Caleb Charland
Growing up in rural Maine, Charland spent much of his childhood helping his father renovate their family home. This work instilled in Charland an awareness of the potential use of materials and the ability to fabricate his visions. Charland earned a BFA in photography, with departmental honors, from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2004, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as a Trustees Fellow, in 2010, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. In 2016 Charland received the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in photography.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, notably in solo shows at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon (2010), Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York (2011), and Gallery Kayafas, Boston (2013). He has been included in dozens of group shows including at ClampArt, New York (2012), Brancolini Grimaldi, London (2012), and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln MA (2012, 2020). During the summer of 2014, Charland’s work was part of a group show, curated by Katherine Ware, at the New Mexico Museum of Art; in the summer of 2015, Charland was included in a group show entitled “Take One: Contemporary Photographs,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Also in 2015, Charland was a featured speaker at the f295 Symposium in Pittsburgh, PA. His work is represented in several major collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Progressive Collection, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and he is featured regularly in literary publications.
Charland has received both print and web press, including coverage in The New Yorker, Collector Daily, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. Charland currently lives and works in Maine.
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The Surface of Hopkins Pond in a Rain Storm, Inverted to Print the Sky, Mariaville, Maine, Diptych #4
The Surface of Hopkins Pond, Inverted to Print the Sky, Mariaville, Maine, Diptych #6
Attempting to paddle straight at the sun three times, Each trip filtered as red green and blue #1, 2018
The Surface of Hopkins Pond, Inverted to Print the Sky #12, Mariaville, Maine
Double Index with Sphere #2402, 2016
Theory of Shadows, Expanding Cube #2403, 2016
Moon Phase #1410, 2015
Penumbra #2402, 2015
The Sun Setting Three Times Over Hopkins Pond, Summer 2018
110.41.114, 2018
Candle Shadow #1609, 2015
Candle Shadow #87, 2015
Artifact #1601, 2014
119.120.118, 2018
Pendulum with Candle #14403, 2014
Attempting to Paddle Straight at the Moon, 2010
Pouring Light #7, 2016
Fruit Battery Solar System, 2014
Apple Tree with Chandelier, 2013
Kettle with Ping Pong Ball, 2010
Bow and Arrow, 2010
Toy Car with Sparkler, 2008
54.60.43, 2018
Three Black and White Photograms Filtered to Capture The Red, Green, and Blue Light From a Prism #1
The Surface of Echo Lake Inverted to Print the Sky #1, Acadia National Park
The Surface of Hopkins Pond Inverted to Print the Sky #8, Mariaville, Maine
The Surface of Hopkins Pond Inverted to Print the Sky #11, Mariaville, Maine
The Surface of Hopkins Pond, Inverted to Print the Sky #12, Mariaville, Maine
The Surface of Hopkins Pond in a Rain Storm, Inverted to Print the Sky, Mariaville, Maine, Diptych #4
Candle Shadow #1609, 2015
Candle Shadow #87, 2015
Candle Shadow #1411, 2015
Chance Arrangement with Circles and Gravity #1603, 2015
Candle Shadow #1604, 2015
Chance Arrangement with Circles and Gravity #1604, 2015
Penumbra #712, 2015
Chance Arrangement with Circles and Gravity #5, 2015
Penumbra #2402, 2015
Attempting to Paddle Straight at the Moon, 2010
Beet Field Battery, LaJoie Growers LLC, Van Buren, Maine, 2013
Pouring Light #7, 2016
Two Planes, 2014
Table with Mylar and Flashlight, 2009
Fruit Battery Solar System, 2014
Apple Tree with Chandelier, 2013
Camera Place on My Chest While Lying on the Ground at Night for More Than Two Hours, 2015
Battery with Hanging Apples, 2013
Potato Power, LaJoie Growers LLC, Van Buren, Maine, 2012
Garage with Organic Batteries, 2011
Two Lamps, Hope, Maine, 2013
Electricity from a Ring of Apples, 2013
Paddling Toward a Single Point After Sunset, 2014
Bouncing Penlight, 2008
Candle with Gold Frame, 2010
Kettle with Ping Pong Ball, 2010
Toy Car with Sparkler, 2008
Turn Table With Candle, 2010
Balloon, 2010
Bow and Arrow, 2010
Burned Match, 2008
Faucet with Oil and Water, 2007
Match Field, 2005
Ten Seconds in Oil and Water, 2007
Before and After Burn, 2010