TRENT CALL
Trent Call was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Graduated from the University of Utah in 2004 with a BFA. He has been publishing the zine, Swinj, since 1998.
He is actively involved in a diversity of ongoing projects. Trent’s work combines formal academic painting with comics, graffiti, and popular culture. He currently works out of CAPTAIN CAPTAIN Studios in beautiful downtown Salt Lake City.
My interests range from daily phenomena, odd occurrences, history, myth, documentation of the moment, color relationship, the early American west, media culture, symmetry and sequence in pattern, and 1930′s comics & animation. I frequently work with, screen printing, oil painting, latex paint, ballpoint pen, lead, collage, and spraypaint which allows a fresh and honest translation of my interests and ideas.
Artist Statement
I believe in process, spontaneity, and action. My style and interests are varied, as are the mediums I use. The medium foresees the style. The interest suggests the medium. My work combines formal academic painting and drawing with a strong interest in graffiti, comics, graphics, and pattern. -Trent Call
Education
2004 – BFA, University of Utah
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 February – Uconoclasts: Literary Series Rire-Woodbury Theater
2009 September – 337 Art Truck
2009 March – Cash FICE
2008 November – it’s a flewk Downtown Library Gallery
2007 November – Pinup vs. Landscape Ken Sanders Rare Books
2007 April – KA-BOOM Don Brady Drive-Thru Gallery
2000 July – Cup of Joe
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 June – Liminal Print Exchange Kayo Gallery
2010 June – 24 Hour Show Kayo Gallery
2010 June – Contemporary Master’s Salt Lake Art Center
2009 April – Deseret: D. Christofferson & T. Call Kayo Gallery
2009 March – Everything but the Kitchen Sync La Luz de Jesus Gallery, LA
2008 December – Interiors Ririe-Woodbury Theater
2008 October – Utah ’08 Painting and Sculpture Rio Gallery
2008 August – Secret print exchange Kayo Gallery
2008 August – Infamous Signed & Numbered
2008 June – Present Tense Salt Lake Art Center
2008 March – Everything but the Kitchen Sync La Luz de Jesus Gallery, LA
2008 February – Round Four Kayo Gallery
2008 February – State Wide Comp Bountiful/Davis Art Center
2007 November – Pin-up vs Landscape Ken Sanders Rare Books
2007 September – Predilection Kayo Gallery
2007 September – Utah State Fair Utah Fair Grounds
2007 August – Small Works Kayo Gallery
2007 August – Partners Exhibition Art Access Gallery
2007 May – 337 Project 337 Building
2007 March – Round Three Kayo Gallery
2007 February – Drawing Show Utah Arts Festival Gallery
2006 November – Trifecta Saltgrass Press
2006 September – Swinj #6 Release Party Ken Sanders Rare Books
2006 May – Constructing the Self The Gallery at Library Square
2006 April – 300 Plates Art Access
2006 April – Land of Milk and Honey Ken Sanders Rare Books
2006 February – Round Two Kayo Gallery
2006 February – Chimera SLC Arts Council Rio Gallery
2005 November – Uncanny Unknown Gallery
2005 August – Anatomy of an Urban Art Form Kayo Gallery
2005 July – Inadvertently Kayo Gallery
2005 April – Cein Watson & Trent Call Artisan Gallery
2005 February – Round One Kayo Gallery
2005 February – Touring Show SLC Arts Council
2004 July – Misplaced Ken Sanders Rare Books
2004 June – Displaced Walk of Shame Gallery
2004 April – Graduate Show William Fine Art Gallery
2004 January – Zak Jensen vs Trent Call Walk of Shame Studio
2003 December – Citizen Camilla’s Warehouse
2003 October – Day of the Dead Trasa Urban Arts Collective
2002 February – Peep Show Kilby Court Gallery
2001 July – Axiom Kilby Court Gallery
Awards
2010 Best Painting Exhibition / City Weekly Arty’s
2009 Best Mad Man / City Weekly Arty’s
2009 Invited Artist / Utah Arts Festival
2008 Best Painter / City Weekly Arty’s
2006 Best Zine / City Weekly Arty’s
2006 Invited Artist / Utah Arts Festival
2005 Main St. Public Art / Kiosk Project
2005 Traveling Exhibition / The Utah 2005: Painting & Sculpture
2005 2nd Place / A Carbon Based Mistake Grant
2004 2nd Place / Helper Plein-Air Competition
Publications
2009 May – Painters of Utah’s Canyons and Deserts
2008 October – New American Paintings No.78
2008 April – Artist Profile / Juxtapoz Magazine No.87
2008 September – Feature in Salt Lake Tribune
2006 November – True Calling / SLC City Weekly
2005 November – Salt Lake Tribune
Teaching Experience
Instructor for the ARTSTART program at Salt Lake Art Center
(09, 2005) (01, 03, 11, 2006)
Instructor for workshop at Rowland Hall St. Marks
(01, 04, 2004) (01, 10, 2005) (10, 2006) (10, 2007)
Collections
Park City Mountain Resort
MS Foundation
Tolchock Trio
Great Garb
Clive Bags
Stoneground Pizza
Kilby Court
Calls Design
Microcosm Publishing
Bottlerocket MFG.
Axiom Design
Sysco Foods
Spy Hop Productions
RHSM School
Patagonia Clothing
Slug Magazine
SLC Corporation
Utah Symphony & Opera
Soundco. Records
LOVE Communications
Ken Sanders Rare Books
Design Farm
the Future of the Ghost
Grant Thornton
Newsweek
Eagle Twin
Utah Arts Festival
Skull Candy
Skylar Nielsen Photography
Water Box
Uinta Brewing Co.