Jonathan Calm receives Eureka Fellowship Grant

Founded in 1986, the Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship Program provides unrestricted support to visual artists living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 Artists are selected on a three-year cycle, with four fellowships each year. In honor of the program’s 40th anniversary, the fellowship has been increased from $35,000 to $40,000 per artist, making the Eureka awards among the largest visual arts fellowships in Northern California.

Artists must be nominated by a Bay Area nonprofit visual arts organization to qualify. Letters inviting nominations for the fellowships are sent before each three-year cycle. A panel of distinguished visual arts experts from outside the Bay Area then determines awards. 

The nomination, application, and award process for the 2026–2028 award cycle is now complete, and Jonathan Calm was selected as a 2027 Eureka Fellow.

Jonathan Calm is a photographer and Associate Professor of Photography at Stanford University whose work explores community, mobility, memory, and the layered histories inscribed in American landscapes. He often works at the intersection of documentary photography, installation, and video.

His work has been presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Tate Britain, the Reina Sofia Museum, ICA Boston, Apple Park, and the Toledo Museum of Art, and is held in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has received awards and residencies, including an Art Matters Grant, the Larry Sultan Photography Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center.

Currently, Calm is preparing the exhibition To Wherever, Forever: Sites of Passage and Archives of Absence at the de Saisset Museum and the Dowd Gallery at Santa Clara University, opening in early 2026. His ongoing series, including The Green Book, Sunset Towns, and Drowned Towns, investigates the intersections of erasure, resilience, and belonging across American geographies. 

Calm is represented by Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco and lives and works in Palo Alto.