Ingrid Calame was born on 1965 and is an American artist based in Los Angeles, known for her abstract, map-like paintings inspired by human detritus.
12 Facts About Ingrid Calame
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Ingrid Calame's works are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland, as well as many private collections.
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Ingrid Calame grew up in Westchester County, where her mother was a physical therapist and her father taught physical education.
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Ingrid Calame graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase and later, a Master of Fine Arts in art and film from the California Institute of the Arts.
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Shortly after earning her MFA in 1996, Calame began a series of paintings based on the accidental spills on her studio floor.
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In creating the series, Ingrid Calame re-presented spontaneous spills as deliberately created art; this technique became a cornerstone of Ingrid Calame's artistic process going forward.
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Ingrid Calame increasingly chose to concentrate her artistic work on exhibiting "the ever-presence of our mortality and the almost equally human need to hide or not to see it," through tracing stains on streets and the floors of public spaces.
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In 2007, Ingrid Calame was invited to produce a site-specific commission at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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In 2008, Ingrid Calame became the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's first artist-in-residence.
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Ingrid Calame's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Kunstverein Hannover, in Germany.
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Ingrid Calame's artwork is incorporated into the Leimert Park station of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system.
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Ingrid Calame's works are often boldly-colored, multi-layered abstractions derived from human detritus, stains, and graffiti.