Justin Clifford Rhody (b. 1984, Flint MI)
Lives and works in New Mexico
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Flea Market Finds, Santa Fe Public Library, Santa Fe NM
2018
Ten Photographs from Cambodia, Huffin Studios, Oakland CA
Slo-Mo, Etiquette, Santa Fe NM
2017
Borrowed Dreams, Naming Gallery, Oakland CA
2016
Response Ability, Radical Abacus, Santa Fe NM
2015
Negative Leather, ListenHear Gallery, Indianapolis IN
The First Morning of the Earth, The Ladybug House, San Francisco CA
2014
Recent Work, MOCO Gallery, Oakland CA
2013
The Problem With Men, Space Camp Micro Gallery, Indianapolis IN
2012
The World is a Wedding, Skylab Gallery, Columbus OH
2010
Bad Buddhist: there's always someone in the next room, moving things around, Clawfoot Gallery, Lincoln NE
The Digital Effort, Boxcar Books, Bloomington IN
2009
Behind My Back Rests An Empty Chair; all i care about is my job and my girlfriend, Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast ME
2008
I'm An American Band, The Hospital, Bloomington IN
2007
I Just Don't Want To Go To Jail, Boxcar Books, Bloomington IN
Fingers Are Intentional, Sweet Hickory Gallery, Bloomington IN
Group Exhibitions
2021
Re-Centering: Social Structures, SFAI, Santa Fe NM
2020
Analogica Film Festival, Bolzano Italy
ATA Gallery, San Francisco CA
2019
Silk Purse / Sow's Ear, Santa Fe Arts Commission Community Gallery
2018
Summer Show, Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Free Range, London England (curated by Pylot Magazine)
2017
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland CA
Four Elements (curated by Marina Trancoso), online exhibition, Float Photo Magazine
We Are The Tablecloth (with Erin Allen, Abigail Smith, Stephanie Lister & anonymous), Huffin Studios, Oakland CA
Post-Prescence, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco CA
2016
Cold Summer (curated by Peter Shear), The Provincial, Kaleva MI
Soma Daze, Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast ME
Farewell, Ladybug House, San Francisco CA
2015
#WORKinPROGRESS (curated by Elizabeth Renstrom), ROOT Studios, Brooklyn NYC
Night Light, SOMArts, San Francisco CA
2014
LoBot Gallery, Oakland CA
Roxie Theater, San Francisco CA
Fluorescent Gallery, Bloomington IN
Skylab Gallery, Columbus OH
Lucky Creation, Brooklyn NY
2013
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA
Black Hole Cinematheque, Oakland CA
The Cruise (with Christopher Stanton), Blueline Gallery, Bloomington IN
Superchief Gallery, New York NY
2012
Feelings 3 (with Peter Shear), The Sound Workshop, Bloomington IN
Curating Contemporary, online
Space Camp MicroGallery, Indianapolis IN
2011
Feelings 2 (with Peter Shear), Dreamland Theater, Ypsilanti MI
Paper Crane Gallery, Bloomington IN
Space 101, Bloomington IN
2010
Feelings (with Peter Shear), The Hospital, Bloomington IN
The Hospital, Bloomington IN
2009
Aarhus Gallery, Belfast ME
2008
CooKout II, 804 S. Rogers St., Bloomington IN
2007
CooKout, 804 S. Rogers St., Bloomington IN
Residencies
2021: Alchemy Arts Center, San Juan Island WA
2020: Vital Spaces, Santa Fe NM
2018: Latitude, Chicago IL
2015: Center for New Music, San Francisco CA (Audio-visual programming series)
Curatorial
2021, May
Perfect Memory, NIAD Art Center, Richmond CA
2021 - present
No Name Cinema, bi-monthly film streaming series
2018, Nov-Dec
White Leaves Artist Residency 1st Annual Group Show, Northern New Mexico College of El Rito and Etiquette, Santa Fe NM
2016, Jan-Feb
Charles Gatewood: Vintage Photographs & Contemporary Collages, Ladybug House, San Francisco CA
2013 - 2018
Vernacular Visions, 35mm found photo slideshow series
Select Books & Publications
2021
Move Outs, VHS, 20 minutes, edition of 50 copies, PHYSICAL Books & Media
Hepatitis (B) Youth, VHS, 30 minutes, edition of 50 copies, PHYSICAL Books & Media
(forthcoming) Salad Days and Salad Nights, photographs by Jeremy Hogan edited by Rhody, 50 pages
(forthcoming) Faces of Advertising, coil-bound artist's book, 24 pages
(forthcoming) A Horse With A Name (re-worked second presing), Rebel Hands Press
(forthcoming) Old Waterfall, (with collagist Abigail Smith), 12 pg artist's book, saddle-stitch binding
(forthcoming) Flea Market Finds, 32 page photobook, perfect bound
2020
easy to learn hard to forget / Zora, VHS, 20 minutes, edition of 20 copies, PHYSICAL Books & Media
Only Chance Is Fair postcard set, edition of 50 copies, Physical Books & Media
Balam Magazine (Argentina), Issue #6, 192 pages, stitch bound softcover artist's book
Indochina Soundscraps, cassette/digital release of field recordings by Abigail Smith edited and mixed by Rhody, Eh? Audio Repository
2018
Slo-Mo, Issue 7, Self-published electrophotographic zine
2017
Alone Together, (with collagist Abigail Smith), 12 pg artist's book, saddle-stitch binding, Self-published
A Horse With A Name, 68 pg paperback book, perfect binding, Rebel Hands Press
Slow Boat To China, (with collagist Abigail Smith), 12 pg artist's book, saddle-stitch binding, Self-published
Married to America, 55 pg color photobook, softcover, perfect binding, Hidden Eye Press
2016
Slo-Mo, Issue 6, self-published electrophotographic zine
Vernacular Visions: collected flyers 2013-2016, 68 pg offset printed, Degenerate Ephemera
December 21st, 2012: Chichicastenango, 48 pg color photobook, softcover, perfect binding, Mirro Editions
2015
Capricious Magazine, Volume 2 Issue 16, 216 page hardcover book
Zona Urbana, 114 page color monograph, Mirro Editions
2012
Sliding Glass Door, 68 page color photobook, Bathetic Records
2011
Slo-Mo illustrated #5, 48 pages, self-published
Slo-Mo illustrated #4, 96 pages, self-published
2010
Slo-Mo illustrated #3, 96 pages, self-published
2009
"There's Nothing You Can Do, I Don't Want Any Help", 24 pages, self-published
Slo-Mo illustrated #2, 96 pages, self-published
2008
Slo-Mo illustrated #1, 96 pages, self-published
2006
Texturized Focus (control), 96 page color photobook, self-published
Select Talks & Presentations
2021
NIAD Art Center, Richmond CA
Alchemy Arts Center, San Juan Island WA
Other Cinema, San Francisco CA
2020
Analogica Film Festival, Bolzano Italy
2018
LATITUDE, Chicago IL
Northern New Mexico College, Espanola NM
Huffin Studios, Oakland CA
Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles CA
2017
Naming Gallery, Oakland CA
Etiquette, Santa Fe NM
White Leaves Artist Residency, El Rito NM
Huffin Studios, Oakland CA
First Exposures Mentorship Program, San Francisco CA
2016
Floristree, Baltimore MD
Nightlight, Chapel Hill NC
Archer Beach Haus, Chicago IL
Green Gallery, Milwaukee WI
William Kerr Foundation, St. Louis MO
Night Blooms Darkroom & Bookstore, Kansas City MO
Barking Legs Theater, Chattanooga TN
The Salt Lick, Oakland CA
Huffin Studios, Oakland CA
ATA Gallery, San Francisco CA
Black Hole Cinematheque, Oakland CA
2015
The Center for New Music, San Francisco CA
E.M. Wolfman Books, Oakland CA
The Projection Museum, Portland OR
Madame of the Arts, Minneapolis MN
General Public Collective, Indianapolis IN
Radical Abacus, Santa Fe NM
The Ranch, Joshua Tree CA
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA
Ladybug House, San Francisco CA
ATA Gallery, San Francisco CA
Cement Factory Lofts, West Oakland CA
Black Hole Cinematheque, Oakland CA
2014
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA
Black Hole Cinematheque, Oakland CA
MOCO Gallery, Oakland CA
2013
Lake Merritt, Oakland CA
MOCO Gallery, Oakland CA
VACATION, San Francisco CA
2012
Black Hole Cinematheque, Oakland CA
Woolsey Heights, Berekely CA
Concord Art Space, Los Angeles CA
Display Gallery, Gainesville FL
+Solo Gallery, Jacksonville FL
MOMO arts space, St. Louis MO
LalaLand Arts, Fayetteville AR
Skylab Gallery, Columbus OH
The Distant Castle Collective, Worcester MA
Carpenter Gallery, Providence RI
Media Mansion, Northampton MA
Tomatoe Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2011
Murphy Arts Building, Indianapolis IN
Fun Hog IV Festival, Portland OR
2010
Hollow Earth Radio, Seattle WA
Lemp Arts Center, St. Louis MO
itlookslikeitsopen Gallery, Columbus OH
Roots & Culture Gallery, Chicago IL
Bibliography
2020
The Casserole Series, feature on the Vernacular Visions archive
https://www.casseroleseries.com/shows/x5xobm30ojbliowymy2zfluczs5tqa
2019
Canyon Cinemazine #6: Missed Connetions
https://canyoncinema.com/2019/07/24/announcing-canyon-cinemazine-6-missed-connections-2/
Fraction Magazine: Issue 122
http://www.fractionmagazine.com/issue-122
2018
Pylot Magazine, feature on The Western Lands
http://www.pylotmagazine.com/the-western-lands/
Jeff Jefferson & the Lodestones "Country Noir", Cassette/Digital cover art
https://thelodestones.bandcamp.com/album/burn-country-country-noir
Strant, Pictures Without Words - VOL 001, ISS 003
http://www.strantmag.com/nowords001003/
2017
Strant, review of Married to America
http://www.strantmag.com/married-to-america-by-justin-clifford-rhody/
Photo-Eye blog, book of the week (Married to America)
http://blog.photoeye.com/2017/07/book-of-week-pick-by-christian-michael.html
VISCERAL8, feature
http://www.visceral8.com/justin-rhody
Strant, a brief interview
http://www.strantmag.com/a-brief-interview-with-justin-clifford-rhody/
Phroom Magazine (Italy), feature on The Western Lands series
http://phroommagazine.com/justin-clifford-rhody/
2016
Another Something (Netherlands), feature on The Western Lands series
http://www.anothersomething.org/2016/10/19/western-lands/
Cube "My Cube" LP, insert artwork
https://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/album/my-cube
The Rio Grande Sun (Espanola NM)
June 23rd Arts Section Feature, essay by Robert Eckert
New Landscape Photography, feature on The Western Lands series
http://newlandscapephotography.com/2016/05/12/justin-rhody/
Jeff Zagers "All for the Love of Sunshine", LP/CD cover artwork
http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/i729fuh8lk2u3gllpzdcx38jq2r9lc
Float Photo Magazine, feature on the Horse Track Portrait series
http://fliphtml5.com/vuob/spek
The Lucky Jotter (UK), feature on the Horse Track Portrait series
http://theluckyjotter.com/artists#/justin-clifford-rhody/
Phosmag, feature on the Vernacular Visions slideshow series
http://phosmag.com/2016/02/22/justin-clifford-rhody/
Arcademi (Germany), Feature
www.arcademi.com/justin-clifford-rhody/
Roach Motel, Interview
http://roachmotel.tumblr.com/post/138085206344
Terratory Journal, feature on The Western Lands series
http://www.terratory.org/fall2015/2016/1/31/justin-clifford-rhody-land-of-enchantment
Open Arms (Greece)
http://i-memsea.tumblr.com/post/134076286848/justin-clifford-rhody
2015
Emulsive, Interview
http://emulsive.org/interviews/i-am-justin-rhody-and-this-is-why-i-shoot-film
Sensitive Skin Magazine, Feature on the Horse Track Portrait series
http://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/horse-track-portraits-justin-clifford-rhody/
TRIP Magazine (UK), Feature on The Western Lands series
http://tripmag.co.uk/the-western-lands/
Phosmag, Feature on the book Zona Urbana
http://phosmag.com/2015/10/20/zona-urbana-by-justin-clifford-rhody/
TUB Small Library (Portugal), Review of the book Zona Urbana
http://theunknownbooks.tumblr.com/post/130469640759/title-zona-urbana-author-justin-clifford-rhody
Pylot Magazine, Feature on the Horse Track Portrait series
http://www.pylotmagazine.com/horse-track-portraits/
Mutantspace (Ireland), Feature on the Dec. 21st 2012: Chichicastenango series
http://www.mutantspace.com/justin-clifford-rhody-photographs-chichicastenango-mayan-culture/
Paper Journal, Feature on The Western Lands series
www.paper-journal.com/justin-clifford-rhody-the-western-lands/
Capricious Magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 16 - 216 page, full color, hardcover edition
www.becapricious.com/shop/volume-2-issue-no-16-ex
East Bay Express, Feature article on the Vernacular Visions slideshow series
www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/vernacular-visions-roving-light/Content?oid=4480968
PRIVATE (France), Feature / Interview
www.privatephotoreview.com/2015/09/the-western-lands-photo-essay-by-justin-clifford-rhody/
SFMOMA on the go, Online photo feature
http://sfmoma.tumblr.com/post/123767756832/submissionfriday-untitled-bodega-bay-ca-2015
The Conversant, Interview about the Vernacular Visions slideshow series
The Examiner, feature on Vernacular Visions' residency series at the Center for New Music
Amadeus Magazine, Interview
www.amadeusmag.com/blog/the-ambiguous-enthrallment-of-justin-rhodys-free-form-photography/
Torturing Nurse "Collapse/Ikiru", LP cover artwork
www.limelodge.org/releases/torturing-nurse-collapse-ikiru
Satellite Journal, Feature on The Western Lands series
www.satellitejournal.com/terrene#/western-lands/
The Editorial Magazine, Interview
www.the-editorialmagazine.com/?p=6289
SFAQ International Arts & Culture, Top Picks of San Francisco
www.sfaq.us/2015/04/a-selection-of-friday-openings-san-francisco/
Sensitive Skin Magazine, Issue 12
www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/sensitive-skin-12-poetry-month-special/
Don/Dean, Interview
www.dondeanblog.com/post/112473354851/justin-clifford-rhody
We Are All Very Anxious (UK)
The Latent Image
latentimage.us/2015/02/13/justin-clifford-rhody-thirty/
2014
SF GATE, Sept 3rd
"Small Press Distribution Movie Night: Local poets’ films on marquee"
2013
Forget Good, Issue 7
http://issuu.com/forgetgood/docs/fg_jan_2013_v2
The Latent Image
2012
Vice Magazine, Feature article
www.vice.com/read/sliding-glass-door
The Land Line Quarterly, Issue 2, images accompanying the article
"Corridor of Illegality: Guatemala's Violent Past and Uncertain Future" by Abigail Smith
NISHA Magazine (Russia), Interview
www.nishamag.tumblr.com/post/28322702002/justin-clifford-rhody
One Giant Arm (U.K.)
www.onegiantarm.com/2012/01/30/justin-c-rhody-electrographs/
Beautiful/Decay Magazine
www.beautifuldecay.com/2012/01/10/justin-clifford-rhody/
2011
One Giant Arm (U.K.)
www.onegiantarm.com/2011/08/13/submission-saturday-justin-c-rhody/
2010
Nuts! Magazine, Feature article & Interview