(b. 1969, Doylestown, PA) holds an MFA in New Genres from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and is a Fulbright Scholar (Nepal). He has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Long Story Short, New York, NY; Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; among others. Group shows include Weather Report at the Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT, Special Relationships at the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; FALA COISA at Carpintaria by Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Arturo Bandini at Ballroom Marfa, TX. Public Art presentations by Callaghan include Social Block at Flatiron Plaza in New York City, as part of Armory Off-Site, 2021, and MAST, a collaboration with Daveed Kapoor at Current LA: Public Art Biennale, Los Angeles, 2016. His work has been written about in publications including Art & Object, Hyperallergic, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Interview Magazine, LA Weekly, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Callaghan lives and works in Los Angeles.
