ジェス キャレド جيس خالد
Jes Kalled is a multidisciplinary artist presently based in Tokyo, 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 (with paint and text), video, and audio, A year of forgetting the pines explored the artist’s Lebanese roots, the loss of Arabic language in her family, and fragments of self in relationships with people and place.
Kalled is the writer and creator of Swallow, a documentation project that plays with memory, and location. Swallow takes the form of a Substack bi-monthly newsletter that is currently in a Tokyo chapter. Read on here.
Recent Press & Performances
Tokyo Poetry Journal, Volume 14: Eros - Live Painting & Poetry reading - Tokyo Weekender
8am Coffee With Jes Kalled — Tokyo Weekender
Take me home - Tokyo Love Hotels
A year of forgetting the pines — Tokyo Weekender
Contact for inquires
Photo by Andrew Bibee
Roppongi Day and Night - Published in Metropolis Magazine