Jonathan Calm
2027 Eureka Fellow
Photo by Jeannie Simms
Jonathan Calm is a photographer and Associate Professor of Photography at Stanford University whose work explores community, mobility, memory, and the layered histories inscribed in American landscapes. He often works at the intersection of documentary photography, installation, and video.
His work has been presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Tate Britain, the Reina Sofia Museum, ICA Boston, Apple Park, and the Toledo Museum of Art, and is held in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has received awards and residencies, including an Art Matters Grant, the Larry Sultan Photography Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center.
Currently, Calm is preparing the exhibition To Wherever, Forever: Sites of Passage and Archives of Absence at the de Saisset Museum and the Dowd Gallery at Santa Clara University, opening in early 2026. His ongoing series, including The Green Book, Sunset Towns, and Drowned Towns, investigates the intersections of erasure, resilience, and belonging across American geographies.
Calm is represented by Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco and lives and works in Palo Alto.
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