TOM KALIN
EDUCATION
1984 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, BFA Painting
1987 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA Photography and Video
1988 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997-16 Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts, Film Program
1996 Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, School of Art, Film/Video Production
1994 Adjunct Professor, Brown University, Modern Culture & Media Department
1991 Visiting Instructor, California Institute of the Arts, Video Department
RELATED EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
1987-16 Freelance Writer: includes Artforum, Afterimage, The Village Voice, Aperture, Us, The Independent, Views, The Walker Center, The Wexner Center, The British Film Institute, Inside/Out (MoMA P.S. 1 blog), The Talkhouse, The Andy Warhol Film Project/The Whitney Museum
1987-16 Selected Lectures and Panels include: The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, The New Museum, Aperture Foundation, Sao Paolo Biennale, Renaissance Society Chicago, San Francisco Art Institute, MoCA Los Angeles, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Netherlands, STUC, Belgium, American Center Paris, UCLA, San Francisco Art Institute, UCSD, New York University, The Photography Institute, Sundance Film Festival, Tramways - Glasgow, Scotland, University of Chicago, Hunter College, The New School, Rutgers University, Syracuse University, Duke University, University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, Rhode Island School of Design, Hampshire College, Ohio State University, University of Illinois, Chicago, Boston University, SVA, EGS, Cooper Union, University of Western Ontario, Swarthmore College, “Talking Pictures”, Charles & Lucille King Foundation and the Rowan Foundation at Rowan University, The UCLA Film and Television Archive, The Hammer Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, Temple University, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Edinburgh Screen Academy, Walker Center, Tribeca Film Institute, Winterthur Kurzfilmtage, Switzerland, Harvard University, University of Illinois, SVA Theater, Studio Museum of Harlem, The New Museum, “Speaking In Cinema”, Miami Beach Cinematheque,Ed Zagorski Visiting Artists Series, School of Art + Design, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, School of the Art Institute of Chicago – 15oth Anniversary “Distinguished Alumni Series”
1990-97 Producer, Kalin Vachon Productions Incorporated (Producer of feature films and shorts)
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2003 14th Annual New Festival Career Achievement Award
2001 The Peter S. Reed Foundation, Individual Artist Grants Program, New York
2000 New York State Council on the Arts, Film/Video Distribution Grant for THIRD KNOWN NEST
1998 Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship Award for BEHOLD GOLIATH
1993 National Endowment for the Arts, Narrative Film Production, Wexner Center sponsor PLAIN PLEASURES
New York State Council on the Arts, Film/Video Production Grant for THIRD KNOWN NEST
1992 Independent Feature Project Gotham Awards, Open Palm Award (Best First Feature) for SWOON
1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Narrative Film Production Grant for SWOON
1990 The Paul Robeson Fund for Film & Video, Production Grant for SWOON
The Jerome Foundation, Production Grant for SWOON
American Film Institute, Independent Film and Video Program, Annual Award in support of SWOON
1989 New York Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship Program
1986 Mary C. McClellan Fellowship, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
FILM AND MEDIA WORK I am Writer/Director/Editor on all works unless otherwise noted
FEATURE FILMS
1992 Swoon (also Co-Producer) 95:00 b/w, 35 mm film
1994 Go Fish (Executive Producer -- Rose Troche, Director) 88:00 b/w, 35 mm film
1996 I Shot Andy Warhol (Producer -- Mary Harron, Director) 97:00 color, 35 mm film
1997 Office Killer (Co-Writer -- Cindy Sherman, Director) 89:00 color, 35 mm film
2007 Savage Grace (also Co-Producer; Screenplay – Howard Rodman) 97:00 color, 35 mm film
FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
1997 Somebody’s Sins (The story of Robert Mapplethorpe & Patti Smith’s rise to fame) Lakeshore Productions
2000 I Hate You (But Call Me) (5 GIs form Beat band The Monks & wreck havoc in Germany) Killer Films
2014 Down There On A Visit
2014 Untitled Pre-Code Project
2016 The Church Of Dead Girls Archer Gray Productions
SHORT FILMS
1993 Geoffrey Beene 30. (Featuring Marsha Gay Harden, Viveca Lindfors & Russell Wong) 32:00 b/w, 35 mm film
1995 Plain Pleasures (Featuring Frances McDormand, Will Patton & Lili Taylor) 22:00 color, 16 mm film
1996 Urban Legend (Featuring Welker White, Kim Dickens, Anthony DeSando) 14:00 color, HD
1996 Street Life 5:00 color, HD
SHORT VIDEOS, INSTALLATIONS & MEDIA WORK
1986 Like Little Soldiers 3:30 color, video
Sight Unseen 1:50 color, video
Gesicht 2:30 color, video
Puppets 3:00 color, video
1987 News From Home (collaboration with Stathis Lagoudakis) 7:00 color, video
1989 They are lost to vision altogether 13:10 color, super 8/video
THIRD KNOWN NEST (Compilation of the following 18 short works) 40:00 color, various
1991 Finally Destroy Us 4:00 color, super 8/video
1992 NATION 1:00 color, 16 mm/video
1993 Nomads 4:50 color, super 8/video
1993 Darling Child 2:00 color, super 8/video
1994 Confirmed Bachelor 2:40 color, super 8/video
1995 Information Gladly Given But Safety Requires Avoiding Unnecessary Conversation 1:05 color, 16 mm/video
1996 I hung back, held fire, danced and lied. 5:00 color, super 8/video
1998 Dark Cave 4:15 color, super 8/video
1999 Give Me Your Future 6:50 b/w, mini DV/super 8
1999 ONE (Jane Bowles) :30 b/w, mini DV
1999 TWO (Patricia Highsmith) :55 b/w. mini DV
1999 THREE (Derek Jarman) :40 b/w. mini DV
1999 FOUR(Oscar Wilde) :15 b/w. mini DV
1999 FIVE (Alfred Chester) :55 b/w. mini DV
1999 SIX (Virginia Woolf) :30 b/w. mini DV
1999 SEVEN (Virginia Woolf) :20 b/w. mini DV
1999 EIGHT(Roland Barthes) :15 b/w. mini DV
1999 NINE (James Baldwin) :40 b/w. mini DV
BEHOLD GOLIATH 55:00 color & b/w, various
(WORK IN PROGRESS - Compilation includes the following single channel and installation works)
2002 The Robots Of Sodom 2:45 color, DV/super 8
2003 Some Desperate Crime On My Head 3:00 color, DV/super 8
2004 Salad Days 1:30 color, DV/super 8
2004 The Grasses of Lust 2:00 color, DV/super 8
2006 In Praise of Vespasian 1:00 color, DV/super 8
2005 Every Wandering Cloud 7:00 color, DV/super 8
2012 Incontinent 3:30, black & white super 8
2012 Sublime Objective (Mirror Mirror) 4:50, color, RED
MY SILENT ONE (2010-2014) - DOVEMAN & TOM KALIN
(Compilation includes the following single channel, installation and live performance works)
2010 Tigers 3:30 color, super 8/video
2010 From Silence 4:45 color, super 8/video
2010 Breathing Out 3:45 color, super 8/video
2011 The Best Thing 4:00 color, super 8/video
2011 The Cat Awoke 3:40 color, super 8/video
2011 Burgundy Stain 3:00 color, super 8/video
2012 Aftermath 3:45 color, super 8/video
2012 Angel’s Share 4:00 color, super 8/video
2012 Hurricane 3:15 color, super 8/video
2014 Castles 3:25 color, super 8/video
2014 Memorize 3:45 color, super 8/video
2014 Parting Glass 5:00, color, digital video
2014 Oranges 3:40, digital video
2014 Lay Me Down 5:10, digital video
2014-16 The Critic (sound installation) series, various, stereo
2014 By Any Other Name 2:00, single channel, stereo
2014 Statue Of Liberty (Music: Jill Sobule / Lyrics: David Lethem ) 3:30, single channel, stereo
2014 Ashes (Music: Doveman / Voice: Justin Vivian Bond) 5:45, single channel, stereo
2015 IN THE SWEETNESS OF TIME (Music: Doveman / Picture: Tom Kalin) installation/live performance
Variable, multi-screen work – currently two version exist -- 95:00 and 7 hours
Live collaborators include Justin Vivian Bond, Craig Chester, Michael Cunningham, Nijae Draine, Christopher Potter, Elizabeth Povinelli, Zsela Thompson, Martha Wainwright and others
(ITSOT includes the following single channel, installation and live performance works)
2015 In The Sweetness of Time Seven hours, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 1 (Mellotron Two) 11:15, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 2 (Mellotron One) 10:55, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 3 (Circular Track) 12:15, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 4 (Mellotron Four) 12:35, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 5 (Auckland) 11:40, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 6 (Mellotron Three) 13:25, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 7 (June 4 Track) 8:40, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 8 (Alternative Mellotron One) 13:10, Digital video
2015 Sleep Loop 9 (New Plymouth) 11:15, Digital video
2016 Every Evening Freedom (site specific installation in progress) 20:00, color & b/w, various
GRAN FURY (selected exhibitions)
I was a founding member of Gran Fury (1987-1996), a collective of AIDS activists and artists associated with ACT UP. We made public projects designed to live on the street, employing familiar urban signs (such as billboards, bus & subway placards, t-shirts, magazine print ads, newsprint broadsheets and even television PSA spots) in order to reach a diverse audience in unexpected locations. In 2010 we began to work together again on a survey of our work and to establish an open-access archive of our work that exists on-line in the public domain.
1987 Let The Record Show..., Broadway Window Installation, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1988 Vollbild, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin Germany
1989 Welcome to America, Billboard Lithograph installed on Houston at Broadway
Image World, Whitney Museum of American Art, Street window and bus signs
Kissing Doesn’t Kill, Bus and subway signs, Art Against AIDS: On The Road, Chicago, New York & LA
The New York Crimes, Newsprint lithograph, edition of 6000, distributed by stealth via the NY Times
1990 Untitled #1,2 & 3, XLIV Esposizione Internazionale - Venice Bienale, Billboard lithographs
Kissing Doesn’t Kill, four: 30 video PSAs, Red Hot & Blue, National television broadcast
Wipe Out, Subway & bus signs, edition of 3000, The Decade Show, Studio Museum of Harlem
1991 Women Don’t Get AIDS (They Just Die From It), Bus shelter Duratrans signs, edition of 2000, MoCA LA
Love For Sale, (collaboration with PONY), Broadway Window, New Museum of Contemporary Art
2012 Read My Lips, 80WSE Galleries, New York University, Retrospective with catalog
2012 This Will Have Been, (travelling show), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Walker Center, others
2013 LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2015/16 Art, AIDS, America, Tacoma Art Museum, Los Angeles MoCA and others (traveling)
GRAN FURY WORK IN ARCHIVES & PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Getty Institute, Los Angeles, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Gutenberg Bibliotek, Germany, Herzon Museum, Germany, Mainz Bibliotek, Germany, Museo del Commune di Milan, Italy, Offenback Bibliotek, Germany, Pesci Museum, Italy, Smith College, MA
Spencer Collection, Yale University, Staadt Museum, Berlin, Stielich Bibliotek, Germany, University of Kansas
Kohler Art Library, Wisconsin, Wellesley College
TOM KALIN SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1984 “The Good Life Isn’t Won By Degrees”, MFA Exhibition, The McKinley Foundation, Champaign-Urbana
1985 “37th Annual Midstates Exhibition” (Juried), Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, Indiana
1986 “Past(iche), Post and Future” (Traveling Show), Photo Art Center Gallery, Hong Kong, China
“Leon Carver/Tom Kalin”, (Mixed Media Installation), SAIC Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Recent Short Works”, The Kitchen, New York
1987 “Work On AIDS”, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
“Only Human: Sex, Gender & Misrepresentations”, American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles
“Mary C. McClellan Fellowship Exhibition”, Krannert Art Center, University of Illinois, Champaign
“The Kodak Show”, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago
1988 ‘Polaroid and Polaroid-Derived Imagery” MoMING Dance and Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
“Gender Benders”, (Group Video Show, CAGE (Cincinnati Artists Group Effort), Ohio
“American Art 1988”, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin Columbia
“Vollbild”, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1989 “Against Nature”, (Group Show), LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
“AIDS Media: Counter-Representations”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“It’s Evening In America”, (Video Drive-In) Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
“Images 89”, Independent Film and Television Festival, Toronto, Canada
“VideoFest 89”, Berlin Film & Video festival, Germany
“European Media Festival”, Osnabruck, Germany
1990 The 14th Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Director’s Choice Award, Georgia
“New Activist Videos”, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, England
‘The Alternative Voice”, (Video Drive-In), Central Park Summer Stage, New York
“A History of Loss”, New Langdon Arts Gallery, San Francisco
Second Annual Media Festival, Kupio, Finland
1991 “1991 Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Amsterdam Gay and Lesbian Film & Video Festival, The Netherlands
World Film and Video Festival, (Jury’s Festival Award), Tokyo, Japan
1992 “New Directors/New Films”, Film Society of Lincoln Center / MoMA, New York
Sundance Film Festival, (Best Cinematography Award, Park City, Utah
“International Forum”, (Caligari Film Prize) Berlin Film Festival, Germany
Stockholm International Film Festival, (International Jury Prize), Stockholm, Sweden
Rimini International Film Festival, (Special Jury Prize), Rimini, Italy
Taipei Golden Horse International Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Sydney International Film Festival, Australia
41st Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Pia International Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
1993 “Mapping Interior Spaces; Video at the Edge of the Millennium”, Exit Art, New York
“Video Visions”, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York Video Festival
“Identity and Home”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walker Art Center, (Solo screening/lecture), Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jan van Eyck Academy, (Exhibition and Residency) Maastricht, The Netherlands
STUC (Exhibition and residency), Leuven, Belgium
Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, Canada
San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival, California
1994 “Disorder Today”, The American Center, Paris, France
“L’ hiver de l’amour bis”, Arc-Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
23rd International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Viper 94”, 15. International Film und Videofestival, Lucerne, Switzerland
“Ars Electronica”, Festival fur Kunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft, Linz, Austria
Las Colinas Festival of the Arts, (Jury Prize), Irving, Texas
Monitor 94, Frolunda, Sweden
Segona Mostra de Video Independent, Barcelona, Spain
1995 “1995 Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
“Blur”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
“The Alternative Screen”, American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, California
Center for Contemporary Art, (Solo Show) Glasgow, Scotland
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Glasgow Film Theater, Glasgow, Scotland
Turin International Gay & Lesbian Festival, Turin, Italy
1996 New Television, National PBS broadcast
“VideoFest 96”, Berlin Film Festival, Germany
Cannes International Film Festival, Cannes, France
“Viennale 1996” International Film Festival, Vienna Austria
Pleasure Dome, (Solo Show) Toronto, Canada
The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York Video Festival
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1997 Toronto Photographer’s Workshop (Two-person Show), Canada
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, (Screening and Talk) Madrid, Spain
Centre Georges Pompidou, (Panel & Screening: Book was published), Paris, France
“Rooms With A View”, Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York
26th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Icelandic National Broadcasting, (Television Broadcast), Iceland
“Video Art Plastique Festival”, Center d’art contemporaine, Basse-Normandie
“Film and Fashion” (Screening & Panel), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1998 Visibilita Zero, (Book Published) Rome, Italy
“Troissiemme Manifestation”, (Subway Video Installation), Champ Libre, Montreal, Canada
Seoul Gay & Lesbian Film and Video Festival, Seoul Korea
MVI Foire video independents, Barcelona, Spain
Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
De Rozen Filmdagen, Rialto Film Theater
1999 Festival International du Cinema et des Nouveaux Medias de Montreal, Canada
“Cineprobe: Video Viewpoints” (Solo Screening & Talk), Museum of Modern Art, New York
11th International Dresden Filmfest, Dresden, Germany
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, New York
Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2000 “Fever in the Archive”, Guggenheim Museum, New York
“International Forum”, Berlin Film Festival, Germany
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Speed of Vision”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut
International Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2001 “My Generation”, Atlantis Gallery, London, England
The New Festival, New York
“Faster, Harder, Shorter: Personal History & Memory”, White Columns, New York
“Auto/Biographies”, Kunsthalle Exnergasse/WUK, Vienna, Austria
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
Radio Torino Popolare, Italy
2002 “Private Affairs” (Installation: Catalogue Produced) Kunst Haus Dresden, Germany
16th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
16th Milano - Bologna Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
“Video Viewpoints: A Selection From the Last Decade” Museum of Modern Art, New York
Projects/NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Arte, Mexico
2003 The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York Video Festival
The Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Washington
Rhode Island School of Design
Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, France
University of Southern California
Consorcio de Museos, Valencia, Spain
OutFest, Los Angeles
2004 Wexner Center for The Arts, Columbus, Ohio
“Here Is Elsewhere” (Artist’s Choice: Mona Hatoum - group show) Museum of Modern Art, New York
I-Space Gallery, Chicago Gallery of the University of Illinois, (3 person show, catalogue, reviewed)
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Sasketchewan Film Pool Collective, Canada
Yale University
University of California, San Diego
2005 “Premieres”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York(Screening series for MoMA reopening)
“Office Hours”, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
“Inside / Out”, Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Toronto
“Swoon: 10 Years of Killer Films”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Seoul Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
“Jerome: Hill and Foundation”, Acquisitions Program, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Museum of World Culture
2006 Viper Basel 2006, International Competition, Switzerland
“Retrospective: Christine Vachon and Killer Films” (screening and catalogue essay), Wexner Center
20th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, England
TransVoices, Harvard University
OVNI 2006 & Observatory Archives, (screening & purchase) Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona
Kassel Film and Video Festival, Germany
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Chicago Filmmakers, Reeling (shorts program), Illinois
The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York Video Festival
OutFest, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival
2007 Cannes Film Festival, Quinzaine des Realisateurs (Director’s Fortnight), France
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Czech Republic
Hamburg Film Festival
Zurich International Film Festival (Opening Night Film), Switzerland
Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland
Oslo International Film Festival, Norway
Stockholm International Film Festival
Viennale, Vienna Austria
BFI London Film Festival
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival, “Premieres”, Utah
“Inside / Out”, Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Toronto
Dublin International Film Festival
Seattle Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival, New York
Boston Independent Film Festival
Untitled, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2008 12th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, Puchon Korea
European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland
“Out In Africa”, South Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Gene Siskel Film Center, SAIC, Chicago
V-Tape: New Works, Oberhausen Film Festival
Athens Film Festival, Greece
University of Western Ontario
12th Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
“Queer Here, Queer Now”, Curated by John Paul Rico, V-Tape, Toronto
2009 Off-Camera 09, Krakow Independent Film Festival, Spotlight Guest, Focus on Tom Kalin
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University: ACT UP New York: Activism, Art & the AIDS Crisis
“Geoffrey Beene: Trapeze”, Phoenix Art Museum (gallery installation)
“Queer Media Culture”, Wayne State University
Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge University, England
“Talking Pictures”, Rowan University
Transat Video, Caen, France
2010 Expanding The Frame, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
University of Pennsylvania, Alice Paul Center
“Soho in Ottakring: Kick the Habit / Pfeiff Drauf!” - Ventil Rassismus, Vienna Austria
Sasketchewan FilmPool Collective, Canada
European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland
White Columns, New York: ACT UP New York: Activism, Art & the AIDS Crisis
Center For Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York
2011 Looking At Music 3, Museum of Modern Art, New York
OVNI 2011 & Observatory Archives, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona
Harvard Film Archive
Drama Queens: The Soap Opera in Experimental and Independent Film, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dallas Video Festival
Metzipatra Film Festival, (Jury and midcareer survey of my work) Brno & Prague, Czech Republic
Tom Kalin (solo screening) The Thing @ Pink Pony, New York
2012 Gran Fury: Read My Lips, 80WSE Galleries, New York University, catalog
UCLA Film Archive series on “New Queer Cinema at 20”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
An Evening With Tom Kalin and Doveman, MoMA – “Modern Mondays”, New York
Gregg Bordowitz / Doug Ischar / Tom Kalin, screening, Golden at Participant, Inc., New York
F.G./F.T., Envoy Enterprises: exhibition & screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“International Forum”, Berlin Film Festival, Germany
Left, Right, Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario / Trinity Square Video, Canada
Swoon, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Videoburo No. 5: A Few Drops, (Group show curated by Stephen Sarrazin), Paris France
Swoon & Third Known Nest, The Fringe! Festival, London
Swoon & New Queer Cinema @ 20, Provincetown International Film Festival, Massachusetts
Swoon, Queens Film Theater, Belfast Ireland
MIX 25 – “Dirty Looks Selects: The First 25 Years of MIX NYC
2013 MOCAtv, Internet video premiere of Mirror Mirror, Sublime Objective
Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scotland
Screen Academy of Scotland, Edinburgh
Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
Ten Years of the One-Minute Film Festival, Mass MoCA, Massachussetts
Ten Years of the One-Minute Film Festival, MoMA, New York
For As Against, Group Show curated by Gil Leung, Rowing Projects, London
Dirty Looks: On Location, The Center screening and panel, New York
What We Know About Penises, The Public School, Brooklyn, New York (group show)
NYC 1980s, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (group show)
2014 OutFest Los Angeles, My Silent One- screening with live performance, REDCAT, The Roy & Edna Disney/ Cal Arts Cinema
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, installation curated by Josephine Mills
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, South Brisbane
Carnegie Mellon University
Statue of Liberty, Harper Magazine on-line launch of short films from Jill Sobule’s Dottie’s Charms
Music Jill Sobule / Lyrics Jonathan Lethem / Film Tom Kalin
Alternate Endings, travelling show of 7 artists commissioned by Visual AIDS for World AIDS Day / Day Without Art; screenings include SVA Theater; The New Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem; Brooklyn Museum; Queens Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Andy Warhol Museum; Yale University; Hallwalls; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard; Edinburgh College of Art; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; NYU Abu Dhabi; Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis; University of Colorado Art Museum; Space Debris Art, Turkey and over a hundred more locations. Commissioned essays accompanied the exhibition
2015 Since You’ve Been Gone (group show curated by Nathan Lee), Magic Lantern Cinema, Providence RI
New Queer Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Gramado, Fortaleza, Brazil and other cities, touring show
Blood and the Moon: A Provocation on Yeats, The National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
Doveman & Tom Kalin, Participant, Inc. New York (installation and live performance – collaborative show)
Doveman & Tom Kalin, Performa 15 (installation and live performance)
Picture Lock: 25 Years of Film/Video Residencies, The Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
Music Videos 2, (group show) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
#AMIF2015, Tramway, LUX Scotland Artist Moving Image Festival, (group show), Scotland
2016 5th Pembe Hayat Kuirfest, (screenings in Ankara and Istanbul, master class), Turkey
Seni Burada Bekliyoruz (Aqui Te Esperemos) (group show curated by Aykan Safoğlu), Ankara, Turkey
Radiant Visions, Media Art from SAIC 1965 – Now, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Master Class & Screening, University of Illinois at Chicago
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Adams, Sam, “Slow Dance”, PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER, January 30, 2008
Adams, Sam “Watch Best Actress Julianne Moore and Best Actor Eddie Redmayne in Savage Grace”, CRITICWIRE, February 23, 2015
Als, Hilton, “Talk of the Town”, THE NEW YORKER, August 1996
Anderson, John, “Independence Day”, NEW YORK NEWSDAY, January 28, 1992
ARTFORUM, “Ashes”, Featured Video, December 1, 2014
Ansen, David, “Sundance Round Up”, NEWSWEEK, January 2008
Artner, Alan G., “I Space offers a daring must-see group show”, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, June 11, 2004
Banbury, Stephanie, “Extreme Elegance and Violence”, THE AGE, July 19, 2007
Besserglik, Bernard, “Savage Grace: Review”, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, May 25, 2007
Boyd, Don, “The Perversion of Justice”, WEEKEND LONDON GUARDIAN, London, August 16, 1992
Burston, Paul, “In From The Cold”, THE GUARDIAN, November 9, 2007
Bradshaw, Peter, “New York Doll”, THE GUARDIAN, July 11, 2008
Carr, Jay, “A Perfect Shot at Warhol’s World”, BOSTON GLOBE, May 17, 1996
Chester, Jason, “Julianne Moore and Eddie RedmaynePlay Incestuous Mother and Son”, DAILY MAIL, Feb 24, 2015
Clark, Ashley, ““Directors These Days Really Have to Understand the Business of Film”, Filmmaker, Nov 21, 2013
Clementi, James, “Activism As Art: Gran Fury Gets a NYC Retrospective”, OUT, January 31, 2012
Colucci, Emily, “Is Art Enough? Gran Fury In Perspective”, HYPERALLERGIC, February 21, 2012
Corliss, Richard, “The Short List: Savage Grace”, TIME, June 6, 2008
Crimp, Douglas, “Gran Fury: Read My Lips”, ARTFORUM, January 2012
Crimp, Douglas and Rolston, Adam AIDS Demo Graphics., Seattle: Bay Press, 1990
D’Addario, Daniel, “Watch Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne”, TIME on line, February 17, 2015
Dalton, Stephen, “Mother of All Scandals”, THE TIMES, July 2, 2008
Dargis, Manohla, “The Thrill of It All”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, September 15, 1992
Denson, G. Roger, “Day Without Art: Looking Back 25 Years”, HUFFINGTON POST, December 1, 2014
Dermody, Dennis, “2008 Best Films”, PAPER, December 2008
Dollar, Steve, “Tom Kalin Returns With A Savage Tale”, New York Sun, May 23, 2008
Dunks, Glen, “Newfest Hits New York City”, Film Experience, September 5, 2013
Edelstein, David, “Give It To Me One More Time”, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, June 2008
Ferber, Lawrence, “Swoon Still Makes Us Weak-Kneed”, NEXT MAGAZINE, September 2012
Ferdman, Veronika, “Your Weekly Movie To Do List, LA WEEKLY, February 2, 2012
Furlong, Lucinda, “AIDS Media: Counter-Representations”, Whitney Museum, New American Series, January 1989
French, Philip, “A Real Mummy’s Boy”, THE OBSERVER, July 13, 2008
Friedman, Roger, “Cannes Incest Film: French Tradition”, Fox News, May 18, 2007
Fuss, Diana Fuss Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, Routledge; 1991
Gallagher, Steve, “Souvenirs”, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE, Spring 2000
Garibay, Lisa, “Little Deaths”, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE, Spring 2008
Garner, Alex, “Revisitation Rights”, FRONTIERS LA, January 28, 2012
Gioino, Catherina, “Tribeca Film Festival 2013 – And The Band Played On Retrospective”, February 22, 2014
Gott, Ted, Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, Thames and Hudson, Australia, 1994
Grove, Marvin, “Savage Should Put Moore In Best Actress Race”, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, May 8, 2008
Heiferman, Marvin and Phillips, Lisa, Image World, Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum, 1989
Heller, Steven, “How AIDS Was Branded”, THE ATLANTIC, January 2012
Heon, Laura Steward, BILLBOARD, Art on the Road, Mass Moca Publications, MIT Press, 1999
Houser, Craig, “I, Abject”, Abject Art: Repulsion & Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum, 1993
Hillier, Jim (editor), American Independent Cinema, (Chapter on my work), BFI Publishing, 2001
Hoberman, J., “Out and Inner Mongolia”, PREMIERE MAGAZINE, October, 1992
Horrigan, Bill, “New Works”, American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles, 1988
Horrigan, Bill, “Third Known Nest”, (Catalogue essay), Private Affairs, Kunst Haus Dresden, Germany
Hunt, Christopher H., “The Non-Player”, MOVIELINE, September, 1992
Hunter, Allan, “Savage Grace”, Screen, May 20, 2007
Jahn, Pamela, “Savage Grace”, Electric Sheep Magazine, Summer 2008
James, Alison, “U.S. films fill Directors' Fortnight Cannes sidebar lineup”, VARIETY, May 3, 2007
Juhasz, Alexandra, “Swoon at 20”, MEDIA PRAXIS, December 5, 2014
Juhasz, Alexandra, “Unanticipated Alternate Endings”, MEDIA PRAXIS, February 4, 2012
Kabat, Jennifer, “Never Enough”, FRIEZE, Issue 149
Kahn, Joseph P., “Love, Murder & History”, BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, October 23, 1992
Kaufman, Anthony, “Swoon: 10 Years of Killer Films” VILLAGE VOICE, September 21, 2005
Lechner, Jack, “Once Is Not Enough”, (Round table discussion) FILMMAKER MAGAZINE, Fall, 2000
Leffler, Rebecca, “Wide range of views on Fortnight”, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, May 3, 2007
Leigh, Christian, The Silent Baroque., Salzburg, Edition Thaddaeus Ropac, 1989
Leung, Simon,Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985, Zoya Kocur (Editor): Blackwell Publishing, 2004
Lim, Dennis, “New Queer Cinema Revisited: Tom Kalin & Chris Munch”, VILLAGE VOICE, May 2002
Lupton, Ellen, MIXING MESSAGES, Graphic design in Contemporary Culture, Princeton, 1996
Massara, Kathleen, “Fad Gadget at Envoy Enterprises, Huffington Post, March 13, 2012
Maslin, Janet, “A New Vision of Leopold and Loeb”, NEW YORK TIMES, March 27, 1992
McClellan, Jim, “Hollywood Eats Its Young”, THE FACE, Number 63, December 1993
Mesic, Penelope, “The Outsiders”, CHICAGO MAGAZINE, November 1992
Meyer, Richard, Outlaw Representation: Censorship & Homosexuality in 20th American Art, Oxford University Press
Meza, Ed, “Berlin’s Forum Looks Back”, VARIETY, January 26, 2012
Morgenstern, Hans, “Rare Andy Warhol Films During Art Basel”, MIAMI NEW TIMES, November 19, 2014
Mondello, Bob, “Hollywood’s History of Putting Gay Rights On Trial”, NPR, March 27, 2013
Myles, Eileen, “Lest We Forget”, ARTFORUM, March 2010
Nelson, Rob, “Savage Love”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, May 23, 2007
Nickas, Bob, “Incest: The Love and Brutality That Dare Not Speak Its Name”, VICE, February 23, 2015
Norwich, William, “Norwich Notes: Savage Grace”, VOGUE, March 2008
Nunokawa, Jeff, “All The Sad Young Men”, AIDS And The Work of Mourning, Routledge Press, 1991
O. Brien, Mark Reimaging America, the arts of social change, New Society Publishers, 1990
O’Hehir, Andrew, “My Kids Think I Work In A Trailer”, SALON, August 1, 2000
Olsen, Mark, “Savage Grace”, LOS ANGELES TIMES, June 13, 2008
Oswald, Alina, “Alternate Endings”, A&U America’s Arts Magazine, December 14, 2014
Peitzman, Louis “Remember When Eddie Redmayne..”, BUZZFEED, January 15, 2013
Piepenburg, Erik, “Keepers of the Gay Film Legacy”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 18, 2012
Peck, Dale, “Of Sons, Lovers, And Twisted Mothers, OUT MAGAZINE, April 2008
Performa 15, “Behind The Scenes: Tom Kalin & Doveman”, Performa Magazine, October 21, 2015
Pollack, Barbara, “Document, Protest, Memorial: AIDS In The Art World, ArtNews, May 2014
Powers, John, “Fierce Creature”, VOGUE, July, 2008
Reed, Rex, “Moore, Moore, Moore” THE NEW YORK OBSERVER, May 30, 2008
Rich, B. Ruby, “New Queer Cinema”, SIGHT AND SOUND & THE VILLAGE VOICE, March, 1992
Romney, Jonathan, “Killer Queens”, TIME OUT LONDON, October, 1992
Sandler, Irving, Art of the Postmodern Era, Westview Press, 1997
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Express Yourself”, THE NEW YORKER, February 9, 2004
Schwendener, Martha, “When Acting Up Meant Arting Up”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 2, 2012
Setoodeh, Ramin, “How Eddie Redmayne Became Stephen Hawking”, VARIETY, October 28, 2014
Selavy, Virginie, “Interview: Tom Kalin”, ELECTRIC SHEEP MAGAZINE, Summer 2008
Shaw, Annie, “Double Trouble in New York: Two Books Examine the City’s Activist Culture”, FRIEZE DAILY EDITION, October 17, 2014
Smith, Nigel, “The 16 Indies to Watch on VOD This September”, INDIEWIRE, September 12, 2012
Tartaglione-Vialette, Nancy, “Cannes Directors Fortnight” , SCREEN, May 3, 2007
Taubin, Amy, “If It’s Tuesday...” THE VILLAGE VOICE, October 17, 1989
Taubin, Amy, “Shooting Andy Warhol: Valerie Lives!” THE VILLAGE VOICE, May 9, 1996
Thomson, David, “Biographical Dictionary of Film #42: Tom Kalin”, THE GUARDIAN, June 27, 2008
Tormollan, Carole, “John Greyson/Tom Kalin/Barbara Hammer” NEW ART EXAMINER, December, 1987
Travers, Peter, “Sundance Highlights 2008”, Rolling Stone, January 2008
Treleaven, Scott, “Escape Velocity: Andy Fabo + Tom Kalin”, February 27, 1997
Treichler, Paula A., “Seduced and Terrorized: AIDS & Network Television” ARTFORUM 28
Valentini, Valentina, Allo Specchio, Lithos Editrice, 1998
Walters, Ben, “Savage Grace”, TIME OUT, July 10, 2008
Waters, John, “Film: Best of 2008”, ARTFORUM, December 2008
Watney, Simon Imagine Hope: AIDS and Gay Identity, Routledge, 2000
Worley, Sam, “Will The 80s Ever End?” Chicago Reader, January 2012
Wye, Deborah, Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, The Museum of Modern Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996
SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITING
2015 “Tom Kalin Talks Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno and Laura Nix’s The Yes Men Are Revolting ”, The Talkhouse
2015 “Tom Kalin Talks Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent ”, The Talkhouse
2015 “Tom Kalin Talks Rupert Goold’s True Story ”, The Talkhouse
2014 “Tom Kalin Talks Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces Of January”, The Talkhouse
2014 “Tom Kalin Talks Alain Resnais’ Life Of Riley”, The Talkhouse
2011 “Nightclubbing”, Inside/Out - The Museum of Modern Art / P.S. 1
2009 Preface: “The Sky Is Falling”, 100 American Independent Films, British Film Institute, edited by Jason Wood
2000 “Heads” (Essay for solo show of paintings by Lisa Erf in Chicago)
“The Stink of Art” (Essay on John Waters’ Retrospective, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1998 “Dear Hilton” (Essay in book Les Gays Savoirs Georges Pompidou Centre) Paris
1991-98 Various Exhibition Reviews, ArtForum (Including Joan Wallace, John Tower, Barbara Bloom)
1994 “States of Impermanence” (Essay in book American Visions: Artistic & Cultural Identity, ACA Books)
1993 “She Wanted Her Own Mouth, Teeth Intact” (Monograph on artist Marlene McCarty, Metro Pictures)
1992 “The Rectangle is A Painting” (Monograph on artist Bruno Jakob, Swiss Institute)
“Flesh Histories” (Essay in book A Leap In The Dark, Vehicule Press, Artextes Editions
“No Way Out”, Us: The Entertainment Magazine, Number 175, August 1992
1991 “Prodigal Stories: AIDS and Family” Aperture, Issue 121
“Pussy Power” (Column on Madonna) ArtForum, September 1991
“Gender Performance” (Editor of Special Issue) Movement Research Journal, September 1991
Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America, 1950-1990, Rizzoli International
1988-91 “Theater Cameos”/”Just Blow” (and other short reviews), The Village Voice, 12/19/89 and 12/6/88
1990 How Do I Look, (Book from conference; I was in collective that edited and wrote introduction) Bay Press
“Slant: Tom Kalin on Queer Nation (Column) ArtForum, November 1990
“Gran Fury” (Roundtable Discussion), Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art & Culture, MIT Press
1989 “Identity Crisis” The Independent, January/February 1989, New York
1988 “Blutkitt (Blood Cement)” Whitewalls, Winter, 1988, Chicago
“The Whole World Is Still Watching” (Project & Essay), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
1987 “They are lost to vision altogether” P-Form, November, 1987, Chicago
“Notes on Fashion” P-Form, September, 1987, Chicago
“La Vida Loca: The Crazy Life” (Performance Review) New Art Examiner, June, 1987, Chicago
“The Martha (A Possible Opera)” (Performance Review) New Art Examiner, March, 1987, Chicago