvard Law School, Bates College, Northeastern University, and his alma mater, the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Caleb Neelon
P.O. Box 381591, Cambridge, MA 02238 *
617-435-2265
calebneelon@gmail.com
http://www.theartwheredreamscometrue.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS2009
Waiting for Ararat, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Two-man show with Mike Shine.
2008
In the Land of Retinal Delights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (Catalog)
Drawn Together, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Caleb Neelon is Working On It, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2007
Behind the Seen, Ad Hoc Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Drawn Together, Artboks, Aarhus, Denmark
Neelon/Suss/Williams/Lukas, Limited Addiction, Denver, CO
Child's Prey, White Walls, San Francisco, CA (two-man show with Ben Woodward)
Hang M' High, Chester's Blacksmith, Park City UT
2006
Friends, Andenken Gallery, Denver, CO
Caleb Neelon's Unrelenting Optimism, LES Gallery, Vancouver (solo).
Collections, Scion Installation, Los Angeles.
Nine Lives, Parts Unknown, Chicago.
Motivational Baggage, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, two-man show with Andrew Schoultz.
Spothunters, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA (curator) four-man show with Shepard Fairey, Greg Lamarche, and Monster Project
Caleb Neelon's Unrealistic Expections, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Young Guns at the Sundance Film Festival, Chester's Blacksmith, Park City, UT
2005
Untitled, White Walls, San Francisco, CA
Not Especially Helpful, Installations @ EMF, Cambridge, MA (solo)
Reclaiming Space, Space 538, Portland, ME
The Dictionary Project, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA (Annie Silverman, curator)
Move 13, Clementine Gallery, New York City, NY (Rich Jacobs, curator)
Flaneur, Punch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Andrew Schoultz, curator)
2004
No Points for Effort, installation at Evos Arts, Lowell, MA
The Russian Doll Show, Space 1026, Philadelphia; and New Image Art, Los Angeles (Eddie Martinez, curator)
2003
The Russian Doll Show, 65 Hope Street Gallery, New York City; Green Street Gallery, Boston (Eddie Martinez, curator)
The Things They Carried, installation at the Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA
Halloween (Children in Control), installation at Evos Arts, Lowell MA
SPECIAL PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS
2009
The Commonwealth Award Art Object, created a set of painted wooded bowls as awards given by the Massachusetts Cultural Council to recipients like Senator Ted Kennedy and his sister Jean Kennedy Smith, composer Gunther Schuller, philanthropist Barbara Lee, and actress Elizabeth Banks.
2007
The Pigeon Mumbler Short film, Scion Easy Ten Films. Associate Producer.
2006
Tershane Istanbul, Turkey
2005
Making a Difference / Mass General Hospital MICU project. Lead artist and curator for a project to paint the drop-down ceiling tiles above patient beds in the Medical ICU ward at Mass. General Hospital.
The Dreamland Artist Club, Creative Time / Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY. Painted signage for Coney Island businesses and concessions as part of a group project, curated by Steve Powers and Creative Time.
EdSpeak, installation at Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Commission of the Arts in Education program, Abe Zubarev, curator.
2004
Art for All, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2004. Special commission of the First Lady of Honduras, the United Nations Development Project, and the United States Embassy.
Graffiti Team, Roskilde Music Festival, Roskilde, Denmark, 2004. Painted graffiti murals at the festival grounds and hung out with rock stars.
Ann Murphy Artisans Program, Cambridge Ellis School, Cambridge, MA. 2004. Planned and oversaw permanent public art installation working with 2-6 year olds; led faculty workshop on large-scale art projects.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, commissioned pair of paintings for Agnes Gund and Tom Cahill, Studio in a School.
2003
The Amihotornaut, Public sculpture, Lowell, MA, 2003-present. Commissioned by the Revolving Museum.
Animal Farm, Park mural, Dobighat, Kathmandu, 2003. Commissioned by the United Nations Development Project.
Steel sculpture residency, 2003, La Vie des Formes, Chalon, France.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2007
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, Sculpture and Installation
Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship
SELECTED PRESS
American Magazines and Newspapers:
Juxtapoz, Print, Art New England, Apenest, The Boston Globe, Harvard Magazine, Ed. Magazine, Tokion, Boston Magazine, Boston Home and Garden, Arkitip, Alarm, The Boston Phoenix, All Things Considered (NPR)
International Magazines and Newspapers:
Wonderland (London), Nusign (Paris), Trendsetters (Istanbul), Contemporary (London), Clark (Paris), The Guardian (London), Bant (Istanbul), Radikal (Istanbul), O Tempo (Brazil), Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Vogue Girl (Seoul), Underground Productions (Stockholm), Brain Damage (Warsaw), WorldSign (Paris)
Books:
Caleb Neelon's Book of Awesome, Gingko Press 2008
Iosifides, Kiriakos. Mural Art, Publikat 2008
Ganz, Nicholas. Graffiti World, Abrams / Thames and Hudson 2004
Gastman, Roger. Supreme Quality, R77 Press 2004
Manco, Tristan. Street Logos, Thames and Hudson. 2004
di Suvero, Mark, and Publicime. La Vie des Formes: Fifteen Years of Artistic Adventures at the International Yard for Experimental Creation, L'Exemplaire. 2003
Gastman, Roger. Enamelized, R77 Press, 2003; Gingko Press, 2004.
PUBLISHED WORKS
2008
Caleb Neelon's Book of Awesome, Gingko Press
The Whimsical Works of David Weidman (and some serious ones too) Gingko Press
2007
Street World: Urban Art and Culture from Five Continents (author, with Roger Gastman and Tony Smyrski) Thames and Hudson; Abrams; and several international co-editions
Mad Society: The Art of Saber. (the 'as told to' guy) Ginkgo Press
2006
I Was Just Leaving: The Art of Richard Colman. (essay) Ginkgo Press
Ulysses: The Art of Andrew Schoultz. (essay) Paper Museum Press
Million Dollar Vandal. (officious intermeddler) Also Known As.
Freight Train Graffiti (officious intermeddler) Thames and Hudson/Abrams
2005
Graffiti Brasil, Thames and Hudson. Author, with Tristan Manco and Lost Art
Also Known As, Twelve Ounce Prophet.
2004 to Present
Swindle Magazine, Editor
2004
Lilman Makes a Name for Himself, Cantab Publishing, 2004. Author and illustrator
1996 - Present
Twelve Ounce Prophet (the Vapors & AKANYC) creative team, along with Allen Benedikt and Cody Hudson.
1996 - Present
Contributor: Bant,Tokion, Powerhouse, Print, Juxtapoz, On The Go, WorldSigns, Underground Productions, School Arts, Art Crimes, Tiferet, Beautiful Decay, Brain Damage, Alarm, etc.
PUBLIC ARTWORKS
1996 to Present
Istanbul, Turkey; Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Santa Elena, Costa Rica; Bermuda; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, and Perth, Australia; Reykjavik, Iceland; Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen and Roskilde, Denmark; Helsinki, Finland; Munich, Berlin, Mannheim, and Wiesbaden, Germany; Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Eindhoven, Holland; Chalon, France; Prague, Czech Republic; Innsbruck and Vienna, Austria; Warsaw, Poland; Rome and Florence, Italy; Cork, Ireland; Kathmandu, Nepal; Delhi and Calcutta, India; Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Austin, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, San Francisco, &c, United States.
LECTURES
2007
Streetlab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Popular Culture Journalism Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey
2005
Cork Caucus, Cork, Ireland
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
2004
Bates College, Lewiston, ME
EDUCATION
2004
Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education, Arts in Education
1999
A.B., Brown University, Comparative Literature