ジェス キャレド جيس خالد
Jes Kalled is a multidisciplinary artist presently based in New Hampshire after a decade of living in Japan. Born and raised in New Hampshire, Kalled studied Film in Prague, Czech Republic at FAMU, and relocated to Japan to pursue art and language after graduating from Smith College with a BA in Film Studies and Dance.
The artist works across the mediums of writing, photography, painting, dance, and film. Her work has been published in Metropolis Magazine, Tokyo Weekender, Savvy Tokyo, Japan Objects, and Tokyo Poetry Journal.
In June 2023, she held a solo exhibition titled, A year of forgetting the pines, at Gallery Paradiso in Yoyogi Uehara. Through oil paintings, photography, video, and audio, A year of forgetting the pines explored the artist’s Lebanese roots, the loss of Arabic language in her family, and the leftover fragments of self in our relationships with people and place.
SWALLOW
Kalled is the writer and creator of Swallow, an ongoing documentation project that navigates the intersection of “self” and “place.”
PRESS
Tokyo Poetry Journal, Volume 14: Eros, Live Painting & Poetry reading — Tokyo Weekender
8am Coffee With Jes Kalled — Tokyo Weekender
A year of forgetting the pines — Tokyo Weekender
CONTACT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Everything must go / 節目, Gallery Paradiso, Tokyo
2023 A year of forgetting the pines, Gallery Paradiso, Tokyo
2021 Alone at a party, my bedroom, Tokyo
2017 San ten go, BIRD, Sendai, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Roses and Castles, INSPIRATION CULT BAR & GALLERY, Tokyo
2018 PINK, Ultra Super New Gallery, Tokyo
LIVE PAINTING PERFORMANCES & POETRY READINGS
2022 1 Oak, Tokyo
2022 Roppongi, Tokyo
2023 Gallery Paradiso, Tokyo
2023 1 Oak, Tokyo
2023 Robin Club for Tokyo Love Hotels, Tokyo
2023 Tokyo Poetry Journal, Tokyo (Painting & Poetry)
2024 my bedroom, Tokyo