Jonathan Calm
Jonathan Calm (born 1971) is an American visual artist in the media of photography and video. Early life and education. Calm was born in New York. He received his BFA from Montclair State University in 1997 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2000. Career. Calm's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, and written about in many publications. In 2008 he was the recipient of an Art Matters grant. Since 2009, Calm has been dividing his time between his native New York and Boston, where he teaches and is director of the Senior Thesis  Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Work. Jonathan Calm's photo and video work explores connections with the aesthetics of sculpture, documentary journalism, and architecture. The architectural development of public housing and its socio-cultural, historical and geopolitical impact on local and global urban communities constitutes a major theme in his art. Calm was one of the featured artists in the Renaissance Society of Chicago's 2008 Black Is, Black Ain't exhibition, which showcased racially related themes of what has been called Post-Blackness. Calm participated in the 2015 Pulse New York Art Fair