Caleb Hammond

is a creator of performance and visual art based in New York City. He is a video, sound, photographic and installation artist, an actor and director whose work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally. Places Hammond has performed / directed /exhibited include: The Kitchen, PS122, TSA Gallery, The Public, Highways: LA, The ICA: Boston, The New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas, The National Theater of Hungary, Maison des Arts: Paris, Nishida Art Museum: Japan, Daegu Art Factory: South Korea, Norte Dance Festival: Portugal, Satellite Art Fair: Miami. Hammond has performed in films and theater directed by Hal Hartley, John Jesurun, Jay Scheib and Bara Jichova. In his original installations, videos, performances and studio work Hammond employs techniques of multiple exposure and layering to create fragmented, layered imagery and environments that shift and slip, to create surprising, multiplisitc viewer experiences. His work considers the scale and shape of the spaces we live within. It blurs interior and exterior, significant and innocuous events, journeys large and small, empty spaces and empty time. He has taught theater and art at The New School, Hartford Art School, Carnegie Mellon University, SUNY Purchase and Shanghai Theater Academy’s Winter Institute.  He is currently a lecturer in Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Image from Jay Scheib’s Bellona, Destroyer of Cities