Bio

Cali Thornhill DeWitt is a multidisciplinary artist and eclectic instigator. He runs the independent record label and publishing house Teenage Teardrops, together with his wife Jenna Thornhill Dewitt (a frequent collaborator). Following in traditions of Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Ed Ruscha, Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s works, zines, artist books, prints, photographs, music videos and sweatshirts often pair provocative imagery culled from the internet with word plays lifted from news headlines, spam mail, advertising slogans, street lingo, mundane phrases and a myriad of other influences. Inspired by the direct, quickly understood images that flood today’s media, especially social media, he has paired bouquets of roses with the words “TIME RUNS OUT or the words “GLORY HOLE” with images of bullet holes. Thornhill DeWitt’s unexpected juxtapositions offer a social critique using the universally understood language of mass communication.

CV

Born 1973 in Vancouver Island, Canada
Lives and Works in Los Angeles


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Cali Dewitt-Live Forever 2, HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, Berlin Germany

2021
Cali Dewitt- Live Forever (2010 - 2020), HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, los Angeles, USA

2020
TOKYO OLYMPICS, Gallery COMMON, Tokyo, Japan

2019
WAR SONG, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018
Global Warming, Muddguts, New York, USA
Going To California, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2017
Safe Words, Karma International, Los Angeles, USA

2016
29 Flags, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2015

Busted On The Hot Spots, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
This Magic Moment, Farewell Books, Austin, USA
Sex Comedy, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
Night Light, Art Central, Hong Kong

2014
It’s Hard To Be A Stand Up Guy In A World Of Sit Down People, Big Love, Tokyo, Japan
24 Hour Fantasy Reality w/ Audrey Wollen, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Graveyard, Muddguts, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2013
Los Angeles Times, Big Love, Tokyo, Japan
War News, with Jenna Thornhill, Good Press, Glasgow, UK

2012
This Natural World, Family, Los Angeles, CA, USA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020
MINE IV, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018
Good Taste, 393 NYC, 393 Broadway, New York, US

2017
Tomorrow’s Man, Jack Pierson Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Safe Words, Karma International, Los Angeles, US

2016
The Neon Wilderness: Voices from Los Angeles, The Conversation, Berlin, DE
Raw Power, Castor Gallery, New York, US
Lay Down And Let It Blow Through You, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Take Me Down, BBQLA, Los Angeles, US

2015
Under Heavy Manners, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2019
WAR SONG (exhibition catalogue), published by Trojan Horse Press/V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018
Let Me Crash Here For A Moment, Kanye West Saint Pablo Tour, published by Trojan Horse Press / V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017
Manhattan, published by Trojan Horse Press / V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
First Show, self-published, Los Angeles, US
Violent Music, New York, USA
29 Flags(book), published by At Last Books, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016
29 Flags (exhibition catalogue), published by Trojan Horse Press / V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Over The Volcano, published by Corpo Earth Burglar Press, New York, US

2015
New Rose In Town, Published by Hesse Press, Los Angeles, US
The Magic Moment, Published by Farewell Books, Austin, Texas, US
Immortal Riddim, with Alexis Ross, Published by Heavytime Books, Australia
Hot Fire, with Misha Hollenbach, Published by Heavytime Books, Australia

2014
Graveyard, Published by And Press, New York, US

2013
White Girl, Published by MTHM Books, Copenhagen, Denmark


SELECTED ART FAIRS

2018

New York Art Book Fair, Long Island City, New York, US

2016

Art Herning, group presentation, V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark
LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, California, US
New York Art Book Fair, Long Island City, New York, US

2015
LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, California, US
New York Art Book Fair, Long Island City, New York, US
Art Cologne, collaboration between V1 Gallery (DK) and The Hole (NYC), Cologne, Germany
VOLTA11, group presentation, V1 Gallery (DK), Basel, Switzerland

2014
LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, California, US
New York Art Book Fair, Long Island City, New York, US
New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), solo presentation, Bill Brady Gallery (US), Miami Beach, Florida, US  

2013

LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, California, US
New York Art Book Fair, Long Island City, New York, US


SELECTED COLLABORATIONS

Varg, album artworks
Kanye West, ongoing ceage (films, album artworks)
A Four Labs
Some Ware with Brendan Fowler
Neighborhood, collection
Anna Nicole Smith, billboard project with Guess

Selected Works
INHABITANTS. 2019
DIGITAL FINE ART PRINT AND ACRYLICS ON CANVAS
183 CM (DIA)
WHITE FEAR. 2019
DIGITAL FINE ART PRINT AND ACRYLICS ON CANVAS
152 CM (DIA)
EXPLODE. 2019
DIGITAL FINE ART PRINT AND ACRYLICS ON CANVAS
183 X 175 CM
WAR SONG. 2019
INSTALLATION VIEW
V1 GALLERY
HOT SPIT. 2019
DIGITAL FINE ART PRINT AND ACRYLICS ON CANVAS
122 X 92 CM
LAST EXIT. 2019
DIGITAL FINE ART PRINT AND ACRYLICS ON CANVAS
122 X 92 CM
WAR SONG. 2019
INSTALLATION VIEW
V1 GALLERY
29 FLAGS. 2016
INSTALLATION VIEW
EIGHTEEN
29 FLAGS. 2016
INSTALLATION VIEW
EIGHTEEN
HATE CRIME (BLACK). 2017
VINYL ON CORRUGATED PLASTIC
61 X 46 CM
EARTH FIRST. 2016
VINYL ON CORRUGATED PLASTIC
61 X 46 CM
PUBLIC HANGING ETC. 2015
INSTALLATION VIEW
V1 GALLERY

Store

If These Sexually… 2015

Cali Thornhill Dewitt

If These Sexually… 2015

€140
Filth Mug. 2018

Cali Thornhill Dewitt

Filth Mug. 2018

€10
When The Cities… 2015

Cali Thornhill Dewitt

When The Cities… 2015

€140
29 Flags (Exhibition Catalogue). 2016

Cali Thornhill Dewitt

29 Flags (Exhibition Catalogue). 2016

€25