About
Thomas Callahan is a photographer with a focus on experimental processes, memory, and the contemporary landscape. Growing up in rural California before moving to Wyoming as a teenager, Callahan uses his work to explore fascinations with the areas where natural and developed spaces intersect. He resides in South Bend, Indiana where he is an MFA candidate and instructor of record at the University of Notre Dame. Callahan earned his BFA from Montana State University in 2021. He has exhibited his photography and video works internationally.
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Education
2025 MFA (Pending) Studio Art – Photography, The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
2021 BFA Integrated Lens-Based Media with minors in Photography and Asian Studies, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT - Graduated with honors
Professional Experience
Spring 2024 Co-Instructor, Experiments in Narrative, University of Notre Dame
Fall 2023 Instructor of Record, Photography 1, University of Notre Dame
June 2023 Teaching Assistant, Sara Fahling’s Summer Scholars Photography: Seeing Creatively, University of Notre Dame
2022 – 23 Teaching Assistant, Martina Lopez’s Photography 1, University of Notre Dame
2017 – 22 Camera Operator/Show Control/Audio/Utility, KUSM-TV College Sports, Montana PBS
Spring 2021 Teaching Assistant, Christina Z. Anderson’s Alternative Process Photography, Montana State University
Spring 2020 Teaching Assistant, Lauren Jablonsky’s Intermediate Photography, Montana State University
Spring 2019 Teaching Assistant, Cat Dale’s Screenwriting, Montana State University
Spring 2019 Teaching Assistant, David Shannon-Lier’s Beginner Photography, Montana State University
Awards
July 2023 Residency, Kylemore Abbey Global Centre, Connemara, Ireland
May 2023 GSPDA Zahm Professional Development Fund, University of Notre Dame
Exhibitions
Dec 2023 – May 2024 Duncan Student Center Exhibition, group, juried, two works, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
January 2024 WORK, group, nine works, AAHD Gallery, Riley Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Nov – Dec 2023 LGBTQ Center Pride Show Remix, group, invitational, six works, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Aug – Dec 2023 Duncan Student Center Exhibition, group, juried, one work, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
July 2023 Illuminations, group, ten works, Kylemore Abbey Global Centre, Connemara, Ireland
June 2023 South Bend Pride Queer Art Show, group, juried, one work, St Joe County Public Library, South Bend, IN
February 2023 Palimpsest, group, juried, one work, online, Analog Forever Magazine
Dec 2022 – Jan 2023 New Faces, group, one work, AAHD Gallery, Riley Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Sep – Oct 2022 (S)Light of Hand, group, juried, two works, The Photographer’s Eye Gallery, Escondido, CA
April 2021 The Monaco Awards, group, 11 works, Gallatin County Fairgrounds, Bozeman, MT
April 2021 Memories of Memories, solo, juried, Exit Gallery, Bozeman, MT
July 2020 The New Now, group, juried, one work, Tinworks Art with Lenticular Projects and SPE Northwest, Bozeman, MT
Nov – Dec 2019 Journeys, group, juried, two works, Exit Gallery, Bozeman, MT
Oct – Nov 2019 Crossroads of Discovery, group, invitational, one work, Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Published Work
December 2022 Twenty Alternative Process Photographers You Need to Know, Analog Forever Magazine, six works
March 2022 Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes (Revised 2022 Edition), Christina Z. Anderson, one work
December 2021 Chrysotype, Christina Z. Anderson for Alternative Photography, one work
November 2020 The Grain, self-edited and self-published
Collections
Dean’s gallery, Cheever Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT