List of products by brand Ethan Caflisch

EDUCATION

2024 - 2026
Painting MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England

2020 - 2022
Painting programme, Turps banana, Londres, Angleterre

2011 - 2015
Individualized BFA with Visual Studies Minor 

California College of the Arts, Oakland et San Francisco, Californie

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026
Forgetting's a Gift, Amélie du Chalard, New York, New York
L.A. Group, Lobster Club, Los Angeles, California 
Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England 
Assembly, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, California  

2025
Day One, Again. A.M. Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 
Contours, Commonage, London, England 
Natural Gathering, Folklore, Santa Fe, New Mexico  
Watch a Garden Grow, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, England  
Proximities, Tappan Collective, New York, New York  
Held Together, Folklore, Laguna Beach, California   
Forward, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, California 
Spineless Wonders, Aberystwyth School of Art, Aberystwyth, Wales 
L.A. Group, Lobster Club, Los Angeles, California 
A Show of Support, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, California 

2024
Underwater, in the rain., The Split Gallery, London, England
The Paragon of Wonder, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, California
A Painting Show, Paint Talk at Straffordshire Street, London, England 
À Quatre Mains, Amélie du Chalard, Paris, France    
Waverton Art Prize, Boisdales Canary Wharf, London, England

2023
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Terminal Parlour, The Split Gallery, London, England
wop5, Blue Shop Cottage, London, England
Our Vision is Clouded, Warbling, London, England    
By the Window, Amélie du Chalard, Paris, France     
Offline, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, California 

2022
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Vessels, Sized, Los Angeles, California
By and By, A.M. Gallery, Antwerp, Belgique. Ivy and Ray Gallery, Ghent, Belgium 
Dream Baby Dream, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London, England     
I'll Be Your Mirror, Alice's Oyster Bar and Gallery, London, England      

2021
Exh 06, Floor, London, England
Without borders, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Ecosse
Rising stars, Royal Society of British Artists, London, England
Royal Over-Seas League, London, England
Run Through the Tape, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, California 
New Work, Perish Trust, San Francisco, California


2020
Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium gallery, Swansea, Wales
Annual Survey, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
You shouldn’t have been, but now you should be. Hospital club, London, England
Ferens art gallery, Hull, England
William and Dorothy Yeck award, Hiestand galleries, Oxford, Ohio

2019
Perhaps we should have stayed, Warbling at Hoxton 253, London, England
A high hang, Eccleston project space, London, England
Tele-tales, Cookhouse Gallery, London, England
Robert Kananaj gallery, Toronto, Canada
The color of balance, Glass rice, San Francisco, California
Where we once were someone, Young space, international

2018
Connect & Collect, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
Gifc, Pt. 2 gallery, Oakland, California
Summer survey, Traywick contemporary, Berkeley, California
Blue-42, Xxxi, New York, New York
Insitu is002, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

2017
Sculp, Needles and Pens gallery, San Francisco, California
Indi-visible lines, College Avenue gallery, Oakland, California
Summer show, Cheryl Hazan gallery, New York, New York
Mind control (with Nook gallery)
Alter Space, San Francisco, California
We need to talk, Petzel gallery, New York, New York

2016
Alma Mater, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, California
Día de los muertes, Esqueleto, Los Angeles, California
Making our mark (80th anniversary show), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
23 | 85 (with Jim Melchert), A.muse gallery, San Francisco, California
Show #1, Nook gallery, Oakland, California 

2015
Succinct., Compound Gallery, Oakland, California
Plumb., Post office Gallery, Oakland, California
Crank, Southern exposure, San Francisco, California
Locality and global discourses, Cumhuriyet Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Center Gallery, San Francisco, California
Hours and minutes: 4 x 40, Southern exposure, San Francisco, California   


2014
Transfers, Louie Meager Art Gallery, Fremont, California
A show, Nahl Hall, Oakland, California   
Water works, Center Gallery, San Francisco, California
Ccaca 26, Davis, California
Blue, Oliver Arts center, Oakland, California

SELECTED PRESS

2025
Repair, Repetition, and the Beauty of What's Left Behind - In Conversation with Ethan Caflisch, Art Convos 
Whispers of the Dunes, Imagicasa 

2024
Fields, Dovetail Magazine

2022
Jeremiah Brent, Domino Magazine 
Volume 15, Friend of the Artist 

2021
This Pistachio Kitchen, Architectural Digest
10 Artists to Follow on Instagram, Opumo Magazine 

2020
Issue 25, Floorr magazine
Central/nowhere (interview by isaac nugent), Dovetail Magazine
Archive 01, Saint maison, January, H. club magazine
Volume 3, Bluebee Magazine

2019
Touch wood, counter print, rules of attraction (interview by Katerina Furrer), Badlands journal

2018
Issue 10, Artmaze Magazine
Interview, citylikeyou
Is029, In situ
Eight emerging artists to buy work from now, Another magazine

2016
Making our mark, Richmond art center
Palpable space, Sfaq
Under the radar, Artslant International

2015
Locality and global discourses, Cumhuriyet Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Center Gallery, San Francisco, California
Material volume 3, Oakland, California

2014
Material volume 2, Oakland, California

RESIDENCIES 

2026
Mas Molière, Provence, France 

2023
Mas Molière, Provence, France 

2022
Leveld kunstnartun, Leveld, Norway 
Radical Residency, Unit 1 Gallery, London, England 

2020
Pada, Barreiro, Portugal

2019
Tappan Atelier, Los Angeles, California

2014
One day residency, Guitar Shop Gallery, Oakland, California 

SELECTED AWARDS

2024
Waverton Art Prize - Shortlist, London, England
Artist Grant, The Eaton Fund

2022
The Arts Club Award, Royal Academy of Arts 
Waverton Art Prize - Finalist, London, England 

2020
William and Dorothy Yeck Young Painters Award - Finalist, Miami University

2018
Gallery Circle Winner - Mixed media, Artslant Worldwide 

2015
Gallery Circle Winner - Sculpture, Artslant Worldwide
Clyde and Co. Art Award, Clyde and co. San Francisco and hang art

2014
Ralls Painting Award
California College of the Arts

Before painting, photography, and design, Ethan Caflisch worked with clay. His beginnings as a ceramicist gave him a taste for simple, sincere, three-dimensional forms. A native of Wisconsin, like Frank Lloyd Wright—the builder and poet he admires—Caflisch hand-shapes direct objects, a kind of organic architecture aligned with the flat landscapes of his childhood. Each piece strives for economy, quoting the previous one in order to add only what is strictly necessary. Patched fabric scraps, gouache or acrylic… Together they form a logical sequence built on linen, wooden frames, and talkative titles. Living apart, the meeting point between floor and wall, a film excerpt, his country of origin, anonymous crowds encountered in the subway, windows and set tables—these are among the subjects he treats in primary or rustic colors. Threshold spaces and raw materials are the constants of this domestic practice, calibrated like a sewing machine.

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