ROSEGALLERY is pleased to present a selection of works by Jo Ann Callis at Photo London 2026, featuring images drawn from three of the artist's celebrated series: Early Color, Dish Trick, and Decor. Together, the works offer an intimate cross-section of Callis's enduring preoccupations: the psychological weight of domestic space, the tension between desire and unease, and the transformative power of the everyday object.

Across all three series, Callis operates as both artist and architect of her images, designing and constructing the props, sets, and environments that appear within them. Her photographs are never discovered but always made, staged with the precision of a painter and the psychological acuity of an artist deeply attuned to the charged, often unsettling life of objects and interiors.

Jo Ann Callis was born in Cincinnati, OH and relocated to Los Angeles in 1961. She enrolled at UCLA in 1970 where she began taking classes with Robert Heinecken, among other prominent artists. She started teaching at CalArts in 1976 and remains a faculty member of the School of Art’s Program in Photography and Media. She has continued to photograph, draw, and paint, and her work has been widely exhibited in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and many others. In 2009 a retrospective of her work, Woman Twirling, was presented by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Callis has received three NEA Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards and prizes.