Cal Siegel

Cal Siegel (b. 1987 Massachusetts) is a New York-based artist whose work explores how places formulate meaning and how architecture constructs and maintains historical representation. Siegel’s work frequently addresses the intersections of power, structure and entropy, drawing on architectural motifs and experimenting with scale and materiality to question our contemporary relationship to the past. His work is built through the accumulation of many small gestures over time and its purpose is a deeper questioning of whom architecture speaks for, how that is decided and why.

While receiving his MFA in sculpture from Columbia, he started Astor Weeks, a gallery with his friend Poppy Pulitzer in a spare bedroom in his apartment in Harlem which they now run from their Canal Street space in New York. In 2024, he created a solo show of works in response to the collection of historical objects housed in the Zaddock Pratt House, a small museum in upstate New York. Since 2018 he has run a furniture company that specializes in hand-carved pieces with his two brothers called, Hardwares. He studied Studio Art and Media Studies at Pitzer College in California and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at Deli Gallery in New York, Matthew Brown Gallery in Los Angeles, and Anahita Gallery in Tehran.