Carali McCall – b. Canada, 1981; an artist whose practice is focused on drawing and performance, yet spans sculpture, video/photography, sound and writing.

 

McCall is interested in exploring the materials and the role of the body in art today. Artworks have been made by either carving through the landscape while running using film, drawing a continuous line with graphite on paper as 2-4-hour performances (Circle Drawings), or holding a bit of the landscape (a rock) as an act of endurance. Through movement and stillness, live performance and the image, the work aims to expand conceptual-based art practices and addresses, at large, what it might mean to be human.   

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Represented by CLOSE Gallery UK. Awarded PhD at Central Saint Martins, MFA at Slade School of Art, co-author of the Bloomsbury publication Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 (2020); recent projects include a live performance during PhotoLondon 2025, academic articles for Routledge; awarded 'Innovation Prize' and shortlisted for the 7th John Ruskin Prize, 2025; ‘Circle Drawing’ and ‘Performing Rock’ performances have been included at Blunk Space in California; Guggenheim in Bilbao; group exhibitions include Lines of Empathy at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art in London, I miss the Land but does the Land miss me? Art Seen in Cyprus; solo exhibitions at Gryder Gallery in New Orleans, Intervals of Jupiter I Weight of Things and CLOSE Gallery, INFINITE: body, landscape, Alchemy and the Cosmos (2024).